Newly nominated as the Democratic candidate for president in 1972, George McGovern suddenly needed a running mate. He didn’t clinch his berth in the November finals until his party’s July convention, so a nicety such as pursuing a vice president weren’t a priority well in advance the way it is today when primaries take care […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  George McGovern, POBO, Rejections, Rick Perlstein, Sargent Shriver, Thomas Eagleton, Zack Scott As September morphed into October in 2000, I had a revelation that I’ve revisited annually. We Mets fans were very high on the Mets as the playoffs approached. I heard over and over again from my fellow Metsopotamians that this would be our year. I may have said it out loud myself, though I cautioned […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, 2021 Postseason, Art Shamsky, Braves, Lenny Dykstra, Not Quitting, The Shawshank Redemption, Travis d'Arnaud, World Series, World Series Ending But — I said to myself — I want to get in. This is a World Series opener. I’d never seen one. There is nothing in baseball equal to it… Maybe you’ve heard the old saying, “If you keep letting the Braves make the playoffs, sooner or later a pennant […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Postseason, Arnold Hano, Astros, Braves, Brian Snitker, Dusty Baker, Eddie Rosario, Moment of Silence, World Series Other than Wild Card Games, the 2016 National League version in particular, I don’t recall watching a postseason showdown and thinking it absolutely needed to continue beyond its agreed upon parameters. But I have now. The Dodgers just defeated the Giants in five, but five wasn’t enough. It was the Dodgers in too soon. This National […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Postseason, Dodgers, Five-Game Series, Giants, Justin Turner, Max Scherzer, Wilmer Flores The 2021 Mets are behind us. The 2021 postseason is ahead of us. As baseball fans, let’s enjoy that. Let’s enjoy the top-notch baseball teams we’re going to see, starting tonight, when the Dodgers host the Cardinals in the National League Wild Card Game, the winner of which will take on the Giants, whose 107-55 […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Postseason, Elimination Day, Sheadenfreude, Yankees The Mets’ announcement that they would not retain their manager should have constituted a five-alarm bulletin. Wire machines across the city should have shaken. Daytime programming should have been interrupted. This is traditionally head-of-state transfer-of-power stuff. The helicopter is on the south lawn. San Clemente awaits. Somebody grab a bible and swear in our next […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Luis Rojas, Managing, Mets Managers, Transfers of Power Late in Sunday’s season finale at Atlanta, Gary Cohen mentioned Braves pitchers had faced two over the minimum. When the 162nd game of 2021 concluded, that count had held. There’d been 29 Mets up and, with the assistance of a couple of double plays, 27 Mets down. Barely above the minimum similarly described the year of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Closing Day, Lindsey Nelson, Mets Baseball, Minimalism Four days earlier, I came home from a stadium sunburned. That’s how recently it felt like summer, even if it was technically already autumn on the calendar, even if for an afternoon I had moved on as many American sports fans do post-summer, to the NFL. The sun singed me in Section 144 at MetLife, […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closing Day, Closing Night, Football, James McCann, Michael Conforto, Pat LaFrieda, Pitchers Hitting, Rich Hill, Saturday Night Live Wayne Randazzo wasn’t wrong Tuesday when he outlined ways baseball could speed up its action. Specifically, he preached adoption of a pitch clock like that used in the minors to get games moving faster and, ultimately, over faster. But his partner du jour, Lee Mazzilli, wasn’t wrong, either, when he asked Wayne in apparent sincerity, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Ed Grimley, Lee Mazzilli, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, September, Twilight The hardest-to-ignore streak extant in Metsdom met its most stubborn if most obscure in Milwaukee Saturday night. Both involved losing. The one you can’t miss measures five. For the fifth consecutive season, the New York Mets will not be going to the playoffs. They will not enter the postseason as a Wild Card and they will […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Javy Baez, Jerry Blevins, Mathematically Eliminated, Miller Park, Rich Hill, Streaks |
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. 
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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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