 
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. |
After a winter of discontent — signs brazenly stolen; titles shadily retained; postseasons potentially diluted; owners who never quite sell — baseball’s redeeming feature comes to the fore today: baseball, or something very much like it. A reasonable facsimile of the 2020 Mets will take a field or two in Florida. One group of them will […] Yoenis Cespedes said he won’t be speaking to the media this year. If he’s not speaking to the media, he’s not speaking to the fans. C’mon, Yo, talk to us. You don’t have to say anything substantive. Hardly any of your professional colleagues do when they’re not suggesting what acts of vigilante justice they’d like seen […] Late spring is the time to see Gil Hodges work. Not summer. Then heat sits on the cylinder of Shea Stadium and a baseball season, like New York summer, grinds down strong men. Citi Field is entering its twelfth season. Children no longer eligible for whatever discounts being under twelve gets […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Rodriguez, Anniversaries, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carlos Gomez, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Football, Gil Coan, Internal Affairs, Joe Smith, Luke Gasparre, Matt Adams, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Oliver Perez, Patrick Mahomes, Paul McCartney, Retirements, Roger Kahn, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Fernandez The Oscars were handed out Sunday night. Thus, per Monday morning-after tradition, the Academy pauses to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. Cue the montage… ___ MICKEY CHRISTOPHER CALLAWAY Callaway’s good will was all based on talk and theory. In theory, he was gonna […] We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its fitful author is numbered among the friends of THIS BLOG: *** “DEAR FAFIF: I am several decades old (and then some). “Some of my middle-aged friends say there is a Santa Cohen. “Sources say ‘If you […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Santa Claus, Steve Cohen, Undone Deals On September 15, 1983, a 33-year-old lefthanded pitcher from West Chester, Pa., appeared in a major league baseball game for the 361st time in a career that dated to July 11, 1971. In 318 games, he was the starting pitcher. This wasn’t one of those games. On this day, a Thursday afternoon in Oakland, Jonathan […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Contiguity, Edgardo Alfonzo, Jon Matlack, Mets Hall of Fame, Ron Darling Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game. It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2020 Mets, Al Leiter, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Art Shamsky, Articles of Confederation, Carlos Beltran, Dave Foley, Edwin Diaz, FanFest, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Ford, Jerry Maguire, John Hanson, Luis Rojas, Mad Men, Pete Alonso, Proximity, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Rainbows, Robinson Cano, Rod Stewart, Steven Matz, Todd Zeile, Truck Day, Turk Wendell “I promoted from within. Promoting from within is very big in my family.” Once upon a time, some team that wasn’t the Mets did something that got the commissioner’s attention, and ultimately the Mets benefited. Maybe it’s déjà vu all over again 54 years later. Summoning the greatest fortune-laden precedent in Mets lore […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Bremen, Brodie Van Wagenen, Carlos Beltran, Felipe Alou, Jesus Alou, Luis Rojas, Matty Alou, Mel Rojas, Mets Managers, Moises Alou, Quality Control, The West Wing “I just can’t wait to rewrite our story.” Baseball is stories as much as it’s statistics; it’s equal parts narrative and numbers; it’s four cups of emotion for every quart of analytics. Baseball is also rules, exceptions and the narrowest of hallways between those two opposing walls. The rules, written and otherwise, have […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, 2018 Postseason, A.J. Hinch, Alex Cora, Carlos Beltran, Compartmentmalization, FanFest, Jeff Luhnow, Managerial Decisions Gone Awry, Mets Managers, Sign-Stealing The Mets should definitely keep Carlos Beltran as their manager for the coming season. The Mets should definitely replace Carlos Beltran as their manager for the coming season. Major League Baseball did not suspend any of the Astros players for electronic sign-stealing. Major League Baseball singled out Beltran among all players as part of its report on electronic […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Managerial Job Security, Sign-Stealing, Uneasy Answers |
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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