 
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. |
What is that baseball club that appears to know what it’s doing and then goes about doing it? Why, I do believe that’s the New York Mets. The New York Mets visited Colorado on Monday and started playing three hours before they were originally supposed to. That was very competent thinking, given the weather forecast for […] 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 […] “It’s :25 after the hour, time for our daily cooking segment. Chef, what do we have on the menu today?”  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Confusion, Cooking, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Palatability, Ronny Mauricio, Tobias Myers On Saturday I had nothing to do with the 2026 New York Mets, and honestly it was the nicest day I’d experienced in some time. Oh, Emily and I kept it Mets-adjacent: We spent the afternoon in the stands at Maimonides Park on one of those “nice in the sun” early spring days, watching the Brooklyn […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Craig Kimbrel, Cubs, David Peterson, David Stearns, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Losing Streaks, Luke Weaver, Michael Conforto, MJ Melendez, Nico Hoerner, Pete Crow-Armstrong A button at the end of one of my favorite Mad Men episodes has been circulating through my head ever since Opening Day. Don has come home to discover young Sally is still freaked out by the appearance of her new little brother Gene. Dad has to sell daughter on the notion that this infant […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Carson Benge, Craig Kimbrel, Dicky Lovelady, Freddy Peralta, Identity, Joey Gerber, Life Expectancy, Luis Garcia, Mad Men, Recidivist Mets, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham 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 A Mets fan walks into an Applebee’s. That’s not a setup to a quip. It actually happens once a year that I know of, with me as the Mets fan. Applebee’s menu tends to shake out a bit on the salty side for my tastes, but salty is something I’ll never be if somebody is […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, Applebee’s, Bo Bichette, Brandon Sproat, Carlos Beltran, Craig Kimbrel, Freddy Peralta, Generation MST3K, Hall of Fame, Isolation, Jett Williams, Luis Robert Jr., Luisangel Acuna, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Stephen Sondheim, Strangers, Winter Dillon Gee didn’t look so hot, but neither did Craig Kimbrel, and Craig Kimbrel is a big deal. Plus Kimbrel only pitches ninth innings, usually. Gee pitches firsts, seconds, maybe a couple more… Usually Gee pitches fifths and then some. Usually he’s in a five-man rotation. Usuallys are hard to gauge some nights. Kimbrel, I hear, hasn’t […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Kimbrel, Dillon Gee, Hideo Nomo, Lucas Duda, One-Third of a Season, Six-Man Rotations, Teases They gave us quality-mounted canvas prints of a photo taken at the first game Shea Stadium ever hosted. It’s the reason I snapped up tickets in January, the reason I schlepped my stubborn cold and a hundred or so tissues to Citi Field Saturday night. I wanted the Mets to remind me of Shea. Oh, they […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Kimbrel, Jose Valverde, Justin Upton, Mets Promotions, Opportunitease, Shea Stadium When my son was four years old, we went to Shea one horrifically hot day, watched the Mets fall behind, watched them try to catch up in the ninth, watched Carlos Delgado hit a long drive that was headed out of the park … and saw Willie Harris, that bringer of Metsian misery, leap impossibly […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Craig Kimbrel, Jason Heyward, Willie Harris |
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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