 
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. |
The Mets are playing a day-night doubleheader, and so are we: My take on the day game will be followed by Greg’s report on the nightcap. The Mets’ late-season swoon has annoyed me of late, but the morning still found me down in the dumps. Joshua and I were headed to Citi Field for our last […]  Comments closed | |  Print This Post |  Farewells, No-Hitters, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Valentino Pascucci Short of doing something that will get you arrested, you can’t affect the outcome of a baseball game. Your hooting and hollering does nothing. Neither does praying, cajoling or threatening. Baseball takes no notice of your swaggering overconfidence and ignores your pretend humility. It does not care that you care. It does not care that […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, David Wright, Justin Turner, Ruben Tejada, Superstition, Tony La Russa, Willie Harris In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Cardinals, Citi Field, David Wright, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Mike Pelfrey, Octavio Dotel, Stats, Storytelling Our pals over at Yahoo’s Big League Stew sent the 2011 Mets to detention, and sent in me and Greg to scare ’em straight. Here’s what we said. Reaction to Sunday’s rousing win, meanwhile, is over here. Sometimes it’s great when the Mets make a hash of my plans. Getting ready for today’s game, I had a promising albeit rather sorrowful blog post mapped out — it was going to deal with the Cyclones, the Sand Gnats, childhood and the inescapability of Chipper Jones. And that plan held after Chipper doubled in the […] The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. That, of course, is by Bart Giamatti, a sweet, sad salute that will be quoted […] … I was a stormtrooper for the New York Mets. For a night. Some of you may know that the Mets aren’t my only dorky obsession. I’m also a lifelong Star Wars fan, and author of more than a dozen Star Wars books. So when the Mets announced they were hosting Star Wars Night — a […] You know that Toshiba ad where they ship the laptop without the shock-resistant hard drive, and there’s a nationwide power outage and a guy drinks bad milk and turns into a zombie and bites his roommate and then there are zombies everywhere? (You’re a Mets fan, you have to know it.) I imagine Major League […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, David Wright, Disappointment, John Franco, Mike Piazza, MLB, New York Following too many losses I’ve tried to be philosophical: Watching your team lose a baseball game isn’t so bad — in fact, it’s the second-best thing you can do with three hours. Which is sometimes true, but breaks down when it comes to doubleheaders. There are a lot of things that are more fun than watching […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Schwinden, Craig Kimbrell, The Holy Books, Valentino Pascucci By about the fifth inning or so it was clear that the only way to capture this Bataan Death March of a game was chronologically, as fear ebbed and flowed and was overtaken by exhaustion. If you have trouble fixing just when something happened or recalling what sparked some outburst from me, rest assured that […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bobby Valentine, Extra Innings, Gary Cohen, Greg Dobbs, Hatred, Jack McKeon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Nick Evans, Ronny Paulino, Soilmaster Stadium |
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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