 
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. |
As I’ve grown older, I’ve had to be less doctrinaire about 1:10 and 7:10 and where in the pecking order of life “WATCH METS” fits. There are business trips, social events, the duties of fatherhood — a whole welter of things that sometimes come between me and the game. But most of the time, I can […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fathers and Sons, Howie Rose, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada It wasn’t fun watching Ike Davis strike out, roll an ankle and let a grounder play him into a helpless knot on its way into right field. It wasn’t fun watching Jon Rauch hang sliders and snap his big, tattooed head around to follow their flight into faraway parts of Citi Field. It wasn’t fun watching Scott […] As I was heading down to tuck the kid into bed, Jose Altuve hit a little squibber in front of the plate, a play that ended with me looking back from the stairs to see Josh Thole and R.A. Dickey standing in annoyed proximity and Altuve far away on first. Another day without a no-hitter, I […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Mills, Fans, Manny Acosta, No-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Twitter I’ve had a ball helping my co-blogger moderating panels at Hofstra’s New York Mets Conference over the last day and a half, as well as sitting and listening to smart Mets fans, former players and baseball historians amateur and professional discuss all things blue and orange. On Friday, for instance, I a) heard a great […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Schwinden, Cycles, Hofstra Conference, Scott Hairston OK, the game. It was another beaut — it really was. Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey faced off in a corker of a pitcher’s duel, with Buehrle’s deadly sinking change evenly matched against Dickey’s fluttering knucklers. Omar Infante hit a home run that would have gone out of old Yankee Stadium to give the Marlins […] Somehow, I imagined that seeing my favorite team play a doubleheader that included two big-league debuts and began with David Wright poised to claim the club record for RBIs would be more fun. After 10 days far from home, the idea of my own couch and the Mets on my own TV was pretty close to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Giants, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jordany Valdespin, Sean Ratliff, The Holy Books, Tim Lincecum So for 10 days I was away from the Mets, but not away from baseball. In fact, there was quite a lot of baseball — through luck and a little driving, I was able to add three new ballparks to my list, bringing myself up to a respectable 15. I’ve now seen every big-league ballpark […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Stadium, AT&T Park, Ballparks, Citi Field, Fans, music, Petco Park, Safeco Field Why did it take me nearly 43 years to get to Cooperstown? I’m not really sure. For a while it was because I was a kid, and I don’t think it occurred to me that the Baseball Hall of Fame was somewhere you could actually go, even though I must have read approximately eleventy-billion Baseball Digest […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Hall of Fame, Kirk Nieuwenhuis The 2012 Mets have been recalled from Cooperstown. It was a night of firsts. They lost their first game. They lost their first game that made you roll your eyes and mutter and swear and stalk around. They lost their first game in which they looked absolutely hopeless and star-crossed and fatally flawed. All of which was […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Disappointment, Fans, Injuries Baseball’s beautiful and elevating and timeless and pastoral and all those good high-minded things, but it’s also a lot of fun — particularly when things go off the rails and the game is played roly-poly, pell-mell, tumble-bumble, like it was in the ninth inning tonight. And when you win. That’s important too. But let’s not get […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Danny Espinosa, David Wright, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mike Pelfrey, Ruben Tejada, Todd Tichenor |
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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