 
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. |
When your team’s bad you spend a lot of time fuming about how it should be made good. This guy who’s failed too often needs to lose his job to this guy who hasn’t failed yet, any fool can see the lineup should be revamped so it works like this, etc. I’m not generally one for […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Witt Jr., Brett Baty, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jeff McNeil, Luis Severino, Michael Wacha, Out, Pete Alonso, Royals, The Baseball Gods It’s a tenet of our blog that there are no moral victories in baseball — the loss column comes without asterisks, parentheses or stuff in superscript. Moral victories are losses. Well, except when one of us declares that moral victories do too exist. Maybe I was just in a good mood: Monday night’s game found me and […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Braves, Dedniel Nunez, Harrison Bader, Julio Teheran, Omar Narvaez, Pete Alonso, Raisel Iglesias, Reynaldo Lopez, Tommy Milone Baseball — perhaps you’ve heard — is a game of contrasts. Take Hunter Greene vs. Jose Quintana, the starters for Friday night’s game in chilly Cincinnati. Greene is young, enormous and all but dripping talent, in possession of a high-90s fastball he can throw past big-league hitters as well as an evil slider tailor-made for embarrassing […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Edwin Diaz, Elly de la Cruz, Francisco Lindor, Hunter Greene, Jake Fraley, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Pete Alonso, Reds, Spencer Steer It had rained for forty consecutive nights. The Mets had lost their previous fifty games. They had been no-hit for sixty innings in a row. Their most storied slugger was so desperate to effect change that he swung at a pitch seventy feet below sea level. With one crack of the bat, the earth shook (eventually) […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Houser, Carlos Mendoza, Desperation, Doubleheaders, Earthquakes, Endearng Nicknames, First Wins, Jose Butto, Michael Tonkin, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Tigers, Tyrone Taylor Years ago, after too many not-yet-spring days spent at Shea watching it rain, waiting in horrible lines for bad coffee or both, my wife instituted a rule: No ballpark visits before May. In recent years, as I’ve become older and grumpier and more fragile, I’ve made her rule my own. I hope Opening Day is […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Brewers, Carlos Mendoza, Citi Field, Discontent, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Luis Severino, Pete Alonso, Piano Man, Rhys Hoskins, Yoan Lopez, Yohan Ramirez Just in time for Pitchers & Catchers, we have broken into the Top 20 portion of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. The focus of this entry is neither a pitcher nor a catcher, but he does happen to be somebody who will be reporting to Port St. Lucie in the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Brodie Van Wagenen, Carlos Beltran, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Home Runs, Hubris, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Pete Alonso, Todd Frazier, Todd Hundley It wasn’t raining Tuesday night. The problem was one of tenses — not what was happening weather-wise but what had happened. It wasn’t raining, but it had rained. Considerably. Considerably as in “enough that they give the concentration of rain a proper name and track it over the ocean like it’s an invasion fleet.” An amount […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Doubleheaders, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Fuckery, Jake Burger, Jorge Soler, Marlins, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Phil Bickford, Rainouts, Ramon De Jesus, Yuli Gurriel Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […] A habit I’m trying to break as a baseball fan is the assigning of blame. If the Mets don’t win – even a stripped-down, playing-out-the-string version of the Mets – it can’t be that the other team won or something went wrong or an unlucky event occurred. No, it has to be someone’s fault. For instance: […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexis Diaz, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Grant Hartwig, Hunter Greene, Jonathan India, Pete Alonso, Reds, Relief Pitching Who are these Mets, anyway? Joey Lucchesi was terrific, Mark Vientos homered, Pete Alonso drove in three on a homerless night and — in the most astonishing development of all — Trevor Gott and Drew Smith were allowed to pitch and didn’t fall apart like cheap watches. There was a nifty flying slide home by Jeff […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Diamondbacks, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marty Noble, Pete Alonso, Trevor Gott |
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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