 
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. |
In the end it all turned out OK. But wow, what a weird way to get there. The Mets and Tigers played a very strange ballgame on a raw, chilly Wednesday night at Citi Field — one the kid and I got to see up close. Well, not really up close — we were out by […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Brooks Raley, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Framber Valdez, Juan Soto, Junior Valentine, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Tigers The games themselves lack intrigue, so I stick around for the autopsies that follow the games. They’re deadly, too, but I figure maybe I can learn a little more about what just went wrong. On Sunday in Phoenix what went wrong was obvious enough. The Mets didn’t make a couple of plays and they got only […] I liked the part where Juan Soto tripled. The ball he walloped to deep right at Coors Field in the top of the third Thursday afternoon would have been out of every other park, including the one with the Grand Canyon in it, but triples are fun. We’re here for the fun of baseball, aren’t […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Ibañez, Austin Slater, Austin Warren, Christian Scott, Coors Field, Craig Kimbrel, Grand Slams That May Have Gone Foul, Huascar Brazoban, Jake McCarthy, Juan Soto, Keith Raad, Led Zeppelin, Met-Libs, Rationalization, Series Win, The Mendoza Line, Triples, Vidal Bruján 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 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Carson Benge, Competence, Coors Field, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Rockies 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. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bo Bichette, Brent Suter, Brooks Raley, Chase Silseth, Christian Scott, Comebacks, David Wright, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Jorge Soler, Jose Fermin, Juan Soto, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Ronny Mauricio, Steve Gelbs, Walbert Urena A thumbnail guide to the baseball fan calendar: MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, April, Austin Slater, Baseball Fan Calendar, Bull Durham, Clay Holmes, Juan Soto, Looseness, Luke Weaver, MJ Melendez, Reality, Tightness 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 |
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. 
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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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