 
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. |
How would you describe Friday night’s Mets game? Thrilling? Reaffirming? Anxious? Horrifying? Maybe all of the above? I spent most of the evening not knowing what to think, with good and bad arriving one after the other. For openers, I wondered when I started trusting Steven Matz. Matz hasn’t had a bad outing in more than a month, […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, J.T. Realmuto, Justin Wilson, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Steven Matz The Mets were on YouTube Wednesday. I have no idea how that went, which is probably for the best, since that was a game crying out for some combination of Gary, Keith and Ron to provide perspective and perhaps solace, following the absurd bullshit of Tuesday night. The two factoids that will haunt me: The […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Howie Rose, Jeurys Familia, Justin Wilson, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Radio, Seth Lugo, Wayne Randazzo, Wilson Ramos 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 With the Mets in a pennant race again, I’ve been remembering all the little stresses that come with meaningful games in September. Here’s one of them: Getting to within an hour or two of the game and thinking that this could be Execution Day — the day where, if they don’t win, you can pretty much […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Joe Panik, Joe Ross, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera Sometimes life — by which I mean, “that stuff scheduled around baseball games” — gets in the way. First there was dinner, then a podcast interview. I moved what I could thanks to the kindness of other folks involved, but only so much movement was possible, and the Mets would have to take a back seat […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Daniel Zamora, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Scott Kingery, Zach Eflin 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 When is taking an 11-1 lead to the ninth inning not a laugher? The answer isn’t “when you give the ball to Chris Mazza and wind up wondering if he can get three outs before the other guys score 10,” though Friday night’s game felt that way for a fidgety spell. No, the answer is when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Billy Crystal, Braves, Greg Maddux, Hope, John Olerud, Justin Wilson, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Wild Card, Zack Wheeler On the way out to Citi Field Thursday night, I tweeted that this was the Helm’s Deep of the Mets’ 2019 season. For those unfamiliar with The Two Towers, Helm’s Deep is the redoubt to which the hard-pressed warriors of Rohan retreat, fortifying it and making a last stand against the forces of evil. I also […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ends of All Good Things, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jon Lester, Perspective, Sadness, Victor Caratini 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 |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star 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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