 
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. |
You’ve all seen it: The fan who draws back from the bar or the TV with a look somewhere between shock and disbelief on his or her face, then gets it together and manages to mutter, “Oh man … THIS TEAM.” If you’re true to the orange and blue, you’ve probably muttered that yourself a few […] I saw this New York Times piece on my iPad and spent the next couple of hours trying to keep my blood from boiling. I love the Times, but Jim Luttrell’s post is tone-deaf about Mets fans specifically, baseball fans in general, and ignores the actually interesting currents and tribes of the city in favor of […]  36 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Heath Bell, Injuries, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Media Criticism, Mike Baxter, New York Times This is what it sounded like during Terry Collins’s postgame press conference Sunday, where the primary subject was the status of Jose Reyes and Daniel Murphy: “Terry, have you ever seen this many injuries on one team?” “Terry, this is tough, isn’t it?” “Terry, can you believe how many injuries your team has had?” “Terry, your team has had […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Injuries, Jose Reyes, Media, Mindless Rituals, Terry Collins Fate took Johan Santana away, and we wondered if the season would be lost. It hasn’t been. Then Fate came for Ike Davis, and we feared the same. But the Mets kept plugging along. Then David Wright heard the knock at the door. The Mets kept rolling. Now Jose Reyes is detained by Bad Luck, we hope only […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Dodgers, Don Mattingly, Greg Gibson, Injuries, Jonathon Niese, Rafael Furcal, Terry Collins Things I Don’t Like to Think About 1. The Mets having to play the Yankees the third game of a Subway Series of which the Mets have already lost the first two-thirds at home. 2. The wait on MRI results for key Mets players who left their most recent game experiencing “tightness” in an essential segment of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jose Reyes, La-La-La-I-Can't-Hear-You, Subway Series As Mets fan, we know that all too often the jokes write themselves: On Tuesday the Mets canceled a game while the sun was shining, and sat around at home while the evening was more or less dry. Tonight the Mets played on and on, while the rain fell in sheets and the infield turned […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Miller, Expectations, Fans, Injuries, Justin Turner, Rain, Roger Bernadina David Wright is one second opinion away from going on the Disabled List. MRI revals lower back stress fracture. Examination of Mets roster reveals no obvious alternatives for third base or the batting order. True, he was mostly sucking, but just as true, he’s David Wright. Rest is allegedly what’s required to get this injury better. […] The game the Mets just lost is the kind of game I’ve come to associate with the post-humidor Coors Field: a quiet succumbing, like getting hugged by a python that squeezes a tiny bit more each time you exhale, so that little by little everything goes black. The game starts too late, ends too late, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Coors Field, David Wright, Injuries, Josh Thole, Rockies, Willie Harris Depending on what you read, Johan Santana either remains on pace for a return in July or is actually already dead and the Mets are just covering it up. Oliver Perez, meanwhile, continues to show unmistakable symptoms of being still around, a malady the Mets should probably cure. Stillarounditis also continues to be exhibited by Luis Castillo, […] Lucas Duda just blasted one out of Whatever It’s Called Stadium, his second homer, meaning Club Hessman loses yet another temporary member. Population of One Met Homer Village: 69 again. If only it was ’69 again. In other updating-type news, the war of attrition has claimed another victim: Bobby Parnell, out for the season with inflammation and […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Injuries, Lucas Duda, Mike Hessman, Unhealthy Obsession with Mike Hessman |
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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