 
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. |
Super-exciting spine-tingling headline-grabbing narrative-changing straight-to-the-SportsCenter-open wins are great, of course. But the key to playing in October is racking up the more mundane sort of victories. Which is exactly what the Mets did Tuesday night. Of course, only by recent pinch-me standards could the Mets’ 5-1 dispatching of the Marlins be considered dull. Jon Niese pitched […]  63 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Torres, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric O'Flaherty, Jon Niese, Rafael Montero, Terry Collins Perhaps you remember when you could cure what momentarily ailed a television set by whacking it on the side. It did the trick maybe once in twenty tries, but the memory of it working that one time stayed with you. So if your reception was erratic, your rabbit ears weren’t hearing your pleas and neither […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A Good Zetz, Alex Torres, Amateur Television Repair, Matt Harvey The 2015 Mets have settled on an interesting formula for trying to win ballgames: 1) Ask your young starting pitcher to be perfect. It worked last night, as Noah Syndergaard pitched one of the best games of his downy career. But it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Matt Harvey, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores This was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been dreading, the game we knew in our bones was coming. This was the game that you couldn’t hide inside the supposedly reassuring (and likely temporary) confines of first place. This was the game that came tumbling forcefully out of the closet of Metropolitan […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bobby Parnell, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Torres, Danny Muno, Darrell Ceciliani, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Overmatched, Shelby Miller Bartolo Colon has 9 wins. Jeurys Familia has 18 saves. Those are some pretty cool numbers, even for our sophisticated statistical times. Wins have been discredited as a leading indicator of starting pitcher effectiveness and are all but useless for measuring anything a reliever does, but when the starter always earns the decision, I don’t think […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Torres, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Statistics, Tsuris Any baseball game is a good one, of course, but the Mets played a fun one against the Phils on Sunday — you had some exciting home runs and other big hits, good starting pitching, some nifty plays in the field, and drama. Though not too much drama. You also had contributions from people you […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Angel Hernandez, Bartolo Colon, Johnny Monell, Ruben Tejada, Ryan Howard My absence from Citi Field has ended. Thirteen months after I was last there, I returned with Emily and Joshua for a game under sparkling skies. We had tacos. We caught up with friends. We ate ice cream (with blue and orange Mets sprinkles). We eyed the new scoreboard and declared it a nice addition, […] Let it be chronicled that on their way back to the postseason, renewed relevance, New York supremacy or wherever it was we thought they were going, the 2015 New York Mets hit an obstacle. Themselves. Sunday night’s rubber game against that other New York team started well enough, with Curtis Granderson blasting a home run off Nathan […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Alex Torres, Eric Campbell, Erik Goeddel, Jonathon Niese When I fell asleep last night, the first-place Mets had won their seventh in a row and held the best record in the National League. When I woke up this morning, the still first-place Mets had still won their seventh in a row and still held the best record in the National League. So this isn’t […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Buddy Carlyle, Carlos Torres, Dee Gordon, G. Gordon Liddy, Jacob deGrom, Marlins Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we delineate our two primary states of being. The Monday before the Mets opened their 2015 season would have to go down in pencil as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Alex Torres, Blogging, Cory Mazzoni, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jerry Blevins, Losing, Matt den Dekker, Winning |
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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