 
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. |
What are the stakes in a Subway Series where both sets of partisans would just as soon not? The Mets and Yankees have not too dissimilar records (the Mets are bad in a meh way, the Yankees are just meh), are both mired near the bottom of their divisions, and have both stumbled through the summer […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Billy McKinney, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Dominic Leone, Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Pete Alonso, Subway Series, Yankees The Earth keeps going around the sun; the Mets keep going in circles. On Sunday night they dropped the rubber game of their series with the Red Sox in numbingly familiar fashion: no hitting, bad pitching, bad defense. To which we might add that they looked torpid and useless, trudging around morosely while being dismantled by […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Joely Rodriguez, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Red Sox, Tommy Pham These first-place New York Mets keep building on what they’ve accomplished. They’ve been doing it from Day One of this season. They’re still doing it. They have to keep doing it, not only because the second-place Atlanta Braves, currently three games behind us, are as formidable an opponent as the 1984 Cubs or 2022 Yankees, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Aborted Comebacks, Daniel Vogelbach, DJ Stewart, Drag Bunts, Fenway Park, Historical Plunges, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Alfaro, Little League Home Runs, Max Scherzer, Not Quite Day-Night Doubleheaders, Offensive Pillars Not Producing, Suspended Games, The Many Home Run Balls of Max Scherzer Last week, Major League Baseball released its schedule for next year and I shrugged. It was the epitome of too soon. But last year, when this year’s came out, I figuratively unfolded it and zeroed in on one particular box in quest of pertinent information: Would the Mets be home on July 11, 2023? They would not. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Beeping, Bill Veeck, Camp Day, Citi Field, Fountains of Wayne, Jeff McNeil Calling Himself Safe to No Avail, Jose Quintana, Loners in a Mood, Midweek Afternoon Games, Omar Narvaez, Promenade, Shea Stadium, Stolen Glances from Ramps, Unnatural Memory for Dates, White Sox Finally! The Mets got the Justin Verlander they paid $43 million for — the fireballer who made opponents look silly as a Houston Astro, the no-doubt-about-it Hall of Famer, the top-of-the-rotation ace. And what a difference it made. I was there, in surprisingly good Excelsior seats behind home plate (a crummy year has some silver linings), close […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Customer Service, Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Pete Alonso, Piano Man, Touki Toussaint, White Sox When your opponent puts double digits in the run column and you win, anyway… When you record a final score in your favor that you haven’t posted since the final months of the previous century… When the prohibitive favorite to lead your team in his signature category for a record-tying fifth consecutive season might be compelled to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1966 Mets, ABBA, Brett Baty, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Carrasco, DJ Stewart, Eddie Bressoud, Francisco Alvarez, Home Runs, Mets shortstops, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Polo Grounds, Robin Ventura, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, White Sox Here’s a no doubt scintillating look behind the curtain at Faith & Fear headquarters: We divvy up games by having whoever’s more engaged/worried about the next week or so send out an email proposing a more or less equal division of labor: Jace Th, Sat, Tues That sort of thing. Then there’s some horsetrading, […] One of the greatest baseball anecdotes ever repeated flew off the bat of Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Josh Gibson, who was reported to have hit a ball out of Forbes Field “so high and so far that no one saw it come down,” leaving the umpire no choice but to call it a home run without […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Color Catchers, David Robertson, Dropped Popups, Hiro Fujiwara, Josh Gibson, Kodai Senga, Marv Albert, Max Carey, Max Muncy, Offensive Futility, Pete Alonso, Scoring Changes, Tin Cup, Unmade Double Plays By one measure, Justin Verlander looked pretty good after facing 16 Dodgers on Friday night at Citi Field to kick off the second half of the 2023 season: He hadn’t allowed a hit, keeping the Mets even in a 0-0 pitchers’ duel with Julio Urias. And if that’s the extent of what you saw, well, maybe […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, Julio Urias, Justin Verlander, Mookie Betts On July 11, 2023, the National League defeated the American League in an All-Star Game for the first time since 2012, which added a flourish to the 50th Anniversary celebration of this correspondent’s first game at Shea Stadium, which occurred on July 11, 1973. To commemorate the seminal occasion, I dug into the Faith and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Camp Day, FAFIF Classics, Felix Millan, First Impressions, Jerry Koosman, Jim Fregosi, Jim McAndrew, Lee May, Leo Durocher, M. Donald Grant, Marvin the Counselor, Mets Yearbook, Rich Chiles, Shea Stadium, Tommie Agee, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays |
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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