 
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. |
As a Met fan of a certain age, few things are as simple and satisfying as beating the Cubs by a healthy margin in a summer game at Wrigley Field. I have nothing against Chicago — hell, I was just there and had a grand time. I love Wrigley Field’s essential simplicity, which still shines through […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Carrasco, Cubs, Hate, Keegan Thompson, Mark Leiter Jr., Steve Gelbs, Wrigley Field Well, if you want to view the glass as an eighth full, I suppose Seth Lugo solved the Mets’ bullpen-availability problem. A night after watching Max Scherzer do maximum damage to the Braves, the Mets turned to David Peterson, who wasn’t nearly as flashy as his ace counterpart but was pretty damn good, ping-ponging between his […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Buck Showalter, Bullpen, David Peterson, Matt Olson, Seth Lugo With one out in the top of the ninth in Cincinnati Wednesday night, a baseball team and its adherents desperately needed therapy. Mark Canha had just started the inning by fouling out against Hunter Strickland, conspicuously useless as a 2020 COVID Met and now somehow the Reds’ closer. The Mets had managed two runs against Cincinnati, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam MacKay, Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Angel Hernandez, Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Colin Holderman, Dauri Moreta, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frustration, Hunter Strickland, James McCann, Paul Clemons, Reds, Starling Marte, Umpiring, Victory! The Mets, wearing blue, beat the Reds, wearing red and white, by a score of 7-4 on July 4th, and what could be better than that? OK, both teams were wearing god-awful hats from which independence should have been declared, and the Reds continue to ruin their perfectly good uniforms with a black drop shadow that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Hunter Greene, Matt Reynolds, Reds, Taijuan Walker During the early part of 2022 the Mets were deadly in the clutch. They were a lot of other things too — strong defensively and gifted with solid starting pitching — but their uncanny ability to collect big hits with games on the line felt like their defining characteristic. Move forward into summer, and things look a […] Somehow it took me until June 28 to get out to Citi Field to see a Mets game. What happened? Well, there was a rainout and my usual aversion to freezing my ass off in April, but mostly life got in the way. With July rapidly approaching, it was Emily who put things right, engineering a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Carlos Carrasco, Chasen Shreve, Ender Inciarte, Framber Valdez, James McCann I began Sunday’s finale against the Marlins annoyed about Peacock, which my wife had already forked over $5 for (complete with a calendar reminder to cancel the subscription 25-odd days from now). But Peacock’s broadcast was fine, other than the absence of our home announcers. Jason Benetti handled play by play ably, Tommy Hutton told […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, David Peterson, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Luis Guillorme, Marlins, Nick Fortes, Peacock I hate that the Miami Marlins exist, I doubly hate when the Mets have to play them, and I quadruply hate when the Mets have to play them in their Pachinko parlor-cum-fish tank-cum-mausoleum in south Florida. I looked it up on Baseball Reference, and as I suspected, the Mets are 4-12,429 all time at Soilmaster Stadium […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jon Berti, Luis Guillorme, Marlins, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker I’ve heard it said that the second best thing one can do with an evening is watch your favorite baseball team lose a game. And that’s probably true. But there’s watching your team lose a baseball game and there’s watching your team get its collective behind whooped, and Tuesday night was the latter. Trevor Williams was […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Chasen Shreve, Jose Siri, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams It’s unlikely the Mets know they’re accessories to a furniture-moving caravan traveling the East Coast, but that’s what they are. Day 2 of the extravaganza featured a drive from outside Philly to Brooklyn, unloading furniture there and loading up more stuff in its place that’s headed to Maine later today. Aside from a couple of bumps […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Beck, Avisail Garcia, Don Mattingly, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Howie Rose, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jon Berti, Taijuan Walker |
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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