Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Faith and Fear in Flushing, founded February 16, 2005. For the now twenty Spring Trainings that this blog has existed, we have set out annually in the sincere hope that the Met season ahead serves as prelude to a Met postseason. That’s really all you can ask of a […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Anniversaries, Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Humility, Internal Affairs, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Postseason Acknowledgment, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Stripes, T.J. Rivera, That Thing You Do, Yoenis Cespedes So much for well-intentioned inertia. The fourth-place Mets aren’t content to do nothing. Fourth-place they appear resigned to, but they’ll be damned if they don’t keep busy while maintaining it. David Robertson was not looking to be moved, yet moved he’s been, to his seventh major league team, traded late Thursday night to the Miami […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Business, Catch Me If You Can, Closers, David Robertson, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Marco Vargas, Mark Canha, Marlins, Ronald Hernandez, Trade Deadline, Trades A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks I got a huge kick out of leafing through the 1967 Mets Yearbook years after it was published and finding that even then Ed Kranepool, a mere 24 yet the only Met left from the Mets’ first year of 1962, was referred to as “The Dean” of the Mets in terms of continuous service with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bob Moorhead, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Cannizzaro, Continuity, Darryl Strawberry, David Robertson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Frank Thomas, Hubie Brooks, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, John Franco, Jose Quintana, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Justin Verlander, Longevity, Mad Men, Mets Once Removed, Mike Piazza, Mookie Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Seniority, Steve Cohen, Steve Trachsel, Team History, The Dean, Wally Backman You can’t argue with the numbers. I mean you can, because somebody always wants to argue something, but you’d have to dig pretty deep for a debate let alone a dispute when the Mets are steaming along as they have thus far this young season. The Mets have won 16 of their first 23 games, a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, ESPN, Great Starts, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Robinson Cano, Rosters, Series Win, Streaks Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen Hi again, Chasen Shreve — and you, too, Matt Reynolds and Johneshwy Fargas. The Mets decided to solve their lefthanded bullpen void by rewinding to 2020 and snatching up the perfectly capable Shreve, who by coming back after a season in Pittsburgh gets the chance to break free of his Silent Generation designation. May the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brad Hand, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Good Health, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Matt Reynolds, NL East Four-Timers Club, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Safety, Schedules, Spring Training, Travis Jankowski It’s been the year of Jacob deGrom so often for most of the past decade that you’d think it would be hard to discern when it isn’t the year of Jacob deGrom. Jacob deGrom was named by this blog as the Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met of 2014, 2017 and 2018. Jacob deGrom wasn’t named […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Miguel Castro, Most Valuable Met, Relief Pitching, Trevor May During one of the many, many, many one-run losses that have defined the blur of futility that has smothered the illusion of a pennant race in these parts, I asked my friend of nearly 30 years Rob Emproto how things were going with his band. It’s not really “his” band, but it’s not like I […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Better Choices, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Ed Coleman, Illusion, Jeurys Familia, Long Island, Pat Benatar, Shadowy Bass Players, Terry Collins The Mets beat the Marlins by one run. But the Phillies beat the Nationals by one run, and the Braves beat the Rockies by one run, so by the end of Thursday, nothing changed at the top of the NL East, though at least we got to maintain the sensation/illusion that the Mets reside somewhere […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Almost Famous, Backdating, Brad Hand, Ears, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Javy Baez, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Pennant Race, Solidarity, Thumbs, Zack Scott |
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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