 
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. |
I finally got to the point I wish I could hurry along to in bad Mets seasons: the moment where the disappointment and anger drain away, I’m just sad things didn’t go better, and I remember that I should try to enjoy what little season is left. On Wednesday night Emily and I used the last […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Mets, Farewells, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Taijuan Walker “All right, I’m glad you both came. I’m glad you’ve both committed to the process. The sign of a healthy relationship is when the people in the relationship acknowledge that its health is not a given and that you have to work consistently at improving it. Emmett, I’m picking up from your body language a […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apologies, April in August, Doubleheader Sweeps, Dysfunctional Relationships, Emotional Codependency, Francisco Lindor, Gestures, Javy Baez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Suspended Games For the ninth time in franchise history, the New York Mets have completed 108 games, or two-thirds of a regulation schedule, with a playoff spot in hand. In six of the eight previous instances when they led either the NL East or the NL Wild Card race at this juncture (1986, 1988, 1999, 2000, 2006, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, James McCann, Javy Baez, LOBs, Marlins, Schedules, Steve Kornacki You know you’re in a bad stretch because your team wins and you don’t feel good — just relieved, if you’re lucky. Or exhausted, if you’re not. That was me after the Mets somehow beat the Marlins and their own demons by 5-3, a game that felt much closer than that. It was a strange, vaguely […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Jackson, Angel Hernandez, Anthony Bass, Brian Anderson, Carlos Carrasco, Javier Baez, Jesus Aguilar, Magic, Marlins, Michael Tucker, Trevor May, Umpires As baseball fans, we react. Unable to actually alter the course of events transpiring down there on the field, we overreact. And trying to outguess baseball is a surefire way to look like a fool. Still. It’s what we do. We react, we overreact, we turn dots into lines and fill in pictures. Like this one: […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Javier Baez, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Panic, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker Never mind the cliché about a team beset by injuries resembling a M*A*S*H unit. The Mets of the moment — with 16 players on their injured list — are closer to a M*A*S*H episode. A specific M*A*S*H episode in my mind, the one titled “Carry On, Hawkeye,” from the second season of the series. In […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Dae-Sung Koo, Ed Sudol, Extra Innings, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jake Hager, Johneshwy Fargas, Khalil Lee, M*A*S*H, Marcus Stroman, Marlins, Night Clubs, Recidivist Mets, Sugar Kings, The Pinch-Running Files, Umpiring, Wilfredo Tovar That’s the way Keith says it, a remnant of his California roots that’s one of his more endearing quirks, and a label worth plastering all over Saturday’s matinee against the Marlins. Jacob deGrom needed just nine pitches — all strikes — to take down the Marlins in the top of the first, blitzed through the first […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frustration, Jacob deGrom, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Keith Hernandez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Trevor Rogers You know things have really taken a turn for the worse when even Jacob deGrom can’t save the Mets. The Mets and Marlins reported for makeup duty a little after 1 pm Monday, with Miami not particularly excited at having to fly up and back to New York in a single day, and presumably even less […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Marlins, Miguel Castro, Robinson Cano, Robinson Chirinos, Todd Frazier, Trades The Mets and Marlins didn’t play Thursday night. After some milling around in front of both dugouts, the Mets ran out to their positions, led by Dominic Smith and Billy Hamilton. Miami’s Lewis Brinson stepped to the plate. Caps came off. The other players on both teams came out of the dugouts to stand in a […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Brodie Van Wagenen, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Lewis Brinson, Marlins, Mets, Miguel Rojas, Not Sticking to Sports, Politics, Reality, Rob Manfred, SNY, Steve Gelbs If it had been at all delightful, Tuesday’s twi-night doubleheader at Citi Field could have been billed a Berra’s Delight. Anybody who could make sense of the nonsense at hand would have been admitted free. Or admitted at all. Nobody is admitted to baseball games in 2020, of course. After fourteen innings of futility, nobody who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Corey Oswalt, Doubleheaders, Home Teams Away, Jon Berti, Juan Lagares, Luis Rojas, Marlins, Mets Managers, Pandemics, Patrick Mazeika, Rick Porcello, Seth Lugo, Stealing Home, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Yogi Berra |
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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