 
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. |
And on the eleventh day, they did precisely what they’d been doing on the ten days that preceded it. They won. It’s a daily exercise with these Mets, now historically so. In front of your frozen but grateful blogger, his shivering photographer pal and scattered others who — like Sharon Chapman and me — value excellence over […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 1972 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 2015 Mets, Team History, Winning Streaks If you’re a sports fan, the best Aprils are the most stressful Aprils. In competitive context, such Aprils are the least cruellest of months, but they can play on your nerves. The two teams I root for in winter, the Nets and the Islanders, have made it to spring’s playoffs. It beats their having to go […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Curtis Granderson, First Place, Hockey, Jon Niese, Kevin Plawecki, T.S. Eliot, Winning Streaks This, I thought as I sat in Promenade Box 405 during the sun-soaked bottom of the fourth on Sunday, is where the dream has at last arrived to meet reality. All those computer-generated images of bustling new Mets Ballpark from 2006 tried to capture what the future would look like. It would have people and […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Euphoria, Injuries, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Travis d'Arnaud, Winning Streaks When I fell asleep last night, the first-place Mets had won their seventh in a row and held the best record in the National League. When I woke up this morning, the still first-place Mets had still won their seventh in a row and still held the best record in the National League. So this isn’t […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Buddy Carlyle, Carlos Torres, Dee Gordon, G. Gordon Liddy, Jacob deGrom, Marlins Are you supposed to know when you’ve been born again? Because I’m pretty sure I have been, fanwise. Somewhere between Thursday night, when I expected everything to go wrong but it didn’t, and Friday night, when it never occurred to me anything would go wrong and it didn’t, I underwent some kind of transformation. Perhaps Bartolo Colon […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Danny Muno, Juan Lagares, Reborn Mets Fan In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores Before the manager had to deliver the news that something “major” had happened to his indispensable player’s hamstring…before a backup catcher presumably said a prayer that nothing be hit to him in his unforeseen debut as a third baseman…before baseballs brushed back batters hither and yon…before replays weren’t reviewed even though it sure as hell […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alfonzo Marquez, Anthony Recker, Chase Utley, Citi Field, David Buchanan, David Wright, Harvey Day, Jeff Francoeur, Matt Harvey, Phillies, Terry Collins, Video Review In case you don’t remember, baseball is back. A week ago at this time, you could barely sit still in anticipation of its annual arrival. Now it’s part of the woodwork. I like the woodwork this way. I like baseball this way. I like when it keeps us company this way, embedded so smoothly into the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Michael Cuddyer, Nicknames, Reaction Shots, Unhealthy Obsession with Mike Hessman, Wilmer Flores Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this eighth of ten installments, we swing by a year that we hope the current season evokes comparisons to real soon. They edged Washington to start their season. […] I like the part where perhaps the best righty in the league comes back and pitches like he never paused for an elbow operation and subsequent rehabilitation. Matt Harvey is ComebacKKKKKKKKK Player of the WeeKKKKKKKKK. With nine strikeouts after a twenty-month layoff, can month, year, decade and century be far behind? “Just one start” is one of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Appomattox, Harvey Day, Harvey's Better, Hope, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg, The Shawshank Redemption |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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