 
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. |
Hey Mets fans? Which National League teams do you hate? The most common answer is that we hate — in the operatic sports pantomime sense of the word, you understand — the Braves and the Phillies. This is the way of the world, as those two teams are our principal antagonists in the National League East. […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Hatred, Jameson Taillon, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Phillies, White Sox On Jay Horwitz’s Amazin’ Conversations podcast this week, Jay reminisces with the SNY booth trio in this, their twentieth year on the mic. The host eventually retells the story of how he first met future color analyst Keith Hernandez…or attempted to meet him. JAY: In June of ’83, Frank Cashen calls me. “Jay, we traded for […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Important Tiebreakers, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Jay Horwitz, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Keith Hernandez, Luisangel Acuna, Picking Up Runners Thanks, Gare. Like you said, it’s midnight in Manhattan, and this is no time to get cute, yet as we know, every first Monday night of May marks the return of the Met Gala to Manhattan, and whenever the Mets are playing at midnight Eastern Time on that same night, the game is stopped, wherever […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Mendoza, Dedniel Nunez, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Fashion, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Met Gala, Milestones, Molly Shannon, Pete Alonso, Steve Gelbs, The Pajama Game, Tyrone Taylor All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Good start to a famous Russian novel; excellent advice for baseball bloggers. It’s easier to write about miserable failing baseball teams than it is to write about happy successful ones. Angst and agita drive clicks and sports-radio hits and they also generate […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jose Iglesias, Jose Urena, Juan Soto, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Herget, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, The Holy Books, Tyrone Taylor The Unicorn Score Monitor went on high alert in the middle of the eighth inning Monday afternoon after the Mets increased their lead over the Nationals to 15-0. That score rang a bell for not having rung a bell in my head, a repository that also serves as the unofficial institutional memory of New York […] “No way we were losing that game!” I exclaimed the instant after we won that game, “that game” being Wednesday afternoon’s ten-inning thriller at Citi Field and “we” being the New York Mets, with me implicit in the first-person plural. Of course there were many ways we could have lost that game, as most games […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A Touch of Giddiness, April, Balks, Baserunning, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hayden Senger, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Nick Castellanos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reversals, Rob Thomson, Starling Marte, Sweeps, Winning Streaks, Zack Wheeler Monday was Jesse Orosco’s birthday, so for a moment I thought the Mets were honoring him by nearly but not quite blowing a formidable ninth-inning lead. In the mind’s eye, Jesse flirted with disaster a lot in his not quite best years. In his best years, he was infallible in the mind’s eye. The mind’s […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Almost Blown Saves, Baseball, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Inherited Runners, Jesse Orosco, Jesse Winker, John Buck, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey, Max Kranick, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Reed Garrett, Saves, Team History, Tylor Megill The Mets haven’t explicitly promised to catch me if I fall backwards in their general direction, but I trust them to, figuratively speaking. In this young season that has shown signs of early maturation and sustained blooming, I keep coming back to a single five-letter word. Trust. I trust these Mets to win ballgames. I trust […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Sweeps, Trust The Mets won again, once again by not scoring a bunch of runs but getting remarkable pitching. Remarkable pitching … and having every key moment go their way. Which, granted, is often two different ways of saying the same thing. I started off listening to Howie and Keith in my backyard and then moved to watching […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Alec Burleson, Brendan Donovan, Brett Baty, Cardinals, Edwin Diaz, Fox, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Luisangel Acuna, Nolan Gorman, Pete Alonso, Thomas Saggese, Uniforms, Yohel Pozo Yeah! Luis Torrens! The backup catcher thrust into near-everyday action is the hero in the bottom of the eighth, rescuing the Mets with a double all the way down the left field line, scoring Brandon Nimmo from second, salvaging an inning that nearly went by the wayside on the basepaths, breaking a tie, and positioning […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Cardinals, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Old Friends, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs, Wishes, Wonders |
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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