 
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. |
In this new upbeat era of Mets baseball in which we only grimace ironically, let’s catalogue our positives. Ty Adcock not only made his Met debut, but sparkled in it. Mark Vientos went about as deep as one can to dead center at Citi Field. Before Mark hit his mark, the Mets made the most of […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bullpen Depth, Disappointment, Expectations, Jake Diekman, Reed Garrett, Ty Adcock, Tylor Megill Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver “You gotta believe,” you may have heard once or twice in your life over these past 49 years. And you really do, especially in April. If you’re giving up this soon, it’s a long May through September in front of you. Yet here in the early won-lost portion of the season, when records are instantly […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Expectations, Good Starts, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, The Sopranos “Please cover your left eye and tell me what you saw Wednesday night from Atlanta.” “David Peterson carrying a no-hitter into the fifth inning, showing the promise that gets us so excited about him … defensive prodigy Khalil Lee making his second sensational catch in two nights … Cameron Maybin using his wheels and wits to […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, David Peterson, Expectations, Frustration, Jacob Barnes, James McCann, Khalil Lee, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tomas Nido Perhaps it was Mets Sensory Overload having gotten to me — Jay Horwitz’s expansive valedictory Wednesday afternoon; the practically literally endless rain delay Wednesday night; David Wright finally saying “uncle” to reality and telling us early Thursday afternoon when we could expect to see him play next and last — that […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, David Wright, Don Mattingly, Endings, Expectations, Jason Vargas, Jay Horwitz, Michael Conforto, Pitchers Hitting, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Young MC Gary Cohen called Wednesday night’s 2-1 loss “stunning” the moment after it happened. Gary Cohen makes mostly accurate statements. This wasn’t among them. The Mets had led the Marlins, 1-0, since the fifth inning. Brandon Nimmo had put us on the board […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxieties, Blown Saves, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Not Stunning, One Run We still reside on the shadowy side of the Baseball Equinox, that annually anticipated milestone on the calendar that sits precisely between the final pitch of the last Mets season and the first pitch of the next Mets season. This offseason’s midpoint won’t arrive until we have passed 89 days, 9 hours and 25 minutes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2018 Mets, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Anthony Swarzak, Baseball Equinox, Expectations, Matt Purke, Windows, Zach Borenstein Add ’em all up, from October 1, 1921, a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A’s in the first game of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, to October 11, 2017, the fifth game of the American League Division Series won, 5-2, over the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field, and you conclude the New York Yankees […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, Astros, Celebrations, Clinchings, Elimination Day, Expectations, Frank Robinson, New York Championships, Norman Greenbaum, Sheadenfreude, Thirteen Days, Yankees Thirteen thoughts after staying up late with the Mets and watching alongside them as their opponents crossed the plate thirteen times. 1. Jon Niese, per the late Dennis Green, is who we expected him to be. Three fine innings against those poisonous Arizona Diamondbacks, a dreadful fourth, gone in the fifth. You can’t say he didn’t […] 74 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Diamondbacks, Expectations, Jon Niese, Josh Edgin, Mirages, Possibility, Ty Kelly, Yasmany Tomas, Zack Godley Your baseball instincts weren’t hopelessly off and you weren’t necessarily wrong. Well, for one night, yes, but don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for what you were sure was going to happen to happen. It usually does — 24 separate occasions over the past 19 seasons are evidence that you weren’t concocting worst-case scenarios […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Hockey, Jarret Cosart, Juan Lagares, Marlins, WHOA! Wins |
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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