 
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. |
Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late: • Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL! • A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball? • Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Stewart, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Arauz, Kodai Senga, Mets Fandom Like It Oughta Be, September, Skid Rowe The Original Mets were stocked primarily by a legendarily threadbare expansion draft that left the Mets capable of winning one of every four games they’d play in their first year. With a full season’s experience under their collective belt, the Slightly Less Original Mets took the field for their second year and won eleven more […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2015 Mets, Anthony Recker, Bill Haas, Claude Raymond, Danny Mendick, Dismal Present, Eric Campbell, George Weiss, Jack Fisher, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathan Arauz, Mark Canha, Phil Bickford, Potentially Brighter Future, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Royals, Special Draft, Steve Cohen, Team History The primary bus scene in Bull Durham, the one in which wise, older Crash Davis informs young, wild Nuke LaLoosh that nobody gets woolly, rushed across the strike zone of the mind Friday morning, specifically the line, “You could be one of those guys.” One of the realest-life Nuke LaLooshes to have toed a rubber […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Bull Durham, Harvey Day, Kodai Senga, Matt Harvey, Retirements I’m assuming the five-day interregnum between the conclusion of the League Championship Series and the commencing of the World Series was built into the postseason by MLB this year to give us time to get used to the nearly unfathomable presence of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic. But here we are, four days […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Billy Joel, Brad Hand, Don Buddin, Noah Syndergaard, pH Factor, Phantom Pain, Phillies, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler It’s a summer night in 2008. Utilityman Marlon Anderson has gone on the 15-day DL with a strained hamstring. To replace him, the Mets, in Houston, look to their geographically proximate Triple-A farm club in New Orleans and call up from the Zephyrs infielder/outfielder/hitter Daniel Murphy. His first plate appearance, versus Roy Oswalt, results in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Daniel Murphy, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Retirement We need not mourn the departure of Long Island’s Own Steven Matz, traded to Toronto for younger pitchers Sean Reid-Foley, Yennsy Diaz and Josh Winckowski on Wednesday night. Nor need we celebrate his deletion from Met ranks. Sending Steven packing was just something that needed to be done. Still, Matz, soon to turn 30, was no […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Steven Matz, The Office, Trades Previously on Flashback Friday… A little piece of me is always watching the Mets in 1970. Mostly I was enchanted with the possibility that the Mets would win the World Series in 1975. I was in love with the 1980 Mets. They weren’t the first Mets team I was ever hung up on, but I think, given where […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Fathers and Sons, Flashback Friday, Goodfellas, Mad Men, Rudy They were 89 moments in the sun, 89 moments under the spotlight, 89 days and nights of our lives when little else mattered to us. I mean more than usual. “The Mets go melodramatic in October,” Roger Angell once wrote. “It’s in their genes.” Here we inspect the DNA and report the findings. Here we do […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, Mets Postseason Games, Team History Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. In the summer of 2015, an undermanned and shoddily constructed Mets club stumbled along, refusing to fall entirely out of contention despite scoring the fewest runs in the National League, battling injuries, and having […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Brooklyn Cyclones, Managers, Michael Conforto, Milestone Mets, One Thousand Mets, Terry Collins MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans. True, they no longer have Thom […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2020 Mets, 60-Man Pool, Chili Davis, Darryl Strawberry, Gordon Beckham, Hunter Strickland, Jared Hughes, John Pacella, Jon Matlack, Luis Rojas, Melky Cabrera, Ruben Tejada, Summer |
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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