 
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. |
I was right to be wary of Bryce Harper after a lousy game Thursday: BOOM Harper hit for the cycle. It’s always a good call to be wary of Kyle Schwarber: BOOM two home runs in the third inning alone, 913 feet worth of pain, and then a homer to a more mortal distance later on. […] Welcome to a sunny Friday without a baseball game, which is so weird that I know that come early evening I’ll be poking at my TV remote in consternation until I remember: “Oh yeah, stupid World Cup.” At least that gives us extra time (see what I did there) to marvel at the Mets’ 6-4 win […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, Aaron Nola, Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh, Bryce Harper, Devin Williams, Eric Wagaman, Foul Balls, Gil Hodges, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Alvarado, Juan Soto, Justin Crawford, Kyle Schwarber, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Phillies, Sean Manaea, Wind For a little while Wednesday night the Mets played non-embarrassing baseball. Which isn’t to say they were leading — they weren’t — but that they weren’t being beaten as badly as seemed likely at first. Clay Holmes pitched OK-adjacent, giving up two runs in the first but escaping far worse harm, and hung in there until […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Clay Holmes, Cristopher Sanchez, Disappointment, Gregory Soto, Phillies, Sean Manaea, SNY One recipe for a good baseball game? A sequence of unlikely events. No-hitters flipped into walkoffs, storming back to a ninth-inning win, Houdini-ing your way out of what looks like statistical doom, that kind of thing. Monday night’s game in Philadelphia was a good game, much as we would have preferred a duller one with a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, Aaron Nola, Aborted Comebacks, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jhoan Duran, Nick Castellanos, Nolan McLean, Phillies, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley “My Girl” you know about — the singalong that accompanies Francisco Lindor‘s ABs is a new tradition that’s all the sweeter for its organic origins and the Mets having sense enough to stay out of the way. But the crowd at Citi Field wasn’t satisfied with augmenting the Temptations. They did the honors on “Take Me […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Schwarber, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Sweeps, Taijuan Walker, Tanner Banks, Trea Turner “Show a little faith! There’s magic in the night!” That’s one of Bruce Springsteen’s best-known exhortations, a commandment for wavering lovers, teetering dreamers and yes, fans of oddly underwhelming baseball fans. But until Tuesday night, it had largely fallen flat where the 2025 Mets were concerned. Until Tuesday night, but not forever. Game two of the seven-game, two-city […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Bryce Harper, Carlos Mendoza, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, Jesus Luzardo, Jhoan Duran, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Orion Kerkering, Parabolic Microphones, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Ryan Helsley, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Willie Traynor Ebbs and flows, flows and ebbs. A baseball season is filled with them — stretches in which a band of players watch everything they touch turn into Ws and others in which their incompetence is so bafflingly chronic that you half-believe it’s deliberate. Those who have played the game will always have a leg up […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Edmundo Sosa, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Keith Raad, Losing, Phillies, Tyler Zuber It’s the top of the sixth at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night. Blade Tidwell, a rookie pitcher carrying a parcel of promise along with a name one can picture Carnac the Magnificent working into one of his curses after an audience doesn’t respond as he wishes to one of his prognostications (“may your Blade […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, Carnac, Jeff Kent, Jeff McNeil, Jose Valentin, Losing Streak, Paul Lo Duca, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Shawn Green, Slight Resilience, Taijuan Walker, Two Runners at Home Plate, Zack Wheeler Hey Mets fans? Which National League teams do you hate? The most common answer is that we hate — in the operatic sports pantomime sense of the word, you understand — the Braves and the Phillies. This is the way of the world, as those two teams are our principal antagonists in the National League East. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Hatred, Jameson Taillon, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Phillies, White Sox “No way we were losing that game!” I exclaimed the instant after we won that game, “that game” being Wednesday afternoon’s ten-inning thriller at Citi Field and “we” being the New York Mets, with me implicit in the first-person plural. Of course there were many ways we could have lost that game, as most games […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A Touch of Giddiness, April, Balks, Baserunning, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hayden Senger, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Nick Castellanos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reversals, Rob Thomson, Starling Marte, Sweeps, Winning Streaks, Zack Wheeler |
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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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