 
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. |
You know the thing about moral victories in baseball, right? Namely, that they don’t exist. You were down 8-1 and gallantly came back and showed fight and lost 8-7? Here’s a pat on the head, because that’s called a loss. Well, Wednesday night’s game against the Marlins, because of course it had to be the Marlins, […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bad Relief Pitching, Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Justin Wilson, Stupid Marlins The saving grace of a season’s first loss, particularly if it follows the euphoria of a season’s first win, is its inevitability. It was gonna happen sooner or later. Get this unpleasant slice of reality over with since you know darn well you have to and move on. But don’t get it over with the […] Before the Internet, original thoughts were easier to enjoy. Nowadays, thanks to all manner of instantaneous communication, you realize that clever thing that just occurred to you organically occurred simultaneously to others, perhaps many thousands of others. Gosh, you tell yourself, maybe I’m not so clever or original. But it doesn’t mean your thought wasn’t right, […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bad Relief Pitching, Dominic Smith, First Half, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Predictability, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Stephen Nogosek Before all the heroics — which we will revel in a couple of paragraphs down, I promise you — the Mets and Nationals played a rather odd baseball game. Max Scherzer pitched six innings, the last of them on fumes, throwing 109 pitches and giving up no runs. Jacob deGrom pitched six innings, the last of them […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Eaton, Adeiny Hechavarria, Bad Relief Pitching, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Met Debuts, Nationals, Rajai Davis, Ryan Blakney, Sean Doolittle, Umpires The 2018 Mets season took place in miniature in the northern suburbs of Atlanta on Tuesday. It takes place in miniature most days wherever the Mets happen to be. Somebody was injured. Then […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Gerson Bautista, Injuries, Microcosm, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Walkoff Losses Collecting the first 23 outs went well enough. Yes, Bryce Harper hit a broken-bat home run that you’ll see forever and/or will go down in infamy as an emblem of this new juiced-ball era. I’ve seen broken-bat homers, but they’re usually the stuff of a few flakes and splinters and a short porch. The heavy end […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bad Relief Pitching, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Pedro Severino, Vexing Losses It sure gets orange early out beyond center field on the Met home dates The 7 Line Army comes to play. It’s looked that way from a distance. I can report it’s even more orange up close, radiating brightly from all those personalized jerseys sporting all those last names, nicknames and inside jokes. Good. Citi […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Bad Relief Pitching, Mets Third Basemen, Orange, Subway Series, The 7 Line Army, Third Base, Travis d'Arnaud It’s an inadvertent law of roster construction that every team have one reliever whose niche — the one assigned to him by the baseball deities, as opposed to envisioned for him by management — is to be the guy in the aluminum suit who stands on the roof during lightning storms. You know him. He’s Rich […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bad Relief Pitching, Charlie Blackmon, Hansel Robles, Nolan Arenado, Rafael Montero, Yoenis Cespedes The question was posed by a classmate in AP History in twelfth grade: how did the United States did lose China? Our teacher, an affable sort named Mr. Friend, answered that the United States did not lose China, for China was never the United States’s to begin with. I’ve tried to remember that Friendly analysis […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Blown Leads, Brewers, Brockmire, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto |
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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