 
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. |
My regular team is nowhere to be found this October. I don’t have a temporary team at the moment. Some years I enter the playoffs with a cause. This year I’m just happy to be here as an unaligned onlooker. Some team will reveal itself to me as situationally mine soon enough. Wednesday night, however, I […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2000 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Allen Ripley, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Bobby Jones, Brandon Crawford, Ed Lucas, Giants, Ike Davis, Madison Bumgarner, Mark Gardner, New York Giants, Pirates, Polo Grounds, Steve Henderson Directing 14/15ths of my baseball attention to 1/15th of the National League as I do, I can’t say I’m any kind of authority on what transpires in DH land. But I hear things. I heard, for instance, that the Oakland A’s were putting the finishing touches on a surefire run to the World Series when […] Singin’ to the world Those 2014 New York Mets kept up their end of the minuscule bargain I struck with them in the middle of July. They had just come off a vigorous homestand in which they won seven of their previous eight games, and caught […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Barry Manilow, Bobby Abreu, Citi Field, Closing Day, Lucas Duda, Team History, Tradition One hundred sixty two games, figure three hours per game on average… Twenty nine thousand The rallies, the replays Enjoy this one. There isn’t much time in every sense of the concept. Enjoy this one. There’s another game in a couple of hours. Enjoy this one. There’s only four more overall. Enjoy this one. Wright’s shoulder issue sounds vexing, to say the least. Let’s enjoy baseball news that isn’t solely injury news. Enjoy this one. D’Arnaud’s absence is […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Erik Goeddel, Juan Centeno, Unscheduled Makeup Day Halves of Split Doubleheaders, Wilfred Tovar Good news yesterday, even with the rainout: I heard the neighbors aren’t throwing their annual October party this year. Actually, this is the second consecutive year they’re skipping it, making those affairs no longer annual events, I suppose. I didn’t think they were gonna have their party. I know they ordered in a bunch of […] As a service to New York Mets fans who find themselves encountering an unfamiliar concept, Faith and Fear in Flushing provides the following helpful primer. Welcome to the battle for second place! Yeah, I thought I heard something about that. Can you explain what this is exactly? With Monday night’s loss by the reeling Braves to the Pirates, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jim McAndrew, Sandy Alderson, Second Place, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver You can now update the Mets’ slash line to reflect their currently accurate settings: 9 YRSWOPSA/15 YRSWOPNT/29 YRSWOWCH GLOSSARY The clock jumped ahead one year once the Pirates beat the Brewers in a game loaded with playoff race implications, which is to say it had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Lucas Duda, Mathematically Eliminated, Zack Wheeler When viewed from just a bit outside Metsopotamia, our obsessions must seem odd to the detached observer. I guess you could say that about how any community appears to anybody who’s not wholly immersed in it, but over the past couple of days, we have been uncommonly true to ourselves, our passions and our minutiae. First, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Kevin Burkhardt, Mets Fans, Skyline Logo, SNY When they opened it in 2009, the Mets of Fred and Jeff Wilpon dedicated themselves to convincing potential patrons that Citi Field would present a premium ballpark experience because it would grant those with the right kind of ticket access to exclusive clubs. That first year, very specific castes were established in terms of who […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brad Penny, Bud Selig, Citi Field, Eerily Quiet, Milestones, Promenade, Timo Perez, Todd Zeile, Wilmer Flores |
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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