 
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. |
We’ve not yet reached the longest day of the year, but Zack Wheeler was off the mound and in the clubhouse before literal darkness descended over Citi Field Tuesday night, so either it’s staying light later or the pitchers are growing short. Or both. Wheeler’s reign as undisputed Mets ace lasted one turn of the improved rotation, […]  30 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Rizzo, Baseball Cards, Cubs, Ian Happ, Skip Lockwood, SNY, Summer Solstice, Zack Wheeler Have you ever seen anything like Jay Bruce? Once, maybe. Like most precedents, it’s inexact. Unlike most precedents, this one had physical proximity going for it. On Wednesday night — a night when the Mets’ starting pitcher pitched into the eighth instead of the fifth and the Mets’ manager used three relievers instead of all of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2004 Mets, Jay Bruce, Precedent, SNY, Team History, Todd Zeile Your correspondent, taking a whirl at Beating the Booth, for fun and self-flagellation. Beat the Booth, the thoroughly Metted game show that pairs Howie Rose and Gary Cohen and therefore offers plenty of reason to watch, is at last coming to an SNY near you. It will air tonight and tomorrow following your regularly […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Armando Benitez, Bud Harrelson, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Jay Payton, Johan Santana, Mets Fan Instinct, R.A. Dickey, SNY, Timo Perez 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 appreciate the best reason to have continued watching game in and game out even when the seasons have pretty much gone to hell. “[You’re] […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, FAFIF Turns Ten, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling, SNY “And when the twelfth-largest company in the world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?” When last we visited with Howard Beale on DiamondVision more than six years ago, he was urging us to get up right now, sit […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bobby Ojeda, Network, Poochie, SNY, The Simpsons When viewed from just a bit outside Metsopotamia, our obsessions must seem odd to the detached observer. I guess you could say that about how any community appears to anybody who’s not wholly immersed in it, but over the past couple of days, we have been uncommonly true to ourselves, our passions and our minutiae. First, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Kevin Burkhardt, Mets Fans, Skyline Logo, SNY Steve Gelbs seems like a capable enough young broadcaster. We know him mostly from filling in for the singular Kevin Burkhardt on SNY, which, in the realm of roving reporting, is a little like starting Todd Pratt on Mike Piazza Poster Day. Pratt may perform ably — more than ably at his best — but […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hyperbole, Josh Edgin, Kevin Burkhardt, No-Hit Bids, Odrisamer Despaigne, Padres, Seth Smith, SNY, Steve Gelbs, Vic Black, Walkoffs, Zack Wheeler I hope there won’t be a quiz about the finer points of Thursday night’s Mets-Braves game. I’ve already forgotten most of what happened. I think I forgot it while I was dutifully watching all nine innings. I seem to recall Bartolo Colon not being sharp, then being very sharp, then being so sharp it seemed […] And you remember Sunday afternoon September 29 should be earmarked for nostalgia, a state our 52-year-old franchise embraces sporadically and reluctantly. The Mets resist embracing their past as if they don’t have enough of it or they doubt a substantial proportion of their loyalists treasure it. In this month when we’re […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Laraine Day, Larry Sanders, Nostalgia, Radio, Simulcast, SNY, WFAN 1. Daisuke Matsuzaka receives the ball back from Travis d’Arnaud. 2. Daisuke Matsuzaka is thinking. 3. Daisuke Matsuzaka is still thinking. 4. Like most Mets fans, I’m thinking, “When is Daisuke Matsuzaka going to throw the ball?” 5. Daisuke Matsuzaka sure takes his time. 6. Daisuke Matsuzaka’s reputation has preceded him to Citi Field. SNY was prepared Wednesday night with […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jose Reyes, Marty Glickman, Pace, SNY, Steve Trachsel, Tzatziki Sauce, Vic Black |
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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