 
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. |
Twelve! Twelve! Twelve! And so on. You didn’t necessarily have to be there. You could glean just fine far from Citi Field what 12 runs in one inning looked like, felt like, even smelled like. It smelled like victory, of course. But if you were fortunate enough to be at Citi Field on Friday night, […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alexa, Butch Huskey, Jake Peavy, Mets Jeopardy, Mike Broadway, My Cousin Vinny, Neil Walker, New Year's Eve, Sade, Team History, Twelve-Run Inning, Ty Wigginton, Yoenis Cespedes The only thing missing from Wednesday night’s game was Keith Hernandez requesting that someone put a tent on the circus. This is not a blueprint for constructing a satisfying baseball game: a seemingly much reduced Matt Harvey giving up a home run to Zack Cozart on the fourth pitch thrown, followed by Ivan De Jesus smacking the seventh pitch […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Scott Schebler Sometimes you just have a feeling. Sometimes you just know — no matter how long the odds, how deep the deficit, how frustrating the evening has been — that when it’s all over, your team is going to come through for you. I knew no such thing Tuesday night. I can’t even say I had a […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Brandon Finnegan, Bryan Price, Cold, Comebacks, David Wright, Hamilton, Ivan DeJesus, Mike Piazza, Mysterious Tyler Holt Chant, Pleasant Surprises, Spinal Stenosis, Tony Cingrani, Tough Tickets, Tyler Holt, Yalta, Yoenis Cespedes Everything is a small sample size if you want it to be. Nothing proves anything until it does. After 20 games of 2015, when the Mets were 15-5 and led the last-place Nationals by eight lengths, it indicated they were gonna run away with the National League East — but it proved nothing. After 102 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Large Enough Sample Sizes, Leading Indicators, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud In the late innings of Sunday’s game, Gary and Keith warned us that this snoozy matinee against the Braves wasn’t over — and was a lot closer than it felt. They were right about the peril and the presumption. The Braves were within bloop-and-a-blast range of a tie in those late innings and came within a […] What was Chipper Jones doing in the Mets clubhouse before Saturday night’s game at Turner Field? Presumably signing over the deed on the joint to the visiting team. Remember when Larry was loathed and Turner was terrifying? Vaguely. Like the Atlanta Braves who made the National League Eastern Division their private hunting preserve, it all seems […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobby Jones, Braves, Butch Huskey, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Greg McMichael, John Franco, Juan Lagares, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Sun Trust Park, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption, Turner Field, Worms That Turn Matt Harvey? Not fixed. If anything, Harvey looked worse than he did in Cleveland. The velocity was up a little, perhaps, but still not where it needs to be, and the pitches were up a lot. Harvey staggered through five innings, bailed out by Yoenis Cespedes‘s insane throw to the plate and a bit of luck. With […] Welcome to Flashback Friday, where a prospective champion and a musical monarch are gonna show us what it’s all about. New York Mets pitchers and catchers reported to St. Petersburg for the club’s 25th Spring Training on Friday, February 21, 1986. The very next day, “Kiss” became the 18th single recorded by the artist known as […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Flashback Friday, Moment of Silence, Prince, Top 500 Songs I’m sorry it went down like this My premonition called me in the middle innings Wednesday night from the Molly Pitcher rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. He used a pay phone. He runs a very old-school operation. “The Mets,” he said over a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Ruiz, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Freddie Galvis, Glenn Frey, Peter Bourjos, Phillies, Premonitions, Travis d'Arnaud I missed the first Met home run of Tuesday night while I was consumed by the culinary arts. I missed the second Met home run of Tuesday night because I was standing in line waiting to partake of the democratic process. Don’t worry, the Mets said — we’ll make more. And I approve that message. If you […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Home Runs, Juan Lagares, Logan Verrett, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Best, Rafael Montero, The Beatles, Yoenis Cespedes |
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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