 
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. |
I packed an asterisk and a caveat as I set out for my 27th consecutive Closing Day. Unlike water bottles whose caps aren’t fully sealed, security waved them right through. A rain delay nudged Closing Day into Closing Night. Closing Night closed only so much. The door to Citi Field and the Mets’ ultimate 2022 fortunes […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Batting Crown, Closing Day, Closing Night, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Mark Canha, Mychal Givens, Rain Delays, Trevor Williams Late in Sunday’s season finale at Atlanta, Gary Cohen mentioned Braves pitchers had faced two over the minimum. When the 162nd game of 2021 concluded, that count had held. There’d been 29 Mets up and, with the assistance of a couple of double plays, 27 Mets down. Barely above the minimum similarly described the year of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Closing Day, Lindsey Nelson, Mets Baseball, Minimalism Four days earlier, I came home from a stadium sunburned. That’s how recently it felt like summer, even if it was technically already autumn on the calendar, even if for an afternoon I had moved on as many American sports fans do post-summer, to the NFL. The sun singed me in Section 144 at MetLife, […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closing Day, Closing Night, Football, James McCann, Michael Conforto, Pat LaFrieda, Pitchers Hitting, Rich Hill, Saturday Night Live But after all, it’s what we’ve done On one hand, the Mets were defeated in embarrassing fashion on Sunday, losing to the Nationals, 15-5, leaving them at their low-water mark for 2020, eight games below .500 and tied for the worst record in the National League East. On the other hand, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Closing Day, Details, Guillermo Heredia, Jim Croce, Lists, Mike Hessman, One Met Homer Only, Ownership, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Statistical Obsessions, Steve Cohen, Uncertainty We want people to be able to watch sports, to the extent that people are still staying home. It gives people something to do. It’s a return to normalcy. On Sunday afternoon, August 7, 1994, the Mets lost to the Marlins, 2-0, at Shea Stadium. Had I known the outcome in […] 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. The New York Mets will, in all likelihood, play baseball again on Friday. I say “in all likelihood” because it might rain. But I also say it, of course, because there’s a pandemic going on, one […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Adeiny Hechavarria, Chris Mazza, Citi Field, Closing Day, Dom Smith, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Walker Lockett ’Cause it all begins again when it ends. My December festival of retrospective introspection (or introspective retrospection) feels like it’s reached a logical endpoint here on the last day of the month, the last day of the year, and have I mentioned it’s the last day of the decade? Also, it’s my birthday — happy […] Someone to hold you too close It was visceral in a way not much of Mets baseball is for me after 50 years of rooting for the Mets and 15 years of writing of the Mets. I think […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Closing Day, Dom Smith, Humphrey Bogart, Liz Callaway, Stephen Sondheim, The West Wing, Walkoffs The baseball season ended Sunday, you might have noticed. Maybe you didn’t if you’re one of those people who insists you stopped watching the Mets by June, a good month to have looked away, I suppose. I never stopped looking, never stopped noticing, never stopped doing all […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 2018 Mets, Citi Field, Closing Day, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Rain Delays, Upsell If you’ve never read the work of James Schapiro, author of the blog Shea Bridge Report (“good writing about a bad team”), then Faith and Fear invites you to pull up a chair and dig in. James kindly offered to file some impressions from the final Mets game in Philadelphia, and we wisely took him […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Closing Day, James Schapiro |
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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