 
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 Mets — yes, those Mets, the ones you root for even though the reason is no longer faintly discernable — won a baseball game. A baseball game played against the Atlanta Braves, no less. They won it slowly and then in a hurry and then slowly again: Kodai Senga fell behind 3-0 in the first when […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Collin McHugh, Kodai Senga, Rafael Ortega, Yonny Chirinos Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets met up Wednesday afternoon with four “old friends,” one of those baseball phrases meant to refer to players who used to be on your team and are now trying to defeat your team. The four old friends all wore Braves uniforms. The parties did not lunch together. Travis d’Arnaud, a Met from 2013 until […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Braves, Collin McHugh, Darren O'Day, Frenemies, Guillermo Heredia, Luis Guillorme, Travis d'Arnaud, Tylor Megill After the Mets rose up in indignation to snatch a win away from the Cardinals, I said it was the kind of unlikely comeback that would keep me on my couch for umpteen nights when no such good fortune was coming out way. Nights like Monday, in other words. How many things do you want to stew […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chad Fairchild, Chris Bassitt, Collin McHugh, Jeff Wilpon, Travis d'Arnaud, Trevor May, Umpiring, Wilpons Welcome to the first chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here, but the concept is pretty self-evident. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Collin McHugh, David Aardsma, Juan Centeno, Kevin Plawecki, Luis Hernandez, Mets of the 2010s, Paul Sewald, Pedro Beato, Ronny Paulino, Vic Black In the great contemporary tradition of making everything about ourselves, congratulations to the New York Mets’ expansionmates, the Houston Astros on winning their first World Series and, after fifty-six seasons, minting the Expansion Class of 1962 as the first in which everybody can bring a Commissioner’s Trophy to show and tell. Eleven World Series have now […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, Alex Cora, Astros, Brent Strom, Carlos Beltran, Collin McHugh, Continental League, Dave Hudgens, Expansion, Gary Pettis, Houston, Juan Centeno, Tyler Clippard, World Series, World Series Ending Every day between October 20, 2006, and October 8, 2015, had something in common. For those 3,276 consecutive days spanning exactly 468 weeks, the New York Mets did not play a postseason baseball game. The total is a little misleading since the vast majority of those days featured no postseason baseball games, but enough of […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Carlos Gomez, Chris Young, Collin McHugh, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez, R.A. Dickey Tomorrow we’ll start Just thinkin’ about When were stuck with McHugh Tomorrow we’ll start Matt Harvey! Matt Harvey! We were […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin McHugh, Harvey Day, Harveysteria, Jose Fernandez, Marlins, Matt Harvey, Super 2 Ya gotta start somewhere, and Collin McHugh certainly did. (Photo by Sharon Chapman) He may barely register on the pitching staff radar as the first day of full-squad workouts commences (though it feels like the Mets have been in Port St. Lucie for a month already), but Collin McHugh was front and center in […] It appears they let anybody turn 50 years old today. Even me. As Sid Fernandez, Benny Agbayani, Rick Trlicek and a handful of others who — Trlicek-style — avoided distinguishing it could confirm, 50’s a number, just like any other number. Yet when you reach a number that’s considered enough of a milestone to rate commemorative-patch […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aging, Benny Agbayani, Birthdays, Cheap Plays on Collin McHugh's Name, Collin McHugh, Rick Trlicek, Sid Fernandez |
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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