 
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. |
Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees It hit me one March day, when they were apart, how long they’d been together. Yadier Molina was captaining Puerto Rico to the finals of the WBC. Adam Wainwright was working out his kinks against the Mets on the East Coast of Florida. Soon enough, they’d reunite, accomplished battery, same team, another year. Two baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Adam Wainwright, An Appreciation, Billy Joel, Cardinals, Longevity, Yadier Molina, Zack Wheeler Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this eighth of ten installments, we swing by a year that we hope the current season evokes comparisons to real soon. They edged Washington to start their season. […] 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 There are four teams in Mets history that are instantly iconic, teams that don’t require an introduction to the world at large. The years they represent are de facto brands when you’re talking baseball with those who know baseball. The 1962 Mets. Bring any of those up to somebody who isn’t […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, Anniversaries, Internal Affairs, Team Alternate History, Team History The New York Mets have reached seven postseasons in 52 years. Two of them ended perfectly. Five of them didn’t. Those five were forwarded to you for your cosmic reconstructive surgery consideration, along with the request that you choose only one for historical repair. I read everything that was written in response — not just […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, Team Alternate History, Team History I’m tempted to label this is a limited-time offer, SO ACT NOW, but actually, it’s an offer not limited by time. If it was, then it couldn’t be offered. But I’m gonna offer it. You get to pick another Mets world championship for your collection. The catch is you have to pick it from the past, […] 75 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, Team Alternate History, Team History I was gonna bitch about Ike Davis specifically or the bleak state of affairs surrounding our woeful, third-worst-in-baseball, 17-27 Mets (45-76 since July 8, 2012) generally, but I figure we’ll have Ike and the Mets to kick around for months to come. So I decided to go in a different direction. Back. Back to happier times. […] Something struck me while the Giants were being demolished by the Reds, 9-0, Sunday and the Nationals were getting stomped by Carlos Beltran’s Cardinals, 12-4, Monday: this never happens to us. The Mets have never been truly blown out of a postseason game. They’ve never lost one by eight runs. They’ve never lost one by nine […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Blowouts, Faint Praise In his career, he was — among other things — an Astro, a Giant and a Met. He stood in the batter’s box representing the last shred of doubt as to where a hard-earned National League flag would fly. If he succeeded, his team would know life and a possible world championship. If he didn’t, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1992 Mets, 2006 Mets, Astros, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Historical Dissonance, Kevin Bass |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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