 
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. |
Maybe this is actually the year of the overlooked Mets pitcher. Sure, Matt Harvey has been Olympian and each start makes Zack Wheeler looks more like the phenom he was heralded as. But the other day we were talking about Dillon Gee’s turnaround. Not so long ago Jenrry Mejia came off the prospect scrap heap to […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Wright, Derek Jeter, Diamondbacks, Jonathon Niese, MLB, New York, Todd Zeile, Tuffy Gosewisch, Uniforms, Yankees By now we’re used to Dillon Gee. We don’t think “My goodness, Dillon Gee is starting — I better clear my calendar.” We don’t barrage Twitter with our top-shelf material. We don’t rotate in a cheeky/blasphemous cover image for our Facebook page. It’s just Dillon Gee, after all. Maybe we’re a little too used to Dillon […] Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls, it’s more democratic. — Bull Durham The forecast was ominous: likely rain. Yeah right. The raindrops remained at a respectful distance, because they — like the rest of us — wanted to watch Matt […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Eric Young Jr., Hope, Manny Corpas, Matt Harvey, Wilmer Flores This weekend was my annual get-together with my college pals, and while I’m never happy to miss a Mets game, Mets-Royals is about as missable as it gets. Like my blog partner, I have nothing against the Royals — in fact, I have a certain distracted, information-free affection for them. Back in the late 1970s, a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Marlon Byrd, Royals, Wilmer Flores One of these days Matt Harvey will have his revenge on the Miami Marlins, and it will be glorious. One of these days his teammates will stop eyeing him with quiet awe and score runs for him, and that will be even better. Until then, we’re left with days like today, games in which the Mets do […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Donovan Solano, Ike Davis, Marlins, Matt Harvey Perhaps you’ve heard: Baseball is an unfair game. I learned that as a kid, having read it somewhere in the collected works of noted philosopher Roderick Edwin Kanehl, known once upon the Polo Grounds as Hot Rod. Baseball, Prof. Kanehl explained, “is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Marlins, No-Hit Bids, Rod Kanehl, Zack Wheeler Yeah, OK. I don’t want to do this and you don’t want me to do this either, because today’s game was unpleasant and relentless. The only saving grace was Gary and Ron, long after any sensible person had fled for other channels, showing off their knowledge of former presidents: Ronnie went for William Taft’s post-White […] Some Met — I can’t remember whom and it’s resisting my Googling skills, so let’s just say it was Ron Swoboda — once noted that fans have it tougher than the players, because the players can do something, while the fans have to sit there and watch. Is it so? I’ve seen the photo of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Fans, Jayson Werth, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Ross Ohlendorf First off, no, I wasn’t at Star Wars Night — to the shock of people belonging to two fanbases for which I am a rare Venn diagram overlap. Why not? I don’t really have a good reason beyond being busy and tired. Besides, I have the memory of being a stormtrooper for an evening at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Torres, Hope, Ike Davis, PEDs, Ryan Braun, Star Wars When my son was four years old, we went to Shea one horrifically hot day, watched the Mets fall behind, watched them try to catch up in the ninth, watched Carlos Delgado hit a long drive that was headed out of the park … and saw Willie Harris, that bringer of Metsian misery, leap impossibly […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Craig Kimbrel, Jason Heyward, Willie Harris |
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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