 
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. |
With one out in the top of the ninth in Cincinnati Wednesday night, a baseball team and its adherents desperately needed therapy. Mark Canha had just started the inning by fouling out against Hunter Strickland, conspicuously useless as a 2020 COVID Met and now somehow the Reds’ closer. The Mets had managed two runs against Cincinnati, […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam MacKay, Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Angel Hernandez, Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Colin Holderman, Dauri Moreta, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frustration, Hunter Strickland, James McCann, Paul Clemons, Reds, Starling Marte, Umpiring, Victory! The Mets, wearing blue, beat the Reds, wearing red and white, by a score of 7-4 on July 4th, and what could be better than that? OK, both teams were wearing god-awful hats from which independence should have been declared, and the Reds continue to ruin their perfectly good uniforms with a black drop shadow that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Hunter Greene, Matt Reynolds, Reds, Taijuan Walker Great, there will actually be a season! Which means we have business to attend to — extending a slightly overdue welcome to 2021’s matriculating Mets, who are now in The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Aaron Loup, Akeem Bostick, Albert Almora Jr., Anthony Banda, Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Brad Hand, Brandon Drury, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Carrasco, Chance Sisco, Figgs, Francisco Lindor, Geoff Hartlieb, Heath Hembree, Jacob Barnes, Jake Hager, Jake Reed, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonahs, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Mason Williams, Nick Tropeano, Patrick Mazeika, Rich Hill, Robert Stock, Sean Reid-Foley, Stephen Tarpley, Taijuan Walker, The Holy Books, Thomas Szapucki, Tommy Hunter, Tommy Milone, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor Hildenberger, Trevor May, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill, Yennsy Diaz 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 After 45 years as a baseball fan, I’m pretty much fully formed: I have my habits as a fan, a few rituals (for instance, if you’re at the stadium, you get food or hit the john while the Mets are up, not while they’re in the field), and I’m set. But I’m not completely formed. For […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Disappointment, Edwin Diaz, Hope, J.D. Davis, Jonathan Villar, Juan Soto, Mason Thompson, Nationals, Rain As baseball fans, we react. Unable to actually alter the course of events transpiring down there on the field, we overreact. And trying to outguess baseball is a surefire way to look like a fool. Still. It’s what we do. We react, we overreact, we turn dots into lines and fill in pictures. Like this one: […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Javier Baez, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Panic, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker Jon Matlack believes we know what we’re talking about. I know that’s what he believes because I asked him and that’s what he told me. And who’s not gonna believe Jon Matlack, essential starting pitcher for the 1973 National League Champion New York Mets? At the press conference preceding Saturday night’s Mets Hall of Fame ceremonies, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Brandon Drury, Carlos Baerga, Edgardo Alfonzo, Eugenio Suarez, Javier Baez, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Votto, Jon Matlack, Media, Mets Fans, Mets Hall of Fame, Press Box Decorum, Reds, Rich Hill, Ron Darling The Mets are seven games over .500. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Mets have been seven games over .500 on nineteen separate occasions over the — wait for it — past seven weeks. Seven games over .500 isn’t bad. Ask the Atlanta Braves, who haven’t been as much as one game over .500 […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeem Bostick, Austin Riley, Brandon Drury, Bull Durham, Carlos Carrasco, Hits Without Runs, Pete Alonso, Prince, Promenade Box Blasts, Roster Turnover Two people at Citi Field were proven wrong Wednesday night in the ninth inning. There was Braves third base coach Ron Washington and there was me, perched in the first row of Excelsior on the right field side. We were both off in our projection of what was about to happen after Ehire Adrianza lined […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jeurys Familia, Lee Mazzilli, Michael Conforto, Throws, Tom Jones, Tylor Megill Thanks to doctor’s orders that didn’t come with an expiration date, I haven’t indulged in an Oreo or, for that matter, a Hydrox in many a year, but I think I still remember the optimal method for sandwich cookie enjoyment: 1) Pull apart. 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Brandon Drury, David Peterson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Injuries, Sandwich Cookies, Taijuan Walker |
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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