 
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. |
So who was betting on “Rafael Montero blows it almost immediately” when pondering how Wednesday’s game was going to end? And how many of you astute folks were brave enough to put $100 down on that in Vegas? If you did, I know you’re swaggering around wearing the grin of a person who’s got, say, $105. This is what things have […]  Comments closed | |  Print This Post |  Hopelessness, Jose Reyes, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald As chroniclers of the Great Mets Fiasco of 2017, we’d be derelict in our duty if we failed to record this sequence for posterity: Hansel Robles, a reliever whose photo may actually appear next to the word “streaky” in baseball-centric dictionaries, faces Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt leading off the bottom of the eighth in a 1-1 game. […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Daniel Descalso, Hansel Robles, Jeff Mathis, Josh Edgin, Paul Goldschmidt, Yasmany Tomas Sometimes, to steal a line from my other dorky pursuit, you have a bad feeling about this. I wasn’t particularly confident in the outcome of Saturday’s Mets-Brewers tilt before it started: in addition to the relentless winnowing of key pieces, the once-vaunted starting pitching has suddenly turned not just ordinary but considerably less than that. But that bad […] I mean, what else could you call it? The Mets’ most lovable misfit toy, who’s 25 years old chronologically but about 700 in Mets-drama years, was repeatedly front and center in this one … in good ways and bad. Wilmer Flores collected three hits, all off the righties he’s not supposed to hit, the last of which […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eduardo Nunez, Jeurys Familia, Justin Ruggiano, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores People go to the movies and yammer. They go to the symphony and fail to silence their phones. They go to museums to take selfies and be dumb. There’s no art form created by humanity that can’t be ruined by the presence of humans. Why should baseball be any different? The always-dizzying Mets have had quite the run of […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buster Posey, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, Stupid Bullshit An old maxim of pretty much everything is never to interrupt your opponent while (s)he’s making a mistake. With that credo in mind, the Mets essentially sat back on a drizzly Saturday night and let the Marlins do whatever that was they were doing instead of playing baseball. The Mets have their issues, goodness knows, beginning with […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Injuries, Marlins 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 […] |
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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