 
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. |
Despite indications it might never happen in the course of a year that had only just begun, in their seventh game of 2023, the Mets (3-4) fell below .500 for the first time. So much for white lace and promises. In their 61st game of 2023, the Mets (30-31) fell below .500 for what turned out […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, Discouraging Long-Term Trends, Fifteen-Year Periods, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Team History, The Carpenters, Under .500 In memory of the late Dennis D’Agostino and his classic book, This Date in New York Mets History, let’s remember what the Mets were up to on this date — September 20 — fifty years ago, in 1973. It was time to carefully remove the m-word from the ark in which it had been kept undisturbed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 50th Anniversary, Channel 9, Cleon Jones, Ron Hodges, Wayne Garrett He may not have had the spelling quite right 46 summers ago, but Marvin Gaye foresaw Tuesday night’s ninth inning in Miami at…I know what it’s called, but I’m not in the mood to acknowledge it Park. After struggling to convert baserunners into runs, and balls hit at them into outs, the Mets dramatically pulled […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Diner, Headaches, Joey Lucchesi, Marlins, Marvin Gaye, Ronny Mauricio, Spoilers, Time-Released Revenge, Trevor Gott Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […] Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late: • Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL! • A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball? • Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Stewart, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Arauz, Kodai Senga, Mets Fandom Like It Oughta Be, September, Skid Rowe What had been a bad week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York is now a promising week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York. At the very least, nobody should be sacking and tearing David Stearns’s Achilles tendon in the days ahead. Never mind Aaron Rodgers and never mind the 2023 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, David Stearns, Next Era, POBO, Potential Saviors I watched the victorious Jets quarterback stand before the football press late Monday night and extol the virtues of never getting too high or too low, which I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an athlete or two or two-million mention before, but since the victorious Jets quarterback Monday night was Zach Wilson rather than Aaron Rodgers, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, Diamondbacks, Drew Smith, Football, Highs, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Lows, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott During Saturday afternoon’s telecast, Ron Darling recalled a moment of frustration from early in his career when he was so fed up with receiving no-decisions for his pitching efforts that he said he’d rather take a loss than another ND. Older and wiser (and by way of slapping the Mariners’ George Kirby on the wrist […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Norms, DJ Stewart, George Kirby, Interleague Play, Pablo Lopez, Ron Darling, Twins, Tylor Megill All games have their highlights, even the Mets’ Saturday afternoon 8-4 loss to the Twins in Minneapolis — if you watched or listened to it, choose YOUR favorite highlight! • David Peterson delivered the very definition of a quality start! 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Excessive Use of Exclamation Points, Highlights, Not Drew Smith, Pete Alonso Large portions of Friday night’s telecast from Target Field that I didn’t sleep through — I nodded off for most of the seventh inning, meaning the three runs the Mets’ bullpen gave up that determined the 5-2 loss to Carlos Correa and the Twins could have remained an eternal mystery to me had I not […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Kodai Senga, Rookie Records, Strikeouts, Team History, Twins |
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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