 
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. |
OK, so Sunday’s 4-1 victory over the Angels wasn’t the most memorable of ballgames — no crazed rollercoaster of lead changes, indelible highlights or controversies. But it was satisfying nonetheless: a trim, tidy baseball game, easy to admire if not necessarily one to commit to the top shelf of memory. The Mets got a couple of […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angels, Buck Showalter, Closers, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Kurt Suzuki, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tony La Russa, West Coast Trips The beginning of a baseball season is light and consequence-free — with six months of games ahead, you can relax a bit, allowing yourself to simply enjoy having baseball as a companion again. Starting in June, things begin to get serious — you’re conscious of the standings, of opportunities taken and missed and lost. This […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Guillermo Heredia, Juan Soto, Justin Wilson, Kurt Suzuki, Michael Conforto, Robinson Chirinos On a scale of 1 to 10, Tuesday night’s inarguably epic Mets defeat at Washington, in which for the first time in their history they gave up a ninth-inning lead of six runs to lose ASAP, was a Brian Jordan. The second Brian Jordan Game, to be exact, September 29, 2001, Mets leading the Braves, […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, A Chorus Line, Armando Benitez, Brian Jordan, Edwin Diaz, George W. Bush, John Franco, Kurt Suzuki, Nationals, Paul Sewald Five Sundays prior to the most recent Sunday, I went to Citi Field. It was the last game before the All-Star break. The Mets weren’t going anywhere, so when they continued to go nowhere, it made me no never mind. Zack Wheeler gave up four runs in the first; Aaron Nola flirted with a no-hitter; […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, Gut-Wrenching Baseball, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Joe Panik, Juan Soto, Kurt Suzuki, Nationals, Stomachs Tied in Knots, Sundays, Winning Streaks Halted Part of getting old is things go from novel to familiar — which is both a little unsettling and oddly comforting. Unsettling because you forget at first; comforting because it sure cuts down on the processing time once you remember. It’s been a while since the Mets had nothing to play for at the end of […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Kurt Suzuki, Robert Gsellman, Sundays |
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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