 
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. |
If it had been at all delightful, Tuesday’s twi-night doubleheader at Citi Field could have been billed a Berra’s Delight. Anybody who could make sense of the nonsense at hand would have been admitted free. Or admitted at all. Nobody is admitted to baseball games in 2020, of course. After fourteen innings of futility, nobody who […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1975 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Corey Oswalt, Doubleheaders, Home Teams Away, Jon Berti, Juan Lagares, Luis Rojas, Marlins, Mets Managers, Pandemics, Patrick Mazeika, Rick Porcello, Seth Lugo, Stealing Home, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Yogi Berra Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. One must wait until the evening In the film Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks stars as Daniel Miller, a Californian who dies in a car […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Albert Brooks, Barry Manilow, Jason Phillips, Jose Reyes, T-shirts Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I got the horse right here Psst…over […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Ike Davis, Prospects Seth Lugo did not make his first start since 2018 on Thursday night. The Mets did not go for the four-game series sweep in Miami on Thursday night. Dom Smith did not take further aim at the National League RBI lead on Thursday night. Luis Guillorme did not get as much as one swing in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Abnormality, Pandemics, Postponements The Mets got the win Wednesday night in Miami, as they scored more runs than the Marlins for the third consecutive night. That’s the key indicator right there. So we’ll go W-NYM. We shall credit Michael Conforto with the save. He came up in the ninth with Brandon Nimmo on first and bashed a two-run homer […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Saves A blink ahead of midnight on October 25, 1986, the lights nearly went out on the New York Mets’ quest for their second world championship, as Dave Henderson launched a home run that clanked off the Newsday sign above the extreme left field fence at Shea Stadium. It was the top of the tenth inning […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Documentaries, Mets Fans, Nick Davis I’ve had one conversation with Zack Wheeler in my life. It came after his rookie season, two years after the Giants had traded him to the Mets for two months of Carlos Beltran. When I asked him about that July 2013 game — seven three-hit innings, one run allowed, plus his first double and RBI […] In the bottom of the eighth Saturday night, with the Phillies leading by more runs than were worth counting, the Mets employed an extreme shift against Didi Gregorius that sort of worked and sort of didn’t. It sort of did because third baseman J.D. Davis, stationed in right field, fielded the ground ball Gregorius pushed […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Didi Gregorius, Dom Smith, J.D. Davis, Jesse Jackson, Keith Hernandez, Philosophical Puzzles, Shifts, Steven Matz In doing my nightly postgame statistical rounds, I noticed that the score by which the Mets beat the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, 11-6, had been gathering dust for quite some time. Until Wednesday, when the Mets exploded with practically unimaginable amounts of offense and it still seemed barely enough to fend off one particular precocious […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anibal Sanchez, Juan Soto, Keeping Count, Robert Gsellman, Ryder Chasin, Scores, Tradition Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. On the telephone, Andy Pafko said that it would be nice to get together, but that he didn’t belong in a book about the team. “I wasn’t in Brooklyn long enough,” […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 1995 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Joe Orsulak, Undeclared |
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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