Clayton Kershaw shutting down the Mets on almost no hits…where have we seen that before? Almost everywhere we’ve run into him, it seems, save for one buoyant October night, which attests to fine Met timing, and even then we barely touched his fresh-made turkey on nine-grain wheat with jalapeños, mustard and a little bit of […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amazin' Again, Clayton Kershaw, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Sandy Koufax, Storytelling, Vin Scully “I’ll probably only make it for one more batter,” the sleepy fan said to himself as Hansel Robles battled Trayce Thompson with two out in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets and Dodgers tied at two. “I don’t think I’ll make it to extra innings.” Funny how sometimes things just take care of themselves. The […] “It has happened! In their fifty-first season, Johan Santana has thrown the first no-hitter in New York Mets history!” “And what’s left of a never-got-one nature to ache for anyway? Put aside a World Series championship even if you’ve never seen one before, because the Mets have two of those. They […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bill Veeck, Bobby Thomson, Breaking Bad, Car Wash, Darryl Strawberry, Designated Hitter, Gary Cohen, Home Runs, Howie Rose, Impossible, Jack Lang, James Shields, Joe Garagiola, Johan Santana, Julio Franco, Ken Davidoff, Kentucky Derby, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Memory, Nyquist, Pitchers Hitting, Ramon Castro, Red Smith, Team History, The Power to Evoke, The Shawshank Redemption, The Total Uselessness of the Designated Hitter, Vin Scully, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra Every paean to the beauty of baseball dies somewhere above the vast acreage of the Petco Park outfield, not unlike the fate that awaited every fly ball the Mets hit from the first until the seventh inning Thursday night. Unkind dimensions, marine layer, jet lag, Met lag, not to mention shifts up the wazoo and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Colin Rea, Jacob deGrom, No-Hit Bids, Padres, West Coast Trips Tuesday was Harvey Day, though you could have been excused for identifying it as simply Tuesday. Matt Harvey, as has been the case most of his six starts this season, pitched well enough to not lose had he been facing the 2016-to-date version of himself. Unfortunately, he was up against Matt Wisler, and Wisler’s been […] You have to love a team whose prospective greatest-hitting homegrown player ever has just tied an offensive record set by somebody from its toddler stages. What am I saying? You already do. Toward the end of a week defined by a streak, if not streakiness, we learned that when Michael Conforto doubled in the second inning at […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bryce Harper, Gnomes, Hockey, Jacob deGrom, Joe Christopher, McFadden's, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Noah Syndergaard, Potential, Rene Rivera, Team History Twelve! Twelve! Twelve! And so on. You didn’t necessarily have to be there. You could glean just fine far from Citi Field what 12 runs in one inning looked like, felt like, even smelled like. It smelled like victory, of course. But if you were fortunate enough to be at Citi Field on Friday night, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexa, Butch Huskey, Jake Peavy, Mets Jeopardy, Mike Broadway, My Cousin Vinny, Neil Walker, New Year's Eve, Sade, Team History, Twelve-Run Inning, Ty Wigginton, Yoenis Cespedes Sometimes you just have a feeling. Sometimes you just know — no matter how long the odds, how deep the deficit, how frustrating the evening has been — that when it’s all over, your team is going to come through for you. I knew no such thing Tuesday night. I can’t even say I had a […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Brandon Finnegan, Bryan Price, Cold, Comebacks, David Wright, Hamilton, Ivan DeJesus, Mike Piazza, Mysterious Tyler Holt Chant, Pleasant Surprises, Spinal Stenosis, Tony Cingrani, Tough Tickets, Tyler Holt, Yalta, Yoenis Cespedes Everything is a small sample size if you want it to be. Nothing proves anything until it does. After 20 games of 2015, when the Mets were 15-5 and led the last-place Nationals by eight lengths, it indicated they were gonna run away with the National League East — but it proved nothing. After 102 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Large Enough Sample Sizes, Leading Indicators, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud What was Chipper Jones doing in the Mets clubhouse before Saturday night’s game at Turner Field? Presumably signing over the deed on the joint to the visiting team. Remember when Larry was loathed and Turner was terrifying? Vaguely. Like the Atlanta Braves who made the National League Eastern Division their private hunting preserve, it all seems […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobby Jones, Braves, Butch Huskey, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Greg McMichael, John Franco, Juan Lagares, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Sun Trust Park, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption, Turner Field, Worms That Turn |
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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