 
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. |
With apologies to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who identified five distinct stages of grief, I have determined there are only two steps to a Mets fan’s mourning for a dying season: 1) Acceptance Who needs five when you can do what we do, which is simply cycle between our two for several weeks? Following the conclusion of […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Acceptance, Christian Colon, Mad Men, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence When is taking an 11-1 lead to the ninth inning not a laugher? The answer isn’t “when you give the ball to Chris Mazza and wind up wondering if he can get three outs before the other guys score 10,” though Friday night’s game felt that way for a fidgety spell. No, the answer is when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Billy Crystal, Braves, Greg Maddux, Hope, John Olerud, Justin Wilson, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Wild Card, Zack Wheeler First, it rained. Of course it rained. It wouldn’t have been a rainy Wednesday night without the rain. Rain delayed the start of the Mets-Cubs game twelve minutes, which was fine, because my pal Rob texted me that he was stuck in traffic and hence wasn’t going to meet me by the Apple as arranged […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Cubs, Futile Comebacks, Jeff McNeil, Noah Syndergaard, Paul Sewald, Rain, T#m Gl@v!ne, Todd Frazier FLUSHING (FAF) — The New York Mets did not come back to defeat the Washington Nationals, 7-6, Friday night, as Todd Frazier did not hit a game-tying, ninth-inning, three-run homer off Nationals closer Sean Doolittle, not setting up an immediate second rally that didn’t culminate in Michael Conforto driving home Juan Lagares with the winning […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brad Brach, Comebacks, Death of Incredulity, Drama, Frenzy, Joe Panik, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Todd Frazier, Walkoffs So in the end, after all the Sturming and Dranging, the Mets did nothing else. Noah Syndergaard stayed (and celebrated with a fairly hilarious bit of guerrilla Twitter video). Zack Wheeler stayed. Edwin Diaz stayed. Even Todd Frazier stayed. Prospects of whatever pedigree did not arrive. Cash considerations were not considered. Former college roommates of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Robinson Cano, Todd Frazier, Trade Deadline, Umpires, Weirdness, White Sox “Don’t bother, Mickey,” I wanted to tell the beleaguered manager of the New York Mets after his club dropped and I do mean dropped its second consecutive extra-inning game, this one on a patently unbelievable albeit hauntingly familiar defensive misplay, “we didn’t touch home plate, either.” One sometimes forgets when the bullpen falters or the left […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Alex Dickerson, Amed Rosario, Applicable Metsian Mythology, Billy Preston, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Juan Marichal, Luis Avilan, Madison Bumgarner, Marv Throneberry, Todd Frazier, Tyler Beede, Wilson Ramos Hey Brodie, whatcha doin’? Awesome! Hey Brodie, why ya throwin’ a chair? Cool! Hey Mickey, whatcha doin’? Outta sight! Hey Todd, whatcha doin’? 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chairs, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Ejections, Jake Arrieta, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Mysterious Ways, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido My first numerical obsession as a baseball fan developed in the waning days of the 1969 regular season. There was nothing waning about late September and early October if you loved the Mets, but I did catch on, at age six, to the finite nature of the schedule, so I figured out that the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Age, Brooks Pounders, Chuck Hernandez, Coaches, Cubs, Dave Eiland, Jeremy Accardo, Julio Franco, Pete Alonso, Phil Regan, Ricky Bones, Todd Frazier, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font I want to be on a winning team with Todd Frazier. I want to be pointed at by Todd Frazier while he stands on second and nods vigorously in my direction. I want to […] |
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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