 
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. |
You can’t argue with the numbers. I mean you can, because somebody always wants to argue something, but you’d have to dig pretty deep for a debate let alone a dispute when the Mets are steaming along as they have thus far this young season. The Mets have won 16 of their first 23 games, a […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dom Smith, ESPN, Great Starts, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Robinson Cano, Rosters, Series Win, Streaks Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen Hi again, Chasen Shreve — and you, too, Matt Reynolds and Johneshwy Fargas. The Mets decided to solve their lefthanded bullpen void by rewinding to 2020 and snatching up the perfectly capable Shreve, who by coming back after a season in Pittsburgh gets the chance to break free of his Silent Generation designation. May the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brad Hand, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Good Health, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Matt Reynolds, NL East Four-Timers Club, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Safety, Schedules, Spring Training, Travis Jankowski It’s been the year of Jacob deGrom so often for most of the past decade that you’d think it would be hard to discern when it isn’t the year of Jacob deGrom. Jacob deGrom was named by this blog as the Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met of 2014, 2017 and 2018. Jacob deGrom wasn’t named […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Miguel Castro, Most Valuable Met, Relief Pitching, Trevor May During one of the many, many, many one-run losses that have defined the blur of futility that has smothered the illusion of a pennant race in these parts, I asked my friend of nearly 30 years Rob Emproto how things were going with his band. It’s not really “his” band, but it’s not like I […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Better Choices, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Ed Coleman, Illusion, Jeurys Familia, Long Island, Pat Benatar, Shadowy Bass Players, Terry Collins The Mets beat the Marlins by one run. But the Phillies beat the Nationals by one run, and the Braves beat the Rockies by one run, so by the end of Thursday, nothing changed at the top of the NL East, though at least we got to maintain the sensation/illusion that the Mets reside somewhere […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Almost Famous, Backdating, Brad Hand, Ears, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Javy Baez, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Pennant Race, Solidarity, Thumbs, Zack Scott It’s one of the oldest questions for a baseball fan who lives and dies with his or her team: If said team is fated to lose, how would you prefer that fate to unfold? Meekly and with minimal fuss? Or loudly but with the same outcome? The Dodgers are a quarter-billion-dollar baseball death machine. Their lineup […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Treinen, Brusdar Graterol, Dodgers, Futile Comebacks, Jeurys Familia, Julio Urias, Justin Bruihl, Matt Beaty, Tylor Megill, Will Smith Two people at Citi Field were proven wrong Wednesday night in the ninth inning. There was Braves third base coach Ron Washington and there was me, perched in the first row of Excelsior on the right field side. We were both off in our projection of what was about to happen after Ehire Adrianza lined […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jeurys Familia, Lee Mazzilli, Michael Conforto, Throws, Tom Jones, Tylor Megill Earl Weaver’s oft-cited quote that “this ain’t a football game, we do this every day” came in handy after Saturday night’s debacle — up 6-0 in the 8th, only to lose 9-7 in the 9th — that indicated we should never do this again. The Earl of Baltimore’s observation is equal parts… instructive — 161 baseball […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Comebacks, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Earl Weaver, Jeurys Familia, Luis Rojas, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Not Football, Taijuan Walker, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor May Baseball, that thing which I love and you love, still doesn’t feel quite like the baseball you love and I love. Not in 2021, not after 2020. The rule alterations that linger from last year have the sport askew and to no apparent useful purpose. We bought into the pandemic requiring trims around the edges. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, All-Star Game, Boardwalk, Daniel Murphy, Friendship, Heathers, Jeurys Familia, Long Beach, Pete Alonso, Radio, Richard Ben Cramer, Something Feels Off, Summer, Taijuan Walker, Uniforms, Wayne Randazzo |
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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