 
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. |
Update: Here’s this story revisited for NPR. Near the end of winter my neighbor’s younger brother died unexpectedly. Emily and I are friendly with our neighbor, and offered him our condolences. But we don’t really know each other, for all the usual city reasons that you regret on one level but mostly look past while you’re […]  35 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Bill Dillman, Moment of Silence, Team History, The Holy Books Baseball isn’t really a team game. We talk of it as if it is one, but with a couple of exceptions (relay throws, hit-and-runs) it’s really a game of individual acts. The pitcher makes his pitch or doesn’t, the batter hits it or doesn’t, a fielder catches it or doesn’t. These individual acts get strung together […] Watching Mike Pelfrey obliterate the Cubs and the Mets hitters do enough, I felt something I hadn’t felt since Opening Day. Or rather, I noted the absence of something. Panic. In 2009, a late two-run lead for the Mets was called foreshadowing. In the first week of the season it was a fantasy, as the Mets weren’t […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Injuries, Jose Reyes, Mike Pelfrey, Ryota Igarashi Ike Davis: I am NOT the Messiah! Apologies to Life of Brian, but that what’s it’s been like over the last 24 hours: Ike Davis was hastily recalled from some hazy, happier future to the troubled present, and after thinking about […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, David Wright, Debuts, Ike Davis, Rey Ordonez, Rookies, Tim Bogar I suppose what I’ll remember from this game is the look of anguish on Raul Valdes’s face as he watched his curveball not curve. Or, rather, it did curve — very gently, so as to offer itself politely to Felipe Lopez’s bat and thereby begin its long trip to a final destination beyond the left-field fence. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Nieve, Jerry Manuel, Oliver Perez, Raul Valdes It’s often this way when you’re furious with someone you love: Irritation boils up into anger and anger explodes into rage, but then the rage consumes its fuel and you’re left feeling tired and vaguely sick and wish you could just fast-forward to whatever point will allow you to start over. So it was with the […] The Mets are 2-5, and Gary Cohen’s advice is not to jump off bridges. It’s early, after all. I agree nobody should be jumping off bridges. (Ever.) But when you think about the problems afflicting the Mets, they’ve been obvious a lot longer than seven games. * Gary Matthews Jr. and Mike Jacobs have shown themselves as […] 64 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jerry Manuel, Off With Their Heads, Omar Minaya On Saturday Emily and I were watching the game upstairs with my visiting parents, while Joshua was downstairs looking at the TV in our bedroom. (I don’t remember why this came about — he wasn’t being punished or anything. Unless you count watching the Mets as punishment, which right now I’d have trouble disputing.) So Rod […] The Mets didn’t commit an error tonight in losing the rubber game of the series to Ronny Paulino, Burke Badenhop and company. But don’t tell Jon Niese that. Niese pitched pretty well, mixing his pitches and generally hitting his spots. (Said spots perhaps were a wee too near the heart of the plate in the late goings, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Defense, Fernando Tatis, Jon Niese, Luis Castillo If you had to choose, would you rather be hobbled by horrible starting pitching or terrible relief? Too much bad starting pitching and the air is consistently out of the fan balloon by the third or fourth inning, leaving you grousing about wasted evenings and wondering if there isn’t something else you should be doing, possibly […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Fernando Tatis, First Loss of the Season After a Win, John Baker, John Maine, Marlins, Ricky Nolasco |
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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