 
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. |
I’m one of the few Mets fans to have had an uplifting Harvey Day Saturday. You might say I had a Charlie Day. Charlie’s my father. Charles, really. Dad to me. Dad doesn’t care about baseball, which is why he doesn’t show up often in these pages. But this week Dad has been front and center […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bonnie Franklin, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, Stenosis The Mets played a lame, losing game in Pittsburgh Friday night. I won’t argue the point or by any means embrace the result. But I truly enjoyed watching young, strong Noah Syndergaard throw baseballs past as many Pirates as he could. And if I didn’t enjoy watching young, strong Gerrit Cole throw baseballs past as […] What are the Mets historically on the field of play if not outstanding pitching, reliable defense and frustrating offense whose capability for power and speed emerges mostly in sporadic fashion? This is their personality profile through the years. Some seasons the composition varies, but this is what one has been conditioned to expect if things […] Nice jersey, Dave. David Letterman built an impressive ratings lead once he moved from 12:35 AM on NBC and took over the 11:35 PM time slot on CBS in late August of 1993. All felt right with the comedic if not baseball world as that particular summer turned to fall. The guy who deserved […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, An Appreciation, Bartolo Colon, David Letterman, Joe Orsulak Jon Niese has a suspect shoulder that demands periodic trips to the 15-day DL, and a mental approach to his craft that calls for the 80-year DL. He begins a game with a plan, and was born with the talent to execute it. But he’s incapable of adjusting if anything goes wrong, whether it’s his location or which pitches […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Darrell Ceciliani, Jonathon Niese, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz I’d like to teach the Mets to score with regularity. I’d like for them to cross the plate and do it constantly. Or at least while Matt Harvey is on the mound. Monday night the Mets did eventually find a second run to keep the one they’d rustled up ten innings earlier company. By then, they and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darrell Ceciliani, John Mayberry Jr., Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lack of Offense, Mad Men, Matt Harvey They didn’t much hype The First Home Start In The New York Mets Career Of Noah Syndergaard, did they? Just as well. When they hype that sort of thing, it seems to implode. They hyped Matt Harvey’s Citi Field debut in 2012 and it was one of the worst outings he’s ever thrown. They hyped […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Darin, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Myths, New York, Noah Syndergaard A laugher after a long stretch of laughees? Turns out it makes for some complicated emotions. After the Mets scored a lone run early, I sourly thought, “Well Jacob deGrom, there’s your offense.” I also thought that our long-legged, long-haired rookie of the year in recovery looked a lot better than he had in recent outings. It […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Big Innings, Jacob deGrom, Rain, Wilmer Flores 1. Bartolo Colon sucked. 2. Wilmer Flores made another error. 3. The bats did zero against a guy who came in with an ERA north of 7. 4. Dilson Herrera, one of the only players worth watching in this disaster, broke his fingertip and is headed for the DL. 5. Herrera will be replaced on the roster not by […] Precedents don’t necessarily prove anything. All they tell us is whether something happened before, and it’s up to us if we want to take our clues from there. Here’s the precedent that’s gonna kill us: If we fall out of first place — and, based on the results from Chicago and everything that’s been going on […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, First Place, Precedent, Sweeps, 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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