 
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. |
Which of these seems less likely? Scenario 1: Middle reliever Rob Carson steps in with nobody on and two men out for his first plate appearance in the major leagues. Sixty and a half feet away stands the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, an assemblage of long limbs borrowed from a Hindu deity, stop-start motions filched […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Clayton Kershaw, Juan Lagares, Mark Ellis, Paco Rodriguez, Rob Carson A day after a downtrodden people gathered to bear witness to Harveyism and declare that henceforth its tenets shall be their faith, the less-exalted Jeremy Hefner took the hill for New York. The more you know about Hefner the more you root for him, but he’s not Matt Harvey, which isn’t any kind of insult. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bryce Harper, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin Remember when Matt Harvey nearly no-hit the Twins? That was fun. Since then, this is what we’ve had: Sunday: Snowed out Monday: Snowed out Tuesday: Lose double-header Wednesday: Snowed out Thursday: Lose And now here’s Matt Harvey on tap again. Well, except he’s facing a team that’s just a bit better than the Twins. Oh, and it’s supposed to rain. I assumed they would lose […] OK, not quite … but it sure felt that way. I would love to get an up-close look at Target Field, which I’ve seen praised as a wonderful park and the anti-Citi for its generous portions of Twinsiana. And one day I will. But tonight I was happy to be 1,200 miles away huddled on a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Ruben Tejada, Target Field, Twins, Weather Look, just forget about that one. Certainly Dillon Gee would like to. I came out of Gee’s nightmare of a second inning thinking that Objects on Scoreboard Are Less Dire Than They Appear — several of the hits had just found holes, the Mets were driving balls off Cliff Lee, and it was Citizens Bank Park. But then […] On Sunday afternoon a strange thing happened at Citi Field: The Mets won the kind of game that used to constantly go the Marlins’ way. Seriously, if you’ve been a Mets fan for 10 years or so, look at this sequence out of context and tell me it doesn’t conjure up Soilmaster Stadium, Luis Castillo, Antonio […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Jeffrey Loria, Jose Fernandez, Juan Pierre, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marlins, Ruben Tejada The Miami Marlins are horrible. Besides being a cautionary lesson to the next fanbase extorted into building a Xanadu for a sharp-elbowed gazillionaire owner (which is a fancy way of saying “an owner”), the Marlins have no hitters besides Giancarlo Stanton and Greg Dobbs, who wouldn’t count except we all know Greg Dobbs could still connect […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jeffrey Loria, Jeremy Hefner, Lucas Duda In discussing my kid and his flickering hopes for the future, I left out one other new Met he’s excited about. It’s the same Met you went into last night excited about. Which means this morning we’re all giddy with a chance of liftoff. And rightly so. Matt Harvey was … well, words fail even this word-obsessed […] Before I became a father, one of my many reasons for not wanting to take that step was that I thought parenthood meant life would be static. You had a kid and disappeared, sitting at home waiting for your child to grow up into someone interesting. By the time that happened, you’d be fossilized and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin Cowgill, Fans, Fathers and Sons, Hope, Jose Reyes, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, R.A. Dickey Congratulations to David Wright, named Mets captain after a distinguished, classy nine years on the field and the usual tatty nine weeks or so of Mets mini-drama, replacing what should have been a couple of hours behind closed doors. I was briefly amused by Wright’s decision not to wear a captain’s C, as if the Mets […] |
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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