 
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. |
The first two games of the much-anticipated Mets-Dodgers series showed the Mets in an unfamiliar light: They looked like a good team up against a better one, with that better team riding dominant pitching and waiting for its opponent to make a mistake, then taking full advantage. And in the early going, Saturday night’s game looked […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brusdar Graterol, Buck Showalter, Colin Holderman, David Peterson, Dodgers, Gil Hodges, Horrendous Uniforms, Luis Guillorme, Mookie Betts, Pete Alonso, Walker Buehler Chris Bassitt nailed the ethic of the 2022 New York Mets so well so early that his comments following the third game of the season became the club’s credo, not to mention the soundtrack for commercials shown roughly every half-inning on SNY: “I don’t care who you are, I’m comin’ after you […] we’re just […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Grind, Late Night West Coast Games, Pete Alonso For whoever molds the story of the 2022 New York Mets into a controversial albeit highly entertaining limited series for HBO, here are a few data points to keep in mind when deciding where to be dramatic and where to be accurate. • Left fielder Nick Plummer was not making his major league debut when he […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Dramatization, Francisco Lindor, HBO, Nick Plummer, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Uniclone Scores, Winning The Phillies put up a six-spot in the sixth inning, which would have been a problem had the Mets not treated the fabric of Friday night’s game with a solution that prevented such spots from staining their outcome: a 7-0 lead. We’ve seen this season, usually from the encouraging side of things, the way tides can […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Ed Kranepool, Home Runs, Pete Alonso, Team History, Unblown Leads What was going through Darin Ruf‘s mind as he lay on or perhaps in the netting in San Francisco while the ball he’d been pursuing bounced around somewhere nearby in an entire-world sense but entirely too far away in a make-a-baseball-play sense while a less-than-ideal quantity of Mets hustled around the bases? Perhaps he was thinking […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cobb, Darin Ruf, David Peterson, Giants, Luis Gonzalez, Maurico Llovera, Pete Alonso The withstanding has begun. The Mets are 1-0 in the What The Hell Are We Going To Do Now? era. It will last anywhere from six weeks to eight weeks to whenever it actually ends. When you see Max Scherzer glaring from a mound near you, you’ll know it’s over. For a spell on Thursday, it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Bobby Ewing, Chris Bassitt, Colin Holderman, Jeff McNeil, Max Scherzer, Obliques, Pete Alonso, Walkoffs Can the Mets win by seven and have that feel like an afterthought? It turns out they can — if the takeaway from the game isn’t a blast of a homer by Pete Alonso or a hustling triple by happily hale and hearty Brandon Nimmo or a host of hitting to break the second half of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Brandon Nimmo, Cardinals, Hope, Hopelessness, Injuries, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pitchers Pete Alonso just swung by to remind us that not every Met ending that oughta be happy winds up that way, nor do even the most promising of post-1986 Mets teams always play baseball like it oughta be. Or maybe Pete Alonso just swung — again. Last we saw him, he couldn’t help himself. It was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Catchers, Chasen Shreve, Colin Holderman, Coping, Curried Chicken, Didn’t Have It, Francisco Lindor, Goodfellas, Injures, J.B. Smoove, James McCann, Jerry DiPoto, Mariners, More Like It, One-Run Defeats, Patrick Mazeika, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Triples, Tylor Megill The Mets have now played the Mariners 16 times in their history, but such a matchup will always feel a bit like a videogame showdown with a weird little cousin. “You want to be the Mariners? C’mon, really? It’s the AL West — I don’t know any of those names. Hell, half of them look […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Marco Gonzales, Mariners, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred A Sunday doubleheader! Doesn’t that sound great? Not a split doubleheader (which isn’t a doubleheader; it’s just two games in one day). Not an abundance-of-caution seven-inning doubleheader (which would actually be a fourteen-inning doubleheader, but let’s not return there). A real settling in, beginning with a regulation game, pausing for a breather, then continuing with […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Confidence, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer, Off the Base of the Wall, Pete Alonso, Splits, Sunday Doubleheaders |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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