 
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. |
Last time we saw Max Scherzer he was decidedly min against the Yankees, chiefly because his slider was batting-practice quality, hanging obligingly in the strike zone and waiting to be clobbered by any Yankee who fancied a go. Scherzer vowed stonily that he would fix the problem, which sounded good but also sounded like the kind […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Astros, Daniel Vogelbach, Francisco Lindor, Grant Hartwig, Max Scherzer, Tommy Pham If Cole Porter were still with us, I can hear him having a field day with the results of the 2022 World Series. You’re the top Whoever dug deep for the sportsmanship to declare, before the Fall Classic began, “may the best team win,” got their wish. The best team […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Astros, Cole Porter, Dusty Baker, Edwin Diaz, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, T-shirts, World Series, World Series Ending, Zack Wheeler It was tight. It was tense. It was pitched the way you would swear under oath you prefer your games to be pitched. It was the kind of game you could really enjoy for the sake of sublime baseball until you remembered you had a rooting interest. To be fair, if your rooting interest emanated from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jason Castro, Justin Verlander, Luis Guillorme, Pitchers' Duels, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver Somehow it took me until June 28 to get out to Citi Field to see a Mets game. What happened? Well, there was a rainout and my usual aversion to freezing my ass off in April, but mostly life got in the way. With July rapidly approaching, it was Emily who put things right, engineering a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Carlos Carrasco, Chasen Shreve, Ender Inciarte, Framber Valdez, James McCann A Mets fan pulls into a gas station — gas prices, huh? The Mets are playing. They’ve just fallen behind at Minute Maid Park, 5-1, on Yordan Alvarez’s second home run of the game. The Mets fan missed the first one. He also missed Alex Bregman’s, which preceded Alvarez’s first in the first. It hasn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggravating, Astros, Carlos Carrasco, Drizzle, Gas Prices, Lower Back Tightness, Rafael Montero, Spritz I’ve heard it said that the second best thing one can do with an evening is watch your favorite baseball team lose a game. And that’s probably true. But there’s watching your team lose a baseball game and there’s watching your team get its collective behind whooped, and Tuesday night was the latter. Trevor Williams was […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Chasen Shreve, Jose Siri, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams After defeating the Marlins on Monday afternoon, the Mets are 24-10 at home and 4-1 in games that end homestands. As if to express their affection for Citi Field at the end of this 5-2 homestand, they touched home six times en route to their 6-0 victory, each time crossing the plate like it meant […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Astros, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Ender Inciarte, Homestands, Jerar Encarnacion, John Paciorek, Juan Lagares, Marlins, Mets Once Removed, Mike Birkbeck, P.J. Conlon, Pedro Feliciano, Road Trips, Seinfeld, Team History, Terry Leach, Tommy Hunter, Willie Harris But — I said to myself — I want to get in. This is a World Series opener. I’d never seen one. There is nothing in baseball equal to it… Maybe you’ve heard the old saying, “If you keep letting the Braves make the playoffs, sooner or later a pennant […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Postseason, Arnold Hano, Astros, Braves, Brian Snitker, Dusty Baker, Eddie Rosario, Moment of Silence, World Series Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. It would be an exaggeration to say that Faith and Fear in Flushing exists because the Mets signed Carlos Beltran in January 2005. But it wouldn’t be an enormous exaggeration. In 2005 the Mets already had […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, A Met for All Seasons, Adam Wainwright, Alex Cora, Astros, Carlos Beltran, Julio Franco, Managers, Mike Cameron, Omar Minaya, Yadier Molina When the League Championship Series are over, there is a certainty that the more sporting among us will feel compelled to say something nice about at least one team we don’t care for. Whoever emerges between the Nationals and Cardinals we’re not naturally inclined to praise. Half of the ALCS already potentially looms as a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 NLCS, 2019 Postseason, Animus, Astros, Cardinals, League Championship Series, Nationals, The Malachi Crunch, Villains, Yadier Molina |
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. 
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