 
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 immediate aftermath of the trading deadline is Christmas morning for baseball fans wherein batteries aren’t included, gift receipts aren’t available and you’re left wondering if anybody listened to what you said you wanted when they asked. The Mets made two deals today. They could help. They could fall short of helping. There’s no doubt they […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Antonio Bastardo, Dislon Herrera, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Max Wotell, Trades You know you’re having a good night when you can get picky over what kind of mammoth win you’d like your team to post. For those of us who remained to the bottom of the ninth inning at Citi Field Wednesday night of an obviously settled affair — and why would you leave when your […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citi Field, Complete Games, Gunnison sage-grouse, Howard Johnson, Johan Santana, John Valentin, Jon Niese, Kelly Johnson, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, Miguel Batista, Nelson Figueroa, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Rene Rivera, Thor-Hitter, Wilmer Flores Here are two scenes from two Florida locales at the outset of Spring Training. 1) Lucas Duda is asked about the throw that got away and, with it, the World Series. He replies: “That’s a throw I can make nine out of ten times, and that happened to be the one I didn’t […] I’ve watched it […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Hosmer, Jon Niese, Lucas Duda, Moment of Silence, Spring Training, Tony Phillips Second base, like the beverage-branded seating section that overlooks it at Citi Field, has a new occupant. Neil Walker, unlike Ben Zobrist, turns out to be the real thing. The former Pirate did not get a tour of our leafy suburbs. The Mets don’t care where he lives as long as he shows up for work […] The team that was a surefire bet to cruise to another division title got off to a rocky start. But then they began to right the ship, they had their pitching lined up, and once September rolled around, they took dead aim at first place, inching closer and closer day by day until they were […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Dario Alvarez, David Wright, Erik Goeddel, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Michael Stanley Band, Rich Sauveur, September, Yoenis Cespedes The good: A night after making solid contact but coming up short, Michael Conforto showed why he merits all the excitement, mashing a rising line drive off Charlie Morton that hissed over the fence above the Mo’s Zone. (Not sure it’s still called that; quite sure I don’t care.) That tied the game at 3 and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Davidson, Charlie Morton, Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes Super-exciting spine-tingling headline-grabbing narrative-changing straight-to-the-SportsCenter-open wins are great, of course. But the key to playing in October is racking up the more mundane sort of victories. Which is exactly what the Mets did Tuesday night. Of course, only by recent pinch-me standards could the Mets’ 5-1 dispatching of the Marlins be considered dull. Jon Niese pitched […] 63 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric O'Flaherty, Jon Niese, Rafael Montero, Terry Collins “Daddy,” Tatum Niese might one day ask his father, “can you tell me about the night I was born?” “No,” would be the appropriate reply from the pitcher who had no answers for the Dodger lineup Friday but at least he had an excuse — the birth of the actual kid in this hypothetical conversation. Far be […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Danny Muno, John Mayberry, Jon Niese, Juan Uribe, Justin Turner, Kelly Johnson, Michael Conforto, Who's Your Daddy Perhaps you’ve heard the story of John Daly, host of CBS’s What’s My Line?, introducing his broadcast of Sunday night, May 31, 1964, with the honest admission that he’d been backstage watching the most “marvelous” — or in one retelling “fantastic” — baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants just before […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Martinez, Carlos Torres, Carlos Villanueva, Curtis Granderson, Dorothy Kilgallen, Eric Campbell, Extra Innings, Jeurys Familia, John Daly, Jon Niese, Kevin Pawlecki, Kolten Wong, Kurt Warner, Lucas Duda, Marathons, Satchel Paige, Sean Gilmartin, Tim Cooney, Yadier Molina |
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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