 
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. |
Like my blog partner, I registered the wholly unexpected presence of Jason Isringhausen in Mets camp — and, however briefly, allowed myself to dream. Stories like Izzy’s are an object lesson in why it’s good that fans don’t run baseball teams. The reaction of the Sandy Alderson braintrust to Izzy’s availability, I’m sure, was a businesslike […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bill Pulsipher, Disappointment, Generation K, Hope, Jason Isringhausen, Recidivst Mets, Team History Hate to break it to any of you who were keeping your October clear, but my co-blogger’s scenario has been thwarted, and the Mets have been eliminated from postseason play. It’s fitting, somehow, that we’d be eliminated in a game that descended from taut but aggravating (rejuvenated Lucas Duda hitting an artillery shell of a home […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Marlins, New Yankee Stadium, Yankees Checking in on the Mets from afar — There was only hit, and it was by Hamels? K-Rod did what? — while bouncing around between Florida and Rhode Island and various airports, I didn’t quite realize how mad I was at them. Until I sat down to watch an otherwise anonymous, playing-out-the-string game in Houston […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anger, Disappointment, Francisco Rodriguez, Garbage Time, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Omar Minaya By now I’m not even mad at them. No, the worst I can manage while watching the Mets stagger around and lose is a weary exasperation. The competitive portion of the 2010 season is nearing its end, and whatever disappointment I felt over that has dissipated by now. You never know, as baseball sages will tell […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Acceptance, Disappointment, Hope, Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, Ownership In fact, I would like my money back, please. What’s that? I listened to it on the radio, which is free? Oh. WELL, THEN IT WAS WORTH EXACTLY WHAT I PAID. / fumes for a while What’s that? You want a discussion of significant events? What on earth for? Posterity? Yeah, there is that, though I have trouble imagining there ever […] I have to confess that after the Giants finished subjecting Hisanori Takahashi to every indignity short of drowning him in San Francisco Bay I exiled this game to radio and the occasional look-in, if only to save my own sanity. I registered the Mets’ basically cosmetic comeback, noting that it was just numerically sufficient to […] Stephen Strasburg is baseball’s best pitcher. Not just now, but forever. I know it’s true because he pitched seven sensational innings Tuesday night and Bob Costas’s drool seeped through my television screen while it happened. As Strasburg struck out fourteen Pirates in seven innings, Costas all but dug up the late Walter Johnson just for […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Hope, Lastings Milledge, Stephen Strasburg Well, that wasn’t so bad. I mean, the Mets lost. To the Yankees. Because Alex Cora inexplicably threw a ball to Jose Reyes’s invisible twin brother on the edge of the outfield grass, and because Elmer Dessens was Elmer Dessens. And because they couldn’t hit, not even against Javier Vazquez. How is that not so bad? Because I’d […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cora, Disappointment, Hisanori Takahashi, Subway Series, Yankees It’s great to be young and a Met, Ike Davis could tell you after his most successful major league debut Monday night. The 23-year-old first baseman was the toast of Citi Field from the moment he showed up wearing No. 42. If ever anybody stood out in a mononumeric crowd, it was this kid who […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Cautionary Tales, Chris Jones, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Great Starts, Hope, Ike Davis, Mark Clark, Mike Jacobs “I went to rehab. My friends embraced me when I got out. You relapse, it’s not like that. ‘Get away from me’ — that’s what it’s like.” Hello, my name is Greg, and I’m a Docoholic. I’ve been hooked on Doc since 1984. It started when I was in college. […] |
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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