 
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. |
What constitutes a trend? For our purposes, let’s say it’s when two people you know relay to you, independent of one another, the same piece of information accompanied by a similar slice of curiosity. In her upcoming memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, the reliably trendy Lena Dunham says her gynecologist used to pitch for the […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Art Shamsky, Dave Roberts, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Joe Ginsberg, Josh Satin, Lena Dunham, Mets Pop Culture, Norm Sherry, Randy Jones, Randy Milligan, Randy Myers, Randy Niemann, Randy Sterling, Randy Tate, Scott Schoeneweis, Shawn Green, Tug McGraw, Wally Backman Would it have disturbed some grand plan to have allowed Dillon Gee to pitch the seventh inning Thursday night? The man threw 193 innings entering his final start of the season after missing almost three months in 2012. He’s been our only starter to take the ball every turn of the rotation from the first […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, David Aardsma, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Johnny Hellweg, Josh Satin, The Book, The Code 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 More than a few media outlets have let it be known they don’t plan to refer to Washington’s football team as “the Redskins” this fall. And in an unrelated development, it’s highly unlikely that the name “the Washington Nationals” will be mentioned in many baseball stories come October. Let us enjoy this brief period of tangible […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Davey Johnson, Ike Davis, Josh Satin, Juan Lagares, Natonals, Spoiler So I went to Saturday’s Mets baseball game — it was 1973 Playing Cards Day, for gosh sake, the Wilponian equivalent of 52 tiny old-timers shuffling out of a plastic-coated, Caesars-branded pack for our brief nostalgic reverence — and a marathon broke out. Yup, another long one from those wonderful folks who brought you the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Chen, David Aardsma, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, Extra Innings, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, Royals, Sandy Koufax The Mets no longer require extra innings. They make the regulation amount go on forever. In their first two games coming out of the All-Star break — one a hopeless blowout loss, the other a relatively mundane win — they donated more than seven hours to the baseball-starved denizens of Queens inside a span of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Gonzalez Germen, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, Marlon Byrd, Zack Wheeler Things that still suck, in case you thought there’d been a change: • The Mets The Mets and their 5-3 loss in which Matt Harvey couldn’t rescue them and they couldn’t rescue Matt Harvey speaks for itself (and I believe the word it spoke was “feh”). Wednesday was yet another night […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Ross, Fireworks Night, Josh Satin, LIRR, Matt Harvey, The 7 Train You don’t gotta believe or anything crazy like that, but you gotta take stock of what’s been going on in the National League East since May 26: New York 15-14 If that’s not 1973 in miniature, I don’t know what is. We bemoan the lack of a 40th anniversary tribute from the organization that […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2013 Mets, Faith, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Mets Third Basemen, Zach Lutz I took a fantastic pregame nap Saturday afternoon. It was fantastic because I awoke to the sound of David Wright playing, David Wright batting and David Wright going way deeper than I’d been sleeping. No, Howie and Josh assured me, I wasn’t dreaming. David was not on the DL, despite what everybody and his Twitter account […] It’s not our pennant race, but we were about to make a potentially legendary impact on it. That would’ve been fun. In the bottom of the second, already behind by two, Chris Schwinden couldn’t have appeared much more in danger. Infield hijinks, bloop warfare and the temptation of hitting Rafael Furcal that was just too good […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Chris Schwinden, Jaime Garcia, Josh Satin, Losing Record, Mike Hessman, Spoiler, Willie Harris |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star 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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