 
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 Washington Nationals opted to charge their fans (and discerning fans of their opponents) once for one short game this afternoon and charge them again later for another short game this evening. Bah, Natbug! Here at Faith and Fear, we give you a regular-sized blog post for each discrete game of the Saturday day-night doubleheader, especially […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Peterson, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Pitchers Hitting, Seven-Inning Scams MEMORANDUM As you know, previous postponements have us playing a day-night doubleheader tomorrow (Saturday) in Washington as well as a single-admission doubleheader at Citi Field on Monday, meaning we face a gauntlet of five games in a span of approximately 58 hours. Even though four […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Endless-Seeming Games, Joey Lucchesi, Lack of Hitting, Seth Lugo, Yan Gomes Maybe the Mets just needed a day off. You’ve probably heard that they’re playing a lot of games. More games than there are days. Including enough doubleheaders to give you the baseball equivalent of an ice-cream headache. Lots of those games coming against good teams. Which will be played with a roster still beset by injuries, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Javier Baez, Kyle Hendricks, Marcus Stroman Helluva win for the Mets on a Wednesday night in the middle of June. Timely hitting, nice show of power, six runs on the board, solid bullpen work capped by another save for the closer and, of course, a fine start for the starting pitcher for as long as the starting pitcher lasted. Yet come Thursday […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Heaven Can Wait, Infamous Dates, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Durant, Shoulders One of the many fun things so far about 2021 is the Mets winning games that in a lot of previous years you’d expect them to lose. On Tuesday night I was nervous after the Mets took a 3-2 lead and stubbornly refused to extend that to a safe distance, because I was all too aware […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Defense, Dom Smith, Eric Sogard, Jake Marisnick, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Seth Lugo, Taijuan Walker, Willie Harris The word that keeps getting repeated by Mets and people around the Mets is “electric”. Citi Field, they say, is electric. They’re not referring to how the stadium lights are lit or how its loudspeakers are amplified. They’re describing the atmosphere with fans filling seats with their anatomies and the air with their exclamations. Capacity […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, 2021 Mets, David Peterson, Electric, Jake Marisnick, Mets Fans, Team History, Unplugged Should it be your desire, I’m sure you can get one of those inspirational signs for your den/game room/what-have-you that proclaims BASEBALL IS LIFE, and while I might disagree with the chosen vehicle of expression, I’m with you on the message. But the fact is that sometimes life, or at least the non-baseball part of […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bull Durham, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jacob Barnes, Jeurys Familia, Joey Lucchesi, Luis Rojas, Padres, Tommy Pham The Mets, undermanned and improvised though they are, beat the big bad San Diego Padres yet again Saturday afternoon, taking the season series from a fellow playoff team and getting their 33 games in 31 days stretch off to a positive start. It was what baseball should be — fun! It was fun watching Marcus Stroman […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Defense, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Padres Jacob deGrom says “my level of concern is not too high” concerning the right flexor tendon of Jacob deGrom, revealing yet another layer of distinction that separates Jacob deGrom from the rest of us. The rest of us had a level of concern higher than the seventeenth row of Promenade once Jacob deGrom had to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Concern, Jacob deGrom, Jacob deGrom’s Right Flexor Tendon As the Mets scored their first seven runs on Wednesday night, I felt a tinge of sadness for the Orioles pitcher who surrendered them. It wasn’t a particularly ceremonial surrender. No white flags, just pitches that didn’t have much fight left in them. I wouldn’t claim to know if the same could be said for […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Blowouts, Kevin Pillar, Matt Harvey, Taijuan Walker |
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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