 
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. |
CHAPTER 92: STOCK, NOGOSEK & HARTLIEB Following the Mets’ heaven-shaking, seven-homer, eleven-inning 15-11 triumph on Monday night July 19, their active roster didn’t have time to settle down. Dave Jauss, running the club during Luis Rojas’s two-game suspension, had announced in the aftermath of that historic victory — it was the only the second time the […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Mets, Dave Jauss, Geoff Hartlieb, Oral History, Robert Stock, Roster Turnover, Stephen Nogosek There are games you’re clearly fated to win, ones you’re pretty much guaranteed to lose, and ones where the outcome teeters and totters between joy and horror while your heart tries to keep pace. And then there are games like Monday night’s in Cincinnati — ones where the sheer insanity of everything gobbles up logic […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Banda, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, Errors, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jerad Eickhoff, Jesse Winker, Joey Votto, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Mac Scarce, Pete Alonso, Reds, Seth Lugo, Trevor May, Unlikely Events Earl Weaver’s oft-cited quote that “this ain’t a football game, we do this every day” came in handy after Saturday night’s debacle — up 6-0 in the 8th, only to lose 9-7 in the 9th — that indicated we should never do this again. The Earl of Baltimore’s observation is equal parts… instructive — 161 baseball […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Comebacks, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Earl Weaver, Jeurys Familia, Luis Rojas, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Not Football, Taijuan Walker, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor May If there’s one thing I’ve learned in more than four decades of having my heart ripped out by baseball, it’s this: Don’t ever assume you’ve hit rock bottom. A reasonable person might call the Mets taking eight innings to blow a five-run lead over the Pirates, with Edwin Diaz surrendering the fatal runs, rock bottom. But no, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Jacob Stallings, Pirates, Walkoff Losses The first game after the All-Star Break is supposed to feel like a warm bath. Oh that’s better, you think as you sink back into the routine of having something to do a little after 7 or 4 or 8 or sometimes even 1 in the afternoon on the weekends. At first that little break was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Kuhl, Francisco Lindor, I Hate Baseball, John Nogowski, Marcus Stroman, Pirates Baseball, that thing which I love and you love, still doesn’t feel quite like the baseball you love and I love. Not in 2021, not after 2020. The rule alterations that linger from last year have the sport askew and to no apparent useful purpose. We bought into the pandemic requiring trims around the edges. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, All-Star Game, Boardwalk, Daniel Murphy, Friendship, Heathers, Jeurys Familia, Long Beach, Pete Alonso, Radio, Richard Ben Cramer, Something Feels Off, Summer, Taijuan Walker, Uniforms, Wayne Randazzo What a way to get a game going! Which is where a Mets fan of tenure turned from dispensing exclamation points to issuing question marks. The way this Mets fan of tenure saw it, there […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, All-Star Break, Blown Leads, Francisco Lindor, Gut Instinct, Kumar Rocker, Michael Conforto, Pirates You know what? I’ve come around on the idea of the Mets playing the Pirates again right after the All-Star Break. Not because I think the Pirates are a bunch of tomato cans — that’s a dangerous thing to think about any opponent, and if the Bucs win Sunday they’ll have split the series — but […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Edwin Diaz, John Nogowski, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Records, The Holy Books, Trevor May, Tyler Anderson, Tylor Megill “Hello, may I speak to Luis Rojas please?” 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Dave Roberts, Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Rain Delays, Taijuan Walker, Ten-Run Innings Stop me if you’ve heard these before: 1) The Mets win a thriller of a first game of a jury-rigged doubleheader. We’ve been down this two-lane highway that runs out of regulation road too soon too many times to count efficiently of […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Boxberger, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Anderson, Brewers, Bruce Boxleitner, Corbin Burnes, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Humidity Night, Jacob deGrom, Jamoches, Jeff McNeil, Jose Peraza, Mama's of Corona, Nick Tropeano, Robert Stock, Seven-Inning Scams |
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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