 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls, it’s more democratic. — Bull Durham The forecast was ominous: likely rain. Yeah right. The raindrops remained at a respectful distance, because they — like the rest of us — wanted to watch Matt […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field, Eric Young Jr., Hope, Manny Corpas, Matt Harvey, Wilmer Flores FLUSHING, N.Y. (FAFIF) — The Jaws of Defeat expressed bafflement after being certain it had secured the New York Mets within its formidable bite at Citi Field Tuesday night. “Huh?” the bewildered Jaws of Defeat asked. “Where did the Mets go? I was sure I had them.” The Mets indeed appeared all but ensconced inside the Jaws […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Blackmon, Cliches, Defense, Eric Young Jr., Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, LaTroy Hawkins, Manny Gonzalez, Rockies, Wilmer Flores, Yorvit Torrealba I’m pretty sure the Mets won their game Friday night. Score says they did. My memory says they did. Eric Young, Jr., tossing his helmet into the air before stomping on home plate amid a sea of orange-trimmed blue jerseys says they did. So why doesn’t it feel more festive? Probably because, in descending order of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amos Otis, Carlos Torres, David Aardsma, David Cone, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Ed Hearn, Eric Young Jr., Interleague Play, Joe Foy, Pedro Feliciano, Royals Byrderers Row lives. Was it worth the call from the governor? The energized, fun-size Mets…the ones with an honest-to-god top of the order…the ones whose outfield is no longer a punch line but is arguably a strength…they remain as they’ve been for the past six or so weeks. These are the Mets on which Marlon Byrd […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Young Jr., Jeff Duncan, Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Mets Executive Hall of WTF?, Outfield, Pat Howell Strange how one minute Wednesday night’s game was all about Tim Hudson and the next minute Wednesday night’s game was all about Tim Hudson, yet in a totally different realm come that critical second minute. First Hudson’s impenetrable to every orange-jerseyed Mets batter. Then he’s vulnerable to one Mets runner, and the next thing you […] The Mets used to go down to defeat pretty easily. At best, they practiced a form of passive-aggressive behavior that dared otherwise reluctant opponents to remain on the field long enough to incidentally vanquish them. It often manifested in 15- or 20-inning episodes of offensive ineptitude, but you didn’t leave those losses feeling that if […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Chris Sale, Conor Gillaspie, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Gordon Beckham, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Nellie Fox, White Sox, Zack Wheeler Rules I can’t believe baseball maintains: 1) The bit about transferring the ball from the glove to the hand after the ball is effectively caught. 2) Allowing Matt Harvey to face mere mortals. Both items worked to our advantage Sunday, so sure, we’ll take ’em. There’s really nothing illegal or immoral about pitching Harvey every fifth day, though […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, 1983 Mets, 2000 Mets, Ben Revere, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Stylemaster |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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