 
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. |
We now join a traditionally accurate version of “Meet The Mets,” already in progress. ’Cause the Mets are really That’s not how it goes, but it is a reflection of Mets baseball like it oughta be, right? This is the pitching-rich organization, the franchise defined by the Franchise, whose most delicate […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Home Runs, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, Team History The Mets’ Closing Day Preemption Tour touched down in Philadelphia on Sunday. One week after the final regular-season home game didn’t feel particularly final, the last date on the previously published schedule gave way to one more afternoon that didn’t jibe with the customary rhythms of the baseball calendar. Game 162 is supposed to be the […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Closing Day, Team History The Mets are 84-74. They have never, in the history of the franchise, been 84-74 before. There is no inherent significance to having achieved this statistical milestone. It’s simply something I deduced after staring at their record for a moment. To have ever been 84-74, the Mets would have — in the segments of their past […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curt Gowdy, Endings, Jay Bruce, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Noah Syndergaard, Records, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes What to do with a 1-0 loss? Throw stuff? Suck it up? Shrug? There are no wrong answers. It is the baseball epitome of close but no cigar. I’m not sure of the appeal of cigars, but one run sure sounded good on Wednesday. One Met run, that is. There was one National run, and it […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2008 Mets, Bob Sebra, Fernando Salas, Jay Bruce, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Mike Pelfrey, Robert Gsellman, Tanner Roark, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes If the season had ended on July 9, the New York Mets would have been the undisputed second Wild Card in the National League, a status that could not be applied to them again until nearly two months later, last night, September 8. So it’s good thing the season didn’t end, because it would have […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballpark Goodbyes, Half-Games, Team History, Turner Field The Giants certainly know how to slot their promotions, scheduling their annual Jerry Garcia Tribute Night for when the Mets came to town Thursday. A friend of mine, not much of a Grateful Dead fan, liked to tell the joke, “What did the Deadhead say once the drugs wore off — ‘man, this music sucks.’” I […] 51 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Trip, Grand Slams, Grateful Dead, Jacob deGrom, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Team History It doesn’t take a Richard Henry Lee galloping down to the House of Burgesses and back (stopping off in Stratford long enough to refresh the missus) to deliver a resolution that declares unequivoca-LEE that the four-game series the New York Mets just completed against the Chicago Cubs is and ought to be considered among the […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1981 Mets, 1985 Mets, Cubs, Edgardo Alfonzo, Records, Sweeps, Team History, Wilmer Flores For nine innings Saturday night, you might have believed you were watching the Mets perform in historically frustrating fashion, better known as just another game from the past eight weeks. On April 30, the Mets had risen to eight games above .500, Michael Conforto was soaring atop an OPS of 1.118 and the only change […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1985 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Dario Alvarez, Darryl Strawberry, Extra Innings, Frank Lary, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, Jim Maloney, John Tudor, Johnny Lewis, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Ken Dayley, Larry Bearnarth, Moment of Silence, Parks & Recreation, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Team History Once upon a time, the spring of 1969, to be precise, the New York Mets were in the market for a hitter. Sure, other GMs told their Met counterpart Johnny Murphy, we’ll give you somebody. Names like Joe Torre, Richie Allen, even Frank Robinson were floated. All it would cost the Mets was young starting […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, Donn Clendenon, Fair Exchange, John Gant, Johnny Murphy, Jon Matlack, Michael Fulmer, Steve Renko, Team History, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets have played 38.3% of their allotted baseball games for 2016, which in and of itself is no magic number, but if you do the math and calculate that 38.3% of a pie has been consumed, you understand 61.7% of it remains. If you express 61.7% as a decimal figure, the kind you’d see […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Akeel Morris, Alejandro De Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bill Terry, Chico Fernandez, Dick Scott, Erik Goeddel, George Davis, Hope, James Loney, Kelly Johnson, Mets Third Basemen, Milestones, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Office Space, One Met Homer Only, Polo Grounds, Recidivist Mets, Team History, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores, Zach Davies |
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. |
|
Copyright © 2026 Faith and Fear in Flushing - All Rights Reserved |
||