 
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. |
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 Yoenis Cespedes said he won’t be speaking to the media this year. If he’s not speaking to the media, he’s not speaking to the fans. C’mon, Yo, talk to us. You don’t have to say anything substantive. Hardly any of your professional colleagues do when they’re not suggesting what acts of vigilante justice they’d like seen […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Communications, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Media, Spring Training, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to the fourth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Eric Campbell, Hansel Robles, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Edgin, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Cuddyer, Neil Walker, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] 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 It shouldn’t have been a day for vituperation. I got out on the water in a kayak. It was a beautiful evening. Dinner was tasty. And there was a baseball game on. Honestly, lots of days could be put in the win column with just one of those things happening. And the fact that the Mets were […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard On paper — which, admittedly, is always a risky way to start a baseball thought — the National League East should have four solid teams with postseason possibilities. The problem for the Mets, Nats, Phillies and Braves, which is also a silver lining for other N.L. contenders, is each of those four teams will spend […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Drew Steckenrider, Edwin Diaz, Hatred, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Jeffrey Loria, Marlins, Marlins Park, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Stupid Marlins You knew me as Peter if you knew me at all You’ve […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, First Base, Pete Alonso, Peter Alonso, Prospects, Second Chances, Spring Training Like Red on the bus to Fort Hancock, Tex., in The Shawshank Redemption, I found I was so excited at Citi Field as the Mets game wore on Wednesday night, I could barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it was the excitement […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Cy Young, Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Ozzie Albies, Pitching Brilliance, September, The Shawshank Redemption I’ve been to Fenway Park before — in fact, a few years ago I discovered that I saw my first-ever baseball game there, dandled (presumably) on my mother’s knee for a Red Sox-Tigers tilt in 1970 or so. I was back in the late 1990s, but with relatively few parks under my belt, my impressions […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brock Holt, Corey Oswalt, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Fenway Park, Jackie Bradley Jr., Paul Sewald, Red Sox, Rick Porcello, Steven Wright, Yankees Suck |
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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