 
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. |
There are summer nights when you sense fall’s coming and you want to hold baseball as tightly as you can. This wasn’t one of those nights. This was a night when you wanted to shove baseball as far away as possible and run from it. The Mets started out OK in LA, what with Curtis Granderson clubbing […] For 90 seconds or so, there was joy in Metville. We’d punished the Cubs for removing Jake Arrieta, whose curveball had jelly-legged Met knees and kicked out Met fannies and turned Met bats into fan blades throughout another insanely beautiful August afternoon. We’d reminded ourselves that we do too like Curtis Granderson, who broke a seemingly centuries-long […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Jake Arrieta, Joan Payson, Matt Szczur, Rafael Montero The Mets are chocolate and the Cubs are peanut butter: We’ve got a surplus of young pitching and not enough bats; they’ve got a surplus of young bats and not enough pitching. So plenty of baseball matchmakers want to know what, exactly, is taking so long: Send some prospects from Column Mets west while some prospects […] Who among us doesn’t remember being a kid in the backyard, dreaming — if only for a second — of a career in the big leagues? I’m Lucas Duda. It’s the last out of another ass-kicking administered by the Nationals. I’m standing sort of near the plate, looking out at Rafael Soriano standing sort of near […] OK, so that little speech about patience? Today was why it needed to be said. Today when the Mets rudely interrupted their own romp over the Phillies by blowing a five-run lead. Today when the mangy zombie Phillies rose up and justified Ruben Amaro Jr.’s dingbat refusal to admit the obvious, disemboweling our bullpen and then shambling off […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jenrry Mejia, Vic Black, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Sandy Alderson insisted losing two out of three to the Nationals didn’t have anything to do with Friday’s developments in Metland, but let’s not kid ourselves. Wilmer Flores is going to be the guy at shortstop, not Ruben Tejada. Lucas Duda is going to play against tough lefties. Kirk Nieuwenhuis was going to be the guy in left, except […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Chris Young, Matt den Dekker, Milestones, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores Jon Niese is recovered from his shoulder woes. His arm feels good. He’s revised his mechanics to correct the bad habits that led to shoulder irritation in the first place. But those revised mechanics are causing him to miss his location, leading to innings that blow up on him, as happened twice against the Nationals […] The life of a freelance writer is by turns exciting and terrifying, but one of its undeniable benefits is that a weekday matinee is no big deal. Well, except when you’ve taken a fairly intense temporary office gig. And when you don’t check the schedule carefully enough during the process of dividing game duties with your blog partner. I […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben May, Fans, Giants, Juan Lagares, MLB At Bat, Radio Where did Jacob deGrom come from, anyway? I’d heard of him, of course, but not in a Matt Harvey/Zack Wheeler/Noah Syndergaard way, in which each mention is part of a countdown, the promotion becomes a rallying cry, and if the first big-league start comes at home you figure out if you can go so years later you can […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Heather Quinlan, Jacob deGrom, Jake Peavy, Juan Lagares, Michael Morse, Pablo Sandoval The funny thing is I figured we were going to win this one. The Mets have a way of hanging in there against Cole Hamels, then biting out his throat and letting us all unearth his ill-advised chokers comment to chortle over. So even though it was 2-0 and we were running out of outs, I was […] |
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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