 
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. |
To paraphrase Henry Blake attempting to console Hawkeye Pierce in “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet,” the early episode of M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye grapples with the combat death of an old friend, there are certain rules about a baseball season that doesn’t meet its high expectations. Rule number one is coaches get tossed aside. Rule number two […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Antoan Richardson, Blame, Coaches, Danny Barnes, Desi Druschel, Eric Chavez, Euphemisms, Glenn Sherlock, Jeremy Barnes, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Rosado, M*A*S*H, Mike Sarbaugh, Rafael Fernandez The Mets have sunk from amazing to confounding to unwatchable. Tuesday night’s one-run loss to the Guardians showcased everything about this team right now that no one sensible would put in a showcase: one bad inning from a starting pitcher who (once again) didn’t give his team much length, a bit of ill-timed bad luck, and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Clay Holmes, Dismay, Guardians, Jeremy Hefner, No Offense, Tyler Rogers Tylor Megill looked Niesean Friday night against the Yankees. If you know me and/or are a long-time reader, you know that’s pretty close to a deadly insult. Megill suffered some bad luck along the way to giving up four earned runs in 2 2/3 laborious innings in the Bronx: In the fatal third inning (which took […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Boone, Clay Bellinger, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Juan Soto, Paul Goldschmidt, Subway Series, Tylor Megill, Yankees, Yerry De Los Santos No doubt as the Mets’ traveling party gathered for its team Seder on Saturday evening in Sacramento, one of the elder statesmen at the table — my guess is bench coach John Gibbons — noted that the 3-1 score by which the club lost in the afternoon was the first 3-1 loss the Mets had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, A's, Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Catfish Hunter, David Peterson, Faith, George Stone, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Siri, Mark Vientos, Passover, Sacramento, Starling Marte, Team History, Team Seders, Tom Seaver, Unleavened Offense, West Sacramento, Yogi Berra A team played shoddy defense. A team saw its relievers struggle. A team hit balls right at defenders. A team rallied, sent a strong hitter up in a big spot … and got nothing out of it. That’s a familiar 2023 script, and it’s what we got on Sunday night, along with ESPN personalities we hadn’t asked for. (I […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Dominic Leone, Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, Jeremy Hefner, Pete Alonso, Winning Streaks Those wisps of smoke visible in the autumn sky remind us that this has been a busy birthday week amid the lofty heights of the Mets’ Mount Pitchmore, with Dwight Gooden turning 58 on November 16 and the 78th anniversary of Tom Seaver being born having come around on November 17. Next date to celebrate, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alay Soler, Bob Apodaca, Bob Moorhead, Bob Myrick, Brent Gaff, Chris Schwinden, Corey Oswalt, Craig Swan, David Peterson, Dwight Gooden, Eric Hillman, Jacob deGrom, Jason Isringhausen, Jenrry Mejia, Jeremy Hefner, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Lifetime Mets, Loopholes, Mike Bruhert, Mount Pitchmore, PItching, Randy Tate, Scott Holman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Team Records That Are Absolutely Crazy, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday, Tylor Megill, William DeVaughn The game was lost when balls off the bats of Giants fell in and the balls off the bats of Mets didn’t. The game was lost was when the Mets pitcher who’d previously given up almost nothing gave up a bunch. The game was lost when the only Belt in the game delivered the only belt of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Dick Scott, Eric Chavez, Gilligan's Island, Inevitability, Jeremy Hefner, Nets, Starling Marte, Wilmer Flores Meat Loaf’s baserunner protagonist in the middle of “Paradise By The Dashboard Light,” this kid who really makes things happen out there, was probably helped along by his third base coach. Maybe not as he was rounding first and trying for second, because it’s on the runner to pick up the center fielder bobbling the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Coaches, Craig Bjornson, Eric Chavez, Jeremy Barnes, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Cora, Meat Loaf, Moment of Silence, Wayne Kirby Jon Matlack believes we know what we’re talking about. I know that’s what he believes because I asked him and that’s what he told me. And who’s not gonna believe Jon Matlack, essential starting pitcher for the 1973 National League Champion New York Mets? At the press conference preceding Saturday night’s Mets Hall of Fame ceremonies, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Brandon Drury, Carlos Baerga, Edgardo Alfonzo, Eugenio Suarez, Javier Baez, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Votto, Jon Matlack, Media, Mets Fans, Mets Hall of Fame, Press Box Decorum, Reds, Rich Hill, Ron Darling The most delightful aspect of the 2021 Mets to date that hasn’t involved Jacob deGrom pitching and hitting has been the emergence of the self-anointed Bench Mob, the aggregation of heretofore part-timers who’ve produced plentifully when called on, which has also plentifully. Riding to our injury-riddled rescue in the grand tradition of Bambi’s Bandits, Hondo’s […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bench Mob, Chris Carter, Designated Hitter, Hamstrings, Injuries, Interleague Play, Jake Hager, Jeff McNeil, Jeremy Hefner, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Tomas Nido |
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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