 
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. |
Freddy Peralta has joined Harry Parker and Jerry Koosman in that very exclusive club of Mets pitchers who have started and won on the day after the Knicks have clinched an NBA title. It’s a small sample size, but the Mets are 3-0 in those situations. May 9, 1970: The Mets and Giants are embroiled in […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, Basketball, Freddy Peralta, Knicks, Mad Men, Marcus Semien, New York Championships, Overly Loud PA System, Team History, The Simpsons Just the other day the Mets rode some goodwill across the country from San Diego, goodwill that lingered through an off-day in which the Knicks took up all the city’s oxygen anyway, but was still ready to be tapped at Citi Field on a lovely Tuesday night. Well, so much for that. The Mets squandered all that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Sproat, Brewers, Cardinals, David Stearns, Freddy Peralta, Jared Young, Jett Williams, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien One final late night West Coast start for 2026 awaited. Its contents were a mystery at its beginning, but you couldn’t be blamed if you sensed in advance something would go awry. Escaping the Metsian temporal cul-de-sac is rarely a breeze. Saturday. San Diego. After dark. You don’t have to be Joe Piscopo to report that […] What the Mets did to anger the baseball gods is an interesting question. So is what they did to MLB’s schedule makers. There they were playing in the middle of the night on the other side of the country, starting their fourth West Coast trip of what’s still a young season, and given all that I’m […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, A.J. Minter, Brett Baty, Jared Young, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mariners, Sean Manaea, West Coast Trips It’s good to win a baseball game. It’s good to win a baseball game against the Marlins, who are a collective blight on baseball, an affront to the concept of not just team sports but also leisure-time activity, and a rebuttal to the idea that there can be joy and light in a cosmos riven by […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Josh White, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Nolan McLean, Owen Caissie Ready for the understatement of the year? The 2026 Mets are frustrating. On the one hand, I love that they’re playing the kids, instead of giving no-longer-deserved time to Proven Veterans™. The latest kid? 2025 Momentary Met Jonathan Pintaro, whose inaugural 2026 outing went a lot better than his last one. Progress! Pintaro joins the likes […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Grizzled Veterans, Jonathan Pintaro, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Rookies It was the bottom of the second in Tuesday night’s game, with two out and nobody on. The Mets led 5-0 and a laugher seemed to be on tap, with good feelings aplenty. Bo Bichette had escaped the back of the milk carton with home runs in the first two innings, Steve Gelbs had conducted […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Daniel Duarte, Debacles, Debuts, Inside The Park Home Run, James Wood, Luis Torrens, Marcus Semien, Nationals, Nick Morabito, Nolan McLean, Richard Lovelady, Tyrone Taylor Baseball is a funny game. That’s one word for it. But what a word — because in English, “funny” has a wide range of meanings. Amusing, yes. But also odd, peculiar, maddening, ironic, unpredictable. You might say it’s a funny word. For most of Sunday, the Mets played the kind of game they’ve played too often this […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Anthony Volpe, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Comebacks, David Bednar, Devin Williams, Extra Innings, Freddy Peralta, Luis Torrens, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Max Schuemann, Sarah Langs, Sean Manaea, Subway Series, Tim Hill, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs, Yankees It occurred to me as I witnessed five different Mets don the vest and hard hat on Thursday afternoon at Citi Field that if this team is gonna keep hitting homers in bunches, they’ll need to add some variety to their dugout celebration wardrobe. Maybe one slugger can be the construction worker, another one can […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Brett Baty, Cleon Jones, Dugout Fashion, Hayden Senger, Juan Soto, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Michael Mays, Nolan McLean, Sweeps, Video Review, Village People, Willie Mays It’s a baseball rule: Things get weird in Denver. Imagine you were a Rockies fan who followed the schedule and dutifully showed up at the start time indicated for each game of your team’s three-game set against the Mets. (And why wouldn’t you, after seeing the Rockies whoop up on the Mets back in Queens?) Monday? Guess […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Devin Williams, Freddy Peralta, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Michael Lorenzen, Rockies, Sean Manaea, Steve Gelbs, Tobias Myers |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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