 
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. |
Starting today and slated to appear in this space every Tuesday and Friday in the weeks and months ahead is a new Faith and Fear in Flushing series: A Met for All Seasons. In it, Jason and I will consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Here’s the background: We […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1994 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Ballplayers as Ideas, David Segui, Dwight Gooden, Gerardo, Jason Jacome, Jose Vizcaino, Rico Brogna, The Baseball Network When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 2-0, you assume there was very good pitching. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 9-5, you assume there was a good bit of hitting. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 6-2, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1994 Mets, Chris Flexen, Curtis Granderson, Michael Conforto, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Odubel Herrera, Scores, Team History If you played for the Worst Teams Money Could Buy, plural, then chances are you ended your evenings on the short end of a lot of baseball scores. By that standard, the universe might owe Jeff McKnight a handful of high-fives. Few Mets played as many games as McKnight did and lost a larger percentage of […] The good news to come out of August 11, 2014, is that the Mets beat the Phillies, 5-3, producing all sorts of sunny sidebars in Philadelphia while doing so. Universally beloved Jon Niese pitched seven strong; Buddy Carlyle bridged the eighth like Benjamin Franklin bridges the Delaware; Jeurys Familia, thanks to replay review, did not surrender […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, Anniversaries, Doug Linton, Eric Gunderson, Jason Jacome, Jim Lindeman, Mauro Gozzo, Milestones, Rico Brogna, Roger Mason Summer and Jacob deGrom’s first big league win each arrived in good stead on Saturday. Summer, as the artificial-lemonade commercials used to tell us, is only here a short while. DeGrom, one hopes, will stick around so long that the length of his career will rival the length of his locks. Paradoxically, time of game […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1974 Mets, 1984 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2004 Mets, Craig Swan, Doug Sisk, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jim Bunning, John Franco, Mike Remlinger, Mike Stanton, Milestones, Rick Wise, Summer, Team History, Tom Seaver Aesthetics aside, the Mets’ extended residency in Philadelphia is going pretty well: three of four games have been captured, with one still waiting to be bagged. We’ve seen what Jonathon Niese can do for eight innings when his bullpen needs as much of a blow as he can provide it, we’ve seen how far Lucas […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, AJ Mass, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Juan Lagares, Mascots, Mr. Met, Nickelodeon Extreme Baseball, Phillie Phanatic Five Mets who were never the shiniest available objects glistening in the display case of a given free agent market stopped being Mets altogether this week. Non-tendered as possible prelude to a purposeful pursuit of Curtis Granderson — or whoever can be lured for a lesser price and/or fewer years — were Justin Turner, Jeremy […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, Ambiorix Burgos, Bob Scheffing, Brian Bannister, Bubba Trammell, Buzz Capra, Curtis Granderson, Dallas Green, Donne Wall, Jeremy Hefner, Joe McIlvaine, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Turner, Momentary Lapse of Season Mets, Nontendered Players, Omar Minaya, Omar Quintanilla, Pete Schourek, Scott Atchison, Steve Phillips, Team History Is there any better promotion for Mets baseball than the news that the Mets have invited Brandon Allen to Spring Training? Sorry, too easy. I’ll try to maintain a clean slate for Brandon Allen, the Quadruple-A first baseman brought into supplement the Mets’ existing “glut” at that position. Once upon a time it was easy to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, Anthony Seratelli, Brandon Allen, Joel Carreno, Lou DePaoli, Mets Promotions, Miguel Soclovich, Nolan Ryan, Shea Stadium You never know, but now and then you’re overcome by an inkling, and at the moment I’m inkled that the Mets aren’t going to be the mildly surprising success story I sort of thought that maybe, if enough went well, they could be in 2013. The injuries, the traditional vaguely defined recovery periods, the thin […] Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 97th game in any Mets season, the “best” 98th game in any Mets season, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2005 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jose Reyes, Rico Brogna, Team History, The Happiest Recap |
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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