 
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. |
David Peterson was bad and then OK and then bad again and then had a chance to give the karmic wheel another shove: Mets down two in the fourth, bases loaded, James Wood at the plate, 0-2 count. The 0-2 part was positive considering Peterson has been mashed by lefties and you could argue he shouldn’t […] “The Mets are a team bursting with all the desperation, psychosis, pain, chaos, and cruel optimism for a better future that persists though civilization’s sunset. We watch the catastrophe unfold, refusing to fully admit our doom…” Today I decided the Mets would win a ballgame. They were playing the Cubs on a Friday afternoon […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Kodai Senga, Lineups, Losing Streaks, MJ Melendez, Positive Thinking, Sean Manaea, Summerlike Weather, The Wind Blowing Out, Wrigley Field Annnnd we’ve reached another milestone a lot earlier than we might have hoped: the season’s first game that I recap belatedly because I can’t stand the thought of reliving it. If you didn’t see Thursday night’s game, well, good on you for making better life choices than I did. The Mets largely didn’t hit, yet again […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, David Peterson, Disappointment, Giants, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Sean Manaea Did any fanbase need a laugher more than we did? OK, maybe Tuesday night wasn’t exactly a laugher — call it a chuckler, perhaps — but a five-run first and a pair of homers in the second took away a lot of the tension, allowing us to monitor the “piggyback” experiment that saw Sean Manaea take […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Michael King, Padres, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea 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 Before the Labor Day matinee against the Tigers, a friend asked me an alarming question: Who are the Mets’ starters for a playoff series? Kodai Senga? He’s been awful since returning from injury and Carlos Mendoza didn’t exactly offer a ringing, unambiguous vote of confidence about him remaining in the rotation. David Peterson? Bad start has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Comerica Park, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Starting Pitching, Surviving Our Bullpen, Tigers “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 Midway through Thursday afternoon’s Mets-Nationals game, about the time I suspected Washington’s overcoming of New York’s lead was not going to be reversible, I remembered the Nationals used to be the Expos. It’s not as if I’d wholly forgotten from whence the Nationals moved following the 2004 season, it’s just that the Quebec connection long […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cedric Mullins, Expos, Lack of Momentum, Nationals, Natspos, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Solo Home Runs, Tyler Rogers The best chance for Mets fans to enjoy some happy days rather than endure more dog days as mid-August inevitably commences shedding summer will appear on the Citi Field mound this afternoon when Nolan McLean makes his major league debut. I was going to call it his hotly anticipated major league debut, but it’s almost […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Mariners, Nolan McLean, Pratt & McClain, Rock Bottom, Ryan Helmsley, Sean Manaea, SuperBullpen, Tyler Rogers, Urban Myth “Wanna watch the Mets play the Angels?” “A great is a great. Wanna watch?” “Not necessarily. Wanna watch?” “They can, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Satisfaction, Sean Manaea, Sweeps, Travis d'Arnaud, Ump Show |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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