 
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. |
Did any fanbase need a laugher more than we did? OK, maybe Tuesday night wasn’t exactly a laugher — call it a chuckler, perhaps — but a five-run first and a pair of homers in the second took away a lot of the tension, allowing us to monitor the “piggyback” experiment that saw Sean Manaea take […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Michael King, Padres, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea Back in March, I picked up a “flex book” for the Brooklyn Cyclones — vouchers for 10 discounted tickets, to be used for whatever games I wanted, tickets distributed among them as I saw fit. It was a good idea and thinking about baseball made me happy, so why not? Then life got in the way: […] Present at Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles: my wife, my kid, and my father-in-law. Not present at Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles: me, AKA your recapper. Honestly I got by far the better part of the deal. Well, sort of. I had a previous commitment with my buddies in the Brooklyn Bridge Park free kayaking program — […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brooklyn Cyclones, Gunnar Henderson, Jose Quintana, Orioles It’s a measure of how spoiled we’ve been: Jacob deGrom looks mortal (and for a second start in a row, no less) and we’re all scratching our heads as if God has repealed physics and things are falling up and sticking to ceilings. DeGrom was better than he was in his confoundingly disastrous Oakland start, and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Brooklyn Cyclones, Dansby Swanson, Debuts, Francisco Alvarez, Jacob deGrom, Kenley Jansen, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Max Scherzer, Pennant Race, Starling Marte For my birthday I went back to Citi Field, and that was wonderful, even with zip-tied seats for social distancing and vaccination checks and mandatory masks. Last week I went to my second game and it was even nicer, because those three things were gone and the only strange note was how normal all the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Hector Neris, Jacob deGrom, Jersey Shore Blueclaws, Kevin Pillar, Lowell Spinners, Luis Guillorme, Luke Williams, Michael Conforto, Pandemics, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Ronny Mauricio, Travis Blankenhorn 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. In the summer of 2015, an undermanned and shoddily constructed Mets club stumbled along, refusing to fall entirely out of contention despite scoring the fewest runs in the National League, battling injuries, and having […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Brooklyn Cyclones, Managers, Michael Conforto, Milestone Mets, One Thousand Mets, Terry Collins 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. By 2001 I’d been a Mets fan for a quarter-century, which seemed long enough to have things down. But that was the year that introduced a new wrinkle. The Brooklyn Cyclones had come to […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Angel Pagan, Brooklyn Cyclones, John Toner While interviews continue to proceed to determine who will collaborate most collegially with non-uniformed front office personnel in the evolving so as to be unrecognizable to the ghost of John McGraw role of field manager, I have a question not for or about Carlos Beltran, Eduardo Perez, Joe Girardi, Tim Bogar or anybody else still […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Brooklyn Cyclones, Edgardo Alfonzo, Managing, Mets Ambassadors, Organizational Mysteries Eighteen years ago, I added a new team to my consciousness. The Brooklyn Cyclones weren’t actually a new club. They were the old St. Catharines Stompers, and spent the summer of 2000 as the Queens Kings, affiliated with the Blue Jays but owned by the Mets and playing before basically nobody at St. John’s. That was […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Edwards, Antoine Duplantis, Brooklyn Cyclones, Championships, Edgardo Alfonzo, Fans, Jake Mangum, Joe Davis, Justin Wilson, Lowell Spinners, Marino Campana, MCU Park, Mitch Ragan, Pete Alonso, Ranfy Adon, Wilmer Flores, Yoel Romero Somewhere around the midpoint of today’s Mets-Giants game, I was asked what’s been wrong with Noah Syndergaard this year. I wasn’t sure what to say. After all, there Noah was, throwing 99 MPH fastballs and 92 MPH sliders. There he was pushing for his 10th win pitching for a terrible team, and mowing down Giant after […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Jeff McNeil, Noah Syndergaard |
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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