 
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. |
Bartolo Colon going for the cycle! Leaping grabs from Jose Reyes! Bullets fired by Yoenis Cespedes! Asdrubal Cabrera going deep from both sides of the plate — and making a nifty play to short-circuit the Phillies! And of course Wilmer Flores sending one into the Flushing night to make a tense ballgame so much more relaxed. That was […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Morgan, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Cesar Hernandez, Jose Reyes, Peter Bourjos, Ryan Howard, Wilmer Flores It’s a truism of baseball that no matter what you’re going to win 54 games and lose 54 games, with what happens in the other 54 determining your season. Which is a pretty good rule, even if the Mets broke it for the first four years of their existence and came within a whisper of busting it […] Listen up, posters. We’ve had it with the invective in the comments. We’ve banned one person already, but it’s had no apparent effect on the conversation, which has become increasingly rancorous and tiresome. Today I had to wade into the comments multiple times to wag my finger, and that was on an off-day after a thoroughly gratifying […] The best thing to do — the sane thing, the kind thing, the self-preserving thing — would be to focus solely on what happened in Sunday night’s Mets-Giants game. It was taut, tight and well-played, but ultimately a tale of two pitchers: Jeff Samardzija and Noah Syndergaard. Samardzija rode his plus-plus fastball, a resurrected curve and a […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jeff Samardzija, Jeff Wilpon, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes For at least one day the Mets, those egregious laughingstocks, were anything but: they stomped on the Giants to break their losing streak in convincing fashion. 9-5? That’s definitely a way to make a living. Yoenis Cespedes led the charge, smacking two home runs and just missing a third, a just-missed that may or may not have led […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Billy Cotton, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, Josh Smoker, Terrel Hansen, The Holy Books, Yoenis Cespedes Ryan Schimpf can blast home runs, but I’m not quite sure what he was doing in the bottom of the 11th, when Wilmer Flores hit a ground ball his way with runners on first and third and one out. James Loney, who moves at the approximate speed of a continental shelf, was the runner on […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Neil Walker, Ryan Schimpf, Wilmer Flores Here’s your roundup of another thrilling day rooting for the incredible shrinking National League champs: Zack Wheeler‘s return to the mound was followed by not being able to throw because of elbow pain, so he’s off to see Dr. James Andrews. We’re all sure this will turn out great. 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hopelessness, Jon Niese, Logan Verrett, Michael Conforto On Sunday Emily and I were driving across Pennsylvania when I realized it was time for the Mets game. I started to turn it on, then hesitated. My wife — who’d watched as I turned on Saturday night’s game just in time to see the Mets lose on a play at the plate that their manager […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Comerica Park, PNC Park, Progressive Field I went 615 miles to see the Mets and they didn’t look any better than they do at home. More like the Mehs. Meet the Mehs, meet the Mehs A few months ago Emily and I decided on an August ballpark tour: fly to Cleveland and see a game, drive to Detroit for a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Comerica Park, Kelly Johnson, Noah Syndergaard, Tigers If you were looking for four hours that would renew your faith in the Mets, well, boy did you pick the wrong night. First the Mets played a thoroughly inept game against the Yankees, one in which a) they were atrocious once more with runners in scoring position; b) Steven Matz underpitched Chad Green to put them in an inescapably […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, Injuries, Mark Teixeira, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes |
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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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