 
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 had little to rejoice in this year, so let us rejoice in the postseason elimination of others. Not just any others, but the others we wish eliminated annually. Daily, really. Happy Elimination Day, civilized world! Hell, take the whole weekend! Congratulations, Rays. Congratulations, all of us.  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Postseason, Elimination Day, Sheadenfreude, Yankees We don’t cheer the sun coming up. We don’t cheer the grass coming in green. Yet we always cheer the Yankees going away. It’s heartening to know we can still appreciate the given things. What’s that you say? It wasn’t a given that New York’s junior circuit entry would go away for good in 2019, especially […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Postseason, Elimination Day, Great ALCS Moments, Great Decades for World Series, Jose Altuve, New York Championships, Sheadenfreude A happy and healthy Elimination Day to you and yours. Some sects observe this most joyous holiday as part of a larger Autumnal Festival of Sheadenfreude, a vicarious celebration of the October shortcomings of others near and not so dear to us, recognizing as sacred blessed events emanating from outcomes directly […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Postseason, Astros, Brewers, Dodgers, Elimination Day, New York Championships, Red Sox, Sheadenfreude Congratulations to the ballclub that just broke a 71-year pennant drought. Let us rejoice that its dry spell wasn’t snapped after only 70 years. The National League has a new champion that is no longer us. It feels as if there should have been some sort of formal ceremony to mark the transfer of grandeur, maybe Terry […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Postseason, 2016 World Series, Cubs, Indians, Not Winning Something Substantial, Sheadenfreude The forces of good were temporarily foiled Thursday night in St. Louis by Yadier Molina and dunderheaded officiating. Like havoc wreaked by rain on the late-September schedule, hardy perennials are hard to avoid. The Cardinals and Reds were locked in a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the ninth. The Cards had Matt Carpenter on first […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Elimination Day, Giants, Rain, Sam Rice, Sheadenfreude, Ties, Umpiring, Video Review, Yadier Molina Regardless of what the Trade Winds told us in the mid-1960s regarding the plight of displaced Southern California surfer boys, New York’s an awesome town when you’re the only baseball team around. Welcome to the autumn of our municipal content, the one featuring the Mets and, as of the completion of the Houston Astros’ shutout victory […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Elimination Day, New York, New York Championships, Sheadenfreude, Team History Good news yesterday, even with the rainout: I heard the neighbors aren’t throwing their annual October party this year. Actually, this is the second consecutive year they’re skipping it, making those affairs no longer annual events, I suppose. I didn’t think they were gonna have their party. I know they ordered in a bunch of […] Just when I think one of the funnest days of non-Mets baseball ever couldn’t get any more funner, I nod off in the eighth inning of the last reel of this rollicking quadruple-feature, the overly familiar Atlanta Braves leading the Los Angeles Dodgers by a run. I open my eyes maybe fifteen minutes later and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Postseason, Braves, Carlos Beltran, Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Freddy Garcia, George Stone, Grant Balfour, Jose Lobaton, Juan Uribe, Michael Wacha, Rays, Sheadenfreude, Victor Martinez American League update: Yankees. Carry on, October. In the jungle, the mighty jungle of Comerica Park, the Tigers sweep tonight. Feels good, doesn’t it? No matter how completely predictable this outcome had been for days; no matter the never comfortable fact that we’d rather be rooting for our team than rooting against their team; no matter that the phrase “putting them out of […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Elimination Day, Our Beloved Detroit Tigers, Sheadenfreude, Them |
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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