 
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. |
Now you listen to me! I want trading reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on! That’s Mortimer Duke at the end of 1983’s Trading Places, after he realizes Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine have ruined him and his brother Randolph in revenge for a […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  The Other Carlos Torres, Tony Wolters, Umpires, West Coast Trips Good news for all you kids out there. You can now play baseball any way you like. The rules don’t apply. Just slam into middle infielders at will. You don’t even need to be on your way to second base. You do this, and you and your team shall be rewarded handsomely. That’s my takeaway after […] 76 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Marlon Anderson, Noah Syndergaard, Ruben Tejada, Travesty, Umpires, Zack Greinke Whaddya know? The Mets really can beat the Nationals. They did so tonight — you could look it up. They did so despite the umpires failing up to correct a bad call even with a replay review, which burned Terry Collins‘s challenge, which meant he couldn’t challenge the next play, when Ian Desmond overslid second stealing and was called […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Hope, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Nationals, Travis d'Arnaud, Umpires Terrible uniforms! Good starting pitching! Bad bullpen work! Questionable strategies! An umpiring controversy! And, finally, a walk-off! That’s quite a lot for one game, even with two extra frames, but it wound up as a victory for the forces of good, with Ruben Tejada whacking a clean single up the middle, then showing his most surprising speed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Eric Campbell, Patience, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud, Umpires In the bottom of the ninth, with one out, the score tied and the winning run on second, I was deliriously certain that Wilmer Flores would single, making the Mets walkoff winners and getting himself mobbed at first. When Flores grounded out instead, I was not particularly disheartened: The Braves walked John Buck (not sure […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Daniel Murphy, Football, Freddie Freeman, Instant Replay, Jerry Layne, Terry Collins, Umpires I know it, you know it, the players know it, the fans know it. I suspect Bud Selig knows it. The question is what he’s going to do about it. Let’s get rid of some preliminaries: Before the pivotal call by first-base ump David Rackley, the Mets hadn’t played a particularly good game. Collin McHugh, so […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Collin McHugh, David Rackley, Fans, MLB, Umpires In the bottom of the second inning last night, the umpires made R.A. Dickey cut two small friendship bracelets off the wrist of his glove hand — bracelets his daughters had given to him in January, before he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Yes really. My suspicions — and those of probably every other Mets fan — immediately focused […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anger, Dusty Baker, Hopelessness, James Hoye, MLB, R.A. Dickey, Reds, Umpires A sometimes irritating, sometimes amusing side effect of chronicling games as a blogger is the weird double vision you develop as events take their course. By the middle innings you find yourself wondering what your theme is — or wondering if this is one of those ho-hum games where you’re going to have to invent […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Howie Rose, Marvin Hudson, Nationals, Terry Collins, Umpires A day after playing a stultifying, graceless mess of a game that they won, the Mets played a bizarre, quietly fascinating game that they lost. After you’ve watched enough baseball games, you find yourself wondering if the baseball cliché about seeing something you’ve never seen before should be retired. Because, really, how can that be? I’m […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arthur Rhodes, Dusty Baker, Fernando Nieve, Jerry Meals, Joey Votto, Mike Pelfrey, Replay, Scott Rolen, Strange Events, Umpires Johan Santana used everything he could and kept the opposition off the board. The Mets didn’t score enough for him. Francisco Rodriguez made a tough situation even more difficult and blew a potential save. The Mets stopped scoring altogether in extra innings. Somebody on the other team hit a walkoff grand slam. The Mets lost […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Galarraga, David Eckstein, Indians, Jason Donald, Jim Joyce, Johan Santana, John McGraw, Ken Griffey Jr., King of Comedy, Perfect Game, Tigers, Umpires |
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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