 
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. |
No, I’m not being cute. Too tired for that. I’m acknowledging that we’ve reached a familiar point in the progression of a lost season, though this familiar point isn’t the big reveal. The big reveal is that the games you’re watching are expository bric-a-brac, part of the lead-in to the real story, which you just realized isn’t being […] That creature you thought you saw rumbling across the landscape at Citi Field late Friday night…it wasn’t your imagination. It was that most elusive of baseball figures, the Unicorn Score. The New York Mets posted what was for them an unprecedented final, beating the Colorado Rockies, 14-2. Thanks to Baseball Reference’s Play Index tool and my […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Jacob deGrom, Replay Review, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes That might have been the dumbest baseball game I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t exactly what any of us expected from Jacob deGrom vs. Carlos Martinez, as neither ace’s location was what it needed to be. The result was basically an Adam West-Burt Ward Batman caper, with the principals milling around for a bit until it was […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Absurdity, Addison Reed, Bill Graham, Cardinals, Carlos Martinez, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, John Brebbia, Jose Reyes Some games words filter into your brain. The word of the night Friday was “taut,” as in nice and tight, the way you’d figure someone who intermittently devotes himself to baseball as something of an academic discipline would like it. Give a student of the game a 2-1 affair won by his favorite team and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Analytics, Andrew Knapp, Bartolo Colon, Ben Lively, Broadcasters, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, SABR, Sandy Alderson, Tautness, Tim Tebow, Tom Goodwin, Ty Kelly, Yoenis Cespedes A pitcher homering is baseball porn, pure and simple. A pitcher pitching eight innings and giving up no earned runs is more exotic than it used to be, maybe more exotic than it oughta be. Which would you rather have? You’d rather have both if you can, and we could on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Porn, Jacob deGrom, M&Ms, Pitchers Hitting, Relative Rarities, Team History Jacob deGrom was good. He was really good. Not so long ago, this wouldn’t have been a surprising thing to write. But it’s been a surprising season, to put it mildly. The key to deGrom’s successful night was that he reintroduced his change-up to complement his fastball. In the postgame debrief, DeGrom passed along analysis from Dan Warthen that […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Yoenis Cespedes Hmm, is that how you spell Milestone Achieved? It looks a little funny, but there’s no wavy red line under it, so I guess it must be correct. As you may have heard, Tuesday’s night game — played in whatever suburb of Dallas that’s considered to be in whatever that park that looks perfectly new but […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Milestones Pitching’s hard. You knew that. But dig into everything involved with pitching and you wind up amazed that anyone can do it at all. Never mind, for a moment, the routine and chronic physical danger inherent in it — the stress and pain of doing something unnatural and damaging over and over again. And put aside the rare but […] “All right, time for bed.” 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Incomplete Games, Jacob deGrom, Lucas Duda, Neil Walker, Pitch Counts, Tyler Pill The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter |
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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