 
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. |
Winning would have been preferable. Winning a bad game beats losing a good game. But since relatively little is at stake on this side of the line score, I can’t say watching a good game lost doesn’t engender its small rewards. I liked watching Ruben Tejada overcome Tim Hudson twice and battle him gamely a third […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chipper Jones, Craig Kimbrel, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Tim Hudson I think that I won’t raise a peep, A sweep half-won on R.A.’s wits; A sweep, thanks to Gee, in Game Two, A sweep enhanced by healed Jose, Upon Evans, this squad depends; Posts are blogged […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Joyce Kilmer, Nick Evans, R.A. Dickey, Sweeps What’s happening to the Mets now is cruel, and hard to watch. But perhaps it’s not really unexpected. Perhaps what was unexpected was the part we liked more — the walking on water, the withstanding injury after injury after injury, the playing scrappy, winning ball for so long. The recent run of misfortune feels like proof […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Jason Isringhausen, Justin Turner, Manny Acosta, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins Note: I started writing this in the Citi Field press box during the seventh inning, promising myself that if the Mets staged an improbable comeback I would groan and hit delete in honor of suffering beat writers everywhere. “No cheering in the press box” is one of the oldest rule of sportswriting, and it’s one that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Citi Field, Media, Mike Pelfrey, R.A. Dickey, Rain INT. CITI FIELD — NIGHT Several dejected Mets are sitting around the clubhouse, half in and half out of their uniforms. JUSTIN TURNER R.A. DICKEY 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Murphy, Johan Santana, Justin Turner, R.A. Dickey, Rainouts Funny, Frankie Rodriguez gets traded and I keep thinking about Omar Minaya. And not entirely in a negative way, either. In thinking about the confounding yet entertaining 2011 Mets, you can’t miss that a number of the team’s more encouraging success stories — Jonathon Niese, Daniel Murphy, R.A. Dickey, Dillon Gee, Justin Turner and Ruben Tejada — […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Frankie Rodriguez, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson Some games are taut testaments to the majesty of baseball when it’s played at the highest possible level by the best players in the world. And other games are just fun. Tonight’s opening tilt with the Giants certainly wasn’t a taut testament to anything, not with balls being misplayed and dopey stuff on the bases and grousing […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Bochy, Giants, Ike Davis, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston I love backstories. I love tales of how we got where we are. I love marking the spot in space and time where what wasn’t became what is. Thus, I love now and again retracing my steps, now matter that I might wear out the carpet in illustrating the path that led me to now. I’m […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Extra Innings, Hideki Matsui, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, Mets Stuff, R.A. Dickey, Rain, Scott Hairston It’s wonderful to be a Mets fan right now. It really is. While everybody tells jokes, the Mets have assembled a Quadruple-A lineup of guys who don’t do too much but do just enough, playing the game the right way, not shooting themselves in the foot and — DICKEY! WOULD YOU NOT DO THAT? I KNOW […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Balks, Braves, D.J. Carrasco, Frankie Rodriguez, Fredi Gonzalez, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston The Mets remain the confoundingest team in the world. Tonight they beat the Braves rather handily behind R.A. Dickey’s fluttering knucklers and Jose Reyes’s regular dose of high-octane awesomeness. They did so by scoring runs early and often against Tim Hudson — enough runs to withstand their own late-inning swoon, as Manny Acosta reminded us […] |
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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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