 
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. |
Joe Girardi just made another pitching change. He’s penciled in NOBODY to start for the Yankees on Saturday. But he’s probably not going to leave him in very long. Thank you, Detroit Tigers. We may not have much these October nights, but we sure have you. Happy Elimination Day, Metsopotamia and all the ships at sea. Enjoy […]  23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2011 Postseason, Elimination Day, Overmanaging, Sheadenfreude, Tigers The Cardinals keep drawing well in the intolerability seedings. No way under most circumstances imaginable would I have pulled for them to have captured the Wild Card, but their opponent was the Braves. Advantage: Cardinals. After they clinched that, I thought I couldn’t possibly have pulled for them to capture their current NLDS. But their […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Cardinals, Lesser of Two Evils, Phillies, Yadier Molina Not long ago I was at a game with somebody who loves the Mets but isn’t necessarily on top of their day-to-day machinations. He noticed from where we stood a very familiar figure he hadn’t noticed previously during the 2011 season. “Mookie Wilson’s a coach?” he asked with a bit of surprise. Yes, I said, first base […] The Mets announced a new “dynamic” ticket-selling plan today. I was going to call it a ticket-selling “scheme,” but that carries such negative connotations, just as “dynamic” carries positive connotations. Dynamic sounds exciting — like Jose Reyes when we knew for sure that he was a Met. Even in a 140-character, “Like” button, “This” world, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2011 Postseason, 2012 Mets, Dave Howard, Ticket Prices With apologies to the late Warren Zevon: Hurry home early, hurry on home Fortunately, you don’t have to hurry home. At 2 o’clock Eastern, just flick on ESPN Radio (1050 AM in New York) wherever you happen to be. Or go to espnradio.com. Fire up the appropriate app. Hitch a […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Radio, WFAN Vivacious Field equaled Victorious Shea 25 years ago. If you watched the 1986 World Series or have seen enough of the footage, you know there was a vivacious lady who did her part to win the damn thing for the Mets by rolling, rolling, rolling her arms from a seat behind home plate while […] Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 154th game in any Mets season, the “best” 155th game in any Mets season, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Todd Hundley, Victor Diaz, Willie Harris Dear brethren in Atlanta and Boston, We’ve been where you are. We know how you feel. Braves fans, on Aug. 25 your team led the Giants by 9 1/2 and were given 99.2% odds of making the playoffs. Sox fans, on Sept. 3 you were up by nine games on the Rays, with playoff odds of 99.6%. […] For a from-the-seats perspective on Closing Day, I’ll bow to my partner, who was actually there. I saw it on SNY, and like a lot of you wound up with emotional whiplash: My euphoria at Jose Reyes’s hit was followed in uncomfortably short order by bafflement that his day was done practically before it began, which […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Farewells, Hope, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins, Wilpons It wasn’t long ago that I was a fan of a franchise that never had a batting champion but was saddled with the Worst Collapse Ever. Neither is my problem anymore. The Mets still Collapsed with a capital C in 2007, but it was a stumble in the park compared to what we as a baseball-loving […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Batting Crown, Closing Day, Collapses, Jose Reyes |
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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