 
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. |
Keith's Grill, moving out of the shadows. I love when the Mets take our advice before we even offer it. In Amazin’ Avenue Annual 2011, Jason and I offered up a slew of ideas on how to best extended the Mets legacy at Citi Field. One of them, which we expanded upon recently, was […] Goodbye to the road. Goodbye to Whatever It’s Called Stadium in The Middle of Nowhere, Fla. Goodbye to that LandPhil where fly balls grow jet-packs in flight. Goodbye, for now, to Roy Halladay who doesn’t seem to mind pitching in that silly little bandbox. Goodbye to early evidence that we can hold our own against […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2011 Mets, Citi Field, Home Opener, Idealization, R.A. Dickey, WFAN If I’d told you back in March that September 28’s game would come down to whether somebody named John Axford could survive ninth-inning confrontations with Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Josh Thole and Ruben Tejada, you probably would have deduced that September 28’s game wouldn’t mean very much. And you would have been right, for this […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Corey Hart, Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Ruben Tejada It’s a Sunday afternoon in September 1996. I’m at Shea Stadium with my best friend Chuck, diehard Met sympathizer, but better described as a bandwagon rider in terms of his actual Met fandom. Yet in September 1996, there is no bandwagon. There’s just me guilting him into joining me for a game against the Braves. […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Tomberlin, Anniversaries, Billy Joel, Citi Field, Citi Field Tour, Condescension Toward Customers, Mad Men, Marv Throneberry, Mets Pop Culture, Old Dogs, Paul Wilson, Pete Flynn, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Small Time Crooks, The Last Play at Shea, The Rocker My gosh, that was a lot of fun at Citi Field on Tuesday night! R.A. Dickey with another complete game, Ruben Tejada skilled at bat and in the field, Nick Evans maintaining his momentum, Angel Pagan making like it was the first half of the season and Carlos Beltran making like it was the first […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Carlos Beltran, Citi Field, Depressing, Empty, Fun, Nick Evans, Pirates, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada Things that went wrong in one Mets fan’s day: * The Mets didn’t get a single runner to second base. What a dull, listless game this was. I remember Chris Carter nearly letting a ball go over his head in left and Jose Reyes smacking a single off Roy Oswalt. Everything else isn’t just forgotten — […] The Mets lost a squeaker, as Jose Reyes smacked a ground ball to Gaby Sanchez with two outs in the ninth and the tying run on third. Damn — particularly with Angel Pagan having looked a bit leisurely on a ball off the wall that arguably led to a fatal extra Marlin run. Still, the […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Jerry Manuel, Marketing, Omar Minaya, Ownership The Mets throw all sorts of obscure statistics on their scoreboard in the hours before a game starts, including how they’re doing at home on a given day of the week. For example, before the Mets opened against the Rockies, word was posted that the Mets were 9-0 this year on Tuesday nights at Citi […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bar Mitzvah, Citi Field, Faith and Fear Book, Marv Throneberry, Melvin Mora, Mets Hall of Fame, Ryder Chasin, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Small World, Tug McGraw “Thank you. This is really, really amazing. And it feels so good to be home.” So said Doc Gooden Sunday as he was inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame, and he couldn’t have been more correct — for him or for us. On some level, Dwight Gooden’s been wandering the periphery of Metsdom […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Mets Hall of Fame Part 1: Friday Night Frights Went to see the Mets play ball. Lovely evening, and great company in my pals Wayne and Amanda, the latter a visitor and, horrible to say, a Yankee fan. (She was also a model guest — I didn’t once hear the number 27, an invocation of rings or a sentence ended […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Albert Pujols, Blogging, Carlos Beltran, Chip Hale, Citi Field, Dave Racaniello, David Wright, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Randy Niemann, Raul Valdes, Reporters |
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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