 
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. |
Here’s a sign of progress: The Mets lost, and I wasn’t mad at them. Last week? I was incensed to an unhealthy degree by everything they did wrong, waiting with teeth bared for them to shoot themselves in the foot again. But Wednesday night? Yes, David Peterson gave up a grand slam to turn a 2-2 […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, David Peterson, Dom Hamel, Elias Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Luis Arraez, Manny Machado, Mark Vientos, Mason Miller, Padres, Pete Alonso, Robert Suarez Did any fanbase need a laugher more than we did? OK, maybe Tuesday night wasn’t exactly a laugher — call it a chuckler, perhaps — but a five-run first and a pair of homers in the second took away a lot of the tension, allowing us to monitor the “piggyback” experiment that saw Sean Manaea take […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Michael King, Padres, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea We’re all exhausted, so let’s hurry through the first seven or so innings of Sunday’s desperate affair against the Rangers: A young pitcher was great, the Mets hit a little though not a lot, Carlos Mendoza made an understandable though anxiety-provoking move to get aforementioned young pitcher out amid early signs that the roof might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adolis Garcia, Brooks Raley, Cedric Mullins, Cody Freeman, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Ezequiel Duran, Josh Smith, Juan Soto, Kyle Higashioka, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luis Curvelo, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Reed Garrett, Rowdy Tellez, Ryne Stanek, Walk-Off Wins The fans try so hard. I can say that as an observer rather than as a participant on Saturday, sitting as I was in the zone of detached decorum known as Citi Field’s press box. I couldn’t react, except in my head, to every entreaty from the A/V squad that urged the crowd to keep […] Jacob deGrom versus Jonah Tong. The Jonah Tong of the past versus the Jacob DeGrom of the future. The Met pitching prospect who excelled amid a glittering class of his promising peers versus the Met pitching prospect at the outset of a journey he’s pursuing alongside those possessing arms full of potential like his. It was […] What a spectacular top of the first inning in Philadelphia Thursday night! And what a moving eight innings of respectful silence in the top halves of each frame that followed. That was pretty much that where the current Mets were concerned in their sixth consecutive loss. Thus, let us turn our attention to Mets of yore. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1969 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, Art Shamsky, Benny Agbayani, Ed Kranepool, Harrison Bader, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jim Bethke, Jim Marshall, Mets Alumni, Moment of Silence, Todd Zeile For a little while Wednesday night the Mets played non-embarrassing baseball. Which isn’t to say they were leading — they weren’t — but that they weren’t being beaten as badly as seemed likely at first. Clay Holmes pitched OK-adjacent, giving up two runs in the first but escaping far worse harm, and hung in there until […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Clay Holmes, Cristopher Sanchez, Disappointment, Gregory Soto, Phillies, Sean Manaea, SNY PHILADELPHIA (FAF) — Analysts are theorizing the New York Mets may be organizing an illegal and possibly immoral “stealth boycott” of the 2025 Major League Baseball postseason and are coming closer every day to their goal of not participating in the upcoming championship tournament. By losing their fourth consecutive game on Tuesday night, 9-3, at Citizens […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Conspiracy Theories, Losing, Unwanted Flashbacks One recipe for a good baseball game? A sequence of unlikely events. No-hitters flipped into walkoffs, storming back to a ninth-inning win, Houdini-ing your way out of what looks like statistical doom, that kind of thing. Monday night’s game in Philadelphia was a good game, much as we would have preferred a duller one with a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, Aaron Nola, Aborted Comebacks, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jhoan Duran, Nick Castellanos, Nolan McLean, Phillies, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley A few months ago, I watched an episode of American Masters devoted to Liza Minnelli. One of those attesting to her brilliance as an entertainer and warmth as a human being was the actor Darren Criss, who related Liza’s reaction to a group get-together he considered himself lucky to be a part of: “She’s grabbing […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Brandon Sproat, Generation MST3K, Liza Minnelli |
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. |
|
Copyright © 2025 Faith and Fear in Flushing - All Rights Reserved |
||