 
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. |
What is that baseball club that appears to know what it’s doing and then goes about doing it? Why, I do believe that’s the New York Mets. The New York Mets visited Colorado on Monday and started playing three hours before they were originally supposed to. That was very competent thinking, given the weather forecast for […] Through five innings Friday night, the Mets were in a familiar place in Anaheim, one that seemed straightforward to write about even though I really, really didn’t want to. They were down 3-0 to the Angels and the relatively unheralded Walbert Urena, and they looked like a team in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. […] A thumbnail guide to the baseball fan calendar: MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER Called strike three. Seven earned runs in a third-of-an-inning. A long fly ball that dies at the track to seal a stadium’s fate. A throw home from the first baseman that sails over the catcher’s head. A scrub pops a three-run homer. An ear shines. Some events that have signaled the end of a season or […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2025 Mets, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Clay Holmes, Craig Kimbrel, Daylen Lile, Festering, Headaches, Jacob Young, Jorbit Vivas, Juan Soto, Laughers, Marcus Semien, Nationals, Recriminations, Tobias Myers “Trade or release everybody!” is an understandable if impulsive answer to the question, “What the hell should the Mets do next, now that they’ve been swept at home by the Colorado Rockies, having shown no more than scant traces of life in losing their Sunday doubleheader?” Within reason, it may also be the correct one. The Mets […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Austin Slater, Bill Veeck, Carl Edwards Jr., Carson Benge, Juan Soto, Ludicrously Bad Baseball, Nolan McLean, Tommy Pham, Trade or Release Almost Everybody I went to my first Mets game of the 2026 season Friday night, and honestly I should have known that was a bad idea. “No April baseball” is a sensible rule, one I chose to ignore. I layered — boy howdy were there a lot of layers — and it was still cold. Feet like blocks […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Bo Bichette, Cap Bingo, Carson Benge, Double Plays, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Michael Lorenzen, Rockies With two outs in the ninth and the Mets up by a skinny run, the Twins’ Brooks Lee slapped a ball into the hole, to the right of fill-in shortstop Bo Bichette. Bichette made a nice play to corral it, threw across his body with everything he had … but no, Lee had beaten it […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Lee, Byron Buxton, Clay Holmes, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, James Outman, Juan Soto, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Tim Leiper, Twins We once had a Squirrel, or should I say, last night he had us. I’ll cop to a touch of Jeff McNeil nostalgia after our longtime second baseman/first-rate handyman returned to Citi Field from the wilds of West Sacramento to take a bite out of his former workplace associates on Friday, getting hot at the plate […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Craig Kimbrel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hamstrings, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Max Muncy, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Shea Langeliers You probably know by now, but if not, here’s a bedrock principle: Baseball makes no sense. If you were going to draw up a blueprint for success, odds are you wouldn’t opt for, “Let’s play terrible baseball and then excise Juan Soto from the lineup.” But that blueprint worked pretty well on Saturday night, as the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Koss, Clay Holmes, Giants, Juan Soto, Laughers, Mark Vientos, Matt Chapman, Tyrone Taylor Met victories were so plentiful Friday night in San Francisco — for the club as a whole, for Nolan McLean, for power hitting, for clutch hitting, for remaining awake — that one is tempted to relegate to footnote status the little matter of Juan Soto exiting the game early with tightness in his right calf […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Calf Injuries, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Perfect Game Bids, Superstition |
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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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