 
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. |
100 mph fastball, 95 mph slider, 91 mph change. Syndergaard is what you’d get if your brother cheated making a pitcher in a videogame. #mets — Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) April 18, 2016 That was me early in tonight’s game while I watched Noah Syndergaard mow down Phillies with his ludicrously unfair arsenal of pitches. I […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Wright, Jerad Eickhoff, Lucas Duda, Mets Third Basemen, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies The Mets won a game with me recapping, so I guess I can stay! So can Steven Matz, who rebounded rather nicely from a horror show of a beginning to his 2016 season. Matz’s Sunday outing began with disquieting similarities to Matt Harvey‘s start on Saturday: he was cruising along but telegraphing his off-speed stuff, and you […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Young Pitching Tonight your still-winless recapper takes on the question all of us are suddenly forced to take on: What’s wrong with Matt Harvey? To be sure, it’s April. If you’re panicking in April, you’re either new to this or ought to broaden your interests. Walking across Brooklyn on a beautiful day, Joshua and I had a long […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Indians, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, PItching, Yoenis Cespedes If it can be about me for a moment, I’d like to recap a win one of these nights. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s talk about Noah Syndergaard. Late last year I started telling anyone who’d listen that I thought he could wind up as the best of the Mets’ fabulous five, which was […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dee Gordon, Jose Fernandez, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Noah Syndergaard One of the many reasons football doesn’t work for me is you actually can dream of a perfect season. Odds are you won’t get one — witness all the attempts over the years, inevitably accompanied by reporters ringing up wrinkly Miami Dolphins — but as a fan of a very good NFL franchise it’s not insane to think […] One of my favorite parts of a new baby season is how for a little while you can remember every game. We lost that horror show in KC, then played well and won a squeaker, walloped the Phils, then lost that taut little one the next night. See? Easy. Depending on your attentiveness and memory, you’ll be able […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Cesar Hernandez, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Vince Velasquez It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list — unless you’re redefining the term to mean “stuff that makes me want to puke when I think about enduring it” — but I can now say I’ve been through an Opening Day that I was dreading. Dreading Opening Day? What a bizarre thing for a lifelong fan to say. […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, ESPN, Matt Harvey, Mike Moustakas, Opening Day, Royals, Yoenis Cespedes On February 17 we lost not one but two Mets. There was no shortage of farewells for Tony Phillips, who died in Scottsdale, Ariz., at 56. And that was to be expected — Phillips racked up 2,023 hits over an 18-year career. Brock Pemberton was the other Met who died on Feb. 17. His death at 62 in Ardmore, Okla., went largely […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brock Pemberton, Fans, Farewells, Moment of Silence, Tony Phillips I’ve spent a good chunk of the winter sulking about Jeurys Familia quick-pitching or Yoenis Cespedes playing base-soccer or Daniel Murphy bringing the glove up or Cespedes charging off first on a soft liner or Terry Collins being too sentimental or Lucas Duda being unable to make a simple throw home or getting to the big stage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Graham, Charlie Neal, Dennis Musgraves, Dick Rusteck, Jerry Grote, Jerry Hinsley, Joe Hicks, Lost Mets, Minor Leagues, Ray Daviault, Rod Kanehl, Sammy Drake, Shaun Fitzmaurice, Ted Schreiber, The Holy Books, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter Those of you who’ve waited with bated breath for this annual feature (pause for crickets), my apologies — blame paid work competing for my time and the curdling of my attitude about the 2015 World Series from acceptance to anger, a psychological ambush I’ll delve into one of these days. Background: I have a trio of binders, long […] |
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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