 
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. |
3 out of 4 My muscle memory still works. I still remember, even from the lofty heights of first place, how to be disgusted with my team as if it hasn’t been living in first place practically every […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Buck Showalter, Confidence, First Half, Methodical, Series Win, Wrigley Field A Sunday doubleheader! Doesn’t that sound great? Not a split doubleheader (which isn’t a doubleheader; it’s just two games in one day). Not an abundance-of-caution seven-inning doubleheader (which would actually be a fourteen-inning doubleheader, but let’s not return there). A real settling in, beginning with a regulation game, pausing for a breather, then continuing with […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Confidence, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer, Off the Base of the Wall, Pete Alonso, Splits, Sunday Doubleheaders You get an early lead, which is good. You sweat an early lead, which is natural. You hold an early lead, which is satisfying. You do it all over again a couple of hours later and you’ve really got something there. In a parallel universe, perhaps the Braves come back on the Mets in one or […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Confidence, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence When the 2019 Mets look up “quit” in the dictionary, you know whose picture they see? It’s a trick question, because not only don’t they know the meaning of the word “quit,” it’s never occurred to them to investigate further. They’d been telling us for months that this is how they operate. “This team doesn’t quit.” […] Moving in alongside the storm front that had just begun enshrouding the New York Metropolitan Area Friday night was much better breaking news: the Mets were opting in, all in, to the 2016 championship chase, re-signing Yoenis Cespedes to a three-year deal that may function as only a one-year deal but is clearly superior to […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Antonio Bastardo, Confidence, Daniel Murphy, Demi Lovato, Field Of Dreams, Free Agents, Nationals, Snow, Yoenis Cespedes MATCHUP: Us at Them, 7:05 PM Friday; 1:05 PM Saturday; 1:05 PM Sunday. KEYS TO THE SERIES: Fuck Them. Let’s Go Mets. Not necessarily in that order. I was checking my trusty 2010 Mets pocket schedule and every single last one of the boxes — be it orange, bronze, silver, gold, platinum or road gray — indicates we play OPP. Naughty By Nature notwithstanding, that’s shorthand for Opponent. I don’t care if everybody else’s 2010 Mets pocket schedule says we’re following BAL […] Until very recently I'd been hoping that Damion Easley, 1,658 games into a career that has stopped short of the business end of October for 16 consecutive seasons, would be traded or sold or waived to a contender on August 31, that a division leader that's 20 games in front would pick him up, that […] Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them. The Mets won again last night, something they’ve done more than two-thirds of the time this season. They dispatched an opponent they had every reason to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Confidence, Flashback Friday, Superstition |
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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