 
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 a baseball rule: Things get weird in Denver. Imagine you were a Rockies fan who followed the schedule and dutifully showed up at the start time indicated for each game of your team’s three-game set against the Mets. (And why wouldn’t you, after seeing the Rockies whoop up on the Mets back in Queens?) Monday? Guess […] What is that baseball club that appears to know what it’s doing and then goes about doing it? Why, I do believe that’s the New York Mets. The New York Mets visited Colorado on Monday and started playing three hours before they were originally supposed to. That was very competent thinking, given the weather forecast for […] I went to my first Mets game of the 2026 season Friday night, and honestly I should have known that was a bad idea. “No April baseball” is a sensible rule, one I chose to ignore. I layered — boy howdy were there a lot of layers — and it was still cold. Feet like blocks […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bad Luck, Bo Bichette, Cap Bingo, Carson Benge, Double Plays, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Michael Lorenzen, Rockies So the Mets had another team meeting … and things got worse. Worse as in 12-1, worse as in out of it by the top of the second, worse as in Travis Jankowski finished up on the mound (before seeing a 2025 Mets AB, no less). Frankie Montas was terrible, the relievers who followed him weren’t […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anger, Cap Game, Eric Chavez, Frankie Montas, Jeremy Barnes, No Offense, Pirates, PNC Park, Rockies, Sweeps, Travis Jankowski Maybe you remember The Game-Ending Unassisted Triple Play Game, or TGEUTPG. If a game earns its name from a particular event within, it stands a pretty good chance of maintaining notoriety, with “notoriety” in this case being used correctly. TGEUTPG concluded with Luis Castillo on second base, Daniel Murphy on first, and Jeff Francoeur batting in […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, David Wright, Eras, Eric Bruntlett, Four-Inning Saves, Gary Rajsich, Inflection Points, Jeff Francoeur, Jeff McNeil, Long-Term Progress, Nadirs, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Plateaus, Pummelings, Rockies, Strides, Team History, Unassisted Triple Play, Under .500, West Wing There’s a lot one could say about Ronny Mauricio‘s third-inning home run in Denver Saturday night, starting with the fact that it went 456 feet and came down in the third deck. That’s … a long way. The third deck is a place where fans sit contentedly expecting not to be involved in the proceedings way […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Dick Monfort, Francisco Lindor, German Marquez, Home Runs, Jared Young, Jeff McNeil, Julian Merryweather, Justin Garza, Luis Torrens, Rockies, Ronny Mauricio The Mets played a strange game against the Greater Denver Daiquiri Machine Operators Local nine, who were sure spiffy in uniforms designed to look like the libations they serve so cheerfully. Oh wait, those were the Colorado Rockies, who inexplicably retired the best City Connects in the program and now look like human slushies. Their […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Chris Conroy, City Connects, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jake Bird, Kodai Senga, Mickey Moniak, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Ryan McMahon, Ryne Stanek, Strike Zones, Umpiring, Zach Agnos Some ballgames elude complexity. Sunday’s had on one side of Citi Field the team that was tied for best record in its league, and on the other side of the divide the team with the worst record in all of baseball. The team with a best-record claim had three world-class sluggers. The team with the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Johnny Mathis, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Simplicity Saturday’s game against the Rockies, the last tilt of May, was observed by your chronicler via a kaleidoscope of information sources from way out here in Tacoma, Wash.: looking down at MLB.tv on my phone during one of the Pacific Northwest’s never-quite-remitting rainstorms, via MLB Audio when the bandwidth pipe was a little too narrow […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Antonio Senzatela, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, City Connects, Dick Monfort, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Jesus Alou, Jonahs, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Minor Leagues, Ownership, Rhylan Thomas, Rockies, Ron Herbel, Salt Lake City Bees, Shintaro Fujinami, Tacoma Rainiers, Trevor Gott, Tyrone Taylor, Yolmer Sanchez A staple of postgame postmortems, specifically in the games where leads got away within sports whose rigidly timed action flows back and forth, is that the team that lost played not to lose rather than to win. Their defense wasn’t aggressive enough. Their offense wasn’t opportunistic enough. Winning wasn’t the priority. Not losing was, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cliches, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Not Losing, Reed Garrett, Rockies, Starling Marte |
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. 
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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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