 
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. |
And then there was one. Or there appears to be. With Jason Isringhausen’s reiteration of his intention to retire after putting in a yeoman year’s worth of work with the L.A. Angels — though he left the door open a crack in case “some GM is dumb enough to want to sign me” — it means […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Armando Benitez, Bruce Chen, C.J. Nitkowski, Jason Isringhausen, Last Met Standing, Long Island Ducks, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scutaro, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Team History, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton I believe there’s a reason above all others that Ed Kranepool resonates like no one else in the Met mythology: He was here from the first year through the eighteenth year of the franchise uninterrupted. Ed Kranepool’s entire Mets career (his entire major league career, for that matter) can be expressed via a simple en-dash. Ed […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolome Fortunato, Bill Pulsipher, Bob L. Miller, Bobby Bonilla, Cleon Jones, Comma Mets, Daniel Murphy, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Hubie Brooks, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Gosger, John Franco, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Jacobs, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Feliciano, Punctuation, Recidivst Mets, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tim Foli, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw I’ve got a new piece up at the Times‘s Bats blog concerning a stealth Met icon. Learn about Pedro Feliciano’s place in Mets — and baseball — history by clicking here. Just when you thought you’d never again see a 1998 Met in the big leagues — no one who knew the rare pleasure of dressing in the same clubhouse as Tony Phillips, Ralph Milliard, Todd Haney, Willie Blair and Jorge Fabregas — up stepped Jay Payton to emerge as this season’s Longest Ago Met Still […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Chen, Gary Matthews Jr., Jason Isringhausen, Jay Payton, Jeff D'Amico, John Thomson, Juan Acevedo, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scuatro, Melvin Mora, Mike Hampton, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Pedro Feliciano, Scott Strickland, Team History, Ty Wigginton, Tyler Walker My contempt for my team was utter and total as the bottom of the ninth inning unfolded at Citizens Bank Park Friday night. I imagine yours was, too. What a travesty this evening had been. At the risk of proving everything Bobby Ojeda, Andy Martino, and Brian Schneider have been saying about the Mets lacking […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Diaz, Bob Bailor, Bobby Parnell, Distractions from Drubbings, Enabler, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Mike Hessman, Mike Sweeney, Neil Allen, Pedro Feliciano, Prentice Redman, RIck Ownbey, Team History Saturday afternoon…we were never in that. Mike Pelfrey briefly masqueraded as Washington managerial superhero Wriggle Man, wriggling in and out of trouble until he could wriggle no longer. Jose Reyes grimaced while fielding a grounder in the hole and became, in that instant, a non-playing All-Star. Tim Hudson threw a river of unhittable pitches. Jason […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Agita, Anthony Young, Armando Benitez, Billy Wagner, Bobby Parnell, Braden Looper, Frankie Rodriguez, Grant Roberts, Homegrown Mets, Ideal Saves, Jason Isringhausen, Jeff Innis, John Franco, Mike Pelfrey, Pedro Feliciano, Randy Myers, Raul Valdes, Relief Pitching, Team History The Mets couldn’t win on the road. Then they couldn’t win on the road unless they were playing the dregs of the junior circuit. Then … then shut up already. Up in the Bronx (technically a road game) the Mets played with confidence and swagger and every other intangible you might want to believe in. And if […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Francisco Cervelli, Hisanori Takahashi, Jose Reyes, Pedro Feliciano, Subway Series, Yankees Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo It was a canyon of zeroes along the top line of the Citi Field scoreboard these past three nights. Read ’em, per sweep: 000 000 000 That’s what your defending National League champion Phillies left behind, thank you very much. More to the point, that’s what your homestanding New York Mets […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, Angel Pagan, Chris Carlin, Fernando Tatis, Frankie Rodriguez, Gary Cohen, Henry Blanco, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Kevin Burkhardt, Mike Pelfrey, Momentum, Pedro Feliciano, Phillies, SNY, Sweep “This is Country Time lemonade mix. There’s never been anything close to a lemon in it, I swear!” Upset that the Mets don’t have a plan? Please. The Mets have never had anything close to a plan in them. I swear. It would be too easy to say “plan” is a […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, Aaron Cook, Abraham Nunez, Angel Pagan, Brady Clark, Brandon Knight, Chris Aguila, Chris Ianetta, Damion Easley, Dexter Fowler, Died A Met, Fernando Nieve, Gustavo Molina, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, John Maine, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Matt Wise, Mike Jacobs, Moises Alou, Pedro Feliciano, Raul Casanova, Raul Valdes, Ricardo Rincon, Ricky Gervais, Rockies, Rod Barajas, Ryota Igarashi, Team History, Tony Armas Jr., Trot Nixon |
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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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