 
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 fan’s instinct is to choose the following: • Pursuing the extra base over playing it safe. • Letting the starter pitch as long as he can. • Extra innings in the event of a tie score in the bottom of the ninth on the road. • Staying awake postgame in order to watch AMC’s Breaking Bad Season Four […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Breaking Bad, Cody Ross, Cynicism, Heath Bell, Instincts, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, Patrick Corbin, Paul Goldschmidt Jordany, we hardly knew ye. Actually, we knew ye surprisingly well for someone who played relatively little — though I guess for all the exhibitionist Instagrams and clubhouse clucking, we didn’t know everything relevant there was to know. Now we know for certain we won’t be seeing you in September at Citi Field…though we could’ve […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, Frankie Rodriguez, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Marlon Byrd, PEDs, Suspension This weekend was my annual get-together with my college pals, and while I’m never happy to miss a Mets game, Mets-Royals is about as missable as it gets. Like my blog partner, I have nothing against the Royals — in fact, I have a certain distracted, information-free affection for them. Back in the late 1970s, a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Marlon Byrd, Royals, Wilmer Flores Byrderers Row lives. Was it worth the call from the governor? The energized, fun-size Mets…the ones with an honest-to-god top of the order…the ones whose outfield is no longer a punch line but is arguably a strength…they remain as they’ve been for the past six or so weeks. These are the Mets on which Marlon Byrd […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Young Jr., Jeff Duncan, Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Mets Executive Hall of WTF?, Outfield, Pat Howell If you want to swim with the sharks, you’ve got to learn to outlast the Marlins. Or something like that. And son of a Rich Renteria, Monday night we sure as Orestes Destrade did. On the twentieth anniversary plus one day of the evening Anthony Young didn’t just not lose to but actually won against then-expansion […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Christian Yelich, Daniel Murphy, Dave Gallagher, Eddie Murray, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jeff McKnight, Juan Pierre, Marlins, Marlon Byrd, Ryan Thompson, The Shawshank Redemption I put in a request for a sitdown with the baseball gods prior to the start of Sunday’s 1:10 game versus the Phillies. I had what I believed were a few reasonable requests. I asked if I could go the game. I asked for really good seats at a decent price. 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cliff Lee, Craig Swan, Harvey Day, LIRR, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, The Baseball Gods The Mets no longer require extra innings. They make the regulation amount go on forever. In their first two games coming out of the All-Star break — one a hopeless blowout loss, the other a relatively mundane win — they donated more than seven hours to the baseball-starved denizens of Queens inside a span of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Gonzalez Germen, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, Marlon Byrd, Zack Wheeler “Never once in his eight seasons of cheering for the Mets has he felt so good. For the first time, he doesn’t miss Willie Mays quite so much.” You couldn’t miss the chip on Megan Draper’s scantily clad shoulder as she briefly took her […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Giants, Mad Men, Marlon Byrd, Small Sample Sizes, Trades, Zack Wheeler Nine innings? Three hours and twenty-three minutes? What a gyp! What kind of Mets game is that in the middle of the night? Surely it was only the opener of a twidawn doubleheader. Surely they had to replay the sixth to the thirteenth from the night before in deference to Bruce Bochy attempting to make […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Marathons, Marlon Byrd, Rosemary Woods, Shaun Marcum, Team History, Terry Collins, West Coast Trips You don’t gotta believe or anything crazy like that, but you gotta take stock of what’s been going on in the National League East since May 26: New York 15-14 If that’s not 1973 in miniature, I don’t know what is. We bemoan the lack of a 40th anniversary tribute from the organization that […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2013 Mets, Faith, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Mets Third Basemen, Zach Lutz |
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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