 
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. |
The first week of baseball is nearly always the same: a season’s emotional journey in miniature form, with the only difference what order the necessary components get assembled in this time. So, for the 2022 Mets it’s been: Convinced the stars have aligned and your team will go 162-0.  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chasen Shreve, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Tylor Megill, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler The Atlanta Braves are going to the playoffs, which meant on Friday night the Mets faced a lineup that featured a handful of Atlanta’s young frontline players but not its older ones — a sop to hangover recovery times, perhaps. That made the game meaningless multiple times over, with no chance for the Mets to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Garbage Time, Pete Alonso, Tylor Megill During one of the many, many, many one-run losses that have defined the blur of futility that has smothered the illusion of a pennant race in these parts, I asked my friend of nearly 30 years Rob Emproto how things were going with his band. It’s not really “his” band, but it’s not like I […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Better Choices, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Ed Coleman, Illusion, Jeurys Familia, Long Island, Pat Benatar, Shadowy Bass Players, Terry Collins Even by the Mets’ standard of absurdity, the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader was something: A stately chug out to a 9-0 lead, unbelievably blowing that 9-0 lead, then somehow winning anyway. (Followed by the seemingly inevitable hangover loss.) For me the game was a blogger’s version of the tortoise and the hare: A couple of minutes […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Stevenson, Blown Leads, Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Josh Rogers, Nationals, Seth Lugo 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 You know what? I’ve come around on the idea of the Mets playing the Pirates again right after the All-Star Break. Not because I think the Pirates are a bunch of tomato cans — that’s a dangerous thing to think about any opponent, and if the Bucs win Sunday they’ll have split the series — but […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Edwin Diaz, John Nogowski, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Records, The Holy Books, Trevor May, Tyler Anderson, Tylor Megill Stop me if you’ve heard these before: 1) The Mets win a thriller of a first game of a jury-rigged doubleheader. We’ve been down this two-lane highway that runs out of regulation road too soon too many times to count efficiently of […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Boxberger, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Anderson, Brewers, Bruce Boxleitner, Corbin Burnes, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Humidity Night, Jacob deGrom, Jamoches, Jeff McNeil, Jose Peraza, Mama's of Corona, Nick Tropeano, Robert Stock, Seven-Inning Scams One half of a season is behind the New York Mets and so is the rest of the National League East. You can’t ask for a much better situation following 81 games. The chips don’t settle that way very often. The Mets have finished the statistical first half in first place six times previously. They’ve won […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bette Midler, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Bunting, Depth, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, First Half, First Place, Francisco Lindor, Michael Conforto, Neckerchiefs, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Team History, Trevor May, Tylor Megill By definition, a Sunday afternoon spent beating a pair of American League All-Stars en route to winning by five is time well spent. That’s what the Mets did on July 4, racking up four runs in 3 1/3 innings off All-Star Gerrit Cole, whose situations were as sticky as his grip might no longer be, and […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aroldis Chapman, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Fucking Idiots, Gerrit Cole, Jose Peraza, Lucas Luetge, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Subway Series, Tomas Nido, Yankees Brandon Nimmo brightened the grim Bronx skies Saturday afternoon. Is there anything that ray of light can’t do? Nimmo, like Jeff McNeil and Michael Conforto fairly recently, returned from the injured list and reminded us that, oh yeah, we had players in place before we fell in love with players who replaced them, and we liked […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Subway Series, Taijuan Walker, Veneer of Optimism |
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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