 
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. |
Contrary to what you may glean from accounts of tonight’s game, some good things did happen in Philadelphia: 1. Ruben Tejada went two for three and crashed into the tarp to make a terrific running catch. Yes, this is the same Ruben Tejada who deserved half of an ugly error yesterday against the Brewers. I think […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angel Pagan, Cliff Lee, Debacles, Dillon Gee, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Ryota Igarashi, Terry Collins What’s happening to the Mets now is cruel, and hard to watch. But perhaps it’s not really unexpected. Perhaps what was unexpected was the part we liked more — the walking on water, the withstanding injury after injury after injury, the playing scrappy, winning ball for so long. The recent run of misfortune feels like proof […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Jason Isringhausen, Justin Turner, Manny Acosta, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins 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 Ah, Garbage Time. Been a while. (Theatrical sigh.) Garbage Time is weird. Losing generally produces a dull ache instead of the sharp pain felt while you still dream of the postseason, but winning, weirdly, can be more fun. And I know why: When your team’s aiming at first place, or the wild card, or even just has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Garbage Time, Padres If you spent the night renewing your membership in the Diehards’ Club by watching the Mets play extra innings against the Padres, you not only got to see a Mets win — you got ample opportunity to reflect on the team’s past, its future and (oh yeah) it’s glass-half-something present. The accolades and the happy sentiment […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Brandon Nimmo, Draft, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins, Todd Tichenor Whatever hopes we had of catching the Braves (and somewhere in our Ya Gotta Believe hearts we all had them) have melted away over the last two weeks. At the end of July, you may remember, the Mets took four in a row from the Reds; since then, we’ve won a grand total of four […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Ransom, Dillon Gee, Ian Kennedy, Paul Goldschmidt, Stupid Rules, Yadier Molina The last two nights, the Mets offered us a stirring reminder that while the playoffs may be out of reach, there’s still plenty of baseball to be enjoyed, whether you’re out at Citi Field, parked in front of the TV or wandering around with the radio as your companion. They played scrappy, fundamentally sound ball, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Dan Napoleon, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins I saw this New York Times piece on my iPad and spent the next couple of hours trying to keep my blood from boiling. I love the Times, but Jim Luttrell’s post is tone-deaf about Mets fans specifically, baseball fans in general, and ignores the actually interesting currents and tribes of the city in favor of […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Heath Bell, Injuries, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Media Criticism, Mike Baxter, New York Times INT. CITI FIELD — NIGHT Several dejected Mets are sitting around the clubhouse, half in and half out of their uniforms. JUSTIN TURNER R.A. DICKEY 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Murphy, Johan Santana, Justin Turner, R.A. Dickey, Rainouts Well, Emily and I had fun for eight innings. It was a lovely night, we warmed up for the game with my wife’s first-ever visit to Donovan’s (I wouldn’t say it’s the best burger in New York City, but it’s very good — a bar burger executed perfectly), and during the mid innings I got to […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Disappointment, Fans, Jason Isringhausen, Johan Santana, Justin Turner, Marlins |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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