 
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. |
Happy anniversary to the Mets’ most recent world championship. May we never commemorate it as such again. I love the 1986 Mets. You love the 1986 Mets. We all love the 1986 Mets. But we need them to take a chronological back seat to a new driver of the Met historical narrative. Even the 1986 Mets […]  25 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Mets Fan Perspective In the land of small sample sizes, the curious factoid is king, so all hail this minuscule nugget: The current series against the Red Sox represents the first series in which the Mets have dropped the first two home games versus Boston since the 1986 World Series. Obviously, a world championship is just days away. Until then, […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Bobbleheads, Eric O'Flaherty, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Joe Kelly And on the eleventh day, they did precisely what they’d been doing on the ten days that preceded it. They won. It’s a daily exercise with these Mets, now historically so. In front of your frozen but grateful blogger, his shivering photographer pal and scattered others who — like Sharon Chapman and me — value excellence over […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1972 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 2015 Mets, Team History, Winning Streaks When they want a batter Today is Rick Aguilera’s 53rd birthday, which means it’s my 52nd birthday. We are calendar brothers, born exactly one year apart to different families in different places, but connected by the Brotherhood of December 31. Rick — or Aggie, as […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 1986 Mets, Birthdays, Calendar Brothers, Rick Aguilera Wednesday afternoon in Oakland, the Mets did something for the 26th time in their history: they won a ballgame by the score of 8 to 5. This iteration of that same old song was as pleasing as 24 of its 25 predecessors in the sense that a win is a win is a win. An […] Where did Jacob deGrom come from, anyway? I’d heard of him, of course, but not in a Matt Harvey/Zack Wheeler/Noah Syndergaard way, in which each mention is part of a countdown, the promotion becomes a rallying cry, and if the first big-league start comes at home you figure out if you can go so years later you can […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Heather Quinlan, Jacob deGrom, Jake Peavy, Juan Lagares, Michael Morse, Pablo Sandoval “Let’s see, this team lost 99 games last year, 96 the year before and 98 the year before that, right? This is a much greater challenge than the one I faced in Baltimore in 1965.” Rome wasn’t built in a day. It was built in just under […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, An Appreciation, Frank Cashen, Moment of Silence Some won-lost records just jump out at me. For example, the Mets losing Sunday and falling to 20-23 sparked my recognition that the Mets hit that very same mark 24 years earlier. In 1990, losing and falling to 20-23 presented a platform for firing the most successful manager in franchise history. After guiding the Mets to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Davey Johnson, Milestones, Records, Team History From a purely parochial view — and what is our collective perspective on this World Series if not Metsian in these regionally defined baseball times? — I score the final play of Game Three 2-3-2: Stearns to Hernandez to Gibbons. You won’t find it in your box score but like Jim Joyce in the interview room, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2013 Postseason, Allen Craig, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, John Gibbons, John Stearns, Keith Hernandez, Will Middlebrooks, Yadier Molina In honor of what transpired 27 years ago tonight, here is the slightest taste of Game 252 among the 500 Most Amazin’ the Mets ever won, from the forthcoming The Happiest Recap: Second Base (1974-1986). This excerpt focuses on the task that threatened to devour the Mets as they headed to the bottom of the tenth […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bill Buckner, The Happiest Recap (The Book) |
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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