 
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. |
Anyway, it’s turned cold and rainy here lately, but I like winter. Pending iffy weather, the Mets are positioned to carve a statistical triptych of despair this afternoon in Philadelphia. Thursday night, they clinched a losing record for the season. Friday night, they were […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1989 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Brett Baty, Dillon Gee, Historical Plunges, Mathematically Eliminated, Sideways, Statistical Triptych of Despair, Team History, The Years After, Tylor Megill On Tuesday morning, pulling up my email in an idle moment at work, I noted that Mets postseason tickets were on sale — and then I deleted the email that had told me that and went back to work. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that what I’d done — or rather, what […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Hope, Jeff McNeil, Jordan Groshans, Mathematically Eliminated, Nationals, Paolo Espino, Wild Card The hardest-to-ignore streak extant in Metsdom met its most stubborn if most obscure in Milwaukee Saturday night. Both involved losing. The one you can’t miss measures five. For the fifth consecutive season, the New York Mets will not be going to the playoffs. They will not enter the postseason as a Wild Card and they will […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Javy Baez, Jerry Blevins, Mathematically Eliminated, Miller Park, Rich Hill, Streaks I applaud the Mets’ continual affirmations of confidence. You Gotta Believe should extend to belief in oneself. But after watching the Mets’ wisp-thin playoff eligibility expire in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader in Washington — and having their status confirmed in a less competitive loss in the nightcap — I’m having trouble abiding by […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Mathematically Eliminated, Matthew Broderick, Pete Alonso, Reality, Rick Porcello The 2020 New York Mets are not and were never a playoff contender. We regret any role we played in indicating anything otherwise. Thank you. And so it ends. The Mets will not play October baseball. The last invitation to the dance belongs to the Milwaukee Brewers, who thoroughly deserved it — they lost an MVP candidate and somehow found a higher gear, steamrolling all competition in a magical September. Congratulations to them, and solace to our fellow eliminatees, the Chicago […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brewers, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mathematically Eliminated, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Tyler Heineman, Wild Card I haven’t had many complaints with Mickey Callaway of late, but I do not believe he properly prepared his team on Wednesday night in Philadelphia coming off of the Yom Kippur fast, for they played as if lightheaded and starved for offense. Perhaps Rabbi Callaway or Cantor […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Amed Rosario, Champale, Final Records, Losing Seasons, M*A*S*H, Mathematically Eliminated, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Shawn Green, Statistical Obsessions, Team History, Tim Peterson, Yom Kippur I usually have a favorite player, but as a grown man how I acquire one has changed. It’s impossible, for instance, for me to make heroes out of young men who could quite literally be my own children. And I’ve learned too much else about the game and life to put anyone on a pedestal. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Favorite Players, Hope, Mathematically Eliminated, Michale Conforto News flash: you’re not, in fact, required to watch the 2017 Mets’ death throes. I don’t know if that’s fair — maybe there are some among us who in fact must do so. Those paid by the Mets, for instance. You’re off the hook. Or those granted parole under really odd conditions. That might violate the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jay Bruce, Mathematically Eliminated, Taylor Davis, Tomas Nido There I sat, an unaffiliated baseball fan, watching the game because it was the only game that was on, the final game that would be on, Game Seven of the World Series, October 29, 2014, the Royals playing the Giants for the championship of the sport I loved. Those teams and that circumstance had nothing […] 93 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Conor Gillaspie, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Giants, Jeurys Familia, Madison Bumgarner, Mathematically Eliminated, Moneyball, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Wild Card |
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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