 
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. |
Win or lose, the 2017 Mets are exhausting. They didn’t win tonight — Matt Harvey‘s poor location, lousy relief, Freddie Freeman‘s ubiquitous bat and annoyingly good baseball played by Ender Inciarte, Brandon Phillips and Nick Markakis took care of that — but they made it interesting, with Jay Bruce‘s grand slam making it 9-7. Dare I […]  34 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Freddie Freeman, Jay Bruce, Larry Vanover, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Replay, Umpiring Hey! We took two out of three from the Nats! … What? Oh yeah, that. OK. Before we plunge in, a few things: 1. Pitchers break. No one knows exactly why they break, or how to stop them from breaking. It’s a problem that costs their industry millions and millions of dollars a year. If you want to get acquainted with baseball […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Ownership, Yoenis Cespedes Despite what you might think, and what’s popularly held to be our birthright, the Mets do not actually spend every day under a little black cloud. It’s always useful to think of a conflict from the other guy’s perspective — besides making you a better person, you might learn something. So consider Saturday’s game from the […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Storytelling, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler Seriously. It’s not your health, your kids, your marriage, your job. It’s something you use to entertain yourself for three hours a night, and maybe think about for a couple more hours for further entertainment. Part of the fun of baseball is agonizing over it, of course, but that agony’s supposed to be a temporary condition […] Some games are burn-the-tape affairs. Brooding about them won’t help — you’d be better served casting them aside and taking yourself somewhere else as fast as possible. We do have historical obligations, so I’ll make this speedy: Zack Wheeler was pretty good but inefficient and still rebuilding his arm strength, so the Mets were forced to frog-march their […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Salas, Horribleness, Ineptitude, Jose Reyes Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It’s an unfair game. That’s the best-known saying of one of Western thought’s foremost philosophers, the esteemed R. Edwin Kanehl. For those 21 words contain a multitude. You can use them as a lens for examining the lives of kings and commoners, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Edubray Ramos, Hansel Robles, Howie Kendrick, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, Rod Kanehl How good is Noah Syndergaard? They’ve got ways old-fangled and newfangled for measuring that — such as an 0.69 ERA in his first 13 innings and a FIP of 0.53 to indicate that ERA should be even more microscopic. Here’s a less-quantitative but thoroughly heartfelt measure: when things go wrong, Syndergaard’s the guy we’re sure will […] The first week of the season is about getting reacquainted with your team: remembering all the things that make you happy and a few of the things that don’t, checking off boxes and generally luxuriating in the part of the year when any fan can run down every game played so far and how it turned […] For a guy who’s just turned 28, Matt Harvey‘s had quite a life. He arrived with klieg lights, billed as a phenom and a savior and welcoming both labels. The right arm reminded you of a hallowed Metsian name indeed — and so did the mean streak. Then he was shot from the sky by the failure of the tiniest band […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Matt Harvey, Matt Kemp, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers, Thoracic Outlet Surgery, Travis d'Arnaud OK, 161-1 isn’t actually going to happen — and at the risk of disappointing someone, I’m guessing 151-11 will be a stretch too. But such giddy enthusiasm seemed eminently sensible after Jerry Blevins shuffled off the mound with a strikeout and a grounder on his 2017 resume, a combination that kept the game tied 1-1, simultaneously […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Adonis Garcia, Brandon Phillips, Defense, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins |
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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