 
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. |
9:40 pm starts are to be regarded with suspicion even when the baseball they produce goes well — surely one could be doing something more worthwhile with one’s time, starting with sleeping. And when the baseball produced goes badly, as it did Tuesday night? Then one feels like the guy from the old gambler’s adage, looking […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Late Night West Coast Games, Mark Vientos, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor, Zac Gallen Thanks, Gare. Like you said, it’s midnight in Manhattan, and this is no time to get cute, yet as we know, every first Monday night of May marks the return of the Met Gala to Manhattan, and whenever the Mets are playing at midnight Eastern Time on that same night, the game is stopped, wherever […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Mendoza, Dedniel Nunez, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Fashion, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Met Gala, Milestones, Molly Shannon, Pete Alonso, Steve Gelbs, The Pajama Game, Tyrone Taylor We’ve all heard Keith Hernandez say it, that common word that a California accent (or maybe it’s just Keith being Keith) strips of one familiar consonant. And Lord knows we felt it on a long Sunday that wound up for naught. The Mets took walks. and the Mets pounded balls all over Busch Stadium against a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andre Pallante, Blade Tidwell, Cardinals, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Erick Fedde, Frustration, JoJo Romero, Juan Soto, Michael McGreevy, Nolan Arenado, Pete Alonso, Ryan Helsley, Tylor Megill Darryl Strawberry hit 335 homers as a major leaguer. The vast majority of his first 252 flew over the moon. Not coincidentally, I was over the moon for all of them, because a) all 252 deposited runs into the account of the New York Mets; and b) Darryl Strawberry was Darryl Strawberry. YEAH! HIS FIRST! 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Approaching Milestones, Darryl Strawberry, Home Runs, Pete Alonso I and presumably you root for a team that either wins every game or comes very close to winning every game. In 2025, which is now almost exactly one-fifth over in terms of regular-season baseball, the Mets have played 32 games; outscored their opponents in 21 of them; lost by exactly one run in five […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Genesis Cabrera, Juan Soto, Not Winning Them All, Ty Adcock As a coping mechanism, I sometimes imagine there’s a series of Anti-Mets Classics — games so variously painful, frustrating and provoking that you’d only watch them again if forced to. In a CIA black site, perhaps. Or maybe in actual Hell. That’s actually not an unconvincing vision of the afterlife for those of us who won’t […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anti-Mets Classics, Brandon Waddell, Chris Devenski, Corbin Burnes, Danny Young, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Ryne Stanek, The Other Ryan Thompson, Vexing Losses |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star 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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