 
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. |
There were nearly as few available Mets as there were visible Mets fans at Citi Field Wednesday night. The “25-man roster” was as hyperbolic a calculation as “paid attendance of 22,014”. Terry Collins fielded a Quadruple-A lineup, relied on a three-man bench and came up a run short of victory. On the plus side, boy was […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrelton Simmons, August, Braves, Left Field Landing, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores We gather today to mourn the passing of our spherical brother Rawlings Official Major League Baseball, or as he was known to those who watched him in action, Rawly. In many ways, Rawly was just like you and me, stitched together from the same materials that comprise us all. His most basic chemistry was standard-issue. Science […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Juan Lagares, Juan Lagares's Glove, Where Fly Balls Go To Die Did I hear the manager of the Mets say he expects his team to lose more often than it wins? I did. I watched the postgame show on SNY Sunday after a rousing 11-3 win. I stayed tuned for the media scrum with Terry Collins, which, by dint of logistics, appears less stage-managed on the road […] Some days you gotta take Randy Newman’s advice: Roll down the window The Dodgers blast “I Love L.A.” after every victory at Dodger Stadium. I’ve grown familiar with the custom over the past couple of seasons while the Mets were reliably providing the cue to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Beach Boys, Dodgers, Fun, Lucas Duda, Randy Newman, Triple Plays, Yasiel Puig What’s wrong with David Wright? If you haven’t asked already, you had to ask after tonight’s debacle. Our captain grounded into a double play in the first, grounded out to open the fourth, grounded into a double play in the fifth, and struck out to end the game. And that sad chronicle skipped over the seventh and […] There are summer nights when you sense fall’s coming and you want to hold baseball as tightly as you can. This wasn’t one of those nights. This was a night when you wanted to shove baseball as far away as possible and run from it. The Mets started out OK in LA, what with Curtis Granderson clubbing […] Wednesday afternoon in Oakland, the Mets did something for the 26th time in their history: they won a ballgame by the score of 8 to 5. This iteration of that same old song was as pleasing as 24 of its 25 predecessors in the sense that a win is a win is a win. An […] Good morning. In case you missed Tuesday night’s late Mets game in Oakland, the previously slumping A’s won by a comfortable margin; the Mets collected more than their customary four hits, but to no avail; Travis d’Arnaud homered with nobody on; Dillon Gee struggled through five and two-thirds innings; Gonzalez Germen wasn’t particularly effective in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Gonzalez Germen, Sleepy Performances, Travis d'Arnaud The following account is issued as a public service as well as for cheap jokes. If you are over 50 years of age, please consult your physician. Bartolo Colon was supposed to start Monday afternoon’s Mets game, but was called away due to a family health emergency. I was supposed to have a colonoscopy during Monday afternoon’s […] For 90 seconds or so, there was joy in Metville. We’d punished the Cubs for removing Jake Arrieta, whose curveball had jelly-legged Met knees and kicked out Met fannies and turned Met bats into fan blades throughout another insanely beautiful August afternoon. We’d reminded ourselves that we do too like Curtis Granderson, who broke a seemingly centuries-long […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Jake Arrieta, Joan Payson, Matt Szczur, Rafael Montero |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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