 
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. |
Although baseball has already conducted its winter meetings, winter insists on meeting the rest of us this evening at 10:47 PM Eastern Standard Time. We wish a scintillating solstice to all, yet we’ve got a bigger milestone to mark before the month is out. That’s right: the Baseball Equinox is nigh! At 3:26 AM EST on […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Houser, Baseball Equinox, Decades, Hump Years, Tyrone Taylor A former major leaguer who I watched pitch against the Mets once but who I can’t say I remember doing so tweeted something eye-opening this week: “In the entire history of baseball, only 22,860 have made it to the major leagues. That total easily fits into any MLB stadium.” An actor who portrays a former […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Bob File, Dom Smith, James McCann, John Bateman, Ken Webster, Mets Catchers, Michael Conforto, No Bum, Omar Narvaez, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido The last two instances of the Baseball Equinox, marking the spot when we sit equidistant between the final out of last season and the scheduled first pitch of next season, were rendered inoperative in retrospect once COVID had its way with them. The opening of the entire 2020 baseball season was pushed back to July […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, 2022 Mets, Baseball Equinox, New Year's Eve, No Guarantees Here we are, as in olden days, happy golden days of yore. It’s December. Snow lingers on the ground. We reflexively marvel at a picture of it on a baseball diamond. Photographing such a landscape is an irresistible rite of wintertime passage. It’s the oxymoron of the hot stove league, a winter classic, like that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, 2021 Mets, Baseball Equinox, Christmas Eve, Pandemics, Uncertainty If you aren’t the sleep-through-the-night type, then you’re in luck, because you stand a good chance of being awake for that great annual act of winter, the Baseball Equinox, set to occur Saturday, December 28, 2019, at 4:03 AM Eastern Standard Time. As organically occurring phenomena go, the Baseball Equinox is right up there with […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Mets of the 2010s, The Simpsons Even Eartha Kitt, whose memos to the North Pole were famously insistent, would be grudgingly impressed with what the new general manager of the New York Mets has done seven weeks into his term. He’s brought us a renowned middle-of-the-order bat; a dazzling reliever to close ninth innings; […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Catchers, Christmas, Eartha Kitt, Gary Carter, Noah Syndergaard, Wilson Ramos We still reside on the shadowy side of the Baseball Equinox, that annually anticipated milestone on the calendar that sits precisely between the final pitch of the last Mets season and the first pitch of the next Mets season. This offseason’s midpoint won’t arrive until we have passed 89 days, 9 hours and 25 minutes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2018 Mets, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Anthony Swarzak, Baseball Equinox, Expectations, Matt Purke, Windows, Zach Borenstein We didn’t tweet in 1977, but if we had, I’m sure we would have assailed the year we lived in for being #TheWorst for taking from our midst so many beloved icons (and that’s not counting the baseball business conducted on June 15 of that year). Elvis died. Bing died. Groucho and his brother Gummo. […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Bill Kent, Chris Cannizzaro, David Bowie, Dennis Byrd, Dick Smith, George Michael, Glenn Frey, Julius La Rosa, Moment of Silence, Paul Kantner, Phil Hennigan, Ralph Branca The lamentably late Natalie Cole told us in good old 1975 what This Will Be, but she wasn’t necessarily* in the forecasting business. It’s a blank slate out there. The new year couldn’t be much newer or less knowable. If you need precedent (despite precedent’s limited efficacy), just look back to 365 days ago. We […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Baseball Equinox, Moment of Silence, Natalie Cole Hosmer the Cat (a.k.a. Hozzie) rightfully turns his back on Hosmer the first baseman (a.k.a. the enemy). As we approach the never previously calculated New York Mets Championship Equinox — Saturday at 9:53 PM EDT is the moment between the final pitch of the pennant-clincher and the first pitch of the World Series — […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Bandwagons, Baseball Equinox, Hozzie the Cat, Royals, World Series Fever |
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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