 
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. |
Who were those strangers in blue and orange at Citi Field on Sunday? They couldn’t have been the Mets, because they won a baseball game. And they scored nine runs! Which scored all manner of ways — a monstrous home run into the second deck from Javier Baez, a less prodigious but equally consequential clout from […] Well, that wasn’t much fun. The Mets were forced to start TBD — again! So they turned to Jerad Eickhoff — again! And it didn’t go well — again! Eickhoff, you may recall, had already been DFA’d twice by the Mets this year. He opted for free agency, but signed another minor-league deal and reported for duty […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Jon Matlack, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Noah Syndergaard, Rich Hill Dear Student: The following is your remote learning unit for May 27, 2021. Please complete each assigned exercise, derived from this afternoon’s lesson plan, and submit your answers through your personalized educational portal, using code TWOFORTHURSDAY. Please stay safe, New York Metropolitan Teaching Technologies — 1) A standard scheduled baseball game measures nine innings. How many innings would a doubleheader […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Cameron Maybin, Churves, Connor Joe, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Rockies Kvetching about the mounting mountain of injuries to Met players is darkly amusing until somebody gets hurt. I mean really hurt. Monday night in Atlanta, Kevin Pillar was smacked in the face by a rising 95 MPH fastball thrown with no purpose other than getting him out by the Braves’ Jacob Webb. It happened literally in a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jacob Webb, James McCann, Kevin Pillar, Noah Syndergaard, Sean Reid-Foley, Tomas Nido, Velocity Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. In the mid-80s, while I was off at boarding school, I got a letter from my mother. That wasn’t odd, but what was inside was. My mother had sent me a folded-up article […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Gary Carter, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, Noah Syndergaard, Roger Angell, Ron Darling, Smoky Joe Wood, SNY, Tim Burke Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. In the 2012 offseason, the Mets made a controversial deal, sending knuckleball artist and fan favorite R.A. Dickey to the Blue Jays for a return built around a minor-leaguer who was seen as a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2018 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bret Saberhagen, Dan Warthen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Medieval Siege Weapons, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud Had baseball been proceeding as planned, the Mets and Orioles would have been completing their Spring Training schedule with an exhibition game at the Naval Academy in Annapolis on Tuesday. We know baseball — and everything else — isn’t proceeding as planned these days, but the time frame we’ve likely lost track of is instructive. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Noah Syndergaard, Tommy John Surgery Welcome to the tenth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Matt Harvey, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, R.A. Dickey, Yoenis Cespedes To paraphrase a distinguished United States senator from her exchange with an overmatched opponent in a recent presidential debate, I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of rooting for the New York Mets just to talk about what they really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for. The Mets are three games behind the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Alive, Brandon Nimmo, Brian Barnes, Chris Nabholz, Noah Syndergaard, Patrick Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Rene Rivera, Rockies, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Ursine Companions Before Friday night’s absolutely useless 9-2 defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, the Mets’ record in their previous 13 games stood at 9-4. Over a span of 45 games, their mark totaled 30-15. For the season as a whole, the Mets entered Friday 76-70. Each of the “4” in the 9-4 was presumed to have […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Eddie Money, Karma, Moment of Silence, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Zen |
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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