 
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. |
This recap’s headline is a term we’ve heard a lot in the sabermetric age, as front offices search for previously overlooked and/or undervalued traits in players. The last two nights, I’ve found a new market inefficiency as a fan: You don’t need to watch the part of the game that doesn’t matter. I don’t recommend this […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Dedniel Nunez, Extra Innings, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred, Robert Garcia, Soapboxes The Mets and the Nats, sheesh. I guess it proves that for every Nieuwenhuis there’s a Suzuki. And for the critical stretches of Monday night’s mildly bonkers game, it wasn’t clear whether the compass was going to wind up pointing to N or S. And I missed the first five innings! I mean, so sue me […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | CJ Abrams, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Hunter Harvey, Ildemaro Vargas, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, James Wood, Jose Iglesias, Mackenzie Gore, Nationals, Reed Garrett, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor Since we’re Mets fans, we all knew the bullpen had issues. Since we’re adults, we all know progress isn’t always or even usually a smooth arc — it comes with fits and starts. A day after blowing a big lead because of a nightmarish inning of relief, the Mets endured a bunch of bad luck, came […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Martinez, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Matt Festa I won’t claim it’s high on my lengthy list of Selig/Manfred era outrages, but it annoys me that the Astros are in the American League. They’re our expansion siblings, after all, arriving along with us in 1962 as the Colt .45s. We began as a novelty act to salve the still-fresh wounds of Dodgers and Giants […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Fans, Grimace, Jeff McNeil, Joe Sheehan, Jose Altuve, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, OMG, Ronel Blanco, Tyrone Taylor I stopped attending Subway Series games years ago because they’re like Thanksgiving dinners where every single uncle and cousin you dislike RSVPs that they’ll show up drunk and eager to talk politics. No thanks — I’ll catch these from my couch, where any woofing mookdom can be addressed as an internal affair. That part’s predictable; the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Bullpen, Carlos Mendoza, Danny Young, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Gerrit Cole, Harrison Bader, J.D. Davis, Mark Vientos, Reed Garrett, Subway Series, Yankee, Yankees By the time Saturday afternoon rolled around our 2024 beach vacation was at an end: house cleaned, last Long Beach Island breakfast consumed, farewells said, and car filled for the trip back to Brooklyn, the heat wave we’d been happy to miss, and normal life. Heading up the Garden State Parkway, your correspondent was frankly weary. […] Here’s a list of what I did Thursday during our week of vacation on Long Beach Island: bike ride That’s a pretty damn good day, one I felt absurdly lucky to get to enjoy. The ballgame was the last couple of innings of the Giants and the Cardinals at Birmingham’s […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Joe Hudson, Jose Iglesias, Laughers, Luis Torrens, Shota Imanaga, Tomas Nido, Wrigley Field Being a fan is inherently ridiculous. Two weeks ago we were collectively rending our garments because the Mets were painful to watch and we were killing time waiting to a) see what they got for every upright body at the trade deadline; and b) complain about seeing Pete Alonso in the togs of the Mariners/Cubs/Giants/What-Have-Yous. Then came […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Heaney, Drew Smith, Edwin Jimenez, Leody Taveras, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Sean Manaea, Sean Reid-Foley, Starling Marte I didn’t expect a giddy stretch related to the 2024 Mets, and yet here we are. I was playing mini-golf and eating ice cream, meaning I was late to my assigned duties (sorry not sorry) and yet was only mildly surprised to find it was Forces of Good 7, Defending But Currently Not So Hot World […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Knizner, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Grimace, Jon Gray, Laughers, Mark Vientos, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Steve Gelbs, Winning Streaks Happy teams, like Russian families, are all alike — and somehow the Mets are a happy team again. That happens when you win four in a row, when J.D. Martinez is locked in, when Brandon Nimmo collects two RBIs, when Francisco Lindor pulls off an eye-popping play at shortstop, when Jose Quintana actually throws strikes and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Jose Quintana, Padres |
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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