 
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. |
No need to stop the presses, as the Mets finally maintain a 2-0 lead versus the Royals. All that gold in which the world champion Kansas City Royals draped themselves over the past two games is now dust. Gold dust. They can cram it into tiny tubes, authenticate it, mark it up and sell […]  21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Addison Reed, First Wins, Jeurys Familia, Jim Henderson, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Royals It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list — unless you’re redefining the term to mean “stuff that makes me want to puke when I think about enduring it” — but I can now say I’ve been through an Opening Day that I was dreading. Dreading Opening Day? What a bizarre thing for a lifelong fan to say. […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, ESPN, Matt Harvey, Mike Moustakas, Opening Day, Royals, Yoenis Cespedes I straggled home from Game Four of the World Series Sunday at 2:00 AM EDT, which in the instant it took me to look up at the clock, became Sunday at 1:00 AM EST. Standard Time had returned and the Mets were still playing baseball. Not very well on the eve of us gaining our wee […] 109 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Mathematically Eliminated, Matt Harvey, Royals, World Series Ending Daniel Murphy made an error. You probably noticed. Murph’s error came in a house-of-horrors eighth inning at Citi Field, a frame that’s an excellent candidate to take up residence in the recesses of your brain, to be hauled out and fumed over at future 3 AMs. But Murph wasn’t the only thing going bump in the night on what became a Halloween […] 126 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Bad Fans, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Disasters, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Royals, Terry Collins, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes I love the way the Kansas City Royals play baseball. They’re impossible to strike out, they pressure defenses on the basepaths, and they play a wild-eyed, high-stepping game. Which is pretty much the way they look on infield defense too, smothering balls and getting filthy and recording outs. It’s exciting, fun stuff. The only problem with that — […] 48 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Fans, Jacob deGrom, Royals Hosmer the Cat (a.k.a. Hozzie) rightfully turns his back on Hosmer the first baseman (a.k.a. the enemy). As we approach the never previously calculated New York Mets Championship Equinox — Saturday at 9:53 PM EDT is the moment between the final pitch of the pennant-clincher and the first pitch of the World Series — […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Bandwagons, Baseball Equinox, Hozzie the Cat, Royals, World Series Fever I’ll admit this: I never thought Fred Wilpon’s line about meaningful games in September was so embarrassing. Granted, I would have revised the line to “meaningful games in the last week of September.” If you’re playing those, your team’s kept you scoreboard watching, hoping and dreaming almost until the end, which I’ll always sign up for. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Kauffman Stadium, New Busch Stadium, Royals Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we attempt to give our era’s most notorious season a Web redemption of sorts. It’s not that nothing went wrong 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, FAFIF Turns Ten, GourMets, Mad Men, Royals, Stephen Sondheim, The Years After In the end, it was the year of the pitcher…one pitcher in particular. It was the year of Madison Bumgarner. The towering lefty won the 2014 World Series Wednesday night, accompanied by 24 San Francisco Giants, several of whom he couldn’t have done it without. The rest will likely stare down at their third shiny […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Postseason, Giants, Madison Bumgarner, Royals, World Series Ending Welcome to Cliché Stadium for the last Major League Baseball game of this year. It takes place tonight. When it is over, there will be no tomorrow. Not one necessarily worth contemplating anyway. Except for Giants partisans who would have preferred the opportunity to bubble-wrap the Commissioner’s Trophy, fasten its seatbelt and fly it home, nobody didn’t […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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