 
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. |
The pain of love A couple of hours prior to the first pitch of the National League Wild Card Series, I thought about my cat Avery. I think about my cat Avery every day, several times a day, since he died last December. I miss […] According to mathematics from whichever grade I learned percentages, three is fifty percent greater than two. According to how I felt waking up this morning to the knowledge the Mets would have a Game Three in the Wild Card Series versus how I felt yesterday morning when Game Two loomed as the conclusion to our […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Postseason, Adam Ottavino, Basketball, Continuity, Edwin Diaz, Fatalism, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fan Philosophy, PitchCom, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido At 2:37 PM Thursday, 29½ hours before first pitch of Game One, I felt it. I was thinking about Sunday, potential Game Three, and how its start time is up to the dictates of television, reportedly fluctuating between its penciled-in 7:37 PM and its apparently ESPN-desired 4:07 PM, a slot that would become available if […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Anxiety, Buck Showalter, Buck Showalter’s Windbreaker, Dread, Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Starling Marte I packed an asterisk and a caveat as I set out for my 27th consecutive Closing Day. Unlike water bottles whose caps aren’t fully sealed, security waved them right through. A rain delay nudged Closing Day into Closing Night. Closing Night closed only so much. The door to Citi Field and the Mets’ ultimate 2022 fortunes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Batting Crown, Closing Day, Closing Night, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Mark Canha, Mychal Givens, Rain Delays, Trevor Williams Good news: the Mets weren’t eliminated from winning their division Monday night, cleverly getting rained out while Atlanta (you’re not gonna believe this) lost. Not only did the Mets gain ground by not doing anything but pulling a tarp over the field, but Jeff McNeil overtook a declining Freddie Freeman in the batting race simply […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1997 Mets, National League East, Powerhouse Division, Rain, Team History Using a bookmark is usually a very effective method of keeping your place while reading. No “I was reading this really interesting book, but I seem to have lost my place, whatever will I do?” laments are necessary when you properly employ a bookmark. If you don’t insist on something fancy with a tassel, access […] Willie Mays showed up at the ballpark this week. It doesn’t matter which ballpark, but for the record, it was Oracle Park in San Francisco, convenient in that Willie lives near San Francisco, appropriate because for those privileged to be in his presence, he is baseball’s oracle. Willie has been a regular at Giant games […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Darin Ruf, Debuts, Francisco Alvarez, Jay Payton, Mark Vientos, New York Giants, Ray Dandridge, Willie Mays, Youth When last we were being clever about Metropolitan math, right around the beginning of this month, the Mets had just taken two out of three from the Dodgers, constituting their 30th series win of the season against 8 series losses and 3 series ties. Up ahead on the schedule were cushions, marshmallows and Milwaukee. Competition […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, September, Winning Series Those graphing skills you may have retained from geometry class will finally come in handy if you are yearning to illustrate the upward trajectory of the Mets’ single-season runs batted in record. 1962: 94 — Frank Thomas 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Graphing Skills, Pete Alonso, Runs Batted In, Team History, Team Records “Gary Apple back in our New York studio, following the Worst Game Ever, as the Mets lose, 10-4, to the Oakland Athletics, though mentioning just the score and the opponent doesn’t do it justice, does it, Todd Zeile?” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 World Series, Acres of Foul Territory, Angel Hernandez, Blinding Sun, Clubhouse Celebrations We’d Like to See, Darin Ruf, Gary Apple, Horribleness, Jacob deGrom, Karma, Oakland Coliseum, Presumptuous Thinking, Steve Gelbs, Todd Zeile, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra |
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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