 
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. |
Somehow Matt Harvey‘s in his seventh season as a New York Met. Which means he’s seen some shit. Some of the troubles that have attached themselves to Harvey like so many barnacles have been typical New York bullshit, ginned up by the profoundly cynical sports-talk industry for which our town is ground zero. But some of them […] The biggest reason for optimism about the 2018 Mets? It’s that Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom could pitch nearly 30% of their innings. The biggest reason for pessimism? Even in an ideal scenario, more than 70% of their innings will have to be pitched by someone else. Which puts the spotlight squarely on a line of […] So. I pretty much took the winter off. I was busy with my other dorky obsession, writing books related to this oddball space-fantasy movie you might have heard of. But that’s an excuse. I was weirdly disengaged — to an extent that began to worry me. Granted, my disengaged would be a lot of folks’ full-throated fandom. […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Gonzalez, Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books, Yadier Molina Should this have been written in 2017? Perhaps. But in an off-season as exciting as this one, it’s hard to find a place for evergreen features. (First of many sighs.) Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, A.J. Ramos, Adam Wilk, Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Chase Bradford, Chasen Bradford, Chris Flexen, Dominic Smith, Jacob Rhame, Jamie Callahan, Kevin McGowan, Neil Ramirez, Nori Aoki, Paul Sewald, Phillip Evans, The Holy Books, Tomas Nido, Tommy Milone, Travis Taijeron, Tyler Pill An Asdrubal Cabrera three-run homer in the 11th to beat the Phillies? What Met fan would say no to that? Sadly, though, Cabrera’s Saturday night shot will never be more than a faint echo of the one we’ll all remember. That one, off Edubray Ramos, came down the stretch last September, when the Mets were fighting […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1988 Mets, 2017 Postseason, Asdrubal Cabrera, Disappointment, Gary Carter, Kirk Gibson, Orel Hershiser The Mets played two baseball games on Monday and they were both pretty terrible, even by the low standards of fans who are staring six baseball-free months in the face and would normally take extras with no questions asked. The first game muddled along without too much horror until the middle innings and then fell apart, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Doubleheaders, Ender Inciarte, Lane Adams, Rio Ruiz, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron Noah Syndergaard‘s back, and it was aggressively pointless. The return was five whole pitches — if the taco line was a little too long (actually possible given there were postgame fireworks), you missed it. The Mets, I’m sure, had counted on a normal inning with 15 to 20 pitches, but for whatever reason they hadn’t planned […] Well, at least it’s another day off the calendar, what with the Mets all but drowned in the mire of another Mike Glavine season. I keep thinking about The Other Glavine as a beacon of futility. He got his lone big-league hit on the final day of the 2003 season, a 4-0 beating by the Marlins. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Kevin Plawecki, Mike Glavine Matt Harvey was bad. The rest of the Mets weren’t much better. Say this for the soon-to-be-extinct 2017 Mets: when things aren’t going to go well they sure don’t tease you about it. Monday’s 13-1 drubbing was the 18th time they’ve given up at least 10 runs this year — and the fourth time in the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giancarlo Stanton, Matt Harvey, Thoracic Outlet Surgery Part of getting old is things go from novel to familiar — which is both a little unsettling and oddly comforting. Unsettling because you forget at first; comforting because it sure cuts down on the processing time once you remember. It’s been a while since the Mets had nothing to play for at the end of […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Kurt Suzuki, Robert Gsellman, Sundays |
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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