 
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. |
Break up the Mets! They’re 2-2 against the Yankees! Actually that already appears to be happening: the Mets left Robert Gsellman in to throw a ton of pitches against the Yankees Friday night while Jeurys Familia sat in the bullpen in a sweatshirt, got hugs from teammates and was spoken of evasively in postgame interviews. He’s […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Billy Murphy, Broadcasters, Gil Hodges, Jeurys Familia, Joe Nolan, Lost Mets, Mets Songs, Noah Syndergaard, Ralph Kiner, Rheingold, Robert Gsellman, Rube Walker, The Holy Books, Tommie Agee, Yankees Last month I quoted the old Earl Weaver maxim that momentum’s only as good as tomorrow’s starting pitcher, not knowing what a cruel joke that would turn out to be. The Mets managed the head-scratching accomplishment of losing eight in a row while getting brilliant starting pitching: in that stretch, no Mets starter allowed more […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Dave Mlicki, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Reyes, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Todd Frazier, Yankees The Mets lost. Again. As they have done throughout this stake-in-the-heart homestead. As they have done with numbing regularity since mid-April. The details don’t particularly matter, so we’ll buzz through them quickly: they ambushed Yankees starter Domingo German for an unfathomable three runs in the first, on home runs by Todd Frazier and Asdrubal Cabrera. If you […] Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees Add ’em all up, from October 1, 1921, a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A’s in the first game of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, to October 11, 2017, the fifth game of the American League Division Series won, 5-2, over the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field, and you conclude the New York Yankees […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, Astros, Celebrations, Clinchings, Elimination Day, Expectations, Frank Robinson, New York Championships, Norman Greenbaum, Sheadenfreude, Thirteen Days, Yankees Statistically, it didn’t matter that the Yankees came to Citi Field from the Bronx to complete their Subway Series sweep. It mattered that they came from near the top of their division. The Mets versus any serious contender this year has been almost uniformly bad news. Talk about hewing to your weight class. The lightweight 2017 […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Futile Comebacks, Grand Slams, Luis Severino, Raul Gonzalez, Reds, Rob Schneider, Steven Matz, Strength of Schedule, Subway Series, Yankees As SNY spoke with Dave Mlicki Monday night about claiming first blood in a Mets-Yankees tilt that mattered, I found myself more than a little distracted. Mlicki had blanked the Yanks 20 years ago? No, that couldn’t be right. Surely it was five years ago. OK, maybe 10. But nope, you could look it up. The Mets and Yankees […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Rafael Montero, Subway Series, Yankees, Yoenis Cespedes Winning streaks end, from the innumerable one-gamers to the historic 11-gamers. One day we’ll have an even longer one. It’ll end too. There are all sorts of ways to lose a ballgame — insane Gotterdammerungs that end with one team barely standing, nail-biters that don’t go your way, slothful snoozefests that never get started, relievers-hiding-under-the-stands fiascos […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bernie Williams, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Mark Teixeira, Michael Pineda, Subway Series, Willie Mays, Yankees If you had money on the Mets pummeling Braves ace Julio Teheran, well, I hope you dropped by the corner store and bought a whole bunch of Lotto tickets. The Mets scorched Teheran from the get-go, when Curtis Granderson drove one off the facing of the Pepsi Porch. They kept it up with Daniel Murphy‘s […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Jacob deGrom, Julio Teheran, Milestones, Records, Yankees It’s a big world with lots of people of it. Even our little part of it — in which people in the New York area cheer for a baseball team — is pretty big. No, I wasn’t specific about the baseball team. For one night, I’m going to expand our circle to include Yankees fans. Only […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Jonathon Niese, Kyle Farnsworth, Michael Pineda, Michael Wacha, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees |
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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