Johan Santana used everything he could and kept the opposition off the board. The Mets didn’t score enough for him. Francisco Rodriguez made a tough situation even more difficult and blew a potential save. The Mets stopped scoring altogether in extra innings. Somebody on the other team hit a walkoff grand slam. The Mets lost […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Armando Galarraga, David Eckstein, Indians, Jason Donald, Jim Joyce, Johan Santana, John McGraw, Ken Griffey Jr., King of Comedy, Perfect Game, Tigers, Umpires Father’s Day is coming up! Graduation Day is coming up! Any day is coming up! You don’t really need an occasion, but in deference to Dads & Grads being a perennial theme of June, we are making a special offer to Faith and Fear in Flushing readers. Between now and June 13, if you make a […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Faith and Fear Book, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tug McGraw “Now, Leo, most of us are just hearing the news. And I don’t like to be the first one to say it, but I’m gonna. I think the President has got to strongly consider not running for re-election.” “You think you’re the first one to say it?” “Leo…” “You are, at minimum, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Contracts, Bobby Jones, Bonus Babies, Hisanori Takahashi, Oliver Perez, Padres, Raul Valdes, Ryota Igarashi, Sandy Koufax, Steve Trachsel Welcome to a special Monday holiday edition of Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: Anaheim Stadium Jerry Manuel couldn’t keep pulling unlikely starting pitcher candidates out of his hat (or elsewhere) forever. Hisanori Takahashi and R.A. Dickey each washed ashore from a foreign land — Japan and obscurity, respectively — and became mainstays of the Met rotation. It was probably too much to ask Fernando Nieve to rematerialize from the warm […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Elmer Dessens, Fernando Nieve, Jim Bunning, Kendry Morales, New York Cubans, No-Hitters, Oliver Perez, Overzealous Celebrations, Roy Halladay Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo It was a canyon of zeroes along the top line of the Citi Field scoreboard these past three nights. Read ’em, per sweep: 000 000 000 That’s what your defending National League champion Phillies left behind, thank you very much. More to the point, that’s what your homestanding New York Mets […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, Angel Pagan, Chris Carlin, Fernando Tatis, Frankie Rodriguez, Gary Cohen, Henry Blanco, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Kevin Burkhardt, Mike Pelfrey, Momentum, Pedro Feliciano, Phillies, SNY, Sweep Set your DVRs or just get yourself glued to SNY Friday night at 7:00 for the debut of Mets Yearbook: 1988, the latest installment of the best series on television and the latest one we’ll see in chronological terms. Get ready to revisit the powerhouse Mets who were going to reign for years to come: […]
Today is five years since Bernie the Cat was last with us. Right about now, if he were still stationed on the couch, this would be the look from him. It would be easily translated as, “You got me up for this? For four consecutive wins? For Dickey and Takahashi? Wake me when […] When the Mets score eight to win by eight and give me my personal-record eighth victory in a row, you know what that means? I don’t know. But it sure feels good. I’ll take serene eights over the crazy kind any day. When last we saw the Phillies in New York, they were no help whatsoever, ich […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bliss, Blue Point Toasted Lager, R.A. Dickey, Raul Valdes |
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. |
|
Copyright © 2026 Faith and Fear in Flushing - All Rights Reserved |
||