 
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. |
Nights like Tuesday, defined primarily by rain, futility and Jason Vargas, deserve to be evaluated not on how bad the Mets’ loss was mathematically, but how the elements that constitute the whole of the experience measure within the parameters of the carefully calibrated Jason Vargas Index. For those who […] In the ninth inning of Monday’s nightcap, which if memory serves ended about an hour ago if it’s not in fact still going on, Braves pinch-hitter Dustin Peterson tried to take first base on ball three. The various onlookers laughed; so did I. It had been a long, often ridiculous day and night that by […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ramos, Braves, Doubleheaders, Hansel Robles, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Luis Guillorme, Rain Delays The deluge prior to Tuesday night’s game between the Mets and their infrequent visitors from the north rattled trees and plans. The deluge during the affair, on the other hand, was an offensive blessing. Runs rained down on Citi Field, almost all of them in the bottoms […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Blue Jays, Curtis Granderson, Devin Mesoraco, Interleague Play, Juan Lagares, Matt Silverman, Noah Syndergaard, Rain Delays, Uni Watch Brandon Nimmo is more than just happy to be here, but make no mistake: he’s happy to be here. Look at the smile that accompanied him around the bases after he bopped the first home run of his career, the one that elevated the Mets to a 7-1 lead en route to a soggy 10-2 […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Gary Rajsich, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Rain Delays, Seth Lugo, Smile, The Simpsons, Yoenis Cespedes One look at the dark clouds encroaching from the west led me to an unassailable conclusion, which I shared with my friend Joe as we sat waiting in the third row of Promenade, section 508, for the top of the ninth inning to commence Thursday afternoon. “End times,” I declared mostly seriously, “are coming.” Joe glanced up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Camp Day, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Humidity, Jeurys Familia, Justin Upton, Rain Delays, Trades, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Casey and Joan get together again for a little Mets baseball. Mets fans wait. It’s what we do. We waited through four barren seasons to have National League baseball in the first place, only to wait seven seasons stuck in ninth or tenth place. The Jobian patience mandated by the minute progress of the earliest […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Anthony Recker, Casey Stengel, Cody Ross, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, John Buck, Kevin McReynolds, Kirk Gibson, Post Traumatic Mets Disorder, Rain Delays The descent of Western Civilization from its state of earthly pre-eminence can be dated from the pagan celebrations that regularly engulfed the plates of home in the early stages of the twenty-first century Anno Domini. These were bacchanalia whose sheer offensiveness to long-established standards of morals and tastes crested with the actions of the False […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Costas, Cholula Hot Sauce, Dillon Gee, Freddie Freeman, Lucas Duda, Rain Delays OK, actually half-bad is exactly what we are. But compared to what we were not so long ago…. It turns out nothing can stop Dillon Gee except thunder, lightning, lunatic gales and cruel but sensible precautions related to long rain delays and surgically repaired labrums. Our favorite advanced-stats conundrum mowed down the Braves for four innings, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Dillon Gee, Fans, Rain Delays, Stats, Storytelling |
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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