 
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. |
I was in L.A. Thursday morning through Monday night attending Star Wars Celebration (and probably getting COVID, but we’ll see), and felt the usual guilt about abandoning my post. Though I didn’t, really — the Mets kept sneaking into the picture, as they have a way of doing. There they were for the last couple of […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Drew Smith, First Place, Hope, Starling Marte, Trevor Williams Can the Mets win by seven and have that feel like an afterthought? It turns out they can — if the takeaway from the game isn’t a blast of a homer by Pete Alonso or a hustling triple by happily hale and hearty Brandon Nimmo or a host of hitting to break the second half of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Brandon Nimmo, Cardinals, Hope, Hopelessness, Injuries, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pitchers After 45 years as a baseball fan, I’m pretty much fully formed: I have my habits as a fan, a few rituals (for instance, if you’re at the stadium, you get food or hit the john while the Mets are up, not while they’re in the field), and I’m set. But I’m not completely formed. For […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Disappointment, Edwin Diaz, Hope, J.D. Davis, Jonathan Villar, Juan Soto, Mason Thompson, Nationals, Rain I was uneasy about Wednesday night, as if the shadow of the past was reaching out for the Mets. It started with news that Jed Lowrie is alive and well and back in Oakland, perfectly ambulatory and hitting home runs now that his knee has been surgically repaired. It turns out, in whatever the opposite […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Hope, James McCann, Jed Lowrie, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler You remember where you were for the truly big trades that reorder a franchise, the ones that you know are lines between before and after. The winter day when I saw in the newspaper that Gary Carter, the ebullient yet tough-as-nails All-Star catcher for the Montreal Expos, was coming to the Mets. The summer afternoon spent eyeing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Hope, Indians, Isaiah Greene, Josh Wolf, Ownership, Steve Cohen, Trades When the Mets don’t play, the Mets don’t get eliminated. We may have found the 2020 formula for relative success. On Friday night, the Mets were rained out in Washington. As the evening went along, the palest of suns shone on their fortunes. Philadelphia lost. San Francisco lost, despite the best efforts of heretofore lovable scamp […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2020 Mets, Faux Pennant Race, Hope, Pennant Race, Penultimate Day, Saturdays, Slenderella, Slight Delusions of Contention, Stupid Marlins, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler 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. I got the horse right here Psst…over […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Ike Davis, Prospects “Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano 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. There’s a new world comin’ If I have one certainty as a Mets fan, it’s that no […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Darryl Strawberry, Draft, Hope, Sports Illustrated, Tom Seaver, Tucker Ashford, Youth 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. Aug. 6, 2007 was an off-day for the Mets. The day before, a Mets pitcher who will remain nameless had finally secured his 300th victory, a milestone future generations will note came wearing the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Wilmer Flores |
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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