 
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. |
Lots of things can go wrong for a baseball team. Tuesday night — which bled painfully into Wednesday morning — brought cruddy relief, an absence of hitting and some bad luck, all familiar maladies of late. Matt Harvey looked better than he has in a while, with life on his fastball and sharp breaking stuff, but […]  35 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Disappointment, Fans, Lucas Giolito, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Rain Welcome to your recurring state of suspended animation, last visited approximately two years and one month ago. The Mets haven’t lost and they haven’t yet lost. I suppose the same could be said about winning, but I just sat in the rain for what seemed like several hours, but it was just several innings and […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Phillips, Curtis Granderson, Matt Harvey, Rain, Steve Miller Band, Suspended Games A laugher after a long stretch of laughees? Turns out it makes for some complicated emotions. After the Mets scored a lone run early, I sourly thought, “Well Jacob deGrom, there’s your offense.” I also thought that our long-legged, long-haired rookie of the year in recovery looked a lot better than he had in recent outings. It […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Big Innings, Jacob deGrom, Rain, Wilmer Flores The Mets did the right thing, calling tonight’s game in advance of the forecast deluge. And a Mets game postponed (to Thursday night) in this September is tantamount to a good deed. Yet I find myself sad that the miserable Mets won’t be playing another miserable game that they were probably going to lose and will […] 1) It appears impossible to all but give away tickets to a Mets game in September, and that includes trying to all but give away tickets to people outside Citi Field who seem determined to go to the Mets game about to be played. Saturday afternoon was my annual Mets game with Jeff from Washington […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Citi Field, Jeurys Familia, McFadden's, Oddball Behavior, Pat LaFrieda, Rain, September, Sterling Awards, T-shirts, Zack Wheeler In light of the dreary weather through which all concerned were compelled to muck Thursday night, the New York Mets have announced tickets from their 11-5 loss to the San Diego Padres can be redeemed for complimentary admission to tonight’s game. But only if you’ve been bad. Your conscience would have to wracked by a gaggle of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Eric Stults, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Padres, Rain, Rob Johnson Note: I started writing this in the Citi Field press box during the seventh inning, promising myself that if the Mets staged an improbable comeback I would groan and hit delete in honor of suffering beat writers everywhere. “No cheering in the press box” is one of the oldest rule of sportswriting, and it’s one that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Citi Field, Media, Mike Pelfrey, R.A. Dickey, Rain I love backstories. I love tales of how we got where we are. I love marking the spot in space and time where what wasn’t became what is. Thus, I love now and again retracing my steps, now matter that I might wear out the carpet in illustrating the path that led me to now. I’m […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Extra Innings, Hideki Matsui, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, Mets Stuff, R.A. Dickey, Rain, Scott Hairston As baseball fans, we have a lot of phrases we repeat to ourselves to keep watching after things have gone to hell. As Mets fans, I’d wager we have even more of them. Down 8-1 8-0 [sorry, was apparently huffing paint thinner] after the top of the first? You never know how the other starter will […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Cubs, Dillon Gee, Fans, Fred Wilpon, Justin Berg, Keith Hernandez, Rain, Wrigley Field As Mets fan, we know that all too often the jokes write themselves: On Tuesday the Mets canceled a game while the sun was shining, and sat around at home while the evening was more or less dry. Tonight the Mets played on and on, while the rain fell in sheets and the infield turned […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Miller, Expectations, Fans, Injuries, Justin Turner, Rain, Roger Bernadina |
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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