 
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. |
The important thing: The Mets actually won. The less important thing: The Mets barely won a thoroughly strange, confounding game against the Nationals, one that left you without much confidence that any kind of worm has turned in any direction one would want a worm to turn. (If you’ve ever wondered, that strange turn [ahem] of […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carl Edwards Jr., Counterintuitive Wins, David Robertson, Drew Smith, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Lindor, Mackenzie Gore, Nationals, Pete Rose, Three-Run Singles, Tug McGraw, Tylor Megill Jon Matlack believes we know what we’re talking about. I know that’s what he believes because I asked him and that’s what he told me. And who’s not gonna believe Jon Matlack, essential starting pitcher for the 1973 National League Champion New York Mets? At the press conference preceding Saturday night’s Mets Hall of Fame ceremonies, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Brandon Drury, Carlos Baerga, Edgardo Alfonzo, Eugenio Suarez, Javier Baez, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Votto, Jon Matlack, Media, Mets Fans, Mets Hall of Fame, Press Box Decorum, Reds, Rich Hill, Ron Darling Welcome to the tenth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Edgardo Alfonzo, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets of the 2000s, Pedro Martinez, Steve Trachsel 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. Everybody scream and shout In 1997, Edgardo Alfonzo came to the plate 68 times in eighth innings. In those eighth innings, he batted .482, […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Edgardo Alfonzo On September 15, 1983, a 33-year-old lefthanded pitcher from West Chester, Pa., appeared in a major league baseball game for the 361st time in a career that dated to July 11, 1971. In 318 games, he was the starting pitcher. This wasn’t one of those games. On this day, a Thursday afternoon in Oakland, Jonathan […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Contiguity, Edgardo Alfonzo, Jon Matlack, Mets Hall of Fame, Ron Darling While interviews continue to proceed to determine who will collaborate most collegially with non-uniformed front office personnel in the evolving so as to be unrecognizable to the ghost of John McGraw role of field manager, I have a question not for or about Carlos Beltran, Eduardo Perez, Joe Girardi, Tim Bogar or anybody else still […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Brooklyn Cyclones, Edgardo Alfonzo, Managing, Mets Ambassadors, Organizational Mysteries Eighteen years ago, I added a new team to my consciousness. The Brooklyn Cyclones weren’t actually a new club. They were the old St. Catharines Stompers, and spent the summer of 2000 as the Queens Kings, affiliated with the Blue Jays but owned by the Mets and playing before basically nobody at St. John’s. That was […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Edwards, Antoine Duplantis, Brooklyn Cyclones, Championships, Edgardo Alfonzo, Fans, Jake Mangum, Joe Davis, Justin Wilson, Lowell Spinners, Marino Campana, MCU Park, Mitch Ragan, Pete Alonso, Ranfy Adon, Wilmer Flores, Yoel Romero Congratulations, fellow Mets fans, we did it. We made it to September and we still have standings to pore over (don’t “pour” over them; they’ll just get wet). On Sunday morning, September 1, the 2019 Mets are four games removed from a playoff spot with four weeks to go in the regular season. It’s four […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Brycemen of the Delaware Valley, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hitting Streaks, Moises Alou, Precedent, September, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Wilson Ramos Faith and Fear in Flushing, which we dedicated as The Blog for Mets Fans Who Like to Read on February 16, 2005, turns 13 years old today, which is neither here nor there, unless you’ve come for a kiddush (in which case you might like to read the Haftorah) or you’re joining us in praise […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Anniversaries, Edgardo Alfonzo, Internal Affairs, Jason Vargas, Matt den Dekker, Mets Hall of Fame One of the umpires working the Mets-Marlins game in Miami on Sunday should have taken a moment from making an eventually overturned call and blown a whistle to order a stoppage in play after a couple of innings. Baseball doesn’t operate like that, but how could any Mets fan worth his parmesan dedicate all of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hall of Fame, John Franco, Mets Fans, Mike Piazza |
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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