 
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. |
Some nice person to whom I had just been introduced in the Citi Field parking lot on Opening Day asked me, regarding the 81 games that were about to be played in the building adjacent to where we stood, “Do you have a plan?” “Yes,” I said, matter of factly. “My plan is to go to […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1991 Mets, Barry Jones, Dave Magadan, Dennis Martinez, Dwight Gooden, Garry Templeton, Grand Slams, Jordany Valdespin, Kevin McReynolds, Priorities, Scott Ruskin As Mets fans, we hope our tentatively planned deluxe apartment in the National League East sky will be ready for occupancy in a couple of years. As New Yorkers who made it through Superstorm Sandy, we understand projecting living arrangements can become a precarious matter when nature intrudes in the rudest fashion possible. Almost six […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, John T. Brush Stairway, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Rebuilding NYC What a marvelously well-behaved afternoon the Mets provided those of us who filed into Citi Field on Sunday. Our Ron Darling bobbleheads awaited us in a pleasing stack; our fish tacos didn’t take any longer than the “few minutes” the notoriously pokey Catch of the Day promised; our shadow-situated seats were convincingly but not excessively […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Brandon Lyon, Bryce Harper, Dillon Gee, Fish Tacos, LaTroy Hawkins, Relief Pitching, Scott Rice Harvey’s better. And we’re not so bad ourselves. The pitcher you may have caught on TV, and if you can’t be John Buck, that’s not a bad way to catch him. Certainly you have the benefit of helpful camera angles, possibly pause and rewind buttons and all the concentration you care to muster. You could see […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Harvey's Better, Harveysteria, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg Please come to Denver Submitted for your approval…nah, scratch that. Who here would approve of anything the Mets did Tuesday night in the city that’s been their personal Twilight Zone for two decades? Not fans of the Mets. Certainly not fans of crisp, clean baseball. Perhaps fans of the Rockies, but honestly, those […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Carlos Gonzalez, Coors Field, David Nied, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young, Greg Burke, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Francis, Marlon Byrd, Michael Cuddyer, Rafael Betancourt, Rockies, Rod Serling, Ruben Tejada, Scott Atchison, Snow Jason Maoz of the Jewish Press recently published a heartfelt appreciation of all baseball has meant to him since the summer Tom Seaver (the Matt Harvey of his day, I hear) began to illuminate our landscape. Maoz has been a faithful Mets fan going back more than 45 years now, and as such, has never […] And God said, Let the frozen waters from the heaven be melted unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Target Field; and the grouping together of the opponents he called Twins: and God saw that they weren’t so good. And God said, Let Harvey bring […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Justin Morneau, Matt Harvey, No-Hit Bids, Target Field, Twins, Ungodly Stuff Just trade Jordany Valdespin so we can get to the part where the Mets gave up on him too soon. When he has a good game or a string of them or, for all we know, a career of them, we can just throw the Valdespin trade on the pile with Jeff Kent and Jeromy […] The Mets taking it to Roy Halladay is a great thing. I’m not sure that’s who they beat up Monday night, however. That couldn’t have been the Roy Halladay who gave the Mets and the rest of the National League fits in 2010 and 2011 after owning the American League for years prior. This was the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, John Buck, Matt Harvey, Phillies, Roy Halladay It’s the golden hour for John Buck right now, that fleeting interregnum when the journeyman is master craftsman. It is a time to be savored. John Buck drives in nine runs in five games, four of them in his fifth game to propel the Mets to a Saturday victory. John Buck draws a roughing the catcher penalty […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Juan Pierre, Mark Gastineau, Mets Catchers |
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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