 
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. |
Try to be cool and analytical all you want, but if you’re a fan eventually you’ll give in to fury and bloodlust. I’M NEVER ATTENDING ANOTHER GAME UNLESS THEY RELEASE LUIS CASTILLO BY MORNING! AARON HEILMAN MUST BE MAROONED ON A DESERT ISLAND WITHOUT EVEN A VOLLEYBALL FOR COMPANY! CHAIN DOUG SISK […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brad Emaus, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Robert Carson, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins John Axford, the Brewers’ closer who looks enough like George Custer that he could spend the offseason taking part in re-enactments at Little Big Horn, recently blew a save and had to depart before facing to the media. So left behind an apologetic and rather charming note, one that ended with “Cliché… cliché… cliché… another cliché. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, David Wright, Fans, Mike Baxter, Talk Radio, Terry Collins Periodically you’ll read one of us insisting that subpar baseball is still preferable to sitting glumly around in the winter. I was thinking of that as the Marlins, having dispatched Chris Capuano, tattooed the even more hapless D.J. Carrasco, threatening to put 20 hits on the scoreboard of the hideous Soilmaster Stadium (or, if you […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, Danny Herrera, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium It’s wonderful to be a Mets fan right now. It really is. While everybody tells jokes, the Mets have assembled a Quadruple-A lineup of guys who don’t do too much but do just enough, playing the game the right way, not shooting themselves in the foot and — DICKEY! WOULD YOU NOT DO THAT? I KNOW […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Balks, Braves, D.J. Carrasco, Frankie Rodriguez, Fredi Gonzalez, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston Mike Pelfrey’s ERA is 15.63. He’ll get another start tomorrow. And another one four days after that. And so on for a reasonable distance into the future. Blaine Boyer’s ERA is 10.80. He threw 119 pitches this year. His Mets career is presumably over: He was designated for assignment after yesterday’s debacle, a 3-2 Mets lead […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blaine Boyer, Booing, Chris Young, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Jason Marquis It’s a silly but time-honored part of being a fan to make far too much out of the first few games of the year. So, Opening Night: The Mets looked anemic at bat, Mike Pelfrey scuffled on the mound and Josh Johnson was borderline unhittable. DOOM! WE WILL NEVER WIN A GAME, EVERY PITCHER IS GOING […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, Emilio Bonifacio, Fans, Hope, R.A. Dickey As more and more Mets crowd into Port St. Lucie just long enough for it to be exciting before it becomes amazingly tedious, here’s what I don’t get: The Mets have four — four! — alliterative pitchers in camp, and none of them has been issued an alliterative uniform number. According to the spring roster Adam […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alliteration, Blaine Boyer, Boof Bonser, Chris Capuano, D.J. Carrasco, Mets Marketing, Spring Training, Taylor Tankersley, Uniform Numbers My sister gave me the news thirty years ago this morning: John Lennon was murdered last night. My first thought was the next thing Suzan said: “Now they’ll never get back together.” Lennon’s assassination (which always sounded strange, in that politicians got “assassinated,” but what else could you call it?) was one of those events that just […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, 1981 Mets, 2011 Mets, Anniversaries, Boof Bonser, D.J. Carrasco, Dave Winfield, Frank Cashen, Free Agents, John Lennon, Patience, Ronny Paulino, Sandy Alderson |
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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