 
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. |
Well, well, well. That wasn’t what I thought for most of Thursday night’s game against the Phillies, but then that’s always the case with a classic comeback — you need to trudge through the vale of despond before getting sherpa’ed up Mount Probability to giddily plant the most unexpected of flags. That mountaineering metaphor’s less random than […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bernard Gilkey, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Carl Everett, Comebacks, Corey Knebel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Davis, Phillies, Starling Marte Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill The first week of baseball is nearly always the same: a season’s emotional journey in miniature form, with the only difference what order the necessary components get assembled in this time. So, for the 2022 Mets it’s been: Convinced the stars have aligned and your team will go 162-0. 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chasen Shreve, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Tylor Megill, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler On Sunday night Edwin Diaz — he of the electric arsenal and its sometimes self-electrocuting results — stood on the mound and stared in at Bryce Harper, probably the league’s MVP and a longtime thorn in the Mets’ side who seemed about the dimensions of a redwood just then. Two outs in the ninth, 3-2 […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bryce Harper, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Kyle Gibson, Phillies, Rich Hill The Wilpons let Zack Wheeler walk as a free agent after the 2019 season, with zero negotiations and one knife in the back from Brodie Van Wagenen, who said that the Mets had helped Wheeler “parlay two good half-seasons over the last five into $118 million” with the Phillies. That was the Wilpons in their red […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Disappointment, Phillies, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler For my birthday I went back to Citi Field, and that was wonderful, even with zip-tied seats for social distancing and vaccination checks and mandatory masks. Last week I went to my second game and it was even nicer, because those three things were gone and the only strange note was how normal all the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Hector Neris, Jacob deGrom, Jersey Shore Blueclaws, Kevin Pillar, Lowell Spinners, Luis Guillorme, Luke Williams, Michael Conforto, Pandemics, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Ronny Mauricio, Travis Blankenhorn The Mets won the damn thing, by a score of 8-7. Those of you with enough years of scar tissue will remember that as channeling Bob Murphy’s judgment after the Mets held off the Phils at the Vet in the summer of 1990, with the last out a liner speared by momentary Met Mario Diaz on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bob Murphy, Bryce Harper, Didi Gregorius, Edwin Diaz, ESPN, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Jose Alvarado, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Phillies, Replay Review, Rhys Hoskins The Mets lost and it was excruciating on so many levels. They weren’t even playing the Phillies, really; rather, they were playing the lesser half of the Phillies, shorn of Bryce Harper and Didi Gregorius and J.T. Realmuto and Jean Segura. It didn’t matter. They probably would have lost to a bunch of Norristown tykes who […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Jose Alvarado, Larry Bowa, Marcus Stroman, Miguel Castro, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Ron Darling Well, those were some complicated feelings to open with. Your capsule summary: Jacob deGrom was terrific, the Mets’ offense looked like the kind of patient, relentless machine that will chew opponents up, and the team even played some solid defense. Well, until the offense whiffed on multiple knockout blows, deGrom departed having thrown just 77 pitches, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Trevor May 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. When I was a teenager, a lot of people assumed I’d be a sportswriter. Which made a lot of sense: I loved baseball and writing, so why not put the two together? But I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Beane, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Daulton, Dave Smith, Fenway Park, Lenny Dykstra, Marty Noble, Oil Can Boyd, Phillies, Ron Darling, Wally Backman |
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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