 
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. |
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I kicked off my half of our Met for All Seasons posts with a remembrance of Rusty Staub, my first favorite player — and how he turned out to be an ideal choice. That’s […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1976 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Banner Day, Baseball Cards, Bud Harrelson, Chris Speier, Cycles, Doug Flynn, Fans, Joel Youngblood, Mike Phillips, Rick Reuschel, Rusty Staub, Steve Ontiveros, Trades, Vern Rapp The beginning of a baseball season is light and consequence-free — with six months of games ahead, you can relax a bit, allowing yourself to simply enjoy having baseball as a companion again. Starting in June, things begin to get serious — you’re conscious of the standings, of opportunities taken and missed and lost. This […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Guillermo Heredia, Juan Soto, Justin Wilson, Kurt Suzuki, Michael Conforto, Robinson Chirinos The online Mets fan world suffered a loss this month when Warren Fottrell passed away at the age of 62. Though the name might not ring a bell, his work would probably elicit a ripple of recognition from anybody who’s ever clicked around in search of Met images. Inevitably you’ll find pictures of baseball cards […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Baseball Card Dreams, Moment of Silence, Warren Fottrell, Zvon We want people to be able to watch sports, to the extent that people are still staying home. It gives people something to do. It’s a return to normalcy. On Sunday afternoon, August 7, 1994, the Mets lost to the Marlins, 2-0, at Shea Stadium. Had I known the outcome in […] So Seth Lugo faced the Phillies last week and let’s just say it didn’t go well. Lugo got strafed. He started out the game fanning Andrew McCutchen, but then gave up back-to-back-to-back homers, also yielding a triple and a run-scoring single in the inning while fanning two more. Can you strike out the side and have […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Guillermo Heredia, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Todd Frazier Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Everybody scream and shout In 1997, Edgardo Alfonzo came to the plate 68 times in eighth innings. In those eighth innings, he batted .482, […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Edgardo Alfonzo Somehow, the summer seemed to slip by faster this time. Meteorological summer ended on September 1 at midnight. Astronomical summer ended this morning, September 22, at 9:30. The Mets’ summer barely happened at all. The baseball season, such as it’s been, began July 24 and if it didn’t end last night, we know it’s going, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fall, Guillermo Heredia, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Rays, Summer Most of Sunday afternoon’s game was must-see TV: a taut duel between starting pitchers you didn’t think had it in them. Rick Porcello had his best start as a Met, looking like the pitcher he was before his baffling, seemingly self-inflicted transformation into a pinata. The Braves’ Kyle Wright was fabulous too, throwing strikes and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Failsons, Jeff Wilpon, Jeurys Familia, Kyle Wright, Ronald Acuna Jr., Travis d'Arnaud We finally have a marginally useful statistical comparison of sorts for this season that is statistically, logistically and aesthetically absolutely like no other. With the 2020 Mets having played 52 of a projected 60 games, we can line their season to date up against the only season when the Mets played 52 games in total, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, 2020 Mets, David Peterson, Losing Record, Short Seasons, Unusual Playoff Formats The Mets followed two unlikely good nights in which they got lousy, abbreviated starts but hit and relieved their way out of the mess with a thoroughly bad one: no hitting, no relief, and no help on the scoreboard. None of which is ever good, all of which is really bad when the season’s down […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Franklyn Kilome, Losses, Roger Angell, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier |
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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