 
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. |
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. Looks back at the ’86 Mets often pair Wally Backman with Lenny Dykstra, his fellow partner in grime (and co-star in the ’86 year-in-review video’s super-cringey “Wild Boys” montage). Which makes sense: Backman and […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1984 Mets, 1986 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Martin, Brandon Nimmo, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Earl Weaver, Lenny Dykstra, Managers, Minor Leagues, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wally Backman Jules, y’know, honey, this isn’t real. You know what it is? It’s St. Elmo’s Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them. There was no fire. There wasn’t even a St. Elmo. They made it up. They […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Erasmo Ramirez, Football, Inspiration, Long Relief, Melanie, Nancy Walker, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Seth Lugo, St. Elmo's Fire “Whoa, there he is! Whadda you doin’ around here?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jeff McNeil, Labor Day, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Zack Wheeler “Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano The Mets finally got to play baseball Friday afternoon, and while no one can say what the next week or even the next day will bring, getting to play baseball was a much-needed respite and relief. It was also a pretty damn good baseball game, one with exactly the right amount of tension — some thrills […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Martin, Edwin Diaz, Ender Inciarte, Freddie Freeman, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pandemics, Ronald Acuna Jr., Yoenis Cespedes Yoenis Cespedes said he won’t be speaking to the media this year. If he’s not speaking to the media, he’s not speaking to the fans. C’mon, Yo, talk to us. You don’t have to say anything substantive. Hardly any of your professional colleagues do when they’re not suggesting what acts of vigilante justice they’d like seen […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Communications, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Media, Spring Training, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to the eighth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Beltran, Ike Davis, Mets of the 2010s, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] The Mets kept their heartbeat faint but detectable by beating the Reds on Sunday afternoon — a game I started listening to on the Tripper Bus back from D.C. and that ended with me standing in my living room in Brooklyn. (First comment: “I know they’re throwbacks, but the Reds really need to retire those […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | BABIP, Brad Brach, Brandon Nimmo, Eugenio Suarez, J.D. Davis, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Reds, Wild Card To paraphrase a distinguished United States senator from her exchange with an overmatched opponent in a recent presidential debate, I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of rooting for the New York Mets just to talk about what they really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for. The Mets are three games behind the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Alive, Brandon Nimmo, Brian Barnes, Chris Nabholz, Noah Syndergaard, Patrick Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Rene Rivera, Rockies, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Ursine Companions |
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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