 
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. |
It was tight. It was tense. It was pitched the way you would swear under oath you prefer your games to be pitched. It was the kind of game you could really enjoy for the sake of sublime baseball until you remembered you had a rooting interest. To be fair, if your rooting interest emanated from […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Astros, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jason Castro, Justin Verlander, Luis Guillorme, Pitchers' Duels, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver Somehow it took me until June 28 to get out to Citi Field to see a Mets game. What happened? Well, there was a rainout and my usual aversion to freezing my ass off in April, but mostly life got in the way. With July rapidly approaching, it was Emily who put things right, engineering a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Carlos Carrasco, Chasen Shreve, Ender Inciarte, Framber Valdez, James McCann I began Sunday’s finale against the Marlins annoyed about Peacock, which my wife had already forked over $5 for (complete with a calendar reminder to cancel the subscription 25-odd days from now). But Peacock’s broadcast was fine, other than the absence of our home announcers. Jason Benetti handled play by play ably, Tommy Hutton told […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, David Peterson, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Luis Guillorme, Marlins, Nick Fortes, Peacock There’s a Met Yeah this Met The metrics say I hate that the Miami Marlins exist, I doubly hate when the Mets have to play them, and I quadruply hate when the Mets have to play them in their Pachinko parlor-cum-fish tank-cum-mausoleum in south Florida. I looked it up on Baseball Reference, and as I suspected, the Mets are 4-12,429 all time at Soilmaster Stadium […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jon Berti, Luis Guillorme, Marlins, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker A Mets fan pulls into a gas station — gas prices, huh? The Mets are playing. They’ve just fallen behind at Minute Maid Park, 5-1, on Yordan Alvarez’s second home run of the game. The Mets fan missed the first one. He also missed Alex Bregman’s, which preceded Alvarez’s first in the first. It hasn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggravating, Astros, Carlos Carrasco, Drizzle, Gas Prices, Lower Back Tightness, Rafael Montero, Spritz I’ve heard it said that the second best thing one can do with an evening is watch your favorite baseball team lose a game. And that’s probably true. But there’s watching your team lose a baseball game and there’s watching your team get its collective behind whooped, and Tuesday night was the latter. Trevor Williams was […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Chasen Shreve, Jose Siri, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams After defeating the Marlins on Monday afternoon, the Mets are 24-10 at home and 4-1 in games that end homestands. As if to express their affection for Citi Field at the end of this 5-2 homestand, they touched home six times en route to their 6-0 victory, each time crossing the plate like it meant […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Astros, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Ender Inciarte, Homestands, Jerar Encarnacion, John Paciorek, Juan Lagares, Marlins, Mets Once Removed, Mike Birkbeck, P.J. Conlon, Pedro Feliciano, Road Trips, Seinfeld, Team History, Terry Leach, Tommy Hunter, Willie Harris “Could you describe the assailant, please?” “OK, so the assailant was a Marlin?” 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Jerar Encarnacion, Marlins, Met-Killers, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido It’s unlikely the Mets know they’re accessories to a furniture-moving caravan traveling the East Coast, but that’s what they are. Day 2 of the extravaganza featured a drive from outside Philly to Brooklyn, unloading furniture there and loading up more stuff in its place that’s headed to Maine later today. Aside from a couple of bumps […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Beck, Avisail Garcia, Don Mattingly, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Howie Rose, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jon Berti, 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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