 
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. |
SESSION NOTES Mr. L began our session by telling me he had “that dream again,” his very specific variation on the dream in which a person shows up for the final exam and realizes they haven’t been to class all semester. In Mr. L’s case, it’s what he calls “the baseball […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Delayed Debuts, Dreams, Jed Lowrie, Marcus Stroman, Therapy On a scale of 1 to 10, Tuesday night’s inarguably epic Mets defeat at Washington, in which for the first time in their history they gave up a ninth-inning lead of six runs to lose ASAP, was a Brian Jordan. The second Brian Jordan Game, to be exact, September 29, 2001, Mets leading the Braves, […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, A Chorus Line, Armando Benitez, Brian Jordan, Edwin Diaz, George W. Bush, John Franco, Kurt Suzuki, Nationals, Paul Sewald Congratulations, fellow Mets fans, we did it. We made it to September and we still have standings to pore over (don’t “pour” over them; they’ll just get wet). On Sunday morning, September 1, the 2019 Mets are four games removed from a playoff spot with four weeks to go in the regular season. It’s four […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Brycemen of the Delaware Valley, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hitting Streaks, Moises Alou, Precedent, September, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Wilson Ramos First, it rained. Of course it rained. It wouldn’t have been a rainy Wednesday night without the rain. Rain delayed the start of the Mets-Cubs game twelve minutes, which was fine, because my pal Rob texted me that he was stuck in traffic and hence wasn’t going to meet me by the Apple as arranged […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Cubs, Futile Comebacks, Jeff McNeil, Noah Syndergaard, Paul Sewald, Rain, T#m Gl@v!ne, Todd Frazier Pete Alonso’s team record-setting 42nd home run. Weave those three uplifting elements into a broader story about a hypothetical magnificent Mets win achieved amid a sizzling Mets playoff chase and you’ve got some late-August iconography for the ages. Isolate them from […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Mazza, Home Runs, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Stirrups. Michael Conforto, Team History, Team Records, Wilson Ramos If MLB plans to sell gameworn home team apparel from this past weekend’s Mets-Braves series at Citi Field, it had better come in an urn. There should be nothing but ashes left from those ghastly ghostly getups that we never need see again. They weren’t pleasant to squint at as you tried to figure who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baserunners, Dallas Keuchel, Josh Donaldson, Mantras, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Steven Matz, Sweeps, Tailor-Made Double Plays It’s too late for massive regret where Saturday night’s sloppiness is concerned. It’s Sunday morning, and another game is directly in front of us. It’s too early for despair where 2019 is concerned. Thirty-three games remain, and despite an ugly 9-5 loss facilitated by the Braves playing admirable heads-up baseball and the Mets playing abysmal […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Billy Hamilton, Brad Brach, Carlos Beltran, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Cervelli, Heads Up Their Asses, Heads-Up Baseball, Home Runs, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Juan Lagares, Pete Alonso, Team History, Todd Hundley, Zack Wheeler Perhaps they showed up better on TV, but from Promenade at Citi Field, those Casper the Friendly Ghost tribute togs the Mets wore Friday night in deference to Players Weekend marketing concerns were hard to make out. White pants. White shirts. White caps. White numbers. An offensive attack that amounted to a collective white flag. […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Chilliness, Edwin Diaz, Eerily Quiet, Horrendous Uniforms, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Paul Sewald, Pitchers Hitting, Players Weekend, Strikeouts, Wilson Ramos When the 2019 Mets look up “quit” in the dictionary, you know whose picture they see? It’s a trick question, because not only don’t they know the meaning of the word “quit,” it’s never occurred to them to investigate further. They’d been telling us for months that this is how they operate. “This team doesn’t quit.” […] It used to freak me out a little to see pictures of the Mets from their first three years and find no numbers on the fronts of their jerseys. Just “Mets,” as if they had yet to fully sort themselves out. I guess there was some truth in that. We know the humble beginnings — […] |
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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