 
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. |
Maybe the Mets just needed a day off. You’ve probably heard that they’re playing a lot of games. More games than there are days. Including enough doubleheaders to give you the baseball equivalent of an ice-cream headache. Lots of those games coming against good teams. Which will be played with a roster still beset by injuries, […] One of the many fun things so far about 2021 is the Mets winning games that in a lot of previous years you’d expect them to lose. On Tuesday night I was nervous after the Mets took a 3-2 lead and stubbornly refused to extend that to a safe distance, because I was all too aware […] Should it be your desire, I’m sure you can get one of those inspirational signs for your den/game room/what-have-you that proclaims BASEBALL IS LIFE, and while I might disagree with the chosen vehicle of expression, I’m with you on the message. But the fact is that sometimes life, or at least the non-baseball part of […] The Mets, undermanned and improvised though they are, beat the big bad San Diego Padres yet again Saturday afternoon, taking the season series from a fellow playoff team and getting their 33 games in 31 days stretch off to a positive start. It was what baseball should be — fun! It was fun watching Marcus Stroman […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Defense, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Padres The Mets got their butts kicked in Baltimore on Tuesday night. Things went just fine at the outset, as Francisco Lindor walked and Pete Alonso hit a line drive into the left-field stands for a quick 2-0 lead. But David Peterson struggled through the first, gave up three in the second and was excused further duties […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Zimmermann, David Peterson, Debacles, Maikel Franco, Orioles, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Young Pitching Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish Well, at least the pig exited covered with lipstick. The Mets fell behind 4-0 against a scintillating Yu Darvish on a night when Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff, kept getting into trouble of his own making, and had very little in terms of bullpen and bench behind him – a situation that led to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Billy McKinney, Disappointment, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Ha-Seong Kim, James McCann, Jurickson Profar, Kevin Pillar, Late Night West Coast Games, Luis Rojas, Managers, Manny Machado, Mark Melancon, Mason Williams, Padres, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tim Hill, Tomas Nido, Travis Blankenhorn, Yu Darvish To be fair, it’s only natural: As fans, we see everything through a certain-colored lens, in our case one split between blue and orange. So let’s peer through it and see what’s what: Marcus Stroman was throttling the Diamondbacks, the Mets had the lead, and then everything went south. A minor but chippy on-field dustup between […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Josh Rojas, Marcus Stroman, Pavin Smith, Trevor May The Mets’ run of injuries has been Biblical — witness this recent post, from Fangraphs, noting that Mets on the injured list account for nearly 20 WAR, going by preseason predictions. That’s by far the most WAR lost in the majors and should have been a recipe for disaster. And it still might be! But not […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brandon Drury, Braves, Cameron Maybin, Charley Smith, Defense, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, James McCann, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker I went off to California for a week and while I was out there the Mets underwent some renovations, to say the very least. Deep breath. I’d barely registered the arrival of Jake Hager before he got his first big-league hit and then was subtracted from the roster. The minorly heralded Khalil Lee arrived, swung and missed […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Catchers, Edwin Diaz, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Replay Review, Ryan McMahon, The Holy Books, Tomas Nido, Yennsy Diaz |
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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