Has there ever been a Mets team that has had this much fun winning? Of course there’s been. From the first Mets team to post a winning record, in 1969, to the most recent Mets team prior to the current edition that did so, in 2022, they all had themselves a blast in the process […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Mets, Bull Durham, Eduardo Escobar, Grimace, Jose Iglesias, Mark Simon, Mark Vientos, MRIs, Pinch-Running, Sean Manaea, September, Starling Marte, Walkoffs, Winning Records I decided to go into the hot take business on May 30. It wasn’t all that hot a take, actually. What I removed from the oven of projection and prediction seemed pretty obvious and therefore lukewarm as regarded a team with a record of 22-33 and a DFA-bound reliever who had just flung his glove […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Balloon Drops, Bryce Harper, Cal Stevenson, Eras, Freezing Cold Takes, Injuries, Luisangel Acuna, Pillow Screaming, Team History, The West Wing, Winning Records A 4:10 weekday start to conclude a home series against the Dodgers evoked, however briefly, one of the few peaks of the Mets baseball experience in the 2020s. On September 1, 2022, the Mets and Dodgers began play at Citi Field as leaders of their respective divisions. L.A. was running away with the West. The […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, 2024 Mets, Dodgers, Eras, Interludes, Jorge Lopez, Jorge Lopez’s Glove, Truth I met one of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT on the street last night. It seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. And we talked about some old times, and we drank ourselves some beers. Still Metsie after all these years. Actually, that’s Paul Simon’s version of events. Here’s […] I don’t know how much I will miss Luis Guillorme in practice. His production declined precipitously last season and his defense wasn’t the revelation it once was. Yet Luis’s definitive departure from the only team we have ever known him as a part of — the former Met has signed with the Braves, making him, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, An Appreciation, Harrison Bader, Luis Guillorme, Sean Manaea, Utility Infielders These first-place New York Mets keep building on what they’ve accomplished. They’ve been doing it from Day One of this season. They’re still doing it. They have to keep doing it, not only because the second-place Atlanta Braves, currently three games behind us, are as formidable an opponent as the 1984 Cubs or 2022 Yankees, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Aborted Comebacks, Daniel Vogelbach, DJ Stewart, Drag Bunts, Fenway Park, Historical Plunges, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Alfaro, Little League Home Runs, Max Scherzer, Not Quite Day-Night Doubleheaders, Offensive Pillars Not Producing, Suspended Games, The Many Home Run Balls of Max Scherzer A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks Spring is here … oh wait it totally isn’t, it’s cold and barren and horrible out there. But spring will be here soon enough, believe it or not. Which means we’d better welcome 2022’s matriculating Mets, now proud members of The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Alex Claudio, Baseball Cards, Brett Baty, Bryce Montes de Oca, Chris Bassitt, Colin Holderman, Connor Grey, Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Deven Marrero, Eduardo Escobar, Ender Inciarte, Francisco Alvarez, Ghosts, Gosuke Katoh, Joely Rodriguez, Jose Butto, Kramer Robertson, Mark Canha, Mark Vientos, Max Scherzer, Michael Perez, Mychal Givens, Nate Fisher, Nick Plummer, R.J. Alvarez, Rob Zastryzny, Sam Clay, Starling Marte, Terrance Gore, The Holy Books, Travis Jankowski, Tyler Naquin, Yoan Lopez, Yolmer Sanchez Good news — the Mets made the playoffs in 2022! Less good news — the Mets were bounced from the playoffs very quickly in 2022! Middling news for the 2022 Mets — they get postseason shares! You go to the postseason, you earn a little extra scratch. It’s how baseball works. You go far in the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Connor Grey, Gosuke Katoh, Kramer Robertson, Postseason Shares The pain of love A couple of hours prior to the first pitch of the National League Wild Card Series, I thought about my cat Avery. I think about my cat Avery every day, several times a day, since he died last December. I miss […] |
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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