 
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. |
Statistically, it didn’t matter that the Yankees came to Citi Field from the Bronx to complete their Subway Series sweep. It mattered that they came from near the top of their division. The Mets versus any serious contender this year has been almost uniformly bad news. Talk about hewing to your weight class. The lightweight 2017 […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2003 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Futile Comebacks, Grand Slams, Luis Severino, Raul Gonzalez, Reds, Rob Schneider, Steven Matz, Strength of Schedule, Subway Series, Yankees A grand slam? The Marlins thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam? Hey, Marlins, I got a team I wanna introduce you to: the Phillies. The Phillies thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam. Hey, Phillies, tell the Marlins how that worked out. Yeah, I thought so. The Phillies […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Hernandez, Brett Gardner, Brian Johnson, Chipper Jones, Darren Daulton, Ernest Riles, Grand Slams, Hansel Robles, Hubie Brooks, Jason Thompson, Jay Bruce, Jody Davis, Maikel Franco, Marathons, Marcell Ozuna, Marlins, Melvin Nieves, Michael Conforto, Mike Vail, Neil Walker, Opponent Grand Slams in Mets Wins, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Howard, Ryan Jackson, Team History, Terry Puhl, Todd Helton, Tom Goodwin, Travis d'Arnaud, Vic Davalillo, Willie Stargell, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets will play a game today in San Francisco. We will root for them. They might reverse prevailing trends and win. Perhaps the Cardinals will lose, and the Mets will move back to within 4½ games of the second Wild Card. It’s not inconceivable that this sequence of events will repeat itself on Sunday, […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Loes, Grand Slams, Josh Smoker, Sadness, Seth Lugo The Giants certainly know how to slot their promotions, scheduling their annual Jerry Garcia Tribute Night for when the Mets came to town Thursday. A friend of mine, not much of a Grateful Dead fan, liked to tell the joke, “What did the Deadhead say once the drugs wore off — ‘man, this music sucks.’” I […] 51 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Trip, Grand Slams, Grateful Dead, Jacob deGrom, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Team History Technology, you magnificent bastard, I could just kiss you…or open your iKiss app and click on it hard. You showed us Juan Lagares was safe at second in the ninth inning Saturday despite his being called out. More importantly, you showed Jim Kelly, Mets video replay coordinator (as new a title as baseball can confer), […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Grand Slams, Ike Davis, Video Review, Walkoffs Some nice person to whom I had just been introduced in the Citi Field parking lot on Opening Day asked me, regarding the 81 games that were about to be played in the building adjacent to where we stood, “Do you have a plan?” “Yes,” I said, matter of factly. “My plan is to go to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1991 Mets, Barry Jones, Dave Magadan, Dennis Martinez, Dwight Gooden, Garry Templeton, Grand Slams, Jordany Valdespin, Kevin McReynolds, Priorities, Scott Ruskin Come back Pirates! We promise we’ll show up! We’ll even clear the tornadoes out of the area for you! Drat the luck that we had to play a good team with something on the line this weekend. For 24 dreamy hours before the Braves replaced the Pirates on the Citi Field scoreboard’s top half, we were […] Last September 24, after the game that made third base infamous, I asked my friend Mark, he of Mets Walkoffs‘ bottomless bag of statistical tricks, if he could find out how many times the Mets had lost a game in which a Met had hit a grand slam. Carlos Delgado’s four-RBI connection had just gone […] |
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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