 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
Obviously, I retract every remotely positive thing I ever said about Tom Glavine. Fucking Brave can go fuck himself straight back to Fucklanta. Obviously, I retract every remotely positive thing I ever said about Jose Reyes. When you go to winter ball, work on hitting the ball on a line and don’t be chummy with Miguel [...] I suppose in some alternate universe we didn’t blow a seven-game lead with 17 to play. In this one, matters are otherwise. Congratulations Phillies. First pitch minutes away. But there's always time for a good show tune*… Join us Leave your fields to flower Join us Leave your cheese to sour Join us Come and waste an hour or two Doo-dle-ee-do Journey Journey to a spot ex- citing, mystic and exotic Journey Through our anecdotic revue We've got magic to do Just for you We've got miracle plays to play We've got parts to perform Hearts [...] All right brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But let's just get me through this and I can get back to killing you with beer. Tom, we've had a strange relationship for five seasons. I made no secret that I never wanted you to be a Met and you always gave me [...] Yesterday I would not have believed That tomorrow the sun would shine Then one day you came into my life I am alive again —Chicago (the group, not the Cubs) Five straight dreary night games gave way to a Saturday afternoon like few others in the history of the old multipurpose stadium hard by the Grand Central. Shea had, however, [...] Getting your bearings when you show up in the middle of a radio broadcast is always hard, and generally at least mildly comical. So it was with me, back in New York more or less for keeps. The second the plane from Salt Lake City hit tarmac at JFK, I flipped on my radio. Something big [...] |
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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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