 
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 Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Every Met roster seems to have one — a guy who slumps around under a little black cloud, trailed by misfortune both chronic and mysterious. Mysterious because he doesn’t seem to deserve what […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2017 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Aaron Heilman, Adeiny Hechavarria, Jonahs, Jonathon Niese, Jose Offerman, Mike Pelfrey, Paul Sewald, Roger Cedeno Welcome to the ninth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Jonathon Niese, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Mets of the 2010s, Wilmer Flores Mets sucked, grounding out and then grounding out again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. I’d tell you more about the first game but a judge ordered me not to. Then after a robust 25 minutes in which nothing bad happened, […] Some Mets fans find Matt Harvey too chilly and self-involved to embrace wholeheartedly. But maybe they’d feel more charitable if they considered Tuesday and Wednesday’s games together. On Tuesday Harvey wasn’t great — the velocity was missing and the mechanics were uncertain, as they’ve been for three confounding months. But the Mets also did nothing to support him at the plate. Even […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jonathon Niese, Lack of Offense, Matt Harvey, PItching, Steven Matz From our vantage point in the front rows of Citi Field’s third level. Emily, my father-in-law and I had a pretty good view of what was going on down there on the field during the first inning of Monday night’s game. We’d watched Jon Niese convince three Braves to play patty-cake with the infield, and now […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jonathon Niese, Keith Hernandez Tuesday night’s game … oof. Let’s rip this Band-Aid off quickly: Jonathon Niese was terrible. Despite that, the Mets turned a 6-0 Phillies lead into a 6-4 contest. Enter Bobby Parnell, who combined with Eric O’Flaherty and Carlos Torres to allow eight runs in the inning — “a snowman,” as Keith Hernandez put it repeatedly. And that […] 81 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Torres, Eric O'Flaherty, Fans, Jonathon Niese, Pennant Race, Terry Collins I’m not sure what the point of this recap is. Just go read this one — because the Mets just replayed Friday’s game, down to the comedy of errors on a good bunt to third. Once again, the key figures were Ruben Tejada, pressed into service at an unnatural position, and the pitcher — then it […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Jonathon Niese, Michael Cuddyer, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson The Mets didn’t lose, though it kind of feels that way. 2015 isn’t a flaming disaster, though it kind of feels that way. What’s going on here? Reality check: The Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 6-2. It’s the early hours of June 5 and they are in first place. So why doesn’t it feel that way? Why does it feel […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, First Place, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathon Niese, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilpons Jon Niese has a suspect shoulder that demands periodic trips to the 15-day DL, and a mental approach to his craft that calls for the 80-year DL. He begins a game with a plan, and was born with the talent to execute it. But he’s incapable of adjusting if anything goes wrong, whether it’s his location or which pitches […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Darrell Ceciliani, Jonathon Niese, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz Useful reminder: Baseball will drive you crazy if you let it. Every so often a thought creeps into my head that I immediately try to shoo away: It’s that the team that wins the World Series will be the good team with the best luck, the one that has the fewest guys injured and the most bounces […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Gio Gonzalez, Ian Desmond, Jonathon Niese, Juan Lagares |
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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