 
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. |
You know you’re in a bad stretch because your team wins and you don’t feel good — just relieved, if you’re lucky. Or exhausted, if you’re not. That was me after the Mets somehow beat the Marlins and their own demons by 5-3, a game that felt much closer than that. It was a strange, vaguely […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Jackson, Angel Hernandez, Anthony Bass, Brian Anderson, Carlos Carrasco, Javier Baez, Jesus Aguilar, Magic, Marlins, Michael Tucker, Trevor May, Umpires As baseball fans, we react. Unable to actually alter the course of events transpiring down there on the field, we overreact. And trying to outguess baseball is a surefire way to look like a fool. Still. It’s what we do. We react, we overreact, we turn dots into lines and fill in pictures. Like this one: […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Javier Baez, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Panic, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker It took until his eighth start for me to hear the name Tylor Megill and think of Tess McGill, which surprises me. We hadn’t had Javy Baez for five minutes last Friday before I had to remind myself he wasn’t to be conflated with late ’90s scourge Javy Lopez or early ’90s infielder Kevin Baez. Whereas […] The Reds’ Joey Votto said something wonderful Saturday night, after just missing his bid for a record-tying home run in his eighth straight game. Here’s Votto on his streak, how it began, and how it ended: I’m a bit of a StatCast nerd and it started with a .090 expected batting average home run on a […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Geoff Hartlieb, Joey Votto, Kumar Rocker, Max Schrock, Miguel Castro, Reds, Scott Boras, Steve Cohen, Vladimir Gutierrez, Wilpons Jon Matlack believes we know what we’re talking about. I know that’s what he believes because I asked him and that’s what he told me. And who’s not gonna believe Jon Matlack, essential starting pitcher for the 1973 National League Champion New York Mets? At the press conference preceding Saturday night’s Mets Hall of Fame ceremonies, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Brandon Drury, Carlos Baerga, Edgardo Alfonzo, Eugenio Suarez, Javier Baez, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Votto, Jon Matlack, Media, Mets Fans, Mets Hall of Fame, Press Box Decorum, Reds, Rich Hill, Ron Darling The Mets went out at the trade deadline and did something about the hole they considered perilous in their middle infield, acquiring somebody with both a stellar defensive background and a world championship pedigree, a player with a fairly unique offensive profile. He has only a couple of months left on his existing contract, so […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Black Jerseys, Carlos Carrasco, Jacob deGrom, Javier Baez, Luis Castillo, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Team History, Trade Deadline, Trevor Williams The Mets are seven games over .500. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Mets have been seven games over .500 on nineteen separate occasions over the — wait for it — past seven weeks. Seven games over .500 isn’t bad. Ask the Atlanta Braves, who haven’t been as much as one game over .500 […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeem Bostick, Austin Riley, Brandon Drury, Bull Durham, Carlos Carrasco, Hits Without Runs, Pete Alonso, Prince, Promenade Box Blasts, Roster Turnover Two people at Citi Field were proven wrong Wednesday night in the ninth inning. There was Braves third base coach Ron Washington and there was me, perched in the first row of Excelsior on the right field side. We were both off in our projection of what was about to happen after Ehire Adrianza lined […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jeurys Familia, Lee Mazzilli, Michael Conforto, Throws, Tom Jones, Tylor Megill Well, that wasn’t much fun. The Mets were forced to start TBD — again! So they turned to Jerad Eickhoff — again! And it didn’t go well — again! Eickhoff, you may recall, had already been DFA’d twice by the Mets this year. He opted for free agency, but signed another minor-league deal and reported for duty […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Jon Matlack, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Noah Syndergaard, Rich Hill Seeing baseball in person always reminds me that the game is really two different experiences. The view from your couch lets you play HD voyeur, seeing everything from the pitcher’s grip to how the catcher frames each pitch — and with stats and expert analysis handed to you, like a surgeon taking tools from an […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Dansby Swanson, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Freddie Freeman, James McCann, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo |
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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