 
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 Long Island Rail Road is on strike, while the one Met pitcher who’s stayed on track more consistently than any other is out of service. Any other good news from Friday night? Oh yeah, the Mets reverted to moribund form in losing the first game of the Subway Series, 5-2. Not a shining moment for […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Clay Holmes, Fractured Fibula, Injuries, LIRR Strike, Subway Series I hated the fact that on Saturday night the Mets lost to the Diamondbacks, 2-1. I hated that the Mets lost largely because they’ve once again forgotten how to hit. Brett Baty drove in Marcus Semien with a double in the second inning, and if you reached back to Friday night’s 10th inning uprising you might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Bobby Cox, Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Diamondbacks, Farewells, Geraldo Perdomo, Hatred, Idlemaro Vargas, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Merrill Kelly, Paul Sewald The Mets beat the Angels (!) Sunday afternoon to take the series (!!), looking impressive in all aspects of the game in doing so. And, as is usually the case when a team that’s been struggling unstruggles, the reaction was, “Gee, was that so hard?” (Well, my other reaction was “Fuck you, Kurt Suzuki,” but I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Carson Benge, Clay Holmes, Kurt Suzuki, Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, MJ Melendez A thumbnail guide to the baseball fan calendar: MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, April, Austin Slater, Baseball Fan Calendar, Bull Durham, Clay Holmes, Juan Soto, Looseness, Luke Weaver, MJ Melendez, Reality, Tightness Called strike three. Seven earned runs in a third-of-an-inning. A long fly ball that dies at the track to seal a stadium’s fate. A throw home from the first baseman that sails over the catcher’s head. A scrub pops a three-run homer. An ear shines. Some events that have signaled the end of a season or […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Clay Holmes, Craig Kimbrel, Daylen Lile, Festering, Headaches, Jacob Young, Jorbit Vivas, Juan Soto, Laughers, Marcus Semien, Nationals, Recriminations, Tobias Myers With two outs in the ninth and the Mets up by a skinny run, the Twins’ Brooks Lee slapped a ball into the hole, to the right of fill-in shortstop Bo Bichette. Bichette made a nice play to corral it, threw across his body with everything he had … but no, Lee had beaten it […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Lee, Byron Buxton, Clay Holmes, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, James Outman, Juan Soto, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Tim Leiper, Twins “And it’s one more day up in the canyon,” Adam Duritz observed joylessly some thirty years ago, “and it’s one more night in Hollywood.” In that same chilly Southern California spirit, here’s to no more nights in Chavez Ravine. The doubly defending world champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, extended their winning ways not once, not twice, […] We once had a Squirrel, or should I say, last night he had us. I’ll cop to a touch of Jeff McNeil nostalgia after our longtime second baseman/first-rate handyman returned to Citi Field from the wilds of West Sacramento to take a bite out of his former workplace associates on Friday, getting hot at the plate […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Craig Kimbrel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hamstrings, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Max Muncy, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Shea Langeliers You probably know by now, but if not, here’s a bedrock principle: Baseball makes no sense. If you were going to draw up a blueprint for success, odds are you wouldn’t opt for, “Let’s play terrible baseball and then excise Juan Soto from the lineup.” But that blueprint worked pretty well on Saturday night, as the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Koss, Clay Holmes, Giants, Juan Soto, Laughers, Mark Vientos, Matt Chapman, Tyrone Taylor Bo Bichette knows baseball pretty well, having played a lot of it — and seeing a bunch more before he did that professionally, what with being the child of a fairly renowned big leaguer. So he knows perfectly well that baseball is unpredictable, maddening and shot through with ironies big and small. Like my blog partner, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brooks Raley, Cardinals, Carlos Mendoza, Chaim Bloom, Clay Holmes, Devin Williams, Kyle Leahy, New Busch Stadium, St. Louis, The Gateway Arch Sucks, Tim Leiper, Tobias Myers |
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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