 
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. |
Of the 25 fine reasons to read Game Of My Life: New York Mets, perhaps the one that comes out of the farthest reaches of left field is the best. That’s the chapter author Michael Garry devotes to Eric Hillman. Eric Hillman you probably remember if you were an active Mets fan between 1992 and 1994. […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Eric Hillman, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library My absence from Citi Field has ended. Thirteen months after I was last there, I returned with Emily and Joshua for a game under sparkling skies. We had tacos. We caught up with friends. We ate ice cream (with blue and orange Mets sprinkles). We eyed the new scoreboard and declared it a nice addition, […] Useful reminder: Baseball will drive you crazy if you let it. Every so often a thought creeps into my head that I immediately try to shoo away: It’s that the team that wins the World Series will be the good team with the best luck, the one that has the fewest guys injured and the most bounces […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Gio Gonzalez, Ian Desmond, Jonathon Niese, Juan Lagares The other day I visited my ophthamologist for one of those comprehensive examinations that includes drops in both eyes. Once it’s over and you step outside, you basically enter a Soundgarden video. Everything is ridiculously bright and slightly surreal. It’s why, in the event that you don’t carry shades, they give you a Rollens, not […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bandwagons, Gratuitous Shot at Jimmy Rollins, Jayson Werth, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Max Scherzer, Opthamalogists, Soundgarden OK, show of hands. Back in February, who’d have taken ending April 15-8 and in first place by 4 1/2 games? Yeah, I thought so. And yet here we are in the opening hours of May and everybody’s unhappy. The bullpen’s gone to pieces. The bats haven’t been productive. And most glaringly, the defense up the middle has fallen […] The phone rang while I was catching up on my Nashville — Juliette Barnes is quite the handful — after I finished watching whatever it was I watched the bulk of Wednesday evening. It was the copy desk calling. Apparently I was keeping them waiting. “Yeah?” 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ichiro Suzuki, Jack Leathersich, Losing, Michael Cuddyer, Nashville First off, why do I always have to recap the losses? I need to speak to management. If you thought a 15-6 start meant a moratorium on asking what Terry Collins is thinking, well, you weren’t checking in with Mets Twitter as tonight’s game got away. Why pitch to Giancarlo Stanton when you don’t have to? Why […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Giancarlo Stanton, Michael Morse, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins Your baseball instincts weren’t hopelessly off and you weren’t necessarily wrong. Well, for one night, yes, but don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for what you were sure was going to happen to happen. It usually does — 24 separate occasions over the past 19 seasons are evidence that you weren’t concocting worst-case scenarios […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Hockey, Jarret Cosart, Juan Lagares, Marlins, WHOA! Wins Let it be chronicled that on their way back to the postseason, renewed relevance, New York supremacy or wherever it was we thought they were going, the 2015 New York Mets hit an obstacle. Themselves. Sunday night’s rubber game against that other New York team started well enough, with Curtis Granderson blasting a home run off Nathan […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Alex Torres, Eric Campbell, Erik Goeddel, Jonathon Niese Thanks for coming along. I know you hate when I drag you shopping, especially when there’s been so much riveting local sports on TV, but with all I needed to pick up for my Saturday night paragraph, I needed somebody’s opinion on how it all goes together. I’m gonna try all these facts on for size. […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Eric Campbell, Hockey, Juan Lagares, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Subway Series, Wilmer Flores |
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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