 
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. |
Perhaps the most charming scene in a movie loaded with them is when a nervous Mark “Rat” Ratner first approaches Stacy Hamilton at the counter of Perry’s Pizza in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Armed with Mike Damone’s never-fail “send out this vibe” dating advice, Rat smoothly starts his come-on. “What do you do with the […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Moneyball, Nationals, Omar Narvaez, Phil Bickford, Stress-Free Aggravation, Trevor Gott What distinguishes every Mets “game go” that involves me and my friend Mark Simon? As was the case on Sunday afternoon, when Mark and I went to Citi Field to ostensibly watch the Mets play the Mariners, each of us brings several, perhaps many Mets-based trivia questions to ask one another. What’s the purpose of these trivia […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Dietary Restrictions, Doc Gooden, Doc Medich, Dominic Leone, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Mariners, Milestones, Pepe Mangual, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, The Log, Trivia, US Open Just desserts were on the Citi Field menu Wednesday night as the Mets earned their 6-5 victory over the Texas Rangers, and the Rangers just as surely earned their 6-5 defeat at the hands of the New York Mets. Had it gone the other way, all would have seemed more predestined. The Mets are the lousier […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Jeff Brigham, Joe Grahe, Jonathan Arauz, Lazy Nicknames, Losable Games Won, Rangers, Sean Reid-Foley, Travis Jankowski, Winnable Games Lost Kudos to the Mets for scheduling the finale of their series versus the Rangers tonight a half-hour earlier than usual. The 6:40 PM start time, slotted in deference to Texas’s travel itinerary, isn’t a secret, but it will no doubt take some habitual viewers and listeners by surprise. The Mets begin virtually all of their […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Jose Quintana, Mark Vientos, Surprise Start Times, The Grind As one who doesn’t subscribe to Peacock, I couldn’t tell you what Sunday’s Mets-Angels game looked like, but from the sound of it over WCBS-AM, it was quite the staring contest. The Mets stared at the Angels. The Angels stared at the Mets. It was 0-0, 1-1 and 2-2. Two teams used to staring into […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Angels, Austin Jackson, Casey Kasem, Cory Sullivan, David Peterson, Dead End Achievers, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Alvarez, Interlopers Among Us, Kevin Bass, Nori Aoki, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Radio, Rafael Ortega, Ron Swoboda, Semi-Pro, Shohei Ohtani, Team History, Walkoffs, Wilson Delgado Darryl Strawberry was coiled to swing. Doc Gooden was set to fire. The seconds in which they locked in constituted the most compelling moments in sport, maybe life, in their time at the core of our consciousness. The results tended to tell you why, but it was the anticipation that had us leaning forward. Anticipation […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Retired Numbers SNY spotlighted a clubhouse interview after Wednesday night’s game as if it was news. Francisco Lindor said the Braves were better than the Mets. This is news in the sense that this just in: Studies Show Pleasure Preferable to Pain. What’s the scoop here? That one of the Mets’ leading players recognized that the team that […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, DJ Stewart, Francisco Lindor, Jose Quintana, Marcell Ozuna, Sean Murphy, Sean Reid-Foley, Unflattering Comparisons ATLANTA (FAF) — Domestic champagne flowed freely, dousing the freshly issued hats and t-shirts worn in the visiting clubhouse by celebratory New York Mets players Tuesday night, as a baseball team raucously toasted its bad fortune. It’s not every day when a 59-68 ballclub gets to celebrate, but a 3-2 loss that on its surface appeared […] Pete Alonso homered Saturday night in St. Louis. We know that’s not a first. DJ Stewart homered Saturday night in St. Louis. We know from his no longer wholly unexpected production that that wasn’t a first. Daniel Vogelbach launched a grand slam to pretty much bury St. Louis on Saturday night. We can pretend Daniel […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Baseball Research, Chuck Estrada, Daniel Vogelbach, Dick Young, DJ Stewart, Don Shaw, Jack Hamilton, Jerry Buchek, Jose Quintana, Kodai Senga, Mets Firsts Trifecta, Pete Alonso, Ron Taylor, Saves, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tom Seaver, Tommy Davis, Trevor Gott, Wes Westrum It was a DJ Stewart, Rafael Ortega kind of day at Citi Field Wednesday afternoon, which wasn’t incompatible with it being a winning kind of day, for Ortega was on base four different times three different ways and Stewart socked a pair of homers and was in on a pair of sparkling defensive plays, and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bullpen Churn, Dennis Santana, DJ Stewart, Edwin Uceta, Mets Third Basemen, Pirates, Rafael Ortega, Roster Turnover, Tylor Megill |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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