 
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. |
Can we play the Giants for the rest of the year? Let’s be clear about something: the Mets’ three-game sweep of San Francisco doesn’t mean they’re suddenly good. They’re just better than the Giants, for whom “can’t get out of their own way” would be a kind assessment. The Giants are having a once-in-several-generations cratering of […]  27 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chase Bradford, Curtis Granderson, Giants, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera Timing really is everything. My kid and I got on a plane to Iceland a few minutes after the end of the Mets’ victory over the Cubs and returned a few hours before the first of their check-for-pulse efforts against the Dodgers. While overseas and four hours down the clock, I checked in on our stalwarts […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Baseball Cards, Gregg Jefferies, Jose Reyes, The Holy Books One of the ads in regular Mets rotation right now is for rebranded cable company Spectrum, and features a pair of monsters under a little girl’s bed during the night. One monster is honked off about fees for some Spectrum competitor (I can’t remember which, because I don’t care) and complaining tendentiously and loudly about this […] Jacob deGrom was good. He was really good. Not so long ago, this wouldn’t have been a surprising thing to write. But it’s been a surprising season, to put it mildly. The key to deGrom’s successful night was that he reintroduced his change-up to complement his fastball. In the postgame debrief, DeGrom passed along analysis from Dan Warthen that […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Yoenis Cespedes Watching baseball is a fine way to spend an afternoon, but not quite as fine as watching the Mets finish taking three of four from the Braves with another fine pitching performance and relief that makes you exhale instead of rolling into a ball and the only sighting of Freddie Freeman one that involved Steve Gelbs and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Seth Lugo, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes Even Mets fans get to have good days. Honestly, Saturday’s doubleheader with the Braves was about as stress-free as a day dealing with the confounding, confounded 2017 Mets has been. You got drama in both games, with Robert Gsellman and then Steven Matz pitching marvelously but being largely matched by Atlanta competition. But then the drama […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jay Bruce, Matt Wisler, Steven Matz, T.J. Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes Hmm, is that how you spell Milestone Achieved? It looks a little funny, but there’s no wavy red line under it, so I guess it must be correct. As you may have heard, Tuesday’s night game — played in whatever suburb of Dallas that’s considered to be in whatever that park that looks perfectly new but […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Milestones Lots of seasons don’t go quite the way you fantasize — your team’s undone by some combination of poor performances, bad decisions, ill health, lousy luck, or just by not being as good as the competition. By late spring you figure your October will be free; by summer you’re thinking about next season. Which is all OK […] Pitching’s hard. You knew that. But dig into everything involved with pitching and you wind up amazed that anyone can do it at all. Never mind, for a moment, the routine and chronic physical danger inherent in it — the stress and pain of doing something unnatural and damaging over and over again. And put aside the rare but […] Our blog pal Shannon Shark of MetsPolice has a running gag in which he imagines the Mets aren’t a ballclub but a TV show, with Greg as its fiendishly inventive show runner. Confronted with games such as Monday afternoon’s, I wonder if Shannon might be on to something. Last week, you’ll recall, Terry Collins caught hell from a fair-sized […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, C.B. Bucknor, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins |
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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