 
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. |
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 A time to be born, a time to die Baseball gives you what came before, what’s going on and what will come next. Life does that, too, I suppose, but as Casey Stengel might have […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, 2017 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Brad Emaus, Closing Day, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins It’s the ninth inning of the Mets’ eighty-first and final home game at Citi Field, the last chance I will have to watch up close a team I’ve seen too much of for six months. I am here out of a sense of obligation, though not a real obligation, rather a longstanding rule I have […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, Closing Day, Closing Night, Jose Reyes, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins The Mets’ Closing Day Preemption Tour touched down in Philadelphia on Sunday. One week after the final regular-season home game didn’t feel particularly final, the last date on the previously published schedule gave way to one more afternoon that didn’t jibe with the customary rhythms of the baseball calendar. Game 162 is supposed to be the […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Closing Day, Team History |
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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