 
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 are those caveats you asked me to pick up on my way here: 1) Lousy teams sometimes shake off their lousiness for a spell before reverting to lousy. 2) Lousy teams sometimes encounter lousier teams and take advantage of their lousiness. 3) Lousy teams sometimes rise toward .500 without ever touching the break-even point and thus remain […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Contenders, Contention Cosplay, Dusty Springfield, I Love Lucy, Protective Netting, Winning Streaks, Zack Wheeler You could look at how Noah Syndergaard pitched Tuesday night’s game against the White Sox — brilliantly — and infer that this was Noah’s way of telling the Mets how much being one of them means to him. You could look at how the Mets played in support of Noah as he pitched brilliantly — maddeningly […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Ervin Santana, Jason Vargas, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, Tomato Cans, Trade Deadline, Trade Rumors, White Sox, Zack Wheeler I’ll give the Mets this much: They do keep you interested. I started Sunday in the park with Emily and Joshua, securing visors and nice tickets in section 101, another one of those sections that didn’t exist at Shea and so are irresistible to me. The best thing about our seats? This time, they were in […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Chris Archer, Edwin Diaz, Jason Vargas, Jung Ho Kang, Marcus Stroman, Media, Noah Syndergaard, Ownership, Pirates, Robinson Cano, Trade Rumors, Trades, Tyler Bashlor, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler It was reasonably fitting that Jay Payton stopped by the SNY booth in the bottom of the fourth inning Friday night. Jay and Butch Huskey are this weekend’s special guest alumni at Citi Field. If you haven’t noticed, every Friday the Mets welcome home a pair of former players to meet the press, sign autographs […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Jay Payton, Mets Alumni, Timing, Trade Deadline, Zack Wheeler The lazy interpretation of a Mets win over the Yankees is that the Mets looked like the Yankees and vice-versa, ha-ha; you can almost hear it coming out of the generic local anchor throwing it to sports. Excuse me while I step outside and punch that narrative in the face. Yet now that I’ve gone there, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Opposite, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler On Saturday afternoon, July 17, 1976, I saw Lloyd Waner hit and Tom Seaver pitch. Same place, different games. Waner appeared in the Old Timers Game at sunny Shea Stadium. At 13, I considered it a hoot that someone from the dusty pages of baseball’s distant past stood in the box and swung the bat, […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1976 Mets, 41 Seaver Way, Lloyd Waner, Old Timers Day, Past, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler It is one of baseball’s great curiosities that your sub-.500 team can leave its home park, whip a first-place opponent in its home park by a fairly uncommon score on a Tuesday and do the exact same thing four days later to another first-place opponent in its home park. This particular phenomenon may not quite […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Porn, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Picket Fence, Replay Review, Team History, Uncommon Scores Occurring in Proximity, Zack Wheeler Doubleheaders are funny beasts. Lose the first game — as the Mets just did in the Bronx against some team from an arriviste beer league — and you simultaneously take solace in the fact that doubleheader sweeps are hard to pull off and are gripped with horror at the prospect of dropping two games in one […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Doubleheaders, Luke Voit, Masahiro Tanaka, Subway Series, Yankees, Zack Wheeler Zack Wheeler, in his fifth major league season of actually pitching as opposed to healing, has never pitched for a Mets team that finished with a winning record. The only two good seasons during his injury-interrupted tenure were the seasons he missed with Tommy John surgery and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1999 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Over .500, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler What was it Philippé Wynne was advising all over the radio in the autumn of 1976? Hey y’all, prepare yourself for the rubber game…win. Was that the lyric? Ah, close enough for rhythm & blues. However they heard it sung, the Mets apparently took a 43-year-old clue from the Spinners’ featured […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Adeiny Hechavarria, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Human Element, Interleague Play, JaCoby Jones, Miguel Cabrera, Rubber Games, Spencer Turnbull, The Spinners, Tigers, Zack Wheeler |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star 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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