 
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. |
A hazard of the recapping trade is you spend the game field-testing narratives in your head while the bedrock story is still unfolding, trying on summations variously grand, tragic or farcical. After Kodai Senga‘s disconsolate departure, this was my first draft for this entire recap, channeling Dean Wormer’s caustic advice to Flounder in Animal House: Bad at […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Athletics, Carlos Cortes, Carlos Mendoza, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Kodai Senga, Luke Weaver, Tyler Soderstrom April! Baseball’s back! Hope is dewy and seemingly inexhaustible! The calendar makes sense again! All true, and thank goodness for that. But April isn’t just opportunity — it’s also necessity. Including relearning some hard baseball lessons. On Thursday night the Mets took a 1-0 lead to the seventh behind Nolan McLean. That lone skinny run came courtesy […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Bad Relief Pitching, Brett Baty, Diamondbacks, Eduardo Rodriguez, Gabriel Moreno, Ildemaro Vargas, James McCann, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean So there had to be a few Mets fans who popped up from the couch Tuesday afternoon, with the top of the fifth inning just concluded, to hit the loo, walk the dog or perform some other mundane task. Perhaps they did so with a certain spring in their step: Huascar Brazoban had just rescued […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Carson Benge, Diamondbacks, Freddy Peralta, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Mark Vientos, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Walkoffs You probably know by now, but if not, here’s a bedrock principle: Baseball makes no sense. If you were going to draw up a blueprint for success, odds are you wouldn’t opt for, “Let’s play terrible baseball and then excise Juan Soto from the lineup.” But that blueprint worked pretty well on Saturday night, as the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Koss, Clay Holmes, Giants, Juan Soto, Laughers, Mark Vientos, Matt Chapman, Tyrone Taylor Annnnd we’ve reached another milestone a lot earlier than we might have hoped: the season’s first game that I recap belatedly because I can’t stand the thought of reliving it. If you didn’t see Thursday night’s game, well, good on you for making better life choices than I did. The Mets largely didn’t hit, yet again […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, David Peterson, Disappointment, Giants, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Sean Manaea It happens every spring: A Mets loss arrives and then departs eliciting no reaction beyond a vaguely affronted shrug. A loss — striking in a new season where you still remember every twist of every game, but soon to fade into anonymity, becoming part of the blur of series and road trips and homestands and […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Cardinals, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Richard Lovelady Bo Bichette knows baseball pretty well, having played a lot of it — and seeing a bunch more before he did that professionally, what with being the child of a fairly renowned big leaguer. So he knows perfectly well that baseball is unpredictable, maddening and shot through with ironies big and small. Like my blog partner, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brooks Raley, Cardinals, Carlos Mendoza, Chaim Bloom, Clay Holmes, Devin Williams, Kyle Leahy, New Busch Stadium, St. Louis, The Gateway Arch Sucks, Tim Leiper, Tobias Myers Opening Day brought balmy temperatures, runs a-plenty and good vibes. Most of Game 2, which arrived separated from Game 1 by the usual “rainouts happen” off-day, was the opposite: It was freezing, big hits were conspicuous in their absence, and the vibes were meh with a side of muttery. David Peterson was very David Peterson: mostly […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Bryan Reynolds, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Henry Davis, Hunter Barco, Jake Mangum, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Juan Soto, Justin Lawrence, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Marcell Ozuna, Mitch Keller, Pirates, Richard Lovelady, Walkoffs By the time 2026 rolled around I had a long-established relationship with spring training: I’d put the first televised game on my calendar, watch the initial 20 minutes with avid interest, watch the next 20 with vague attention, and then either be looking at my phone or asleep. And after that I’d wait for the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Al Lang Stadium, Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clover Park, Daulton Varsho, David Stearns, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Grant Rogers, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Port St. Lucie, Shea Stadium, Spring Training, St. Lucie Mets, Wally Backman It was a confounding, frustrating season even before we learned it would be a fracture in the Mets’ timeline, with stalwarts we’d grown used to shipped off or allowed to depart and their replacements still yet to take shape. One day it will all seem like a logical story; for now it’s just baffling. But […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, A.J. 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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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