 
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. |
Pulling into our parking lot from running pre-hurricane errands, around 2 o’clock, I remembered the Mets would be playing at four. “Damn,” I thought. By 4 o’clock, I was nonetheless excited when the game came on. It’s Pavlovian. Or Pavlickian, perhaps. Hurricane prep is underway. By 7 o’clock, with Brandon Nimmo having garnered three hits of three […] If there’s any solace to be taken from the 2021 Mets’ current status of 60-62 after 122 games — the 122nd of them a 3-2 loss to Walker Buehler and the dark blue Dodgers — beyond every game completed bringing us closer to the 2021 Mets no longer having a current status, it’s that good […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, FAFIF at .500, Final Forty, Finishing Kicks, Potentially Inspirational Precedent, Team History After a one-day respite, the Mets were back to doing nothing in particular, this time against the Dodgers. They showed little discipline at the plate, ran the bases poorly, and generally played the role of GENERIC OPPONENT, standing around looking poleaxed while the Dodgers bunched hits and played solid defense and loped off with the […] For eight innings, the highlight of the Mets’ Wednesday matinee in San Francisco was that I got to watch it as it began. That may sound like a lowlight from the perspective of the Mets’ five previous games/losses, but understand where I was coming from or at least where I was. I had taken my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Chance Sisco, Eye Doctor’s Waiting Room Televisions, Jake Reed, Midweek Matinees, Patrick Mazeika, The Office …fuck it, let’s do an actual Mad Lib. The Mets lost again, continuing their painful slide, and what, really, is there to say? There were some mildly encouraging moments, such as ______________ and the moment where ______________. And at least _______________ showed a little fight. But it wasn’t enough. It hasn’t been enough for a long time. There […] “A long flight across the night? You know why late flights are good? Because we cease to be earthbound and burdened with practicality. Ask the important question. Talk about the idea nobody has thought about yet. Put it in a different way.” That was Jed Bartlet aboard Air Force One, somewhere over America, sometime late at […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | (Not) Phone Company Park, 2002 Mets, Falls From Grace, Field Of Dreams, Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, The West Wing It’s good to be the Giants. The 2021 Giants are what happens when everything breaks right — when veterans thought to be on the back end of the career curve have career years, role players step up, and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. And you know what? Good for them and […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | bad, Disappointment, Giants, Kris Bryant, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Rich Hill, Trevor May Trying to fall asleep between the Dodgers’ dispiriting sweep at Citi Field and the results to come from the impending West Coast trip, I thought about what the Mets need to do in the ensuing seven games. I rarely project beyond “gotta go 1-0 tonight,” but since the season is likely at an inflection point, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Fandom, The Impossible Dream, West Coast Trips After two nights of at least looking competitive against the Dodgers, AKA the quarter-billion-dollar baseball death machine, the Mets got macerated. Lacerated. Defenestrated. Eviscerated. Whatever word you choose, it wasn’t pretty. They were out of it essentially from the jump, as Carlos Carrasco showed he’s still working his way back into regular-season form — a plan […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Carlos Carrasco, Dodgers, Farce, Kevin Pillar, Luis Rojas, Position Players Pitching, Reality Taijuan Walker was magnificent until the seventh inning. That was a monumental up. Michael Conforto cracked a go-ahead homer in the fourth. That was an invigorating up. Aaron Loup, Miguel Castro and Seth Lugo were each mighty effective, and those were unqualified ups, until we learned Lugo being up and pitching in the top of […] |
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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