 
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. |
Each Mets game lately seems to come preordained with a finite number of runs. Friday there was no way there were going to be more than five altogether. Pity, then, that the Marlins got to three first. The tiny glint of optimism I still allow myself told me this was going to be a more productive […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marcell Ozuna, Marlins, Stupid Rules, Theories Unless the San Diego Padres were in your direct line of sight, you tended to not talk about Tony Gwynn when it came to the great players in the game in his era. He overlapped Schmidt and Murphy during the first segment of his two decades, Bonds and Griffey as he wound down. He wasn’t […] The Mets’ starting pitcher, a talented lad with a stick in his hand, batted eighth Monday night in St. Louis. This slight adjustment in offensive alignment embodied unprecedented innovation and welcome aggressiveness, so I considered it a slight tick in the correct direction. Unfortunately, Mets “hitters,” as they’re known by default, batted first through seventh […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Batting Orders, Jacob deGrom, Jon Niese On Sunday afternoon, the San Diego Padres fell from the No. 1 slot they earned Saturday to No. 2, while the New York Mets rose from No. 2 all the way to No. 1…at least if you considered the conclusion of their three-game series not so much a baseball game, but a definitive determination of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | American Top 40, An Appreciation, Casey Kasem, Moment of Silence, music, Radio Despite the various commercial entreaties of Branden, Alexa and Christina, I can think of no worse place to take my dad for Father’s Day than Citi Field. Also, I can think of no worse place to take your dad. Or anybody’s dad, son, brother, uncle, grandpa, cousin or in-law. I wouldn’t jump to take anybody […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 50 Cent, Chris Young, Father's Day, Fathers and Sons, Jesse Hahn, Ralph Kiner Friday night in Dyersville, Ia., the 25th anniversary of Field Of Dreams was celebrated. That’s the movie in which legendary ballplayers of yore stream out of a cornfield in the full flower of youth and play the game that made them iconic as if no time at all had passed. And in a wholly coincidental development, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Abreu, Field Of Dreams Jon Niese looked like he wanted to strangle Terry Collins. Anthony Recker was all set to deck Angel Hernandez. Carlos Torres appeared ready to tear his own head from his neck out of frustration. Who says the Mets don’t have any fight left in them? Hits and runs are another matter, of course, and few of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Anthony Recker, Carlos Torres, Jonathon Niese, Kevin Burkhardt The Mets didn’t win last night. Oh well. What were they going to do with a win if they’d attained it, anyway? Throw it on the pile of wins that never quite measures up to their taller pile of losses? Then what? Win again? Come now. Much as youth is said to be wasted on the young […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Gregor Blanco, Jerry Grote, Joe Torre, John Stearns, Josh Edgin, Larry Bearnarth, Losing, Rod Kanehl, Ron Darling, Terry Collins, Todd Hundley, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler “All right guys, we have to get a few more of these in the can before the next homestand, so I appreciate you coming in early on a Sunday. Just like always, stare directly into the camera and show the enthusiasm that got you this gig. And…action!” “Branden, I’m so excited about what the Mets are […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexa, Bonehead Baserunning, Branden, Losing, Mets Promotions Beautiful Wrigley Field isn’t quite so beautiful when it is lit by electric as opposed to natural means. Ever since the Mets had their lights turned out on August 9, 1988, losing to the Cubs in what became Wrigley’s first official night game (following a rainout the ballyhooed night before), it seems mostly bad befalls […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1989 Mets, An Appreciation, Andrew Brown, Dallas Green, Don Aase, Don Zimmer, Eric Campbell, Jeff McKnight, Mike Conforto, Moment of Silence, Noah Syndergaard, Rick Wrona, Third Base, Wrigley Field |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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