 
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. |
So far — which, I’ll admit right off the bat, is a necessary qualifier — this is one of the stranger successful Met seasons I can remember. After sweeping a split doubleheader from the Braves — no burying the lead in this recap — the Mets are 30 games over .500 for the first time since […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jake Odorizzi, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Tomas Nido, Trevor May, Yoan Lopez For me, the Mets are rarely if ever on the periphery. Most nights they’re front and center. But now and then even they have to share space with other pursuits. We’re finishing up three weeks in my folks’ summer cottage in Maine, an annual visit extended this year as an experiment in remote work and escaping […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Keith Hernandez, Orlando Arcia, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tyler Naquin Through seven innings Friday night, the Mets-Marlins contest could have gone either way. It’s not unusual that the identities of a given game’s winner and loser are yet to be determined with two regulation innings to go, but this brand of uncertainty gnawed a bit deeper. Lose this game to the Marlins, and it’s a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Afterschool Special, Billy Crystal, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Leon Russell, Marlins, Old Wives’ Tales, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Trevor Williams, Tyler Naquin Look, I’d be happier never playing the Yankees. First off, I don’t like interleague play and wish they’d do away with it. But there’s having to play, say, the Angels and there’s having to play the Yankees. And with the latter, there’s just too much stress. One’s living room feels like a psychiatrist’s office; being at […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Anthony Rizzo, Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Joe Torre, Joey Gallo, Jordan Montgomery, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Subway Series, Taijuan Walker, Tomas Nido, Yankees It’s Sunday night. The Mets haven’t won in more than a week. As if that’s not enough of a shame, our greatest miracle has been celebrated anew, and this is how our team responds in the present? What we could really use is a nice offensive explosion while everything is looking listless and limp, maybe […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2022 Mets, Almost Famous, Cleon Jones, Dana Brand, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Irene Hodges, Joely Rodriguez, Losing Streaks Snapped, Pete Alonso, Time None of that should have worked. Presented to you is a short sentence in which “that” is carrying a heavy load, referring to two games played over more than nine hours, the first of them featuring an emphatically run-suppressing wind, and the Mets spending both games not so much stumbling as failing to deliver a knockout […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheader Sweeps, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frank Schwindel, J.D. Davis, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Yan Gomes, Yoan Lopez The story before Monday night’s game in Atlanta was discerning what the hell Robinson Cano was doing in a Braves uniform, in the Braves lineup, in the Braves infield. Wasn’t Robinson Cano, having washed out with the San Diego Padres, an El Paso Chihuahua literally the day before? Did the surging Atlanta Braves really need […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Psyche-Outs, Robinson Cano, The Odd Couple With one out in the top of the ninth in Cincinnati Wednesday night, a baseball team and its adherents desperately needed therapy. Mark Canha had just started the inning by fouling out against Hunter Strickland, conspicuously useless as a 2020 COVID Met and now somehow the Reds’ closer. The Mets had managed two runs against Cincinnati, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam MacKay, Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Angel Hernandez, Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Colin Holderman, Dauri Moreta, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frustration, Hunter Strickland, James McCann, Paul Clemons, Reds, Starling Marte, Umpiring, Victory! Jacob deGrom pitched to six minor league batters on Sunday night. Five of them turned into smoldering holes in the dirt adjacent to home plate. I didn’t notice what became of the sixth. As far as we can tell, nobody was actually harmed, neither the young Jupiter Hammerheads whose future still remains ahead of them […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Interleague Play, Jeff McNeil, Jonah Heim, Rangers, Starling Marte, Trumpets It was tight. It was tense. It was pitched the way you would swear under oath you prefer your games to be pitched. It was the kind of game you could really enjoy for the sake of sublime baseball until you remembered you had a rooting interest. To be fair, if your rooting interest emanated from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jason Castro, Justin Verlander, Luis Guillorme, Pitchers' Duels, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver |
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. 
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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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