 
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. |
Let's Go Mets indeed. Technically, you don’t gotta believe if you can’t find a reason to believe. In September 1973, ground zero for unbridled faith in the face of daunting odds, it didn’t require blind faith to believe. The Mets were close enough to dream and hot enough to make up gobs of ground […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2012 Mets, Homegrown Mets, Johnny Murphy, Josh Edgin, Mets Opening Day, Stoked Neither the world nor the season ended just because the Mets forgot that they never lose on Opening Day/Night. Still, the whole John Fogerty “beat the drum, hold the phone, the sun came out today” sensation usually associated with the first game of the year grew rather hollow once I realized what I was waiting […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, Carlos Beltran, Duke of Iron, John Buck, John Fogerty, Josh Johnson, Just One Game, Marlins, Mets Opening Day, Mike Pelfrey, Pedro Beato, Scott Hairston, Terry Collins, Willie Harris Weather.com says the high in Zip Code 11368 today was 74 degrees. What a waste of temperature. I get why there’s a blank spot on the schedule between the first home game and the second home game, but nevertheless, Safety Day is a terrible way to follow up Opening Day, particularly an Opening Day as sweetly […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, 1997 Mets, Blue Point Toasted Lager, Catch of the Day, Jane Jarvis, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Mike Herbst, Ray Ramirez, Rod Barajas Every year I swear I’m done with seeing Opening Day live — it’s generally miserable weather and I’m so wired that the wisest thing is for me to work out my neuroses sitting at the computer and on the couch. But every year I hear the siren call: The Mets are back, doing their jobs […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Hope, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day That sound you hear is untold millions of mild-mannered citizens rushing into proverbial phone booths (good luck finding a phone booth) and emerging cloaked in their true identities as… METS FANS! Slower than the 7 local… More gullible than a herd of puppies… Able to to be sated by the coming of Opening Day… Yes, we’re putting on our blue […] The weather-insurance off-day always makes for a cruel start to the season — being confronted with a Metless Game 2 is a little like being a starving dog who’s snoffed down half a can of Alpo only to find himself dragged away from his dish and told to wait for 30 hours. What? You’re kidding […] The Mets enjoyed a statistically familiar Opening Day. Yet I enjoyed a very unusual one. They opened at Great American Ball Park. Yet I watched them at Citi Field. They were led by Johan Santana, Daniel Murphy and Frankie Rodriguez. Yet I was awed by Mookie Wilson, Ed Kranepool and Ed Charles…and Cow-Bell Man. Can’t […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Cow-Bell Man, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Mets Opening Day, Mookie Wilson, Shea Stadium A quick reminder to our boys wrapped in orange and blue layers for when they begin their season in Arctic conditions today or tomorrow or whenever there isn’t a projected 29-degree wind chill with 60% chance of snow showers in Cincinnati: Play every game. There are 162 on your slate. Play all of them. Play all […] It’s been an odd six weeks for this Met fan — derailed by tons of work, disenchanted with Port St. Lucie’s injuries and age, and disinclined to a level I hadn’t expected to forgive those caught up in the Mets’ September disaster. Relations between me and my favorite team had become somewhat chilly, and I […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 358 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 3/31/98 Tu Philadelphia 9-6 Jones 10 59-61 W […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Flashback Friday, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day |
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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