 
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. |
I assigned myself two missions as I arrived at Citi Field Tuesday morning to cover my fourth consecutive Mets holiday party for Queens schoolchildren. One I had planned, the other developed on the fly. The ad hoc mission involved getting out of the bitter cold after an overly literal, presumably underinstructed windbreaker-wearing guard on the other […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aces, Citi Field, Jib, Jon Niese, Mets Holiday Party, Pedro Martinez, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler As mind-blowing concepts went, none could explode the goop inside this onetime 15-year-old’s coconut quite as much as what I learned was about to take place on the first Saturday of August 1978. There was going to be a baseball card show at Shea Stadium. Think about that: • Baseball card show. • Shea Stadium. Now think about it […] Oh, you suddenly wacky Mets. No sooner had I fallen back into despair and trotted out my Sandy as Charlie Brown, Jeff as Lucy cartoon than it was announced that the Mets had signed Bartolo Colon — who’s equal parts huge, old and good — to a two-year contract that, like Curtis Granderson not long before, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Citi Field, Fans, Kids, Sandy Alderson, Tom Seaver, Wilpons “Hey, do any of you guys know a pitcher named Bartolo Colon?” 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Bill Brasky, Kaz Ishii, Mike DeJean “The Mets were for the common people, I thought — the policemen and the doormen and the shoeshine boys and the newsdealers and the hot dog peddlers.” “There is more Met than Yankee in every one of us.” The hot stove season, particularly […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Curtis Granderson, Duke Carmel, Free Agents, True New Yorkers, Yankees Sometimes you find yourself a defender of the conventional wisdom. Here’s Brian Mangan on the Mets signing Curtis Granderson. His take is smart, and it ain’t pretty. But I’m still happy. The baseball stuff I’ll deal with quickly: I take heart from the fact that Granderson’s nightmarish 2013 was driven by not one but two bone-breaking HBPs, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Despair, Fans, Justin Turner, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons The Mets are signing somebody! Cue the applause! I’m clapping, and not just politely, to my mild surprise. I’m all for the Mets securing the services of better players, and I’m fairly certain Curtis Granderson is better than what they had before they got him. Perhaps because I didn’t expect the Mets to actually get him […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Granderson, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Marlon Byrd, Mike Piazza, Money, Pedro Martinez, Vladimir Guerrero, Willie Montanez Five Mets who were never the shiniest available objects glistening in the display case of a given free agent market stopped being Mets altogether this week. Non-tendered as possible prelude to a purposeful pursuit of Curtis Granderson — or whoever can be lured for a lesser price and/or fewer years — were Justin Turner, Jeremy […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, Ambiorix Burgos, Bob Scheffing, Brian Bannister, Bubba Trammell, Buzz Capra, Curtis Granderson, Dallas Green, Donne Wall, Jeremy Hefner, Joe McIlvaine, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Turner, Momentary Lapse of Season Mets, Nontendered Players, Omar Minaya, Omar Quintanilla, Pete Schourek, Scott Atchison, Steve Phillips, Team History I clearly remember Bob Murphy opening the broadcast of September 27, 1998, from Atlanta by expressing his conviction that “there are days in your life…and this is one of them.” Made all the sense in the world to me. Too bad the Mets didn’t receive his message. They went out on that most urgent of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Harvey Day, Harvey's Better, Harveysteria, Matt Harvey, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year ’Twas four weeks before Christmas That was it for a spell The fans became restless The club sent out e-mails Eyes […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Chris Young, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Thanksgiving |
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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