 
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. |
Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball teams playing at their eponymous park Wednesday afternoon. The Mets were the other one. Neither could be seriously described as the best of the pair. […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alfalfa, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Henry Chadwick, Jeff Kent, Joanie Sommers, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Lucas Duda, Magic 8 Ball, Marlins, Savoir-Faire, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Streaks, Wade LeBlanc Opening Day is, needless to say, the finest on the calendar. That’s true even if you’re a fan of a bad team, or one whose best-case scenario comes down to “can assemble some of the pieces required for a better future.” The second game of the season, though, might be even nicer than Opening Day. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Terry Collins And God said, Let the frozen waters from the heaven be melted unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Target Field; and the grouping together of the opponents he called Twins: and God saw that they weren’t so good. And God said, Let Harvey bring […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Justin Morneau, Matt Harvey, No-Hit Bids, Target Field, Twins, Ungodly Stuff OK, not quite … but it sure felt that way. I would love to get an up-close look at Target Field, which I’ve seen praised as a wonderful park and the anti-Citi for its generous portions of Twinsiana. And one day I will. But tonight I was happy to be 1,200 miles away huddled on a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Ruben Tejada, Target Field, Twins, Weather The Mets taking it to Roy Halladay is a great thing. I’m not sure that’s who they beat up Monday night, however. That couldn’t have been the Roy Halladay who gave the Mets and the rest of the National League fits in 2010 and 2011 after owning the American League for years prior. This was the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, John Buck, Matt Harvey, Phillies, Roy Halladay It’s the golden hour for John Buck right now, that fleeting interregnum when the journeyman is master craftsman. It is a time to be savored. John Buck drives in nine runs in five games, four of them in his fifth game to propel the Mets to a Saturday victory. John Buck draws a roughing the catcher penalty […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Juan Pierre, Mark Gastineau, Mets Catchers We may lose and we may win And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen. If you told me I was going to three games in a four-day span in the middle of the season, I’d say, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Citi Field, Collin Cowgill, Dillon Gee, Goodfellas, John Buck, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Opening Week, Scott Rice, Soup Pitchers are the early objects of attention and, potentially, affection at Spring Training. Catchers tag along dutifully. Yet it would be athletically incorrect to frame them that way, so we politely refer to this golden interval in the dead of winter as Pitchers & Catchers. Most years, it could be Pitchers & Pitchbacks for all […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Schneider, John Buck, Mets Catchers, Mike Piazza, Pulp Fiction, Travis d'Arnaud, Yogi Berra I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays Neither the world nor the season ended just because the Mets forgot that they never lose on Opening Day/Night. Still, the whole John Fogerty “beat the drum, hold the phone, the sun came out today” sensation usually associated with the first game of the year grew rather hollow once I realized what I was waiting […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, Carlos Beltran, Duke of Iron, John Buck, John Fogerty, Josh Johnson, Just One Game, Marlins, Mets Opening Day, Mike Pelfrey, Pedro Beato, Scott Hairston, Terry Collins, Willie Harris |
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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