Recently, as in a day or two before a revised Spring Training schedule embedded with a pod of Marlins, Nationals, Cardinals and Astros was issued and my mood instinctively if temporarily brightened, I was feeling pretty nihilistic about the whole Mets baseball thing. “Can you imagine them trading…?” I asked myself about pretty much every […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brad Brach, Injuries, Metallica, Nihilism, Relief Pitching, Seth Lugo, Spring Training 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. In the 2012 offseason, the Mets made a controversial deal, sending knuckleball artist and fan favorite R.A. Dickey to the Blue Jays for a return built around a minor-leaguer who was seen as a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2018 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bret Saberhagen, Dan Warthen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Medieval Siege Weapons, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud Somehow, the summer seemed to slip by faster this time. Meteorological summer ended on September 1 at midnight. Astronomical summer ended this morning, September 22, at 9:30. The Mets’ summer barely happened at all. The baseball season, such as it’s been, began July 24 and if it didn’t end last night, we know it’s going, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fall, Guillermo Heredia, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Rays, Summer Jacob deGrom gets hit like Jacob deGrom never gets hit. Then Jacob deGrom leaves with an injury like Jacob deGrom does in our worst nightmares. Then the Mets, down by three in the third, turn to Michael Wacha, a lapsed starter the Mets resist turning to as a matter of course. Then the Mets run […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Injuries, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Michael Wacha, Robinson Cano, The Pinch-Running Files, Unlikely Events I was five months old when the Mets completed their ascent from doormats to destiny’s darlings, and by the time I started collecting cards in 1976, the miracle makers had been largely dispersed. Just six were still Mets. The rest had become Pirates and Astros and Phillies and other questionable things, or started doing whatever […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Gary Gentry, Injuries, Pitchers The heyday of the New York tabloid wise guy columnist was in its twilight, but those fellas weren’t done roaming the print earth just yet, not in January of 1983, not when I needed a hit of what they were pushing. The Jets were on the verge of taking on the Dolphins in the AFC […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dread, Football, Hamstrings, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Ruben Tejada Before Tuesday’s game the Mets diverted a river into the Augean stables of their bullpen, sluicing Jeurys Familia onto the IL with a vaguely defined shoulder injury and washing Drew Gagnon out to Syracuse, in favor of Daniel Zamora and newcomer Stephen Nogosek. Mickey Callaway also called a team meeting, after which his players said all […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Broadcasters, Daniel Zamora, Gary Cohen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Stephen Nogosek, Team Meetings Hello, sir or madam, I am calling today from Metropolitan Research Inquiries, or MRI. Your name has been chosen at random from a database of fans of your baseball team to determine which ways you’d prefer your team to lose. Results will go into helping create potential […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Frustration, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Losing, Market Research, Michael Conforto, Zack Wheeler Travis d’Arnaud once said something for de facto public consumption maybe only I caught. Perhaps Travis would appreciate my use of the past tense of catch in the previous sentence. He’d probably appreciate more “will catch” in the sentence that begins the next paragraph of his career, wherever […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Catchers, Injuries, Mets Catchers, Travis d'Arnaud We know from starters, emergency starters, long relievers, middle men, lefty specialists, setup men and closers. In 2018, thanks mostly to the machinations of the Tampa Bay Rays, we were introduced to something called the opener. Jason Vargas filled none of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Barking Elbows, Cardinals, Chris Flexen, Edwin Diaz, Injured List, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Yadier Molina |
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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