 
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. |
Here’s an interesting exercise: consider how we would have assessed Thursday’s Mets-Cubs finale if it had come in June, or even mid-August. I probably would have led with an acknowledgment of how much Brett Baty has grown as a player, on both sides of the ball. Baty’s three-run homer off Shota Imanaga in the third made […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Cedric Mullins, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Defense, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Rules, Ryne Stanek, Seiya Suzuki, Shota Imanaga, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor Three-and-oh? You take. Of course you take. You always take on three-and-oh. Maybe not always always, but when you’re tied in the bottom of the ninth, there’s one out, and what you need more than anything else is a baserunner, you stand and you take. Francisco Alvarez? You take. You’re like two-for-your-last-eighty (actually 12-for-72 entering Monday […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Exceptions, Francisco Alvarez, Kidcaster, King Korn, Kingston Nahm-Korn, Rules, SNY, Walkoffs Six months and one day after it would have done the most good, the Mets beat the Padres at Citi Field. It didn’t tie up last October’s National League Wild Card Series at two apiece, because that was a best-of-three set. Noted baseball analyst Carole King says it’s too late, baby, to do anything about […] As long as Rob Manfred is announcing that extreme shifting will be a thing of the past in 2023, let’s retroactively get rid of double plays. In the spirit of the pitch clock that will redefine the imposition of time within the confines of the once-timeless game of baseball, let’s turn the overall clock back […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Double Plays, Francisco Rodriguez, Hurd, Joely Rodriguez, Mark Vientos, Mike Vail, Rob Manfred, Rules, The Doors, Walls, Wild Card |
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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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