 
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 Cliché Stadium for the last Major League Baseball game of this year. It takes place tonight. When it is over, there will be no tomorrow. Not one necessarily worth contemplating anyway. Except for Giants partisans who would have preferred the opportunity to bubble-wrap the Commissioner’s Trophy, fasten its seatbelt and fly it home, nobody didn’t […] It did not occur to me that an October might arrive when my two true teams would come face to face in a World Series, and that I would have to discover and then declare an ultimate loyalty. The odds against two particular teams’ meeting in a World Series in any given year are so […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2014 Postseason, Carlos Delgado, Eric Hosmer, Giants, Hozzie the Cat, Yusmeiro Petit The last National League East team to advance in a postseason was the Philadelphia Phillies of 2010, who swept the Cincinnati Reds in the NLDS, the series that opened with Roy Halladay throwing a no-hitter. The Phillies seemed on track to make their third consecutive World Series, but would be stopped cold by the San […] My regular team is nowhere to be found this October. I don’t have a temporary team at the moment. Some years I enter the playoffs with a cause. This year I’m just happy to be here as an unaligned onlooker. Some team will reveal itself to me as situationally mine soon enough. Wednesday night, however, I […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Allen Ripley, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Bobby Jones, Brandon Crawford, Ed Lucas, Giants, Ike Davis, Madison Bumgarner, Mark Gardner, New York Giants, Pirates, Polo Grounds, Steve Henderson The life of a freelance writer is by turns exciting and terrifying, but one of its undeniable benefits is that a weekday matinee is no big deal. Well, except when you’ve taken a fairly intense temporary office gig. And when you don’t check the schedule carefully enough during the process of dividing game duties with your blog partner. I […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben May, Fans, Giants, Juan Lagares, MLB At Bat, Radio I wonder what Mets ownership thought as it looked out the windows from its counting house Thursday afternoon and observed a Citi Field whose live gate was probably 70% (at least) Giants fans. I’m guessing there were two competing thoughts besides, “Hey, look — people!” 1) “What a disgrace that our team has fallen so far […] After eight and a half innings, I had a little roadmap of tonight’s post scrawled on a bit of scratch paper: Another chapter of Mets payroll football, starring Sandy Alderson as Charlie Brown 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Gary Cohen, Giants, Josh Satin, Juan Centeno, Matt den Dekker, The Holy Books, Zach Lutz Nine innings took three hours and fifty-five minutes to complete. It only felt longer. There was nothing good about Tuesday night’s Mets-Giants game except that it was played. And that was a good enough reason to rouse me from what otherwise would have been four-plus hours on my couch — because what’s an endless game without […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Citi Field, Giants, New York Giants, September, Yusmeiro Petit, Zack Wheeler “Never once in his eight seasons of cheering for the Mets has he felt so good. For the first time, he doesn’t miss Willie Mays quite so much.” You couldn’t miss the chip on Megan Draper’s scantily clad shoulder as she briefly took her […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Giants, Mad Men, Marlon Byrd, Small Sample Sizes, Trades, Zack Wheeler “Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” You might know that as the U.S. Postal Service’s motto, though actually it just adorns one of their temple-like buildings here in New York City. (And is a translation of Herodotus, who was talking about messengers in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Brandon Crawford, Extra Innings, Giants, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins |
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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