When the Mets edged the Braves in the afternoon portion of Wednesday’s day-night “doubleheader” at Citi Field (if they scan for tickets twice, then it’s really just two wholly separate games played on the same day), it was both satisfying and mystifying. The satisfaction came mainly from the Mets having extended a winning streak to […]
 
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. |
Here’s a free preview of the 2026 Holy Books roundup: It wasn’t Carson Benge‘s fault. On Friday night Benge made not one but two sparking plays against the Dodgers, first nailing Shohei Ohtani at third when the best player in the history of the game tried to turn a one-handed excuse-me double into a triple, and […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Minter, Brooks Raley, Carson Benge, Dodgers, Francisco Alvarez, Freddie Freeman, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Roki Sasaki, Sean Manaea, Shohei Ohtani On Thursday evening, the Mets saw fire, or at least the haze from the smoke that wafted down to Philadelphia from Canada, and responded well, all climate conditions considered. On Saturday afternoon, the Mets saw rain. A start time accelerated by an hour and an eventual 48-minute delay didn’t keep them from appearing all wet. The James […] Every now and then, the Mets fall apart. Take Sean Manaea. Thursday afternoon under cloudy skies against the visiting Royals, he was totally blitzed at the start by Lane Thomas’s leadoff home run. Did we get a little terrified? At the very least, everything looked dim to us, but then our Comeback Lefty of the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bonnie Tyler, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Moment of Silence, Sean Manaea, Tyrone Taylor Before the Mets fell — and I do mean fell — in Atlanta on Saturday night, 14-3 (Pete Gogolak connected for a late field goal, but those two Falcon touchdowns were too much to overcome), Juan Soto was named as a starting outfielder to the National League All-Star team. This might be a fact worthy […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alphabetical Order, Guillermo Zuñiga, Guillo Zuñiga, Joey Gerber, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Position Players Pitching, Sean Manaea, Team History, Tyler Zuber So let’s see. The Mets… …turned Sean Manaea‘s sixth pitch of the game into a 1-0 deficit, as Juan Soto let what should have been a George Springer single bounce over his head, after which it also eluded A.J. Ewing, allowing Springer to dash pell mell around the bases and score. …hit about eight zillion balls on […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Bo Bichette, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, George Springer, Joey Gerber, Juan Soto, Louis Varland, Ronny Mauricio, Sean Manaea, Tyler Rogers Welcome to a sunny Friday without a baseball game, which is so weird that I know that come early evening I’ll be poking at my TV remote in consternation until I remember: “Oh yeah, stupid World Cup.” At least that gives us extra time (see what I did there) to marvel at the Mets’ 6-4 win […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Aaron Nola, Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh, Bryce Harper, Devin Williams, Eric Wagaman, Foul Balls, Gil Hodges, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Alvarado, Juan Soto, Justin Crawford, Kyle Schwarber, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Phillies, Sean Manaea, Wind Well, they didn’t lose 12-0. Nope, on Tuesday night the Mets fell behind 4-0 in the first, but then won the rest of the game 3-1, which is a roundabout way of saying they lost 5-3. Kodai Senga somehow only gave up two hits over four innings, but those two hits came in the form of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Futility, Injuries, Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Reds, Ron Darling, Sean Manaea A few hours before the Knicks turned New York City into the world’s largest block party, the Mets lost a humdrum game against the Braves by the told-you-it-was-humdrum score of 3-1. To be fair, the biggest positive of the game was actually worth noting: Sean Manaea got the start and turned in six effective innings, a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Braves, Droughts, Eli White, Juan Soto, Knicks, Martin Perez, Michael Harris II, Replay Review, Rick Sweet, Sean Manaea, Umpires Emily and I were up in Massachusetts for our high-school reunion and so missed both the good vibes of Friday night’s game and the disappointment of Saturday’s clunker. Plus we drove up Thursday night, which was an off-day, spent by the Mets in their usual posture of wandering the West Coast. Even in a season that’s […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Carson Benge, Freddy Fermin, Jared Young, MJ Melendez, Padres, Sean Manaea |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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