 
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. |
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I can’t keep looking back at the past, and I have nothing inside of here that is the future.  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Ownership, Steve Cohen We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its fitful author is numbered among the friends of THIS BLOG: *** “DEAR FAFIF: I am several decades old (and then some). “Some of my middle-aged friends say there is a Santa Cohen. “Sources say ‘If you […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Santa Claus, Steve Cohen, Undone Deals When the rich guys meet for cocktails at the Rich Guys Club — which is where rich guys get together to tell each other how beautiful and brilliant they are — and one rich guy makes a deal to buy a baseball franchise from another rich guy, maybe one of the rich guys, after everybody’s […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Einhorn, Fred Wilpon, Gerrit Cole, Jeff Wilpon, M*A*S*H, Patti LaBelle, Steve Cohen, Zack Wheeler You know the story of Scheherazade, right? The Persian Empire’s ruler, angry to discover his wife had been unfaithful, decided to safeguard what he regarded as his royal prerogative by taking a virgin bride each night, beheading her in the morning, and replacing her with a new spouse. One imagine he would have run out […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Managers, Mickey Callaway I can’t take me anywhere. I can, but I can’t depend on me to respond as social norms suggest I should. I took myself to Citi Field Tuesday night at the invitation of a friend. The ostensible lure was the manifestation of that old Wilponian chestnut, Meaningful Games In September, MGIS for short (mishegas for our […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, Cleon Jones, Dee Gordon, Fred Wilpon, Marv Throneberry, September, Tom Koehler, Tom Seaver, Uniforms Leo Durocher would have relished this weekend in Las Vegas. The Cactus League Cubs — the team he managed to its only oasis of success in a nearly 40-year schlep through a desert of futility, and the Grapefruit Circuit Mets — the team that inevitably turned 1969 into a Near North Side mirage, will square […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Aspirations, Fred Wilpon, Hope, Leo Durocher, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training, The Sopranos I’m at my low point as a Mets fan. It seems crazy to say it, but I really think it might be true. There have been disasters before, of course. I became a Mets fan in 1976, not knowing the team was about 14 months from becoming the baseball equivalent of North Korea. But I was a child […] 70 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, David Wright, Despair, Fred Wilpon, Howard Megdal, Jeff Wilpon It comes in my size, but it wouldn't have fit. A confession: since the first week of December, I’ve been window-shopping at marlins.com. I’ve eyed, ogled and contemplated Item No. 12551066: Miami Marlins Jose Reyes Name and Number T-Shirt by Majestic Athletic. Out of curiosity after Reyes made his free agent decision, I looked […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Continued Separation Pangs, Fred Wilpon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, T-shirts If the Wilpons are still running this team for years to come and the Mets have been restored to some semblance of vitality because the organization is no longer distracted by an issue bigger than baseball, today’s settlement of the case concerning their involvement in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme before it could go to […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Ownership, Saul Katz, Settlement An unnamed spokesman for my favorite baseball team referred to a friend of mine as conducting a “desperate self-promotional campaign for relevance,” which is a shame. That’s no way for my favorite baseball team to act. As for my friend, Howard Megdal, I will echo his sentiments regarding his new e-book, Wilpon’s Folly, and suggest the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Fred Wilpon, Howard Megdal, Mets Fan Perspective |
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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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