 
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. |
Some days can’t possibly be summed up by one post. So consider this one just the start of a conversation that kicks off tonight but will go on in some form for years. The Mets traded pretty much everybody. Justin Verlander went back to the Astros, where — as I semi-seriously predicted — he’ll now face […]  26 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Billy Eppler, Dominic Leone, Embarrassment, Francisco Alvarez, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Rafael Ortega, Royals, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham, Trade Deadline, Trades Having ten days earlier properly commemorated the 50th anniversary of making Flushing my recurring personal destination, I opened my second half-century of going to Mets games Sunday afternoon by taking a left field Promenade Box eye’s view of The Great Justin Verlander proving effective enough to a) quell the Washington Nationals by a score of […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Beautiful Days for Ballgames, Billy Pierce, Conversations, Dilson Herrera, Eras, Football, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Pedro Borbon, Repurposing, Trade Deadline So now we know how Max Scherzer‘s conversation with the brass went — it turned out to be an exit interview, as Scherzer is on his way to the Rangers (along with $35.5 million through next year) in return for Luisangel Acuna, whom you probably didn’t know is the younger brother of Ronald Acuna Jr. […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Carlos Carrasco, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Max Scherzer, Perspective, Reed Garrett, Ronald Acuna Jr., Steve Cohen, Trade Deadline It’s not quite Max Flack and Cliff Heathcote switching teams between games of a doubleheader, but spare a moment of consideration for David Robertson, who was a Met when it started raining and a Marlin when it stopped. That’s a strange one. A strange one, but probably not the only oddity heading our way: There was a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Bromstad, David Robertson, Mackenzie Gore, Max Scherzer, MLB At Bat, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Radio, Reed Garrett, Trade Deadline The Earth keeps going around the sun; the Mets keep going in circles. On Sunday night they dropped the rubber game of their series with the Red Sox in numbingly familiar fashion: no hitting, bad pitching, bad defense. To which we might add that they looked torpid and useless, trudging around morosely while being dismantled by […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Joely Rodriguez, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Red Sox, Tommy Pham These first-place New York Mets keep building on what they’ve accomplished. They’ve been doing it from Day One of this season. They’re still doing it. They have to keep doing it, not only because the second-place Atlanta Braves, currently three games behind us, are as formidable an opponent as the 1984 Cubs or 2022 Yankees, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Aborted Comebacks, Daniel Vogelbach, DJ Stewart, Drag Bunts, Fenway Park, Historical Plunges, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Alfaro, Little League Home Runs, Max Scherzer, Not Quite Day-Night Doubleheaders, Offensive Pillars Not Producing, Suspended Games, The Many Home Run Balls of Max Scherzer Here’s a no doubt scintillating look behind the curtain at Faith & Fear headquarters: We divvy up games by having whoever’s more engaged/worried about the next week or so send out an email proposing a more or less equal division of labor: Jace Th, Sat, Tues That sort of thing. Then there’s some horsetrading, […] If you were beginning to worry that the All-Star break would impede the Mets’ gathering momentum for a push toward playoff contention, rest easy this week. There is no momentum. There will be no playoff contention. All provisional prognostication is subject to change with the emergence of the next six-game winning streak, but by the time […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Flat as a Pancake, Hit By Pitch, Joe Musgrove, Kodai Senga, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Tommy Pham The Mets have spent the better part of the 2023 season thralls to disappointment, mostly of their own making. Yet they’d somehow won two in a row, a modest accomplishment except that June was such a horror show that two in a row seemed like ascending a fair-sized mountain. They didn’t play Monday, leaving their winning […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Happy Holidays, Max Scherzer, Miguel Castro, Radio “I swear I could tear your throat out right now!” That was said by a parking-lot attendant at Citizens Bank Park after our friend Jerome pulled an admittedly unconventional U-turn in an effort to escape a tediously slow line of vehicles waiting for spaces. Welcome to Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love! And yes, sometimes the jokes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Citizens Bank Park, David Robertson, Double Plays, Francisco Lindor, Josh Harrison, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Starling Marte, Trea Turner |
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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