On July 23, 2005, Jose Reyes busted out at Shea. The kid we’d been told was gonna do great things did the greatest things he’d done to date: 4-for-5, including a triple; two RBIs; two steals; three runs scored. The Mets beat the Dodgers, 7-5. Mets starting pitcher Pedro Martinez — almost exactly a decade […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Human Beings, Jose Reyes, Logan Verrett, Pedro Martinez The Cubs and my father are enmeshed in my oft-told Mets fan origin story. It was my dad who’d bring home the Post — when it was an afternoon paper — that featured the recurring cartoon that I credit for sucking me into the ongoing storyline of the 1969 season: the Mets duck doing battle […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Charles Prince, Cubs, Fathers and Sons, Rashomon Sometimes you look at the screen and you know you’re doomed. Then you look at the tiny score bug in the corner of the screen and realize you’re not. You’re losing in all facets of the game, especially on the scoreboard, but it hits you after a while that the game is neither over nor […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Counterintuitive Wins, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, The Flintstones, The Odd Couple Let’s see what we’ve got in the outfield: Cespedes in left. Lagares in center. Granderson in right. No, Conforto in left. Cespedes in center. Granderson in right. Wait, Cespedes doesn’t want to play center. As dinged up as he’s been, and given how important it is to keep him in the lineup, it’s probably best to accede to […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Juan Lagares, Michael Conforto, Outfield, Square Pegs, Yoenis Cespedes I traveled to the Meadowlands a couple of Septembers ago for a Giants game. In the first series executed by the home team, a run for four yards on 3rd and 1 produced a first down. My host for the afternoon, as True Blue a fan as there is, could not have been happier to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Mike Compton, One-Hitters, Phillies, Starting Pitching, Zach Eflin I can’t prove it, but Met losses to the Phillies are the most annoying losses there are. The Phillies have become the new Marlins. Move over, Miami. You’re no longer quite that team. All losses are the worst, and I don’t doubt that if you catch me after a defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, the […] When the Mets’ lineup was first posted in the late afternoon, I stared at it blankly. It might as well have been nine total strangers. I knew they were they players on my team, I knew I had waited for my team to begin playing again, I just didn’t feel any connection to their identities. When […] Do you remember R.A. Dickey shutting down the Mets last June in Toronto and then letting it be known he was pitching a couple of days after his father’s death? Taking the ball was something his manager, John Gibbons, said he felt he had to do. That stayed with me in light of my father […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, Charles Prince, Compartmentmalization, Fathers and Sons, Jeurys Familia, Moment of Silence, Terry Collins The 2016 baseball season began approximately ten minutes ago and is now more than half over. It has tied the major league record for how quickly time flies, set in every other baseball season. Even the ones that drag zip by before you know it. Embroidered in the fabric of the baseball season to remind us […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, All-Star Break, Amazin' Again, Perspective I’ve got one word for Daniel Murphy, and it’s not because he’s the brother of either of my parents, because he’s not. The word is “Uncle.” I’ll say it again: Uncle, as in stop it, stop it, stop it. I give. You’re the man. You never should have been allowed to escape to Washington. You should’ve been […] 54 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Newhart, Daniel Murphy, hindsight, Max Scherzer, My Cousin Vinny, Skid Rowe |
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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