 
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. |
Not so long ago, three ships passed in the Met night. We probably didn’t grasp the transient nature of what was transpiring right in front of us because we didn’t know their night sharing the same waters would be over so soon. On August 9, 2012, R.A. Dickey threw a complete-game, ten-strikeout five-hitter to defeat the […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2012 Mets, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, R.A. Dickey, Team History, Zack Wheeler Past Here’s a sign of spring: The 2014 Topps cards are out. Let’s not go overboard: This isn’t the greatest set. The photography’s good again, but Topps has developed an unfortunate predilection for novelty shots, with far too many players romping with teammates (and often on dreaded horizontal cards), getting doused with Gatorade or showing off Oscar […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Hope, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Stephen Drew, The Holy Books, Trades, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler I assigned myself two missions as I arrived at Citi Field Tuesday morning to cover my fourth consecutive Mets holiday party for Queens schoolchildren. One I had planned, the other developed on the fly. The ad hoc mission involved getting out of the bitter cold after an overly literal, presumably underinstructed windbreaker-wearing guard on the other […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aces, Citi Field, Jib, Jon Niese, Mets Holiday Party, Pedro Martinez, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler Nine innings took three hours and fifty-five minutes to complete. It only felt longer. There was nothing good about Tuesday night’s Mets-Giants game except that it was played. And that was a good enough reason to rouse me from what otherwise would have been four-plus hours on my couch — because what’s an endless game without […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Citi Field, Giants, New York Giants, September, Yusmeiro Petit, Zack Wheeler There they go, off to a farm upstate, and I don’t mean Binghamton. Your 2013 New York Mets are no longer mathematically alive for postseason consideration. Spiritually they never showed much of a pulse, either, give or take a delusion or two that sprouted amidst the heat of late July. This season still somehow has […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, David Aardsma, Hopelessness, Mathematically Eliminated, September, Zack Wheeler Every year it seems we play one team far more often than we play anybody else. Or maybe every week it seems that way. Four games in San Diego felt like an eternity, and it was long ago proven the Padres don’t actually exist. Either way, WTF’s with having to play the Braves every five […] You know what Doc Gooden’s typical pitch count was when he was regularly registering double-digit strikeouts in 1984? Neither do I. It never occurred to me to ask. The only pitches any Mets fan was counting 29 years ago were the ones that resulted in strike three. That was the fun of the greatest new […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young Jr., Instant Replay, Juan Lagares, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler Perhaps you’ve heard: Baseball is an unfair game. I learned that as a kid, having read it somewhere in the collected works of noted philosopher Roderick Edwin Kanehl, known once upon the Polo Grounds as Hot Rod. Baseball, Prof. Kanehl explained, “is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Marlins, No-Hit Bids, Rod Kanehl, Zack Wheeler 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 “Never once in his eight seasons of cheering for the Mets has he felt so good. For the first time, he doesn’t miss Willie Mays quite so much.” You couldn’t miss the chip on Megan Draper’s scantily clad shoulder as she briefly took her […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Giants, Mad Men, Marlon Byrd, Small Sample Sizes, Trades, Zack Wheeler |
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. 
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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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