 
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. |
Well, so much for the easy part. Oh my God, Fry, couldn’t you go seven words without being a bringdown? Honestly, I didn’t mean to do that. Let me zoom out a bit and try that again. There have been a number of Mets seasons in which a cupcake part of the schedule has beckoned, suggesting a chance […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz The Tenth Annual Princes and Chasins Spend a Tuesday Night At Citi Field in August Game came with a surprise at the bottom of its Cracker Jack box: competitive implications beyond the bonhomie inherent in these get-togethers. Bonhomie is all the four of us were in it for when we settled on this date, same […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Bonhomie, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Ryder Chasin, Tradition, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler “At 10:13 P.M., it became officially official. The Cubs had lost, 6-2. Even if the Mets lost the second game, they would still be first. Millennium, we are here. But the Mets were no longer in a mood to lose anything.” 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1969 Mets, Amed Rosario, Cramps, Curtis Granderson, Doubleheader Sweeps, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Brigham, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Over .500, Pete Alonso, Radio and TV Not in Sync, Robert Dugger, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Solo Home Runs, The West Wing, Tom Seaver, Walker Lockett This is just like that other year when the Mets were diddling around for almost four months, then got hot and catapulted themselves into a playoff chase already in progress. Do you remember that other year? You don’t. Because this is a new one on us. You’d think after 58 years, we’d have seen it all, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Contention, Donnie Hart, Hot Streaks, Injures, Noah Syndergaard, Robinson Cano, Unreality Saturday night found me in Tampa, Fla. Having finished a long day selling books at a convention, I headed out to meet writer friends for dinner. But I had other companions with me: the confounding, vexing, entertaining, and above all else unpredictable 2019 New York Mets. I was early and the restaurant had Wi-Fi, so I […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Marcus Stroman, Mickey Callaway, MLB At Bat, Wilson Ramos The Mets have won seven of their past eight…is a sentence that doesn’t make a Mets fan feel any better when it is understood that the eighth game in that string was the loss. It is as easily understood that seven-game winning streaks don’t automatically grow to eight and nine and so on just because […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gilbert O’Sullivan, Kevin Newman, Pennant Race, Robinson Cano, Starling Marte, Steven Matz, Trevor Williams, Tyler Bashlor, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks Halted 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 So in the end, after all the Sturming and Dranging, the Mets did nothing else. Noah Syndergaard stayed (and celebrated with a fairly hilarious bit of guerrilla Twitter video). Zack Wheeler stayed. Edwin Diaz stayed. Even Todd Frazier stayed. Prospects of whatever pedigree did not arrive. Cash considerations were not considered. Former college roommates of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Robinson Cano, Todd Frazier, Trade Deadline, Umpires, Weirdness, White Sox |
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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