 
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 Phillies put up a six-spot in the sixth inning, which would have been a problem had the Mets not treated the fabric of Friday night’s game with a solution that prevented such spots from staining their outcome: a 7-0 lead. We’ve seen this season, usually from the encouraging side of things, the way tides can […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Carrasco, Ed Kranepool, Home Runs, Pete Alonso, Team History, Unblown Leads With apologies to Moonlight Graham awaiting a lifetime for his first at-bat in Field of Dreams; Blue Moon Odom, mainstay of the dynastic 1970s Oakland A’s; Wally Moon’s “Moon shots” down the right field line when the Flatbush-abandoning Dodgers put down temporary stakes at the woefully misshapen L.A. Coliseum; and even Pete Alonso’s shall we […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Bar Mitzvah, Lonny, Lunar Codex, Mad Men, Nanette Fluhr, Oscar's Cap Awards, The Moon To paraphrase the late, great Roger Angell (for neither the first nor last time in this space), specifically what he said about his presence in Boston during Game Six of the 1986 NLCS while the Mets were cheating death in Houston and baseball had “burst its seams and was wild in the streets” in New […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Comebacks, Roger Angell, Sleep, Thomas Szapucki Joe Pignatano was the bullpen coach. He was the bullpen coach when I got here. He was the bullpen coach forever. I’m using past tense only on a technicality. Forever is a mighty long time. Piggy, as he was known also forever, has died at 92. The ballpark in whose bullpen he famously cultivated tomatoes preceded […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Coaches, Joe Pignatano, Moment of Silence, Tomatoes Unlike those Let’s Make a Deal-type distractions they run between innings on CitiVision, a day/night doubleheader is not a “double or nothing” proposition. The Mets didn’t risk their Saturday afternoon prize by opting to play again a few hours later. Hence, they get to keep their 5-1 win despite being saddled with the 11-3 loss […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Chasen Shreve, Short Memory, Splits The Mets needed lengthy starting pitching in their Saturday afternoon makeup of Friday night’s snowout, since it was to be followed by a regularly scheduled Saturday night game, and they pretty much got it. Carlos Carrasco, in his first Coors Field start (and probably the first game he’s pitched on May 21 that was postponed […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Coors Field, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Necessities, Patrick Mazeika, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Snow, Starling Marte, Unswept “The Mets — ah, the Mets! Superlatives do not quite fit them, but now, just as in 1969, the name alone is enough to bring back that rare inner smile that so many of us wore as summer ended.” Summer, in a sense, has ended with the news that Roger Angell, who wrote the above sentence […] The withstanding has begun. The Mets are 1-0 in the What The Hell Are We Going To Do Now? era. It will last anywhere from six weeks to eight weeks to whenever it actually ends. When you see Max Scherzer glaring from a mound near you, you’ll know it’s over. For a spell on Thursday, it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Bobby Ewing, Chris Bassitt, Colin Holderman, Jeff McNeil, Max Scherzer, Obliques, Pete Alonso, Walkoffs Did I want a pencil, the fella who sold me my program/scorecard asked me. Since the pencil was free and the paper bag with handles was a nickel, of course I said yes to the pencil with no eraser and not even NEW YORK METS written across it. Rule No. 1 of ballpark retail customer […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Citi Field, Doubleheaders, Jake Reed, Pencils, Splits, T-shirts, Tom Seaver Statue, Trevor Williams Pete Alonso just swung by to remind us that not every Met ending that oughta be happy winds up that way, nor do even the most promising of post-1986 Mets teams always play baseball like it oughta be. Or maybe Pete Alonso just swung — again. Last we saw him, he couldn’t help himself. It was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Catchers, Chasen Shreve, Colin Holderman, Coping, Curried Chicken, Didn’t Have It, Francisco Lindor, Goodfellas, Injures, J.B. Smoove, James McCann, Jerry DiPoto, Mariners, More Like It, One-Run Defeats, Patrick Mazeika, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Triples, Tylor Megill |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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