 
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. |
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. I’ve long had a soft spot for marginal Mets, the September call-ups and emergency starters you struggle to remember by season’s end, let alone years later. Part of that is because I love the […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2004 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Art Howe, Bartolome Fortunato, Brad Wilkerson, Buddy Baumann, Dave Liddell, Endy Chavez, Francisco Estrada, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Kenny Greer, Kevin Morgan, Matt Reynolds, Montreal Expos, Todd Zeile, Wilson Delgado Yoenis is trying yoga. Conforto’s hitting from a tee. Alderson’s talking up Tebow. Mickey leaves nobody standing around. Ah, spring!
Matz is sharp. A-Gon is wise. Gsellman’s got flow. Who knew Ramos was a hoot? Ah, spring!
Wheeler will do whatever’s best for the team. Flores will play wherever asked by the team. Frazier is thrilled to be here. It wasn’t known Trump Jr. was going to be […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Eternal Optimism, Matt Reynolds, Spring Training The Mets don’t lead the league in much, but they’re at least a wild-card contender in keeping us guessing, having concluded their road trip with a Rorschach record of 5-5. That’s five to go in the They Rebounded From Getting Blitzed and Got Themselves Together on the Road So There’s Hope column (you may label this one differently, of course), […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jay Bruce, JT Riddle, Matt Reynolds, Seth Lugo, Storytelling, T.J. Rivera My preferences have little impact on determining the outcome of baseball games I sit down to watch, or maybe you’ve noticed the unbroken winning streak the Mets haven’t been on for the past five decades. Nevertheless, I decided I was going to be reasonably content with a Mets loss Wednesday night provided Zack Wheeler and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Elvis Andrus, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Matt Reynolds, Pitcher Wins, Rangers, Yu Darvish, Zack Wheeler There was nothing particularly memorable about the Mets’ Labor Day matinee against the Reds: Bartolo Colon was really good, Matt Reynolds had a nice day, and the Reds played terrible baseball whenever it was helpful to the Mets for them to do so. That about covers it. But this was a game that deserves to be […] It came at the end of Terry Collins‘s press conference, and might have been funny except for the fact that it wasn’t funny: the small manager with the large personality tried to exit stage left, then had a brief, unhappy colloquy with someone not shown by SNY’s cameras. Collins objected that there hadn’t been any […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Cheslor Cuthbert, Injuries, Matt Reynolds, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, Royals, Whit Merrifield You know you’re having a good night when you can get picky over what kind of mammoth win you’d like your team to post. For those of us who remained to the bottom of the ninth inning at Citi Field Wednesday night of an obviously settled affair — and why would you leave when your […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citi Field, Complete Games, Gunnison sage-grouse, Howard Johnson, Johan Santana, John Valentin, Jon Niese, Kelly Johnson, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, Miguel Batista, Nelson Figueroa, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Rene Rivera, Thor-Hitter, Wilmer Flores The eleventh inning was rolling around Blaine looked to the plate Cabrera commenced Flores was the Met Cabrera wasn’t swift […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Absurdity, Asdrubal Cabrera, Blaine Boyer, Brewers, Chris Carter, Danny Kaye, Jonathan Villar, Kelly Johnson, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Reynolds, Replay Review, Scooter Gennett, Wilmer Flores Let’s just make this clear: Saturday afternoon’s Mets-Marlins game was garbage. The Mets put the leadoff man on in seven of the first eight innings (and eight of nine overall) but somehow managed to be down 3-2 with just five outs remaining. Bartolo Colon was crummy but mostly got away with it because the Marlins couldn’t […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hatred, Jeffrey Loria, Juan Lagares, Kevin Plawecki, Marlins, Matt Reynolds, Michael Conforto, Wilmer Flores We now interrupt our collective, continuing Matt Harvey freakout to note Steven Matz is posting one of the best pitching seasons on the planet. Yes, Steven Matz. Pay attention to him. Attention must be paid. Ought to be, at any rate. I could see where you’d overlook him. Matz isn’t the most interesting member of the Met […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Excellence, Jeurys Familia, Matt Reynolds, Rene Rivera, Steve Trachsel, Steven Matz |
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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