 
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. |
Willie Mays. Howard Johnson. Michael Conforto. The connective tissue? Besides having been New York Mets All-Stars? Each can be identified as an on-deck batter. You don’t see On-Deck Batter listed as a position anywhere. Neither the 1973 nor 1976 Topps set included a graphic to indicate what an On-Deck Batter looked like. Nevertheless, every position player […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bobby Thomson, Howard Johnson, Michael Conforto, Mookie Wilson, New York Giants, On-Deck Batters, Rafael Montero, Ray Knight, Santiago Casilla, Travis d'Arnaud, Willie Mays There’s something about these New York Mets, these New York Mets of 2015, 2016 and 2017 that doesn’t let you turn your back completely on them. If we were realtors, we’d marvel at their good bones. We’re Mets fans, so we figure that’s just asking for trouble and a visit from Ray Ramirez with that […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2017 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobbleheads, Comebacks, Hansel Robles, Instant Replay, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Josh Edgin, Josh Smoker, Lucas Duda, Mets Third Basemen, Third Base, Travis d'Arnaud, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores “Let’s take a look!” The big story — Mets 2017. Ten-game homestand. Friday…Oakland. Steven Matz? Michael Conforto — home run! T.J. Rivera — home run? One out, two on, T.J. up, A’s lead… Lucas […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Addison Reed, Bob Melvin, Hansel Robles, Jerry Blevins, Joe Piscopo, Michael Conforto, Ryon Healy, Steven Matz, T.J. Rivera, Topical References from 1982, Yoenis Cespedes Todd Hundley was at Thursday’s Mets game. He suited up and strapped it on in the bottom of the second when Lucas Duda added him to his pass list. Duda hit a home run that admitted one Hundley. Lucas’s blast evoked from the past the catcher who still owns half of the Mets’ single-season home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2005 Mets, Armando Benitez, Dan Wheeler, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Mookie Wilson, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Team History, Time, Todd Hundley, Trades, Victor Diaz Trevor Rosenthal’s been a pitcher for nine professional seasons. (I’d throw in college and high school, but turns out he’s a converted shortstop.) I’m not sure how many times that means he’s practiced covering first, but let’s just say it’s a lot. After all PFP — that’s pitcher’s fielding practice — is part of the grind in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jose Reyes, Seth Lugo, Tim McCarver, Trevor Rosenthal No, I’m not being cute. Too tired for that. I’m acknowledging that we’ve reached a familiar point in the progression of a lost season, though this familiar point isn’t the big reveal. The big reveal is that the games you’re watching are expository bric-a-brac, part of the lead-in to the real story, which you just realized isn’t being […] And the summer went so quickly this year. Michael Wacha was on the verge of a complete game shutout, 24/27ths of the way there Tuesday night. Having observed him and his opposition in varying degrees of action and inaction for eight innings, I calculated as nil the chance the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, Complete Games, Giving In To The Inevitable, Joe Raposo, Lucas Duda, Matt Carpenter, Michael Wacha, Rafael Montero, Shutouts, The Raspberries The Mets don’t actually travel the earth with a black cloud over their heads, but it sure does seem that way sometimes. From Zack Wheeler to Hansel Robles to Yoenis Cespedes, Monday night’s game was one stomach punch after the other, almost as if baseball was trying to point out the folly of continuing to subject ourselves […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, Michael Conforto, Paul DeJong, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler The picture to take away from Sunday’s 13-4 drubbing at the hands of the Rockies was Steven Matz trudging across a suddenly hostile mound looking like he’d been told to move a hundred bags of concrete from one place to another for no satisfactory reason. Well, unless you tuned in a little bit late, in which case […] Putting aside every other familiar point of contention — that the DH is an affront to nature and has been since its implementation by a misguided league in 1973; that whatever offense the DH generates for your team has to be balanced by how much offense your pitchers will surrender to the other team’s DH; […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Gilkey, Carlos Delgado, Designated Hitter, Hitting Pitchers, Jay Bruce, Joy, Matt Franco, Mets DHs, Mike Piazza, Pitchers Hitting, Seth Lugo, Team History |
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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