 
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. |
Meet the Mets. Meet the Mets. Step right up and meet these Mets. These Mets who we didn’t quite know not very long ago, but who are presently playing their way into our hearts and imprinting themselves on our brains. Meet Seth Lugo. He’s our new somewhere from No. 1 to No. 4 starter. It doesn’t […]  33 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2016 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobbleheads, Getting Acquainted, Jose Reyes, Rafael Montero, Seth Lugo OK, that was fun. If Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman represented Plan F and G, or some letter fairly far along in the stack, what letter was reserved for Rafael Montero? Montero hadn’t started a game since last April and had done nothing since then to make any member of the Mets brass think well of him. He spent […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Home Runs, Jose Fernandez, Jose Reyes, Kelly Johnson, Nick Wittgren, Rafael Montero, Walkoffs, Yoenis Cespedes Like the names of Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker, this won’t show up in Sunday’s box score, but the Mets’ 5-1 loss to the Phillies was my thousandth game in a row. Not playing, but witnessing. I’ve watched, heard or attended at least some, usually all, of every regular-season Mets game dating back to July […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Commitment, Fans, Home Run Cycle, Injuries, Out of Town Scoreboard, Robert Gsellman, Streaks Years ago, I was driving through the night with some unfortunate passenger, on a road trip that was passing through northern North Carolina or southern Virginia or some similar locale. The description of the passenger has to do with the fact that we were listening to the Mets, and in this analog, pre-At Bat era […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Kelly Johnson, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Yoenis Cespedes Bartolo Colon going for the cycle! Leaping grabs from Jose Reyes! Bullets fired by Yoenis Cespedes! Asdrubal Cabrera going deep from both sides of the plate — and making a nifty play to short-circuit the Phillies! And of course Wilmer Flores sending one into the Flushing night to make a tense ballgame so much more relaxed. That was […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Morgan, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Cesar Hernandez, Jose Reyes, Peter Bourjos, Ryan Howard, Wilmer Flores The Mets, who couldn’t have been deader last week, are alive if not 100% well. When you’ve won exactly one more game than you’ve lost, yet retain aspirations of winning twelve in October/November, you can’t have everything. Though you need to come close. Thursday night was the must-iest win of the year, superseding Tuesday night by dint of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Contenders, Cramps, Seth Lugo, Wild Card It’s a truism of baseball that no matter what you’re going to win 54 games and lose 54 games, with what happens in the other 54 determining your season. Which is a pretty good rule, even if the Mets broke it for the first four years of their existence and came within a whisper of busting it […] When Jim Henderson entered Tuesday night’s game at St. Louis — one on, one out, Yadier Molina coming up, Mets leading by two in the seventh — it occurred to me that this was potentially a pivotal moment in Henderson’s Met legacy. If Henderson surrendered a two-run homer to Molina, which wasn’t out of the […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Cardinals, Debuts, Injuries, Jim Henderson, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Pennant Race, Robert Gsellman, Wilmer Flores, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Listen up, posters. We’ve had it with the invective in the comments. We’ve banned one person already, but it’s had no apparent effect on the conversation, which has become increasingly rancorous and tiresome. Today I had to wade into the comments multiple times to wag my finger, and that was on an off-day after a thoroughly gratifying […] The best thing to do — the sane thing, the kind thing, the self-preserving thing — would be to focus solely on what happened in Sunday night’s Mets-Giants game. It was taut, tight and well-played, but ultimately a tale of two pitchers: Jeff Samardzija and Noah Syndergaard. Samardzija rode his plus-plus fastball, a resurrected curve and a […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jeff Samardzija, Jeff Wilpon, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes |
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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