 
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 sunny Friday without a baseball game, which is so weird that I know that come early evening I’ll be poking at my TV remote in consternation until I remember: “Oh yeah, stupid World Cup.” At least that gives us extra time (see what I did there) to marvel at the Mets’ 6-4 win […] The Mets are 3-0 in Friday night West Coast games in 2026. Maybe they should schedule some more of them. Or maybe we should just play every Friday night from 9:40 PM Eastern time forward, regardless of locale. The same team that toppled the Giants in San Francisco on a Friday night in April and […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bo Bichette, Christian Scott, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Late Night West Coast Games, Lesley Gore, Luis Torrens, Small Sample Size Sweet Spot A run was Benged in. A run was Brujáned in. Two runs were Batyed in. Another two runs were Benged in. Two more runs were Bichetted in. All of it happened in one extra inning, in which two other runs were batted in by players whose names begin with a letter that wasn’t B, which […] I liked the part where Juan Soto tripled. The ball he walloped to deep right at Coors Field in the top of the third Thursday afternoon would have been out of every other park, including the one with the Grand Canyon in it, but triples are fun. We’re here for the fun of baseball, aren’t […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Ibañez, Austin Slater, Austin Warren, Christian Scott, Coors Field, Craig Kimbrel, Grand Slams That May Have Gone Foul, Huascar Brazoban, Jake McCarthy, Juan Soto, Keith Raad, Led Zeppelin, Met-Libs, Rationalization, Series Win, The Mendoza Line, Triples, Vidal Bruján What is that baseball club that appears to know what it’s doing and then goes about doing it? Why, I do believe that’s the New York Mets. The New York Mets visited Colorado on Monday and started playing three hours before they were originally supposed to. That was very competent thinking, given the weather forecast for […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Carson Benge, Competence, Coors Field, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Rockies Through five innings Friday night, the Mets were in a familiar place in Anaheim, one that seemed straightforward to write about even though I really, really didn’t want to. They were down 3-0 to the Angels and the relatively unheralded Walbert Urena, and they looked like a team in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bo Bichette, Brent Suter, Brooks Raley, Chase Silseth, Christian Scott, Comebacks, David Wright, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Jorge Soler, Jose Fermin, Juan Soto, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Ronny Mauricio, Steve Gelbs, Walbert Urena “It’s :25 after the hour, time for our daily cooking segment. Chef, what do we have on the menu today?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Confusion, Cooking, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Palatability, Ronny Mauricio, Tobias Myers So there had to be a few Mets fans who popped up from the couch Tuesday afternoon, with the top of the fifth inning just concluded, to hit the loo, walk the dog or perform some other mundane task. Perhaps they did so with a certain spring in their step: Huascar Brazoban had just rescued […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Carson Benge, Diamondbacks, Freddy Peralta, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Mark Vientos, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Walkoffs “This is Ellis Island here, people. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, whether your relatives came over on the fucking Mayflower or on an inner tube from Haiti. This right here is the land of opportunity.” Tom Seaver was from Fresno, California. Bud Harrelson and Tug McGraw […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Devin Williams, Global Game, Huascar Brazoban, International Flavor, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Luis Torrens, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Metropolitan-American, Soccer, The Wolf of Wall Street, World Baseball Classic Defiance isn’t really in our wheelhouse as Mets fans. Hope? Sure. The sunny version sometimes, though generally that’s only seen in the abstract. Stubborn, scared, trampled but still inexhaustible hope? Now we’re talking — whenever Tug McGraw‘s famous YA GOTTA BELIEVE is invoked, I hear not just the hope but also the desperation — the burden […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Booing, Brandon Sproat, Brooks Raley, Chris Devenski, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Siri, M. Donald Grant, Nationals, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Tug McGraw, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor, Wild Card |
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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