 
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. |
These days, you don’t have to be in the New York area — or the outer limits of AM radio range — to keep up with the Mets. You just need an MLB account and a certain amount of cell service. Well, and a little luck. The beginning of the Mets’ game against the Red Sox found […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Francisco Lindor, Giveaways, Howie Rose, Keith Raad, Luis Severino, MLB At Bat, Phil Maton, Red Sox The Mets beat the White Sox behind back-to-back homers from Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker, with Jose Butto surviving a decidedly shaky ninth to secure the save. That’s the brief, pertinent-facts-only recap of a game I absorbed in fits and starts — I’m out here in Tacoma getting my kid moved back into a dorm room, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Davis Martin, Futility, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Pete Alonso, White Sox That was a bad one. A bad one as in you shut off the TV and kept fixing it with a thousand-yard stare. It’s even crueler because once upon a time that was a good one: The Mets came back from a 4-0 deficit, with Harrison Bader striking the big blow, then went ahead when Starling Marte […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Harrison Bader, Losses, Phil Maton, Starling Marte You can never outguess baseball. Last time we saw the Mets, they were getting walked off in excruciating fashion by the Padres, a wrenching reversal that denied them a series win and an off-day on which to exhale. Next up: the other National League team threatening to run away and hide in the wild-card race. The […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Pfaadt, Diamondbacks, Geraldo Perdomo, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea A night after looking all but moribund against Joe Musgrove (seriously, you’re the wise one if you slept through it), the Mets put together one of their more satisfying wins of the season against Michael King and the rest of the Padres. A common exhortation heard on my couch is, “C’mon, don’t let him get out […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Jurickson Profar, Luis Arraez, Manny Machado, Mark Vientos, Michael King, MVP Voting, Padres, Pete Alonso Take a moment and consider the life of Huascar Brazoban. Not long ago he was stuck on the Marlins, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. offering near-daily examples of being a bad teammate, Skip Schumaker staring out of the dugout like a man who can’t bear to think how long he’ll be on county work release, and the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jake Cronenworth, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Padres, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Reed Garrett, Rene Rivera Present at Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles: my wife, my kid, and my father-in-law. Not present at Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles: me, AKA your recapper. Honestly I got by far the better part of the deal. Well, sort of. I had a previous commitment with my buddies in the Brooklyn Bridge Park free kayaking program — […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brooklyn Cyclones, Gunnar Henderson, Jose Quintana, Orioles As a lifelong fan of the little brother team, I bristle when Mets doings get put in a Yankees context, whether it’s sports-radio chuckleheadery about who owns New York or ostensibly more serious discussions of free agency or baseball philosophy. But the connection was inescapable in the ninth inning of Saturday’s game, when Luis Severino took […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Complete Games, Luis Severino, Marlins, Shutouts Given the ebbs and flows of a entertaining yet maddening season, perhaps we’ve lost track of a simpler formula to make sense of the 2024 Mets: They need to outhit their mistakes. The rotation is pedestrian, a bunch of No. 4 starters with ceilings as No. 3s. The relief corps is spaghetti at a wall. The […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Audacy, Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, George Soriano, Hitting, Jeff McNeil, Jose Butto, Lack of Hitting, Marlins, MLB At Bat, Radio, Roddery Munoz, Sean Manaea, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Tiki Barber Things are getting chippy between the Mets and A’s — and you know what, that’s fine. Baseball should be a little chippy. Tuesday saw Austin Adams, whom most of us forgot was ever a spring training Met, all but levitate after coming in and saving Joe Boyle‘s bacon, a display that culminated with Adams doing the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Austin Adams, Darell Hernaiz, David Peterson, Daz Cameron, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Joey Estes, Mark Kotsay, Mark Vientos, Mike Cameron, Pete Alonso, Phil Nevin, Shawn Estes, T.J. McFarland, Tyler Nevin |
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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