On Saturday, before I slipped into my beloved PIAZZA 31 in order to pay tribute to our beloved Piazza’s 31, I dressed as a mild-mannered reporter at Citi Field. It doesn’t take much to dress like a mild-mannered reporter at Citi Field. You just wear what you’d wear to go out and get the mail, […]
 
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. |
 42 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Curtis Granderson, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Neil Walker, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud The immediate aftermath of the trading deadline is Christmas morning for baseball fans wherein batteries aren’t included, gift receipts aren’t available and you’re left wondering if anybody listened to what you said you wanted when they asked. The Mets made two deals today. They could help. They could fall short of helping. There’s no doubt they […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Dislon Herrera, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Max Wotell, Trades Well, the Mets finally got that big hit. Neil Walker, looking like April’s Neil Walker, crashed a three-run homer into the seats in the seventh inning Sunday, saving the Mets from a four-game losing streak, a season sweep at the hands of the Rockies, and an extra topping of misery and angst ahead of the Subway […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Injuries, Jay Bruce, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Trades, Wilmer Flores You can identify my black Mike Piazza t-shirt by sight if you see me wearing it; it says Mets 31 on the front, PIAZZA 31 on the back. I can identify it by feel. It was always longer than all the player-number shirts I acquired in the late 1990s, thicker without being confining. I’m a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Honda Clubhouse, Jonathan Lucroy, Justin Ruggiano, Mike Piazza, Retired Numbers, T-shirts No wait — I kind of mean it. The Mets were down 3-1 to the Rockies in the top of the ninth, following a bottom of the eighth that was depressing even by recent Mets standards. Colorado had two men on with Carlos Gonzalez at the plate, and Antonio Bastardo, AKA the Human Curfew, was standing out there on […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Bon Jovi, Disappointment, Steven Matz It really is true: the 2016 Mets are your 2015 Mets redux. They pitch great, except for brief but fatal bouts of pitching lousy, and they hit something very south of great. Their not-hitting isn’t the usual baseball fan’s not-hitting where one grumbles about a player or two who can’t seem to come through. The Mets feature the kind of […] This win-one/lose-one pattern the Mets have settled into is, if nothing else, steadying. You can set your watch by it, assuming you still wear a watch. Even adjusting for rainouts, you know what’s coming. If it’s the second game on a Tuesday — and the first game on a Tuesday was a loss — then […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Adam Wainwright, Jeurys Familia, Kolten Wong, Logan Verrett, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Maybe I was just in a good mood. Emily and I were supposed to be back Monday night — Portland, Me., is an easy 45 minutes or so away by plane. But Monday night’s rainout also scratched our plane, shifting us to a 5:30 am departure Tuesday. Ugh … and then they cancelled that one too, telling […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Martinez, Doubleheaders, Jedd Gyorko, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Teufel, Tommy Pham, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes 2015: The best kind of history. Though our nation turned its Piazza eyes to mythic Cooperstown on Sunday afternoon, it is Hoboken that makes a convincing claim as the true labor/delivery room of the National Pastime. The first baseball game for which there is a record took place on June 19, 1846, at Elysian […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Again, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Hoboken |
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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