Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […]
 
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. |
Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late: • Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL! • A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball? • Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Stewart, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Arauz, Kodai Senga, Mets Fandom Like It Oughta Be, September, Skid Rowe What had been a bad week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York is now a promising week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York. At the very least, nobody should be sacking and tearing David Stearns’s Achilles tendon in the days ahead. Never mind Aaron Rodgers and never mind the 2023 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, David Stearns, Next Era, POBO, Potential Saviors I watched the victorious Jets quarterback stand before the football press late Monday night and extol the virtues of never getting too high or too low, which I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an athlete or two or two-million mention before, but since the victorious Jets quarterback Monday night was Zach Wilson rather than Aaron Rodgers, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, Diamondbacks, Drew Smith, Football, Highs, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Lows, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott During Saturday afternoon’s telecast, Ron Darling recalled a moment of frustration from early in his career when he was so fed up with receiving no-decisions for his pitching efforts that he said he’d rather take a loss than another ND. Older and wiser (and by way of slapping the Mariners’ George Kirby on the wrist […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Norms, DJ Stewart, George Kirby, Interleague Play, Pablo Lopez, Ron Darling, Twins, Tylor Megill All games have their highlights, even the Mets’ Saturday afternoon 8-4 loss to the Twins in Minneapolis — if you watched or listened to it, choose YOUR favorite highlight! • David Peterson delivered the very definition of a quality start! 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Excessive Use of Exclamation Points, Highlights, Not Drew Smith, Pete Alonso Large portions of Friday night’s telecast from Target Field that I didn’t sleep through — I nodded off for most of the seventh inning, meaning the three runs the Mets’ bullpen gave up that determined the 5-2 loss to Carlos Correa and the Twins could have remained an eternal mystery to me had I not […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Kodai Senga, Rookie Records, Strikeouts, Team History, Twins Perhaps the most charming scene in a movie loaded with them is when a nervous Mark “Rat” Ratner first approaches Stacy Hamilton at the counter of Perry’s Pizza in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Armed with Mike Damone’s never-fail “send out this vibe” dating advice, Rat smoothly starts his come-on. “What do you do with the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Moneyball, Nationals, Omar Narvaez, Phil Bickford, Stress-Free Aggravation, Trevor Gott What distinguishes every Mets “game go” that involves me and my friend Mark Simon? As was the case on Sunday afternoon, when Mark and I went to Citi Field to ostensibly watch the Mets play the Mariners, each of us brings several, perhaps many Mets-based trivia questions to ask one another. What’s the purpose of these trivia […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Dietary Restrictions, Doc Gooden, Doc Medich, Dominic Leone, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Mariners, Milestones, Pepe Mangual, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, The Log, Trivia, US Open Just desserts were on the Citi Field menu Wednesday night as the Mets earned their 6-5 victory over the Texas Rangers, and the Rangers just as surely earned their 6-5 defeat at the hands of the New York Mets. Had it gone the other way, all would have seemed more predestined. The Mets are the lousier […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Jeff Brigham, Joe Grahe, Jonathan Arauz, Lazy Nicknames, Losable Games Won, Rangers, Sean Reid-Foley, Travis Jankowski, Winnable Games Lost |
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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