 
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 distinguishes every Mets “game go” that involves me and my friend Mark Simon? As was the case on Sunday afternoon, when Mark and I went to Citi Field to ostensibly watch the Mets play the Mariners, each of us brings several, perhaps many Mets-based trivia questions to ask one another. What’s the purpose of these trivia […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Darryl Strawberry, Dietary Restrictions, Doc Gooden, Doc Medich, Dominic Leone, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Mariners, Milestones, Pepe Mangual, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, The Log, Trivia, US Open Fireworks Night in a lost season is always a bit of an asterisk: There are a lot more spectacle-oriented fans in attendance than one might wish, treating the baseball game like it’s the opening band. They wait with varying degrees of impatience, get in your way in the aisles, and annoy you with their conspicuous […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Munoz, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Drew Smith, Fireworks Night, Julio Rodriguez, Kodai Senga, Logan Gilbert, Mariners, Ronny Mauricio, Ty France In one of the climactic scenes of the first season of Mad Men, ad agency head Bert Cooper instructed impatient Pete Campbell, by way of exonerating a man originally named Dick Whitman for shadily assuming the identity of the late Don Draper, “The Japanese have a saying: A man is whatever room he is in, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2017 Mets, 2024 Mets, David Robertson, Mad Men, Moneyball, Ronny Mauricio, Rooms, Trade Deadline, Well-Intentioned Inertia After five days of electric baseball, the Mets once again look like someone pulled the plug out of the wall. At least — and those are never good words to see up high in a recap — this time they didn’t look flat enough to slip under a door, the way they did in the opener […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Marcus Stroman, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Starling Marte, Wrigley Field A confounding Mets season took another confounding turn Monday afternoon, when the team followed up Sunday’s burst of offensive competence (counterpoint, maybe the Nationals decided to experiment and do Whip-Its between innings) by once again looking like an outfit with zero resemblance to a professional baseball team. Going into Monday, you might have said, “Well, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Frustration, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Ronny Mauricio, What a Terrible Team The Mets are opening a “speakeasy” out in right field. I think Prohibition has been over roughly 90 years, so I’m not sure why one would need to know a secret password to get in, but why quibble with a concept, especially when the name of this high rollers club is intended as an homage […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Brett Baty, Francisco Alvarez, High Rollers Club, Joan Payson, Mark Vientos, Moment of Silence, Ronny Mauricio, Willis Reed, Youth of America For my birthday I went back to Citi Field, and that was wonderful, even with zip-tied seats for social distancing and vaccination checks and mandatory masks. Last week I went to my second game and it was even nicer, because those three things were gone and the only strange note was how normal all the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Hector Neris, Jacob deGrom, Jersey Shore Blueclaws, Kevin Pillar, Lowell Spinners, Luis Guillorme, Luke Williams, Michael Conforto, Pandemics, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Ronny Mauricio, Travis Blankenhorn |
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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