 
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. |
Jacob deGrom was good. Or at least pretty good. But Chris Paddack was 2018 Jacob deGrom good. Which — spoiler! — meant better. Too many of the postgame autopsies focused on Paddack yapping about Pete Alonso being Rookie of the Month for April; too many of the previews of tonight’s game will rev the silliness higher by […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Paddack, Jacob deGrom, Pete Alonso, stars The day after an 18-inning Gotterdammerung in Milwaukee, the Mets sent Jason Vargas to the mound and he was middle-of-the-road Vargas. He wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t good either (thanks mostly to a Christian Yelich homer that threatened to enter geosynchronous orbit) and then he was gone, with some mild hamstring bother. The Mets then […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Christian Yelich, Globe Life Park, Jason Vargas, Rangers Can you have good developments on a day that saw the Mets lose a 1-0 game on another homer off their vaunted closer? Well, maybe. The first good development is that the Mets put Jeurys Familia on the Injured List with some kind of complicated malady that, depending on your level of cynicism, is best described as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Reds, Tucker Barnhart Zack Wheeler had a bad inning, not a full-game meltdown but an uneasy, Leiteresque mix of wildness and poor BABIP luck. That bad inning was enough to put the Mets in a 4-0 hole, but then Tanner Roark couldn’t get anybody out either. The Mets crept to 4-2 and then Roark became the latest opponent […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jesse Winker, Jeurys Familia, Reds, Todd Frazier, Uniforms, Zack Wheeler What’s wrong with Jacob deGrom? That’s the question we’d all like answered, starting with “my God, just tell me it isn’t the elbow.” And we had a lot of time to ponder that question Friday night, as the Mets finally kicked off a chilly, rainy game against the Brewers nearly three hours late and were then […] Sometimes, it turns out, a dull baseball game is better without a little injection of excitement. Wednesday night’s series finale between the Mets and Phillies started off glacial and boring and then turned glacial and annoying. The Phils nicked Jason Vargas for a run in the first but nothing else; the Mets couldn’t get the hit […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jacob Rhame, Jason Vargas, Relief Pitching, Rhys Hoskins, Robert Gsellman Bryce Harper arranged his own early exit. Steven Matz decided to stay a while longer this time. And Mark Carlson … well, he didn’t know if pitches were coming or going. For the Mets, Matz was the happy headline. A start after recording not even a solitary out against these same Phillies, he acquitted himself far […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jake Arrieta, Mark Carlson, Steven Matz, Umpires Those of you who say the New York Mets don’t respect their history should be ashamed of yourselves. Why, on Saturday the Mets held a throwback event that was meticulously researched and thoroughly authentic — and they did it for a road game, no less! The Mets’ Turn Back the Clock 2017 event began on a familiar […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, Chris Flexen, Jacob Rhame, Nostalgia, Paul Sewald, Tommy Milone Wednesday’s matinee against the Phillies was simultaneously an excellent baseball game and one about which there doesn’t seem to be a lot to say at first glance: Zack Wheeler was good, but Jake Arrieta was a little better. Wheeler gave up solo homers to Scott Kingery and Cesar Hernandez, while Arrieta surrendered one to Michael Conforto, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hector Neris, Jake Arrieta, Keon Broxton, Maikel Franco, Ted Barrett, Umpires, Zack Wheeler I spent the last five days in Chicago, getting my Star Wars on at McCormick Place and in the hotel bar. So my Mets attention was fitful and scattershot. I saw news of the first night’s events in amazing seats behind the plate at Wrigley Field (plenty of good options available when it’s still frigid), […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Baseball Cards, Guillermo Mota, Jon Niese, Jonahs, Jose Vizcaino, Paul Sewald, Ramon Ramirez, Steven Matz |
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. 
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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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