 
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. |
Defiance isn’t really in our wheelhouse as Mets fans. Hope? Sure. The sunny version sometimes, though generally that’s only seen in the abstract. Stubborn, scared, trampled but still inexhaustible hope? Now we’re talking — whenever Tug McGraw‘s famous YA GOTTA BELIEVE is invoked, I hear not just the hope but also the desperation — the burden […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Booing, Brandon Sproat, Brooks Raley, Chris Devenski, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Siri, M. Donald Grant, Nationals, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Tug McGraw, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor, Wild Card Midway through Thursday afternoon’s Mets-Nationals game, about the time I suspected Washington’s overcoming of New York’s lead was not going to be reversible, I remembered the Nationals used to be the Expos. It’s not as if I’d wholly forgotten from whence the Nationals moved following the 2004 season, it’s just that the Quebec connection long […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cedric Mullins, Expos, Lack of Momentum, Nationals, Natspos, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Solo Home Runs, Tyler Rogers A day after a near-perfect game, the Mets looked once again lacking in all too familiar ways: Kodai Senga was mediocre, and the offense’s comeback stalled when Cedric Mullins couldn’t hit a medium-depth fly ball, beginning a maddening streak of futility against the Nationals’ terrible bullpen. (Before we move on, though, let’s note Brett Baty‘s majestic […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Ahbram Liendo, Allan Castro, Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Brett Baty, Cedric Mullins, Jacob Reimer, Kodai Senga, Nationals, Nick Morabito, Portland Sea Dogs, R.J. Gordon OK, not that kind of perfect game. You probably would have heard about it by now. But the Mets — because, if there even is a “because,” baseball season is about ebbs and flows, and the sport is essentially and elementally maddening and perverse — played a game Tuesday night that was pretty much near perfect, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jake Irvin, James Wood, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Pete Alonso In the early days of Citi Field, there was an attempt to start a first-inning Yankee Stadium-style roll call. Thankfully wisdom prevailed and the attempt got shelved — that tradition belongs in the Bronx, just like “Sweet Caroline” belongs in Fenway. But there’s no rule that we can’t do it here. Juan Soto: I heard Soto’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, Complete Games, David Peterson, Defense, John DeMarsico, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mets Fans, Nationals, Replay Review, Ron Darling, Shutouts, Tom Seaver, Tyrone Taylor Emily and I watched the first couple of innings of Tuesday night’s Mets-Nats tilt somewhat distractedly. First we were down in Dumbo at L&B Spumoni Gardens, a satellite of the classic ur-Brooklyn Sicilian-pizza joint that’s finally open after a long permitting saga. Then we were walking up the hill for home. We’d peeked at SNY, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | CJ Abrams, Cole Henry, Confidence, Edwin Diaz, Griffin Canning, Jeff McNeil, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Jose Ferrer, Juan Soto, Justin Garza, Kyle Finnegan, Luisangel Acuna, Mackenzie Gore, Nathaniel Lowe, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Steve Gelbs A day later, there was no wackiness, no crazy reversals, and a fairly simple narrative. And you know what? That was just fine. The rain threatened to play havoc with Clay Holmes‘ preparation and our afternoon plans, but Holmes persevered through two delays and I presume most of us did too — the only guy who […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Catchers, Clay Holmes, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Carter, Huascar Brazoban, Jerry Grote, Max Kranick, Nationals, Rain Delays, Rene Rivera On nights I’m recapping, I put a little warning for myself on repeat in my brain: It’s not all about the narrative. We see patterns while watching baseball (or while doing anything else, storytelling monkeys that we are) and we find them irresistible — pattern detection is a tool we use to make sense of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Alfonzo Marquez, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, City Connects, Daniel Murphy, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Jake Irvin, James Wood, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Ferrer, Kodai Senga, Kyle Finnegan, Luis Garcia, Mark Vientos, Nathaniel Lowe, Nationals, Replay Review, Ryne Stanek, Triple Plays, Tyrone Taylor, Umpiring, Uniforms There are seats up there in Citi Field below and a little beyond the retired numbers. I confess I never really registered that they were there before — I’m usually looking at those big pinstriped circles, with my mind’s eye off somewhere along memory lane. Those seats have a lovely view, too — LaGuardia’s new Terminal […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Big Innings, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Herz, Jacob Barnes, Jose Quintana, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Promenade Some random observations from the Mets’ cudgeling of Patrick Corbin and the Nationals: I’m going to get the complaining out of the way first: Dear God, what did they do to the black uniforms? Eliminating the white drop shadow was a dreadful idea; without it, the tops look murky and muddy, with the orange and blue […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Grimace, Hope, Jake Diekman, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Reed Garrett, Summer Nights, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms, Wild Card |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star 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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