 
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. |
What constitutes a trend? For our purposes, let’s say it’s when two people you know relay to you, independent of one another, the same piece of information accompanied by a similar slice of curiosity. In her upcoming memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, the reliably trendy Lena Dunham says her gynecologist used to pitch for the […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Art Shamsky, Dave Roberts, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Joe Ginsberg, Josh Satin, Lena Dunham, Mets Pop Culture, Norm Sherry, Randy Jones, Randy Milligan, Randy Myers, Randy Niemann, Randy Sterling, Randy Tate, Scott Schoeneweis, Shawn Green, Tug McGraw, Wally Backman When we’ve played this late into a year, we’ve been at our most Amazin’. Ours is the franchise over which Roger Angell once concluded, “The Mets go melodramatic in October, it’s in their genes…” He wrote that in 2001, specifically about a series of games from 1988, but also knowing the events of 2000 and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Postseason, Metropolitan Exceptionalism, Team History The last National League East team to advance in a postseason was the Philadelphia Phillies of 2010, who swept the Cincinnati Reds in the NLDS, the series that opened with Roy Halladay throwing a no-hitter. The Phillies seemed on track to make their third consecutive World Series, but would be stopped cold by the San […] I keep a long list of phrases and ideas that I think might eventually come in handy in the writing of a team-specific baseball blog. Some I act on ASAP. Some I circle back to after a few weeks. Some linger unused until they’re too obscure or irrelevant to make much sense in a contemporary […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Aaron Heilman, Bagels, Endy Chavez, Ezequiel Carrera, Halloween Hindsight Haunters, J.J. Putz, Jason Vargas, Jeremy Reed, Joe Smith, Maikel Clato, Mike Carp, Omar Minaya, Sean Green 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 […] |
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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