In the 1978 film Heaven Can Wait, veteran L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton, played by Warren Beatty, is in the prime of his life — “at my age, in any other business, I’d be young” — when he rides his way into an apparently fatal bicycle accident. An escort from above assigned to monitor such […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1976 Mets, 2022 Mets, Bart Shirley, Bill Hepler, George Altman, Heaven Can Wait, Larry Burright, Mickey Lolich, Moment of Silence, Pinch-Running, Randy Jones, Rocky, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alomar Sr., Shea Stadium, Terrance Gore, Tigers, Tim Harkness, Wayne’s World A Mets fan walks into an Applebee’s. That’s not a setup to a quip. It actually happens once a year that I know of, with me as the Mets fan. Applebee’s menu tends to shake out a bit on the salty side for my tastes, but salty is something I’ll never be if somebody is […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, Applebee’s, Bo Bichette, Brandon Sproat, Carlos Beltran, Craig Kimbrel, Freddy Peralta, Generation MST3K, Hall of Fame, Isolation, Jett Williams, Luis Robert Jr., Luisangel Acuna, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Stephen Sondheim, Strangers, Winter It was a confounding, frustrating season even before we learned it would be a fracture in the Mets’ timeline, with stalwarts we’d grown used to shipped off or allowed to depart and their replacements still yet to take shape. One day it will all seem like a logical story; for now it’s just baffling. But […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, A.J. Minter, Alex Carrillo, Baseball Cards, Brandon Sproat, Brandon Waddell, Cedric Mullins, Chris Devenski, Clay Holmes, Colin Poche, Dom Hamel, Dylan Ross, Frankie Montas, Ghosts, Gregory Soto, Griffin Canning, Hayden Senger, Jared Young, Jonah Tong, Jonathan Pintaro, Jose Azocar, Jose Castillo, Jose Siri, Jose Urena, Juan Soto, Justin Garza, Justin Hagenman, Kevin Herget, Max Kranick, Nolan McLean, Richard Lovelady, Rico Garcia, Ryan Helsley, The Holy Books, Tyler Rogers, Tyler Zuber, Wander Suero, Zach Pop The agate type that used to fill newspapers’ TRANSACTIONS boxes and for all I know still do can change everything — about your team, about the players within, about the course of your expectations and satisfaction as fan. While the Hot Stove barely simmers, Kyle Tucker rumors notwithstanding, I’d like to take this opportunity revisit […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 1994 Mets, 1995 Mets, Carlos Baerga, Carlos Beltran, Comic Books, David Cone, George Foster, Hall of Fame, Jeff Kent, Trades, Transactions “It’s great to be young and a New York Giant,” second baseman Larry Doyle declared to Damon Runyon in 1911, the year Doyle turned 25, the season the Giants won the first of three consecutive National League pennants. More than a century later, you could hear an echo of Laughing Larry in the earnest sentiments […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Birthdays, Brandon Sproat, Clay Holmes, Football, Generation MST3K, Jerry Maguire, Jonah Tong, Larry Doyle, Mike Torrez, New York Giants, Nolan McLean, Youth of America Previously on Flashback Friday… A little piece of me is always watching the Mets in 1970. Mostly I was enchanted with the possibility that the Mets would win the World Series in 1975. I was in love with the 1980 Mets. They weren’t the first Mets team I was ever hung up on, but I think, given where […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Andres Gimenez, David Peterson, Flashback Friday, Mad Men, Obscurity, Pete Alonso, Tom Seaver, Yoenis Cespedes The MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT series is predicated on the notion that, essentially, every season is your old apartment. You moved in when the year began. Your lease was up when the year ended. You moved out and moved on. You carry with you the life you lived through […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Apartments, Baseball Equinox, Jeff McNeil, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, The West Wing I woke up this past Friday with what we’ll politely call a stomach bug. That evening, in the wake of fitful rest, glacial recovery, zero appetite, and sporadic glimpses at my phone, I informed my wife, “Alonso and Diaz had their introductory press conferences with their new teams today.” “So,” she diagnosed, “that’s why you’ve been […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Alvin Dark, Billy Joel, Brandon Nimmo, Buddy Kerr, David Stearns, Eddie Stanky, Edwin Diaz, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Jorge Polanco, Leo Durocher, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Queasiness, Red Webb, Sid Gordon, Willard Marshall At any given moment during the baseball season between Opening Day and August 31, there are 780 active players on major league rosters — 30 clubs, each with 26 players. Maybe a few more are scattered about if the 27th Man clause is invoked for a day-night doubleheader or neutral-site contest. On September 1, when […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, A Chorus Line, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Performance, Talent, The Odd Couple You may have noticed the New York Mets played no postseason games in 2025. To compensate for our favorite team’s autumnal shortfall, we are happy to have harvested a bushel of postseason Mets games as a coda to the completion of the most recent World Series…even if none of them is from 2025. Faith and Fear […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2022 Mets, 2024 Mets, Mets Postseason Games, Team History |
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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