If there was one candidate for higher office everybody could get behind in 2016, it was Oscar Madison. Our favorite fictional sportswriter was running for New York City Council, which you might have missed amid other political news, but in reruns, the best campaigns always pick up right where they left off. In “The Odd […]
 
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. |
 26 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Matt Harvey, Mets Pop Culture, Noah Syndergaard, Oscar's Cap Awards Maybe Terry Collins should have motivated the Mets more directly once they got to the postseason. Maybe he should have taken a page from Walt Michaels, the Jets head coach who, in the midst of the 1982 NFL playoffs, grabbed his players attention by focusing it squarely on the bottom line. “I remember Walt Michaels walking […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2016 Mets, Antonio Bastardo, Asdrubal Cabrera, Carl Erskine, Football, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Motivation, No Decisions, Postseason Shares, Terry Collins, Walt Michaels, World Series Shares We now join a traditionally accurate version of “Meet The Mets,” already in progress. ’Cause the Mets are really That’s not how it goes, but it is a reflection of Mets baseball like it oughta be, right? This is the pitching-rich organization, the franchise defined by the Franchise, whose most delicate […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Home Runs, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, Team History The 2016 Mets were on the verge of coming apart. Asdrubal Cabrera kept them together. Move over Elmer, there’s a new glue guy in town. There was so much to like about Cabrera and so little to detract from his season and his contribution that we are stuck on the idea that nobody was more valuable […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Mets shortstops, Most Valuable Met As recent election returns go, I suppose this set rates no more than a shrug in the scheme of scary things, but it’s baffling that there was very recently a vote concerning excellence in baseball announcing in which Gary Cohen was a nominee, yet Gary Cohen did not emerge as the winner. Talk about the system […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Boisclair, Chris Christie, Curious Choices, Gary Cohen, Kaz Matsui I don’t know what the Winter Meetings will bring us in the way of new players, or which superfluous lefty-hitting outfielder will be Mettisioned, but I’m enjoying a vibrant December glow from the steps taken to retain several of our old players thus far. We still have Neil Walker. We still have René Rivera. We […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jay Leno, Neil Walker, Rene Rivera, Warmth, Yoenis Cespedes Coming soon… I hear it’s Cyber Monday. If this is a day you, my fellow Mets fan, shop online, maybe you’d like to buy a book about Hall of Famer Mike Piazza so fresh that you can’t yet hold it in your hands. Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince (hey, that’s me!) […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mike Piazza June 12 to June 14, 2017, at Citi Field. September 12 to September 14, 2017, at Wrigley Field. I’ll go back to intensely disliking the Cubs then, on a need-to-spite basis. Maybe in between if our potential postseason fate seems to depend on it. Until then, certainly for now, all hats off to the new world […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Postseason, 2016 World Season, 2017 Mets, Cubs, Indians, Winter, World Series Ending Congratulations to the ballclub that just broke a 71-year pennant drought. Let us rejoice that its dry spell wasn’t snapped after only 70 years. The National League has a new champion that is no longer us. It feels as if there should have been some sort of formal ceremony to mark the transfer of grandeur, maybe Terry […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Postseason, 2016 World Series, Cubs, Indians, Not Winning Something Substantial, Sheadenfreude There I sat, an unaffiliated baseball fan, watching the game because it was the only game that was on, the final game that would be on, Game Seven of the World Series, October 29, 2014, the Royals playing the Giants for the championship of the sport I loved. Those teams and that circumstance had nothing […] 93 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Conor Gillaspie, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Giants, Jeurys Familia, Madison Bumgarner, Mathematically Eliminated, Moneyball, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Wild Card |
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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