Well, I’m stoked for Mickey Callaway. I was prepared to be stoked to varying degrees for Joe McEwing, Manny Acta, Alex Cora or Kevin Long had any of them been named the next manager of the New York Mets, but I’m probably a little extra excited about Callaway getting the job. Judging from his introductory […]
 
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. |
 24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2018 Mets, Mets Managers, Mickey Callaway, Sandy Alderson, Stoked Some games words filter into your brain. The word of the night Friday was “taut,” as in nice and tight, the way you’d figure someone who intermittently devotes himself to baseball as something of an academic discipline would like it. Give a student of the game a 2-1 affair won by his favorite team and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Analytics, Andrew Knapp, Bartolo Colon, Ben Lively, Broadcasters, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, SABR, Sandy Alderson, Tautness, Tim Tebow, Tom Goodwin, Ty Kelly, Yoenis Cespedes 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 […] So the Jay Bruce era — you must’ve known I wasn’t going to call it Jon Niese 2.0 — is off to a roaring start. No thanks to Bruce himself, but that’s OK — Yoenis Cespedes needed a couple of days to acclimate too. Most of us, if suddenly transferred across the country to work for a […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejando De Aza, Dilson Herrera, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sandy Alderson, Travis d'Arnaud The Mets were the champions of the National League in 2015 without anybody being officially judged particularly valuable. The Baseball Writers Association of America has an award that declares who’s Most Valuable, and no Met got anywhere near it. Twenty National Leaguers were named on BBWAA ballots and only two of those names belonged to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Awards, Curtis Granderson, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Willie Mays, Yoenis Cespedes, Yogi Berra For one night, not even the biggest Terry Collins hater could quibble with his bullpen management. Has Bartolo Colon ever been better in a Met uniform? He simply throttled the Marlins in recording the Mets’ first complete game of the year, even contributing a highlight-of-forever play by flipping a ball behind his back to Eric Campbell, […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, Scott Boras OK, so … Hmm. Umm. Seriously, how the hell do you start? Wednesday night’s game was weird before it began, but we had No Idea. Even before Will Venable headed for the plate to start the top of the first, Twitter was buzzing with rumors: The Mets were close to a deal, and it was for a bat — a […] 101 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Fans, Reporters, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trades, Weirdness, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler We love our Mets so much we can’t wait to replace as many as of them as is viable. Sandy Alderson apparently feels the same way. No complaints here. After patching together a roster with masking tape, postage stamp hinges and remainders from fractions homework, the GM has stayed busier than a jaded observer would have expected. Add […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Meisner, Doyle Alexander, Larry Anderson, Sandy Alderson, Trades, Tyler Clippard Three days ago, a thrilling game against the Dodgers would have ended a bit differently. Rather than Juan Uribe staring out at Kenley Jansen, it would have been Eric Campbell or Darrell Ceciliani or Johnny Monell or John Mayberry Jr. or someone else we’ve written about more often in sorrow than in celebration. That isn’t fair. Perhaps […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Juan Uribe, Radio, Sandy Alderson, Zack Greinke It’s odd being away from your baseball team for nine games. Not to mention that being six hours ahead of behind the U.S. pretty much takes you out of seeing anything. While I was in Italy night games began at 1 a.m. I caught a couple of innings of the Mets and the Cardinals trudging […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Michael Cuddyer, Sandy Alderson |
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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