 
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. |
Singin’ to the world Those 2014 New York Mets kept up their end of the minuscule bargain I struck with them in the middle of July. They had just come off a vigorous homestand in which they won seven of their previous eight games, and caught […]  28 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2014 Mets, Barry Manilow, Bobby Abreu, Citi Field, Closing Day, Lucas Duda, Team History, Tradition The Mets and Astros combined to throw 266 pitches tonight at Citi Field. For 265 of them — that’s 99.62% of the game if you’re mathematically inclined — the results were pretty much unbearable for Mets fans. The preteen girls in the stands, most of whom were waiting to watch someone named Austin Mahone, unleashed 266,000 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Mahone, Brooklyn Cyclones, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, music, Pat Mahomes, Timo Perez You can now update the Mets’ slash line to reflect their currently accurate settings: 9 YRSWOPSA/15 YRSWOPNT/29 YRSWOWCH GLOSSARY The clock jumped ahead one year once the Pirates beat the Brewers in a game loaded with playoff race implications, which is to say it had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Lucas Duda, Mathematically Eliminated, Zack Wheeler Over the past three games, the sub-.500 Mets have scored 20 runs and allowed 20 runs against the sub-.500 teams directly adjacent to them in the standings. It’s been like a sporadically entertaining round-robin of mediocrity. But they’ve won two of these three games, which is good news for those still keeping track of the Mets’ […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Individual Goals, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Metropolitan Hospitality, September, U.S. Open Some days you gotta take Randy Newman’s advice: Roll down the window The Dodgers blast “I Love L.A.” after every victory at Dodger Stadium. I’ve grown familiar with the custom over the past couple of seasons while the Mets were reliably providing the cue to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Beach Boys, Dodgers, Fun, Lucas Duda, Randy Newman, Triple Plays, Yasiel Puig The following account is issued as a public service as well as for cheap jokes. If you are over 50 years of age, please consult your physician. Bartolo Colon was supposed to start Monday afternoon’s Mets game, but was called away due to a family health emergency. I was supposed to have a colonoscopy during Monday afternoon’s […] Who among us doesn’t remember being a kid in the backyard, dreaming — if only for a second — of a career in the big leagues? I’m Lucas Duda. It’s the last out of another ass-kicking administered by the Nationals. I’m standing sort of near the plate, looking out at Rafael Soriano standing sort of near […] How is it that a lineup loaded with ballplayers who jammed the box score of a World Series clincher can appear so routinely beatable? The dichotomy in perception probably has something to do with a temporal gap, what with that particular World Series having taken place in 2008 and the beating in question proceeding in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dale Thayer, Darren Bragg, Dillon Gee, Gary Bennett, Jimmy Rollins, Lucas Duda, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Stability, Taylor Teagarden, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption Is the game over yet? The Mets and Giants ceased their Friday night hostilities so quickly it was as if they were worried about staying one step ahead of the Sharknado. As it happened, only the Giants bared their offensive teeth, with two runs early, three runs later […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jon Niese, Lucas Duda, Quick Games, Rudy, Ryan Vogelsong, Sharknado It’s not so much that if you watch enough baseball, you see something new every day. It’s that if you watch enough baseball, you see something you’ve seen some other day, thus allowing you to perhaps sense what’s coming directly at you. On the surface, the Mets’ come-from-moribund victory over the Brewers Friday night came out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mariano Rivera, Sixth Sense, Yovani Gallardo, Zack Wheeler |
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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