 
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. |
I went to a baseball game Tuesday night and Jonathon Niese broke out. I didn’t go to see Niese. I never go with the express purpose of seeing Niese. I went for the Gary, Keith & Ron bobblehead. That was the inanimate object I craved, not Niese. Grass grows, paint dries, Niese pitches. It’s not usually […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobbleheads, Jon Niese, Kyle Kendrick, U.S. Open I remain amazed, even in my 45th season of rooting for one baseball team, how quickly its personnel turns over. On Opening Day, I applauded 25 active players who were introduced in Mets uniforms. Only four of those men have retained that status uninterrupted since: Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, LaTroy Hawkins and Scott Rice. Matt […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, John Buck, Marlon Byrd, Trades, Turnover Matt Harvey this afternoon told reporters, “I’m not a doctor.” At last I can confirm I have something in common with someone I heretofore assumed was everything and could do anything. Matt’s not a doctor, so he can’t say much about the partial UCL tear heard ’round the world except that his right forearm had been […] I do believe the Mets just got themselves barnstormed. Big, fancy hittin’ show done pulled into town and rolled over our humble, local baseball enterprise. Raised lots of money and entertained a whole lot of folks, so I guess it was all in a good cause. It’s better to look at the weekend just past — […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Field Of Dreams, Justin Turner, LaTroy Hawkins, Lucas Duda, Mark Linn-Baker, Miguel Cabrera, Omar Quintanilla, Rick Porcello, Scott Atchison, Tigers, Travis d'Arnaud Late summer is the season of easy denial. If the atmospheric conditions are generous, there’s not a damn thing wrong when you step outside and obviously there never will be. Warmth is a given. Cool dribbles in as needed. It’s not at all hot. It’s surely not cold. It’s Baby Bear weather. It’s just right. What’s all […] Find Cuppy, which should be familiar to any recent visitor to Citi Field, is one of those things that’s so absolutely stupid that it begins to grow on you to the point where you kind of look forward to it. For the out-of-town or inattentive, between half-innings early in every Mets home game, public address […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Webb, Cuppy, Henry Blanco, Museum of the Moving Image, SNY Every year it seems we play one team far more often than we play anybody else. Or maybe every week it seems that way. Four games in San Diego felt like an eternity, and it was long ago proven the Padres don’t actually exist. Either way, WTF’s with having to play the Braves every five […] Marlon Byrd joined the Mets’ 20-home run club Monday. As exclusivity goes, it’s an honor that falls somewhere between the United States Senate and one of those Facebook groups that requires an invitation. It’s not that incredible that you’d get in, but making it there probably says something about your interests and perhaps your capabilities. Byrd […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bobby Bonilla, Brian McRae, Butch Huskey, Charley Smith, Cliff Floyd, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Donn Clendenon, Eddie Murray, Frank Thomas, Home Runs, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Mike Cameron, Mo Vaughn, Richard Hidalgo, Rico Brogna, Scott Hairston, Team History, Todd Zeile, Twenty & Out Club Unlike Bono’s testimony from when Matt Harvey warms up (at Citi Field, anyway), I can close my eyes and make it go away. Matt’s casual excellence on Sunday Harvey Sunday — 6 innings, 6 hits, 0 walks, 6 strikeouts, just enough untamed action to permit 2 Padre runs in the fifth — was going to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bono, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Rookies, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores If you don’t count the L.A. portion of their itinerary, the Mets have done a nice job of sticking it to the National League West this season. Against the Giants, Rockies, Diamondbacks and Padres, their combined record after Friday night’s 5-2 win over San Diego is 15-7. So if we can just avoid drawing the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Bentley Buck, Expectations, Ike Davis, John Buck, Travis d'Arnaud |
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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