 
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. |
Emily and I were up in Massachusetts for our high-school reunion and so missed both the good vibes of Friday night’s game and the disappointment of Saturday’s clunker. Plus we drove up Thursday night, which was an off-day, spent by the Mets in their usual posture of wandering the West Coast. Even in a season that’s […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, Carson Benge, Freddy Fermin, Jared Young, MJ Melendez, Padres, Sean Manaea 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 What the Mets did to anger the baseball gods is an interesting question. So is what they did to MLB’s schedule makers. There they were playing in the middle of the night on the other side of the country, starting their fourth West Coast trip of what’s still a young season, and given all that I’m […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, A.J. Minter, Brett Baty, Jared Young, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mariners, Sean Manaea, West Coast Trips Saturday afternoon at Citi Field served as the site of several notable transformations. Christian Scott, previously 0-for-15 in his attempts to gain a desirable decision, became a major league winner. Hayden Senger, who bats ninth only because there’s no lower slot listed on a standard lineup card, reintroduced himself as a major league slugger. Bobby […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bobby Valentine, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Cionel Perez, Hayden Senger, Jared Young, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Scott “Look for the helpers,” Mr. Rogers implored, and the wishful thinkers in Mets management listened. They didn’t know who was gonna help in Mr. Met’s Neighborhood, but they’d keep looking. As of Tuesday night, the Mets had sought help from 48 players in 55 games. As of Monday afternoon, they had tried only 46 different […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, A.J. Minter, David Peterson, Eric Wagaman, Grim Scene, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mets Third Basemen, Mr. Rogers, Roster Turnover It would be kind of interesting to note Wednesday’s Mets-Diamondbacks game started three hours earlier than originally slated due to frigid conditions at Citi Field, but that happened the day before, so…no, not that interesting nor noteworthy. It would be kind of interesting to note Wednesday’s Mets-Diamondbacks game got all nine tops of innings pitched by […] 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 Opening Day brought balmy temperatures, runs a-plenty and good vibes. Most of Game 2, which arrived separated from Game 1 by the usual “rainouts happen” off-day, was the opposite: It was freezing, big hits were conspicuous in their absence, and the vibes were meh with a side of muttery. David Peterson was very David Peterson: mostly […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Bryan Reynolds, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Henry Davis, Hunter Barco, Jake Mangum, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Juan Soto, Justin Lawrence, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Marcell Ozuna, Mitch Keller, Pirates, Richard Lovelady, Walkoffs It was a confounding, frustrating season even before we learned it would be a fracture in the Mets’ timeline, with stalwarts we’d grown used to shipped off or allowed to depart and their replacements still yet to take shape. One day it will all seem like a logical story; for now it’s just baffling. But […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, A.J. 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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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