 
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. |
Oh, how quickly things can change. Who’d even heard of Phil Bickford 10 days ago? And yet tonight there I was cheering energetically for Bickford to get out of a straitjacket against the Cubs and give the Mets a win — in a rubber game, no less. I could say I was on the edge of my […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Booing, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Ian Happ, Phil Bickford, Rene Rivera Welcome to the fourth 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 […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Eric Campbell, Hansel Robles, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Edgin, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Cuddyer, Neil Walker, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera 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 With the Mets in a pennant race again, I’ve been remembering all the little stresses that come with meaningful games in September. Here’s one of them: Getting to within an hour or two of the game and thinking that this could be Execution Day — the day where, if they don’t win, you can pretty much […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Joe Panik, Joe Ross, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera If MLB plans to sell gameworn home team apparel from this past weekend’s Mets-Braves series at Citi Field, it had better come in an urn. There should be nothing but ashes left from those ghastly ghostly getups that we never need see again. They weren’t pleasant to squint at as you tried to figure who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baserunners, Dallas Keuchel, Josh Donaldson, Mantras, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Steven Matz, Sweeps, Tailor-Made Double Plays Fine with me if you dug into a basketful of chocolate bunnies, creme eggs and jelly beans on Sunday. Or macaroons, mandel cuts and leftover sponge cake. Whatever kind of peep you fancy yourself, I do hope you didn’t confine yourself to only sweets and treats. No […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Ochoa, Carl Everett, Curtis Granderson, Dakota Hudson, Dexter Fowler, Easter, Frank Thomas, Futility, Marv Throneberry, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Passover, Pete Alonso, Pitchers Hitting, Rene Rivera, Robinson Cano, Solo Home Runs, Team History, Todd Hundley, Umpiring, Wilmer Flores 1. Welcome aboard the first active roster of 2019 to the eight Mets who have never been Mets before: Robinson Cano, Edwin Diaz, Wilson Ramos, Keon Broxton, J.D. Davis, Justin Wilson, Luis Avilan and Pete Alonso. We like each of you now because you’re Mets. Someday we’ll […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Danny Espinosa, Devin Mesoraco, Edwin Diaz, Gavin Cecchini, J.D. Davis, Justin Wilson, Keon Broxton, Luis Avilan, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Rene Rivera, Robinson Cano, Ruben Tejada, T.J. Rivera, Third Base, Travis Taijeron, Uncle Floyd, Uniform Numbers, Wilson Ramos June 3, 2017, was a fine Saturday night for the New York Mets, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field, 4-2, with, Lucas Duda at first, Neil Walker at second, Curtis Granderson in center, Jay Bruce around in right, René Rivera catching, and Addison Reed pitching the eighth and ninth innings to record his […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Curtis Granderson, De Facto Designated Hitter, Dominic Smith, Kevin Plawecki, M&M's Sweet Seats, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera, Youth of America Can we play the Giants for the rest of the year? Let’s be clear about something: the Mets’ three-game sweep of San Francisco doesn’t mean they’re suddenly good. They’re just better than the Giants, for whom “can’t get out of their own way” would be a kind assessment. The Giants are having a once-in-several-generations cratering of […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Bradford, Curtis Granderson, Giants, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera Thursday night found me at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse in Manhattan for my talk on Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star. It was a wonderful — or 31derful — time, and I thank proprietor and all-around ace human being Jay Goldberg for inviting and hosting me. I also appreciate all who showed up to listen in and […] |
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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