The saving grace of a season’s first loss, particularly if it follows the euphoria of a season’s first win, is its inevitability. It was gonna happen sooner or later. Get this unpleasant slice of reality over with since you know darn well you have to and move on. But don’t get it over with the […]
 
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 Mets finally got to play baseball Friday afternoon, and while no one can say what the next week or even the next day will bring, getting to play baseball was a much-needed respite and relief. It was also a pretty damn good baseball game, one with exactly the right amount of tension — some thrills […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Martin, Edwin Diaz, Ender Inciarte, Freddie Freeman, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pandemics, Ronald Acuna Jr., Yoenis Cespedes 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. Guess who’s back When you are lacking it, few pitches are more alluring than boring old competence. Consider a few politicians who’ve seized on the idea of knowing what they were […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bugs Bunny, Ed Koch, Jacob deGrom, Jimmy Carter, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Dukakis, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, The Mary Tyler Moore Show 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 New York Mets will, in all likelihood, play baseball again on Friday. I say “in all likelihood” because it might rain. But I also say it, of course, because there’s a pandemic going on, one […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Adeiny Hechavarria, Chris Mazza, Citi Field, Closing Day, Dom Smith, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Walker Lockett After sampling slices of the most depressing pair of Mayor’s Trophy Games ever presented, I’ve turned from being cautiously anticipant of the 2020 season back toward my previous state of “baseball amid all of this — they can’t be serious.” That there were no fans at Citi Field on Saturday or at the other local […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Abnormality, Adaptation, The West Wing 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. Being a catcher is a tough gig. The hours of squatting are bad enough, before considering foul tips, overenthusiastic backswings, and collisions at the plate. But being a backup catcher? That’s even tougher. Now […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Al Leiter, Alberto Castillo, Billy Taylor, Bucky Dent, Jorge Fabregas, Kevin McGlinchy, Matt Mantei, Mike Piazza, Robin Ventura, Shawon Dunston, Shea Stadium, Steve Finley, Tim Spehr, Todd Hundley, Todd Pratt Faith and Fear has the finest readers anywhere, we say with total objectivity, thus we thought we’d let you fine people about some Mets-related projects a few of our friends on the other side of the screen have lately crafted or are in the midst of crafting. • Michael Elias has published the relationship-driven novel Two […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Brooklyn Dodgers, Documentaries, FAFIF Readers, James Schapiro, Mets Pop Culture, Michael Elias, Nick Davis 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. It was a glorious time… Like the Mets are doing in 2020, the Mets fans of 1970 spent their summer at day camp. Well, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1970 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Goodfellas, Tommie Agee 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. Come on along The first player this […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Beverages, Blogging, Most Valuable Met, Pedro A. Martinez, Pedro Martinez, The Simpsons 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 undisputed star of Ken Burns’s Baseball is Buck O’Neil: Negro League veteran, storyteller extraordinaire, and all that’s best about both baseball and humanity. You probably saw this back in the day (and if […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bernard Gilkey, Buck O'Neil, Jerry DiPoto, Ken Burns, Rey Ordonez, Royce Clayton |
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. |
|
Copyright © 2025 Faith and Fear in Flushing - All Rights Reserved |
||