 
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. |
Tomorrow we’ll start Just thinkin’ about When were stuck with McHugh Tomorrow we’ll start Matt Harvey! Matt Harvey! We were […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Collin McHugh, Harvey Day, Harveysteria, Jose Fernandez, Marlins, Matt Harvey, Super 2 Matt Harvey wasn’t great, but he battled, to use a term from a similarly downtrodden era. The Mets’ bats were better than they’ve been, not that that’s saying much — they actually took an early lead, then came back against the Reds to tie the score. Daniel Murphy is back to demonstrating that none of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Ike Davis, Keith Hernandez, Matt Harvey They walked on Ninth Avenue, with Harvey and the two friends in front, his sister and her husband behind them. When they arrived at the restaurant, his sister was laughing about what had just happened on the street. “Do you know how many people just did the second take on you?” she said to her […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gerry Arrigo, Harveysteria, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Pitchers Hitting, Sid Fernandez, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver All right, people. We’ve all get better things to do with what’s left of our day than complain about this listless horrible team. Start reading and we’ll rip this Band-Aid off quick as we can. Matt Harvey: He was clearly struggling — the fastball velocity was down and the location was off, leading to very few […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Hudgens, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler Matt Harvey was not the only man in a Mets jersey to have the whole world in his back pocket Tuesday night. It could have been more perfect, I guess. There could have been a little less hole for Alex Rios’s seventh-inning two-out grounder to edge into. Ruben Tejada could have been overcome by […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rios, Bobby Parnell, Citi Field, Harveysteria, Hector Santiago, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mike Baxter, One-Hitters, Perfect Game, Ruben Tejada, White Sox Bruce Springsteen once advised you can’t start a fire without a spark. Monday night and Tuesday morning, there was no spark in Marlins Park. And for several days before, there was no yield at Citi Field. The Mets can’t get anything going in any sense anywhere. They are stuck in place…fourth place, to be precise, […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bruce Springsteen, Decay, Do Something, Extra Innings, Mad Men, Marlins, Matt Harvey, May, Terry Collins, Thin Patience Even great baseball teams lose an annoying number of games. The runaway-train teams — your ’86 Mets and ’98 Yankees and ’01 Mariners — are still going to lose 15 or 20 games that make you want to lie down in the road. Which means 45 to 60 hours of your time will be dedicated to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Jerry Hairston Jr., Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey Harvey’s better. And we’re not so bad ourselves. The pitcher you may have caught on TV, and if you can’t be John Buck, that’s not a bad way to catch him. Certainly you have the benefit of helpful camera angles, possibly pause and rewind buttons and all the concentration you care to muster. You could see […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Harvey's Better, Harveysteria, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg 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 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 |
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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