 
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. The golden age of baseball coincides neatly with when one happened to be twelve years old. If first base is childhood and second base is adolescence, the summer […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1975 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Mike Vail, Saturday Night Live Jules, y’know, honey, this isn’t real. You know what it is? It’s St. Elmo’s Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them. There was no fire. There wasn’t even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Erasmo Ramirez, Football, Inspiration, Long Relief, Melanie, Nancy Walker, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Seth Lugo, St. Elmo's Fire Jacob deGrom gets hit like Jacob deGrom never gets hit. Then Jacob deGrom leaves with an injury like Jacob deGrom does in our worst nightmares. Then the Mets, down by three in the third, turn to Michael Wacha, a lapsed starter the Mets resist turning to as a matter of course. Then the Mets run […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Injuries, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Michael Wacha, Robinson Cano, The Pinch-Running Files, Unlikely Events The Mets played one of their more discouraging games of 2020 on Tuesday night, one that left me so dispirited and annoyed that I decided this morning everyone would be better off reliving the misadventures of Paul Sewald, Jonah, than revisiting what had happened more recently. Fighting for their lives against the Phillies, the Mets … […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Haseley, Jeff McNeil, Joe Girardi, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Wilson Ramos 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. Every Met roster seems to have one — a guy who slumps around under a little black cloud, trailed by misfortune both chronic and mysterious. Mysterious because he doesn’t seem to deserve what […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Aaron Heilman, Adeiny Hechavarria, Jonahs, Jonathon Niese, Jose Offerman, Mike Pelfrey, Paul Sewald, Roger Cedeno The keys are a couple of months from formal exchange, but the hardware store has been put on alert to make up a new set for the new owner who is preparing to move into 41 Seaver Way. Say “hi” real soon to Steve Cohen, your next control person of the New York Mets. We’ve heard […] The Mets shuffled off from Buffalo with one more loss than win for their weekend’s work and three fewer games remaining on their truncated schedule, thereby humbling their already modest postseason chances. Not that they were much to begin with, but sooner or later, you can take only so much comfort from relative proximity to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, David Peterson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Nostalgia, September, Seth Lugo, Shadows, The West Wing, Todd Frazier In a sixty-game season whose primary appeal may be the encompassing of elements largely unprecedented, you pretty much have to be in it for those things you’ve never seen before. They may not add up to an orthodox major league campaign, let alone big-picture success, but they sure do get your attention. Take a 1-unassisted at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Blue Jays, Buffalo, Erasmo Ramirez, Game-Losing Pickoffs, Pitchers Fielding, Saves, Seth Lugo, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Wilson Ramos WHAM! BIFF! SOCK! OOF! I’d been eager for a view of Sahlen Field, the highest-capacity Triple-A park in the U.S., which a generation ago was talked up as a ready-made big-league park for expansion. (It was also the first park built by the now-ubiquitous HOK, since renamed Populous.) Expansion never happened, but Sahlen is now a […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buffalo Bisons, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jacob deGrom, Laughers, Michael Conforto, Road Warriors, Sahlen Field, Toronto Blue Jays 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. July 21, 2004 was a hot and sticky day in New York, with the temperature in the high 80s and a night that didn’t promise to be much more comfortable. The Mets were bumping […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Brian Schneider, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Max Rubin, Peter O'Brien, Trevor Richards, Ty Wigginton |
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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