When your team picks up a player or three at the trade deadline, you bank on capturing lightning in a bottle. Maybe three bottles. An arm or two to get you over. A quick bat attached to some quicker legs and surer hands. Come on over and lift us up. Yesterday we were strangers. Today […]
 
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. |
Wayne Randazzo wasn’t wrong Tuesday when he outlined ways baseball could speed up its action. Specifically, he preached adoption of a pitch clock like that used in the minors to get games moving faster and, ultimately, over faster. But his partner du jour, Lee Mazzilli, wasn’t wrong, either, when he asked Wayne in apparent sincerity, […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Mets, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Ed Grimley, Lee Mazzilli, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, September, Twilight Once again, it’s sand in the hourglass time — the last few grains, the regret about what could have been, the wanting it to just be over, and the reminding yourself that as soon as it is you’ll want a little more. The Mets have become the old joke about the food being terrible and […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Hand, Eduardo Rodriguez, Gary DiSarcina, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Red Sox Perhaps you’ve read of the unique public perception of Howard Cosell at the peak of his fame. He was simultaneously the most popular sports broadcaster of his time and the most unpopular. People loved him. People hated him. People listened when he spoke. I thought of Mets PA announcer Colin Cosell’s grandfather as I watched Javy […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Braves, Francisco Lindor, Howard Cosell, J.D. Davis, Javy Baez, Marcus Stroman, Whether to Pinch-Hit You can’t, as the saying goes, script baseball. You can’t necessarily script baseball players, either. If you could, I would have tried last Sunday when, at the conclusion of the Mets’ moribund weekend in Philadelphia, Pete Alonso met the press to attempt to explain what the hell was going wrong. Pete, I might have advised […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 27th Man, Doubleheaders, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams, Truth, Walkoffs Marcus Stroman, intermittent instigator of excitement, monitored a Wednesday afternoon nap in Cincinnati as if moonlighting as a day camp counselor for the six-and-under set. He authoritatively lulled the Reds’ offense to sleep and relaxed Mets fans no end with eight innings of shutout ball. Marcus plunked leadoff hitter Jonathan India to begin the game, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Decorum, Dom Smith, Dusty Baker, Emotion, Jonathan Villar, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Media, One-Hitters, Terry Leach The first game after the All-Star Break is supposed to feel like a warm bath. Oh that’s better, you think as you sink back into the routine of having something to do a little after 7 or 4 or 8 or sometimes even 1 in the afternoon on the weekends. At first that little break was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Kuhl, Francisco Lindor, I Hate Baseball, John Nogowski, Marcus Stroman, Pirates You know what? I’ve come around on the idea of the Mets playing the Pirates again right after the All-Star Break. Not because I think the Pirates are a bunch of tomato cans — that’s a dangerous thing to think about any opponent, and if the Bucs win Sunday they’ll have split the series — but […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Edwin Diaz, John Nogowski, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Records, The Holy Books, Trevor May, Tyler Anderson, Tylor Megill By definition, a Sunday afternoon spent beating a pair of American League All-Stars en route to winning by five is time well spent. That’s what the Mets did on July 4, racking up four runs in 3 1/3 innings off All-Star Gerrit Cole, whose situations were as sticky as his grip might no longer be, and […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aroldis Chapman, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Fucking Idiots, Gerrit Cole, Jose Peraza, Lucas Luetge, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Subway Series, Tomas Nido, Yankees MLB announced its All-Star finalists on Sunday. No Mets were mentioned. No Mets came close to being mentioned. Off all the choices that could be ranked, no critical mass ranked enough Mets for the runoff. A first-place team in the nation’s largest market has gone so under the radar on a positional basis that even […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Batting Average, Corey Oswalt, Garrison Keillor, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Kung Fu Fighting, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rico Carty, Ron Santo, Rudy, The Odd Couple, Zack Wheeler |
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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