 
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. |
Bill Parcells (or maybe it's John Madden) likes to glorify football players who so come to play that you can toss the coin in the parking lot and they'll line up at midnight and knock the other guy on his ass. Wherever, whenever…they're ready. I can dig that. I can dig the Mets winning wherever, whenever. […] The cork shot out of the right field mezzanine in the early evening Saturday, burst out of every section of Shea Stadium, exploded from the souls of Mets fans wherever they were watching or listening. Our bottle had been plugged up tight, but Fernando Tatis pushed from its upper neck the last vestiges of the […] Thanks to Mike Pelfrey’s gutty seven innings, Duaner Sanchez’s perfect eighth, Carlos Beltran’s unleashed power, Fernando Tatis’ clutch timing and Billy Wagner’s one-two-three ninth, I was able to record in The Log its 200th regular-season home win. After four consecutive losses, I was beginning to think it would never happen. But I always think that. I probably […] The Mets hadn't risen so high this week that they were in danger of contracting vertigo, but I was feeling a little less than steady Friday among the upper boxes. Never mind Row V (or my forthcoming Seven-Pack stay in Row Q). At least up there there's a railing to grab hold of as you make […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 368 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 6/25/78 Su Pittsburgh 0-1 Espinosa 1 3-4 L 4-0 Biggest […] “It was out of my reach. What do you want me to do — dive for it?” —Roger Dorn, Cleveland Indians, 1989 “I'm not going to dive just to dive. If I think I can reach it, I am going to dive. If I don't think I can catch it, I am not going to” —Carlos Delgado, New […] Dozens of advertisements urged on the Mets en route to their championship in the 1969 World Series program, but only one looked like a notice placed by a proud parent in the Playbill for a high school production of Bye Bye Birdie (which, come to think of it, was the unofficial theme of that Fall Classic). […] Tuesday night, the Mets' 162-game gully of godawfulness dried up on a winning note. The oft-cited record from May 30, 2007 forward concluded at 79-83. Old news. New season from here on out. The Mets are 1-0 as of Wednesday, May 28. Yeah, officially we have to graft it onto the 24-26 start and we have to […] Postgame interviews after a Mets loss are the baseball equivalent of snuff films. I don't see how anybody could possibly enjoy watching them. After a win, especially when winning is typical Met behavior, they're white (or Wright) noise. Yes it was good to get a pitch I could handle. Yes it was good to make […] Remember mediocrity is not a mortal sin. —Frank Loesser, “Brotherhood of Man,” How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Nobody's been fired, but an entire team was recently spotted quitting. The New York Mets have tendered their resignation from the competitive rigors of the baseball season. They gave their notice in Atlanta last week. I accepted it […] |
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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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