 
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 opponent puts double digits in the run column and you win, anyway… When you record a final score in your favor that you haven’t posted since the final months of the previous century… When the prohibitive favorite to lead your team in his signature category for a record-tying fifth consecutive season might be compelled to […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, ABBA, Brett Baty, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Carrasco, DJ Stewart, Eddie Bressoud, Francisco Alvarez, Home Runs, Mets shortstops, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Polo Grounds, Robin Ventura, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, White Sox Everybody misplaces their Mojo from time to time. In the summer of 1999, Austin Powers had to chase his Mojo all the way back to 1969. A couple of months later, the 1999 Mets’ Mojo experienced dizzying spikes and frightening declines despite Jim Morrison’s advice that it should keep on risin’. For a night-and-a-half in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Austin Powers, Bloated Pitching Staffs, Brewers, Chasen Shreve, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Hunter Renfroe, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Mojo, Nick Plummer, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Robin Ventura, Seth Lugo, Short Benches, Starling Marte, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill Our club’s in jeopardy of disappearing from the divisional race they led for months on end, so perhaps the appropriate way to sum them up is through a smidgen of Jeopardy. THEY WERE NEVER Who are the 2021 New York Mets? Correct. Uncertainty has the board. The Mets of the moment […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2021 Mets, Identity, Mojo Risin’, Moment of Silence, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Robin Ventura Welcome to the ninth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Benny Agbayani, Billy Wagner, Cliff Floyd, Endy Chavez, John Franco, Mets of the 2000s, Paul Lo Duca, Rick Reed, Robin Ventura, Todd Zeile Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Being a catcher is a tough gig. The hours of squatting are bad enough, before considering foul tips, overenthusiastic backswings, and collisions at the plate. But being a backup catcher? That’s even tougher. Now […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Al Leiter, Alberto Castillo, Billy Taylor, Bucky Dent, Jorge Fabregas, Kevin McGlinchy, Matt Mantei, Mike Piazza, Robin Ventura, Shawon Dunston, Shea Stadium, Steve Finley, Tim Spehr, Todd Hundley, Todd Pratt You don’t see too many games like we saw Friday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never seen them win by before and there’s no telling if or when you’ll […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Sele, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Bonilla, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Granderson, Dave Magadan, Duke Snider, Harmonic Convergence, Irish Rovers, Jason Phillips, Jeremy Griffiths, Juan Samuel, Julio Machado, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Jacobs, Mike Marshall, Mike Pelfrey, Offensive Explosion, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tony Clark, Tracy Stallard, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes A 9-1 game in Pittsburgh. It sounded familiar. It should have. It was the score and scene of the first game the Mets ever won. Oh, those Original Mets. Such infamy is attached to their shortcomings, but when the Mets played that first 9-1 game in Pittsburgh on April 23, 1962, and upped their record to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2015 Mets, Bobby Gene Smith, David Wright, Elio Chacon, Felix Mantilla, Gil Hodges, Harvey Haddix, Jack Lamabe, Jay Hook, Robin Ventura, Tom Sturdivant, Unflattering Comparisons Today is the fifteenth anniversary of perhaps the most iconic base hit in the history of the New York Mets. To commemorate the events of October 17, 1999, here is an excerpt from what I wrote the month the Grand Slam Single turned ten. *** Four o’clock start Sunday. Too much down time to consider […] Like any properly focused Mets fan, I’ve followed the American League playoff picture with the same overarching desire with which I’ve followed every American League playoff picture: rooting for the Yankees to be eliminated from it. (Request to anybody who wants to chime in with haughty declarations regarding the insignificance of this outcome to overall […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Robin Ventura, White Sox It was a win, which made it much better than a loss, but for a Mets fan, it was mostly uneasy. The Mets were making their second Sunday Night Baseball appearance of 1998 on ESPN, their twentieth overall. The previous nineteen — beginning with the very first SNB telecast in 1990 and running through early […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Billy Wagner, Brian McRae, Carlos Baerga, Carlos Delgado, ESPN, Jason Bay, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Mo Vaughn, Replay, Robin Ventura, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History, Victor Zambrano, Willie Randolph |
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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