 
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. |
It’s good to be the Giants. The 2021 Giants are what happens when everything breaks right — when veterans thought to be on the back end of the career curve have career years, role players step up, and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. And you know what? Good for them and […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  bad, Disappointment, Giants, Kris Bryant, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Rich Hill, Trevor May You can’t, as the saying goes, script baseball. You can’t necessarily script baseball players, either. If you could, I would have tried last Sunday when, at the conclusion of the Mets’ moribund weekend in Philadelphia, Pete Alonso met the press to attempt to explain what the hell was going wrong. Pete, I might have advised […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 27th Man, Doubleheaders, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams, Truth, Walkoffs The Mets are seven games over .500. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Mets have been seven games over .500 on nineteen separate occasions over the — wait for it — past seven weeks. Seven games over .500 isn’t bad. Ask the Atlanta Braves, who haven’t been as much as one game over .500 […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeem Bostick, Austin Riley, Brandon Drury, Bull Durham, Carlos Carrasco, Hits Without Runs, Pete Alonso, Prince, Promenade Box Blasts, Roster Turnover Seeing baseball in person always reminds me that the game is really two different experiences. The view from your couch lets you play HD voyeur, seeing everything from the pitcher’s grip to how the catcher frames each pitch — and with stats and expert analysis handed to you, like a surgeon taking tools from an […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Dansby Swanson, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Freddie Freeman, James McCann, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo First off, it didn’t rain. Anybody ready to take that for granted in the middle of a season when it anecdotally “always” rains? Chance of scattered thunderstorms, the forecast warned. I stuffed my disposable poncho I never dispose of and my portable Mets umbrella that I try not to use because then it would get […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Aaron Loup, Citi Field, Edwin Diaz, Jeff Keppinger, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Promenade, Rich Hill, Trivia Steven Matz made his debut for the Mets in June 2015, pitching against the Reds. It didn’t start out ideally — the young lefty from Long Island surrendered a home run to the first batter he faced in the big leagues, Brandon Phillips — but it soon got better. A lot better: Matz doubled in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Homecomings, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, Tylor Megill There are games you’re clearly fated to win, ones you’re pretty much guaranteed to lose, and ones where the outcome teeters and totters between joy and horror while your heart tries to keep pace. And then there are games like Monday night’s in Cincinnati — ones where the sheer insanity of everything gobbles up logic […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Banda, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, Errors, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jerad Eickhoff, Jesse Winker, Joey Votto, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Mac Scarce, Pete Alonso, Reds, Seth Lugo, Trevor May, Unlikely Events Baseball, that thing which I love and you love, still doesn’t feel quite like the baseball you love and I love. Not in 2021, not after 2020. The rule alterations that linger from last year have the sport askew and to no apparent useful purpose. We bought into the pandemic requiring trims around the edges. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, All-Star Game, Boardwalk, Daniel Murphy, Friendship, Heathers, Jeurys Familia, Long Beach, Pete Alonso, Radio, Richard Ben Cramer, Something Feels Off, Summer, Taijuan Walker, Uniforms, Wayne Randazzo You know what? I’ve come around on the idea of the Mets playing the Pirates again right after the All-Star Break. Not because I think the Pirates are a bunch of tomato cans — that’s a dangerous thing to think about any opponent, and if the Bucs win Sunday they’ll have split the series — but […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Edwin Diaz, John Nogowski, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Records, The Holy Books, Trevor May, Tyler Anderson, Tylor Megill “Hello, may I speak to Luis Rojas please?” 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Dave Roberts, Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Rain Delays, Taijuan Walker, Ten-Run Innings |
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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