 
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 keys are a couple of months from formal exchange, but the hardware store has been put on alert to make up a new set for the new owner who is preparing to move into 41 Seaver Way. Say “hi” real soon to Steve Cohen, your next control person of the New York Mets. We’ve heard […] The Mets shuffled off from Buffalo with one more loss than win for their weekend’s work and three fewer games remaining on their truncated schedule, thereby humbling their already modest postseason chances. Not that they were much to begin with, but sooner or later, you can take only so much comfort from relative proximity to […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2019 Mets, David Peterson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Nostalgia, September, Seth Lugo, Shadows, The West Wing, Todd Frazier In a sixty-game season whose primary appeal may be the encompassing of elements largely unprecedented, you pretty much have to be in it for those things you’ve never seen before. They may not add up to an orthodox major league campaign, let alone big-picture success, but they sure do get your attention. Take a 1-unassisted at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Blue Jays, Buffalo, Erasmo Ramirez, Game-Losing Pickoffs, Pitchers Fielding, Saves, Seth Lugo, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Wilson Ramos WHAM! BIFF! SOCK! OOF! I’d been eager for a view of Sahlen Field, the highest-capacity Triple-A park in the U.S., which a generation ago was talked up as a ready-made big-league park for expansion. (It was also the first park built by the now-ubiquitous HOK, since renamed Populous.) Expansion never happened, but Sahlen is now a […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buffalo Bisons, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jacob deGrom, Laughers, Michael Conforto, Road Warriors, Sahlen Field, Toronto Blue Jays Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. July 21, 2004 was a hot and sticky day in New York, with the temperature in the high 80s and a night that didn’t promise to be much more comfortable. The Mets were bumping […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Brian Schneider, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Max Rubin, Peter O'Brien, Trevor Richards, Ty Wigginton They’re messing with us, right? The Mets getting us to take them semi-seriously for another day is part of a larger prank, right? They look moribund half the time. They give up late-inning leads the other half. They play in a depressing cartoon atmosphere where balls travel a thousand feet and the fans in the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Dom DeLuise, Edwin Diaz, Michael Conforto, Nicknames, Pete Alonso Re Tuesday’s game: Blah blah blah Michael Wacha blah blah blah Orioles blah blah Robert Gsellman blah blah blah blah blah blah five games under .500 blah blah blah blah blah sinking fast. I could have expanded that to 800 words, but why? Here’s the only analysis that matters: The Mets have 30 percent of a starting pitching staff. Jacob deGrom is […] Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Keep on searching now As baseball’s Winter Meetings approached in 1974, the Mets’ new general manager, Joe McDonald, drew some attention when he told […] “Whoa, there he is! Whadda you doin’ around here?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jeff McNeil, Labor Day, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Zack Wheeler In a sixty-game season with all the irregularities passed off as the new normal, it wouldn’t have been terrible to have halted Sunday afternoon’s Mets-Phillies game once it went official. Not for the usual reason that the Mets led after four-and-a-half and the bullpen later blew up, but because, in the middle of fifth inning […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Lou Brock, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, PItching, Tom Seaver |
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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