 
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. |
After I got home and watched the replay, Michael Conforto’s one-on, two-out, ninth-inning drive to left-center proved ordinary. It was a deep fly ball but quite catchable, and sure enough Andrew McCutchen caught it to send Friday’s Mets-Pirates game to the tenth inning, knotted at one. From Row 21 of Section 109, however, it looked perfect. […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Recker, Arnold Hano, Bartolo Colon, Batting Practice, Bobby Parnell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Frustration, J.A. Happ, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Leo Durocher, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Skid Rowe, Sparky Anderson, Terry Collins, Tim McCarver, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to Flashback Friday, a dormant Faith and Fear in Flushing tradition revived this particular Friday in recognition of where we are now and how far we’ve come to get here. If you have been to Citi Field in 2015 and been at your seat just before the home team’s lineup is formally introduced, perhaps you’ve […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Flashback Friday, Memories, Montages Welcome to Tuesday night, Citi Field, Flushing, New York, August, the 2010s. It is not by chance we are here. We make a date. We make this date. August 10, 2010 Did we ever have a meeting to decide? Did it go through committee? Did we take […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Rockies, Ryder Chasin, Shake Shack, Tradition Perhaps you’ve heard about the butcher and the baker and the people on the streets, all of whom have gone to Meet The Mets. More than 27,000, whatever the vocation, did so Monday night, myself included. We gave ’em a yell, gave ’em a hand and let ’em know we were rootin’ in the stand. Yes, […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, First Place, Meet The Mets, Seats, Skid Rowe, The Simpsons In the top of the first inning Saturday night at Tropicana Field, Curtis Granderson homered, Daniel Murphy doubled, Yoenis Cespedes singled and Lucas Duda doubled. The Mets led the Rays, 3-0, with nobody out. This, I said to myself, is in the bag. Not just the game, but the season, the postseason and the dynasty to […] The constantly vigilant, uncommonly retentive (not to mention preternaturally anxious) baseball fan’s mind comes fully equipped with hyperlinks. He sees something and it reminds him of something he’s seen before. It may or may not be worth the trouble of clicking on, but he know it’s there. For example, Wednesday night the Mets were ahead of […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Aaron Heilman, Braden Looper, Brian Schneider, Chris Woodward, Dae-Sung Koo, Danny Graves, Eric O'Flaherty, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Pedro Martinez, Preston Wilson, Ramon Castro, Roberto Hernandez, Ron Darling, Ryan Church, Superstition, Willie Randolph “Essentially, though, these were young men, seizing the opportunity to make the careers all normal ball players yearn for — victory, earning power, fame, respect. They were no different from the dozens of other young clubs that had suddenly found themselves, all through baseball history, in some dramatic season. The comic origins of the name […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2015 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, First Place, Leonard Koppett, Michael Conforto, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes The key to winning Saturday night’s game against the Nationals can be traced to the moment the Mets determined they needed to plant a genuine slugger in the heart of their batting order. Of course I’m referring to Lucas Duda, who the Mets acquired for future considerations last week, as in Lucas being told by […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Joe Ross, Lucas Duda, Matt Thornton, Matt Williams, Pennant Race, Yoenis Cespedes Hey, the Mets made a trade and got a guy they needed. Is that too optimistic a thought to express before Yoenis Cespedes does a thing in blue and orange? Cespedes come to the Mets from the Tigers for highly regarded pitching prospect Michael Fulmer and fellow minor league hurler Luis Cessa. Even if Cespedes tanks […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Luis Cessa, Michel Fulmer, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes One look at the dark clouds encroaching from the west led me to an unassailable conclusion, which I shared with my friend Joe as we sat waiting in the third row of Promenade, section 508, for the top of the ninth inning to commence Thursday afternoon. “End times,” I declared mostly seriously, “are coming.” Joe glanced up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Camp Day, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Humidity, Jeurys Familia, Justin Upton, Rain Delays, Trades, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler |
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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