 
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. |
The Mets didn’t lose, though it kind of feels that way. 2015 isn’t a flaming disaster, though it kind of feels that way. What’s going on here? Reality check: The Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 6-2. It’s the early hours of June 5 and they are in first place. So why doesn’t it feel that way? Why does it feel […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fans, First Place, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathon Niese, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilpons Precedents don’t necessarily prove anything. All they tell us is whether something happened before, and it’s up to us if we want to take our clues from there. Here’s the precedent that’s gonna kill us: If we fall out of first place — and, based on the results from Chicago and everything that’s been going on […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, First Place, Precedent, Sweeps, Team History If you’re a sports fan, the best Aprils are the most stressful Aprils. In competitive context, such Aprils are the least cruellest of months, but they can play on your nerves. The two teams I root for in winter, the Nets and the Islanders, have made it to spring’s playoffs. It beats their having to go […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Curtis Granderson, First Place, Hockey, Jon Niese, Kevin Plawecki, T.S. Eliot, Winning Streaks Not only do I root for a team that’s pitched a no-hitter in its life, but that team’s current iteration more or less seems to be in first place. It’s a three-way tie, and some percentage points don’t work in its immediate favor, but one-third of the season is complete and the New York Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, First Place, John Franco, Mets Hall of Fame The Mets may not be flawless, but so far this year they are perfect. They’re undefeated through their first series, alone in first place in their division, alone in New York on the list of teams that have won at least one baseball game that counts this year. That’s as close to flawless as they need to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, Jon Niese, No-Hitters, Perfect Record, Sweep, Terry Collins From approximately 4:22 PM until 10:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, I rooted for a first-place team, albeit one whose claim was staked temporarily and by a mere two percentage points. Still, what a wonderful six hours and nine minutes it was…particularly the part before 7:10. Then the lights went out. The lights went out on the […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Angel Pagan, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, First Place, Jerry Seinfeld, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey With the afternoon action on the South Side of Chicago complete, your baseball team is first among its peers. One small step for Mets… Let’s see if we can’t, as with our clothes to our skin, make this stick. That was the coldest doubleheader in the history of Citi Field. Granted, it was the first doubleheader in the history of Citi Field: the first one that required only one admission, the first one that left you doubting whether you’d leave with all the fingers and toes you brought and the first one that led us […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, David Wright, Doubleheaders, First Place, Guest Relations, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
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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