 
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. |
Meditations on time before and during watching Clayton Kershaw toy with various Mets: The Dodgers are forever. I started watching baseball in earnest in 1976, when I was seven, and learned the game by memorizing the backs of baseball cards, scouring a cinderblock-sized Baseball Encyclopedia, and devouring various books checked out from the Emma S. Clark […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Clayton Kershaw, David Wright, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Eduardo Escobar, Noah Syndergaard, Sentiment, Time The doubt’s benefit will not be getting its projected workout, as Darin Ruf is no longer part of the Mets’ plans at the outset of the 2023 season. Ruf was designated for assignment on Monday. His assignment prior to that decision was to overcome universal skepticism wrought by contributing next to nothing in his two […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Darin Ruf, Dennis Santana, Designated for Assignment, Dylan Bundy, K Korner, Long Island Ducks, Opening Day, Postseason Acknowledgment, Predictions, Projections, Scapegoats, Scoreboards, Time It’s Sunday night. The Mets haven’t won in more than a week. As if that’s not enough of a shame, our greatest miracle has been celebrated anew, and this is how our team responds in the present? What we could really use is a nice offensive explosion while everything is looking listless and limp, maybe […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2022 Mets, Almost Famous, Cleon Jones, Dana Brand, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Irene Hodges, Joely Rodriguez, Losing Streaks Snapped, Pete Alonso, Time Time just gets away from us. Mattie Ross says that at the end of Charles Portis’ sublime True Grit, a benediction so flat and matter of fact that it comes all the way around and serves as an elegy in spite of itself. Those words keep creeping into my mind as the Mets continue their freefall […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Charlie Watts, Disappointment, Rolling Stones, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Tarasco Late spring is the time to see Gil Hodges work. Not summer. Then heat sits on the cylinder of Shea Stadium and a baseball season, like New York summer, grinds down strong men. Citi Field is entering its twelfth season. Children no longer eligible for whatever discounts being under twelve gets […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Anniversaries, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carlos Gomez, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Football, Gil Coan, Internal Affairs, Joe Smith, Luke Gasparre, Matt Adams, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Oliver Perez, Patrick Mahomes, Paul McCartney, Retirements, Roger Kahn, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Fernandez The first time I learned the word “decade” was just a tick over fifty years ago, December 31, 1969. It was my seventh birthday, which was cause enough for me to obsess on numbers; I decided I liked being 7 a bunch more than I liked being 6. It was also New Year’s Eve, which […] Eli Manning sits this Sunday. Technically, he stands on a sideline, bearing a clipboard, wearing a headset, doing whatever is done when backing up a starting quarterback. It will be the first time he has done so in so long that I can’t link to what we were posting when it last happened, because that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Eli Manning, Football, Icons, John Franco, Ron Darling, Time Todd Hundley was at Thursday’s Mets game. He suited up and strapped it on in the bottom of the second when Lucas Duda added him to his pass list. Duda hit a home run that admitted one Hundley. Lucas’s blast evoked from the past the catcher who still owns half of the Mets’ single-season home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2005 Mets, Armando Benitez, Dan Wheeler, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Mookie Wilson, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Team History, Time, Todd Hundley, Trades, Victor Diaz Brewers 2 Mets 1. Not the outcome of choice in these parts, but a reassuring baseball score for a sunny Thursday afternoon. If you’re gonna lose by a run…well don’t, but if you have to, do it neatly, quickly and move on. Two-one without extra innings implies satisfying efficiency. Yet this game lingered too long to […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Brewers, Chase Anderson, Terry Collins, Time, Two-One Games, Umpiring, Wayward Bat Boys, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler If there’s no clock in baseball, why is the time of game listed? Seems antithetical to the spirit of the enterprise. Then again, Shea Stadium’s original scoreboard reserved prominent space for a clock bearing the Longines logo, and later its auxiliary scoreboards flashed the digital time from Armitron. If we truly weren’t supposed to be […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Josh Beckett, Marathons, Team History, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Shawshank Redemption, Time |
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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