 
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. |
The Mets can’t beat the Dodgers, the best team in baseball. The Dodgers have been beating everybody regularly, though they’ve looked human against the Braves. The Braves can’t beat the Phillies. The Phillies, particularly at home, can’t beat the Mets. Hey — did we just become the best team in baseball? Pythagoras called and said I’m deriving […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citizens Bank Park, Curtis Granderson, Dom Smith, Fernando Salas, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Mysterious Dominance, Neil Walker, Phillies, Wilmer Flores The season is lost. The Mets are lost. We as Mets fans are lost. A dark forest surrounds us. It is wilderness out there. Who’s going to lead us somewhere worth going? Judging by Wednesday afternoon’s 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Ryder Ryan, Trades No matter how many ballgames you go to, it is often mentioned, you’ll see something you haven’t seen before. Sure enough, I experienced a plethora of firsts on Tuesday night, which was by no means my first ballgame. Let’s see what I saw that I hadn’t seen previously… • The pat-you-down security guy hassling me about my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Beltre, AJ Ramos, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Chris Flexen, LIRR, Mama's of Corona, Neil Walker, Rangers, Ryan Church, Ryder Chasin Thanks to Baseball Reference, everybody’s an ace researcher today, hence data points that previously only obsessives like me were aware of become instantly disseminated fact. On Sunday night, after the Mets lost to the Dodgers — and I should have a key on my computer that will type out “the Mets lost to the Dodgers” […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, 2017 Mets, Milestones, Over .500, Progress, Records, Team History, Under .500 As the Mets were getting underway Friday night in Flushing, I was situated well north of Citi Field, holding down half of a table at the Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing in Connecticut, a fundraiser for the grand old Hotchkiss Library, founded 124 years ago next month. The other half of the table was occupied […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, Connecticut, Dodgers, Excellent Addition to Your Canoeing Library, Hotchkiss Library, Justin Turner, Rich Hill, Sandy Koufax, Seth Lugo, Tug McGraw The Mets returned home from Colorado to face the unfathomable juggernaut that is the 2017 Dodgers, and looked listless as they slogged through a deeply boring game in which they were little more than anonymous cannon fodder to be dispatched. Jacob deGrom was the closest thing the team had to an offensive highlight, collecting one […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chase Utley, Jacob deGrom, Retired Numbers, T-shirts, Yu Darvish It’s an inadvertent law of roster construction that every team have one reliever whose niche — the one assigned to him by the baseball deities, as opposed to envisioned for him by management — is to be the guy in the aluminum suit who stands on the roof during lightning storms. You know him. He’s Rich […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bad Relief Pitching, Charlie Blackmon, Hansel Robles, Nolan Arenado, Rafael Montero, Yoenis Cespedes They’ve played big-league baseball in Colorado for nearly a quarter-century now somehow, which means it’s lost its capacity to shock. There have been some refinements along the way — fences, humidors and the like — that have dialed the videogame-gone-mad experience of early games against the Rockies down to levels approximating baseball on Earth. Note I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chasen Bradford, Chris Flexen, Coors Field, Curtis Granderson The Amed Rosario Era commenced Tuesday night in Denver. Also, the Michael Conforto Era, the Steven Matz Era, the Jose Reyes Era and all the other eras on which we blithely bestow the names of the callups whose debuts we breathlessly anticipate continued. We don’t necessarily think of those as eras in progress. The unalloyed […] I’m not the type to carelessly leave a hat on a train, but on Sunday, I apparently carelessly left a hat on a train. I came home, realized I didn’t have it and inferred it rode the LIRR eastbound without me. If I wore hats regularly, I suppose I would have found it on my […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, Addison Reed, Amed Rosario, Caps, Comings, Empire State Building, Gerson Bautista, Goings, Jamie Callahan, Lena Russo, Moment of Silence, Stephen Nogosek |
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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