 
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. |
As we will be reminded this evening and then again on Monday, the only thing worse than the Mets not winning is the Mets not playing. That’s the problem with a baseball season, even one like this: it includes off nights.
Little is more ideal than a midweek afternoon game, a pitchers’ duel unfolding in the sun and the whole affair playing out quickly enough to not bog anybody down in the worst of a rush hour commute. Of course baseball’s ideals take a pounding when left in […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Anthony Swarzak, Interleague Play, Midweek Afternoon Games, Offensive Ineptitude, Orioles, Pitchers' Duels, Weather Education Day, Zack Wheeler How historic is the ongoing fall from grace the Mets will seek to halt this evening versus the Orioles (at 17-41, as ideal an opponent for that sort of task as one could request at this moment)? Consider that the 2018 Mets were ten games above .500 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2018 Mets, Anthony Swarzak, Draft, Falls From Grace, Jarred Kelenic, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Team History, Ten Over, Three Under, Todd Frazier As any black cat could tell you, many of the seminal legends in Met lore involve the Cubs, including the go-to tale of the person who called a local newspaper sports department one fine day in 1964 to inquire how many runs the Mets scored in their […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Billy Taylor, Cubs, Down Period, Franchise Records, Jacob deGrom, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Plawecki, Luke Farrell, Met Lore, Pat Mahomes, Rose Marie, Strikeouts, Team History, Team Meetings, Tim Peterson, Todd Pratt Seth Lugo going four innings and giving up no runs as a starter after two months doing nothing but relieving was inspirational. Brandon Nimmo homering fair directly after homering foul was inspirational. Scott Copeland — with Tim Peterson one half of the Who? Brothers Show Band and Revue — acquitted himself nicely from out […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Brandon Nimmo, Inspiration, Scott Copeland, Seth Lugo, Team History The 2018 Mets season took place in miniature in the northern suburbs of Atlanta on Tuesday. It takes place in miniature most days wherever the Mets happen to be. Somebody was injured. Then […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Gerson Bautista, Injuries, Microcosm, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Walkoff Losses I don’t consider myself particularly prescient, but I did have three recent thoughts that perhaps indicate I have a knack for sniffing out certain strands of Met debacle before they unspool. 1) “Miller Park is a stealth Mets disaster zone,” […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Debacle, Disaster Zone, Jerry Blevins, Miller Park, Paul Sewald, Prescience, Rob Drake, Robert Gsellman, Sausage Race, Zack Wheeler Saturday’s Mets game was one for the ages. I know I aged significantly during the three hours and thirty-six minutes it took for the Mets to lose the hell out of it. When the game and I were comparatively wide-eyed […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | AJ Ramos, Blowouts, Brewers, Chris Flexen, Jacob Rhame, Jason Vargas Did ya see that thing? That thing with the Brew Crew? It didn’t end pretty. Not that it was all bad, though. Joey Bats came through from outta nowhere, which is to say Canada by way of Georgia. We were […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | AJ Ramos, Brewers, Goodfellas, Jose Bautista, Luis Guillorme, Whacked The Mets who needed to hit hit Thursday night in Milwaukee. Every position player hit, actually, which is what the Mets needed most. The starting pitcher, Steven Matz, didn’t hit, but wasn’t hit. Steven went six innings, allowed no runs and handed the proceedings over to Paul Sewald […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Michael Conforto, Youth of America |
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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