 
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 swear I could tear your throat out right now!” That was said by a parking-lot attendant at Citizens Bank Park after our friend Jerome pulled an admittedly unconventional U-turn in an effort to escape a tediously slow line of vehicles waiting for spaces. Welcome to Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love! And yes, sometimes the jokes […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bryce Harper, Citizens Bank Park, David Robertson, Double Plays, Francisco Lindor, Josh Harrison, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Starling Marte, Trea Turner What do we want out of Opening Day? 1) For it to arrive. The first is essential, whether we’re talking wishing for the season to start sooner than possible (when Spring Training inevitably drags) or start at all (see 2020…or just the other day). The second speaks […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Harbingers, hindsight, Home Runs, Opening Day, Opening Day Delays, Team History My itinerary to take in Friday night’s Mets-Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park was not configured by an app that promises to suggest only the longest journeys possible, but it could have been. One of the things I like about Citizens Bank is it’s close enough to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Daniel Zamora, Greg Luzinski, Journeys, Kevin Guilfoile, Kevin Plawecki, Milestones, Most Mets in One Season, Noah Syndergaard, Old Friends, Phillies, Richie Ashburn, Roberto Clemente, Team History, Trains Choose one from among the applicable Met narratives: a) the Mets can never do anything right; b) the Mets rarely lose in Philadelphia. The latter is […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Competing Narratives, Devin Mesoraco, Friday Night Lights, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz If you’ve never read the work of James Schapiro, author of the blog Shea Bridge Report (“good writing about a bad team”), then Faith and Fear invites you to pull up a chair and dig in. James kindly offered to file some impressions from the final Mets game in Philadelphia, and we wisely took him […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Closing Day, James Schapiro The Mets can’t beat the Dodgers, the best team in baseball. The Dodgers have been beating everybody regularly, though they’ve looked human against the Braves. The Braves can’t beat the Phillies. The Phillies, particularly at home, can’t beat the Mets. Hey — did we just become the best team in baseball? Pythagoras called and said I’m deriving […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Curtis Granderson, Dom Smith, Fernando Salas, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Mysterious Dominance, Neil Walker, Phillies, Wilmer Flores When Yoenis Cespedes re-accommodated yet another baseball over a relatively distant fence five innings into Wednesday night’s beatdown of Philadelphia, I was quite pleased. Really, I was. I glanced up from my tablet, mentioned aloud, “Hey that’s his third,” and, I’m pretty sure, raised a fist slightly above my right ear to further signify my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Home Runs, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Passover, Ray Ramirez, Ren & Stimpy, Travis d'Arnaud, Ty Kelly, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes Imagine if the men who rule baseball reduced each team’s schedule to its most elemental struggle. The Yankees and Red Sox would play each other 162 times — 81 in New York and 81 in Fenway — with at least 130 of those games shown on ESPN or FOX. (This would lead to only a […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Citizens Bank Park, Cole Hamels, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Phillies Sweeping the Phillies in Philadelphia sure is fun, isn’t it? Sweeping anybody anywhere is a fine half-week’s work, but taking it to this bunch — the portion of it presently standing, at any rate — in that place? Sublime! The Phillies aren’t quite what they’ve been in the era encompassing August 2007 and everything after. That, of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Citizens Bank Park, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, Kyle Kendrick, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Rob Johnson, Shane Victorino, Sweep To understand that headline, go back a day and read my partner’s rather awesome post about Monday night’s instant Mets Classic. Monday night’s game — forever to be recalled fondly, except in the Papelbon household, as the Jordany Valdespin Game — was a tense, taut affair, about as beautiful as a baseball game can be. Confronted […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Joe Blanton, Jordany Valdespin, Miguel Batista, Pete Orr, Phillies, Ramon Ramirez |
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. 
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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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