 
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. |
Matt Harvey was not the only man in a Mets jersey to have the whole world in his back pocket Tuesday night. It could have been more perfect, I guess. There could have been a little less hole for Alex Rios’s seventh-inning two-out grounder to edge into. Ruben Tejada could have been overcome by […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Rios, Bobby Parnell, Citi Field, Harveysteria, Hector Santiago, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mike Baxter, One-Hitters, Perfect Game, Ruben Tejada, White Sox Sigh. Let’s be honest with each other. I don’t particularly want to write about today’s deplorable suckfest against the Braves, and you don’t particularly want to read about it. Because if you saw it, the afterimage of lousy pitching, vandalism afield and crummy hitting is probably still burned onto your retinas, and why on earth would you […] If you’re among the millions of Mets fans not attending Thursday night’s Mets-Pirates tilt, consider for your evening’s Metsertainment a trip downtown to The Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St. (between Sullivan St. and Thompson St., convenient to a whole bunch of subway lines) where I’ll be reading from and discussing The Happiest […] Baseball games, like most series of events we sort into stories, can usually be made to fit into a narrative arc when things are finished. We were close but it was obvious all night we weren’t going to get any breaks. Man, you knew those leadoff walks were going to bite us in the hinder […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Braves, Evan Gattis, Jason Isringhausen, Mike Minor, Shaun Marcum, Terry Collins Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball teams playing at their eponymous park Wednesday afternoon. The Mets were the other one. Neither could be seriously described as the best of the pair. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alfalfa, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Henry Chadwick, Jeff Kent, Joanie Sommers, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Lucas Duda, Magic 8 Ball, Marlins, Savoir-Faire, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Streaks, Wade LeBlanc A night after losing one of the most horrible baseball games I’ve ever seen in head-shaking, gag-inducing fashion, the Mets took on the Marlins and played eight and a half innings of baseball that was punchless but didn’t make you want to pour lye in your eyes, which is to say it was an improvement. […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Greg Dobbs, Hopelessness, Jeremy Hefner, Marlins, Tim McClelland Bruce Springsteen once advised you can’t start a fire without a spark. Monday night and Tuesday morning, there was no spark in Marlins Park. And for several days before, there was no yield at Citi Field. The Mets can’t get anything going in any sense anywhere. They are stuck in place…fourth place, to be precise, […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bruce Springsteen, Decay, Do Something, Extra Innings, Mad Men, Marlins, Matt Harvey, May, Terry Collins, Thin Patience Opening Day is, needless to say, the finest on the calendar. That’s true even if you’re a fan of a bad team, or one whose best-case scenario comes down to “can assemble some of the pieces required for a better future.” The second game of the season, though, might be even nicer than Opening Day. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Terry Collins Some positive developments for the Mets Saturday. Shaun Marcum got his throwing in, working his way up to 71 pitches. He only lasted four innings, but it’s not like anybody was counting. Then Terry Collins experimented a little and brought Robert Carson in for the fifth, which isn’t where you’d expect to see him, but […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin Cowgill, Extended Spring Training, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Baxter, Robert Carson, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Shaun Marcum Perhaps I’d forgotten how baseball seasons work since the last one concluded and the current one commenced, but I would have sworn through the first twenty games of 2013 that each and every one of the Mets’ first ten wins was brilliantly uplifting while each and every one of the Mets’ first ten losses was […] |
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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