 
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. |
But, Marge, that little guy hasn’t done anything yet. Look at him. He’s going to do something and you know it’s going to be good. Mets fans of a certain age…essentially my age…have been giving themselves over to repeated cases of the goose bumps for the last couple of […]  26 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Parnell, Channel 9, Jon Niese, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Marlon Anderson, Mike Nickeas, Roy Halladay, Shane Victorino, Ty Wigginton Among the many Mets bloggers carrying on for the one who couldn’t make it to Hofstra were Steve Keane, John Coppinger, Taryn Cooper and yours truly. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bornstein.) Dear Dana, I either have to thank you or blame you for directing me to file my overdue report on the Hofstra Mets 50th […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Blogging, Buddy Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dana Brand, Dave Kingman, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Fiftieth Anniversary, George Vecsey, Gil Hodges, Hofstra Conference, Marv Throneberry, Mets Fans, Mr. Met, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Team History Johan Santana knows from customer service. We ask the ace to pitch like an ace, his year away from acedom notwithstanding, and on Saturday he delivered like, well, an ace. Not Johan of the Twins nor Johan of the Trade (let alone Johan of His Finest Hour and several sublime Met moments before and after) […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Customer Service, Daniel Murphy, Frank Francisco, Johan Santana, Mike Nickeas, Tom Seaver Some days you have to go to the ‘pen and go with the arm that feels it most — feels it as a fan and feels it as a writer. When we talk about Rivera’s pitching motion, his mulish imperturbability, his athletic grace under pressure, we think of artists not ball players: Buster Keaton, Fred Astaire, Al […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Belth, Injuries, Mariano Rivera, Relief Pitching, Yankees Well it’s lonesome in this old town How many pitchers does it take to replace Mike Pelfrey? More than one, we can now state with absolute certainty. The front office that we reflexively tag with the genius label didn’t exactly have a […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Casey Stengel, Chris Schwinden, Embalmed, Mike Nickeas, Mike Pelfrey, Mosquitoes, Routine, Sandy Alderson We can all agree Niese didn’t have it and the Mets did little against Happ and missing the Astros is something that sounds good in theory, but at this moment they can’t move to the American League soon enough for our tastes. The Mets, a pretty good club in April, started May by losing again […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Gregg Jefferies, Hofstra Conference, Howie Rose, Jack Lang, Language, Let's Go Mets, Marty Noble, Mike Vail, Rheingold, Victor Diaz The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Moyers. Not literally, of course. If we didn’t have Jamie Moyer pitching in the major leagues at the age of 49 years, 5 months and 12 days, what would those of us who clock in at a mere 49 years and 4 months have to feel relatively […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Age, Anchorman, Crafty Lefthanders, Jamie Moyer, Johan Santana, Steve Carlton With his second-inning two-run homer and fifth-inning two-RBI base hit, Lucas Duda raised his Saturday totals for this season — covering four games, through Saturday night in Denver — to the following: • .500 batting average In games played […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball's Mystifying Beauty, Josh Lewin, Lucas Duda, Saturday's Child Thursday in Hempstead was incredibly outstanding, if not quite as incredibly outstanding as Thursday in Flushing, thus some last-minute changes to Friday’s program have been implemented. HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM ADDENDA FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 9:00 AM FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 10:30 AM 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fiftieth Anniversary, Heath Bell, Hofstra, Justin Turner, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Sweep Hope you’re making plans to join us at Hofstra for the 50th Anniversary Mets conference, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. All of it will be worthy of your consideration and aims to do Dana Brand’s vision for it proud. But on a personal note, it occurs to me I might as well tell you where to […] |
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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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