 
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. |
Our blog pal Shannon Shark of MetsPolice has a running gag in which he imagines the Mets aren’t a ballclub but a TV show, with Greg as its fiendishly inventive show runner. Confronted with games such as Monday afternoon’s, I wonder if Shannon might be on to something. Last week, you’ll recall, Terry Collins caught hell from a fair-sized […]  27 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Addison Reed, C.B. Bucknor, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins Here’s a new proposal for shortening the length of baseball games: shorten the length of baseball games. Or shorten the length of one baseball game in particular by one inning. Let us retroactively by 24 hours implement such a rule so it is applicable only to Saturday evening Interleague contests conducted in facilities constructed after […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alex Meyer, Angels, Angst, Danny Espinosa, Eight-Inning Games, Fernando Salas, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Milestones, Neil Ramirez, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter Neil Walker apparently forgot how many outs there were. Jose Reyes ensured there were more outs than there should have been. Jacob deGrom walked five batters, gave up five runs and barely made it through five innings. Glenn Sherlock betrayed a fetishistic fondness for red lights when green would have been the stylish choice. Curtis […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Blowouts, Curtis Granderson, Eric O'Flaherty, Glenn Sherlock, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Neil Walker, Rene Rivera, Travis d'Arnaud, Uniclone Scores Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It’s an unfair game. That’s the best-known saying of one of Western thought’s foremost philosophers, the esteemed R. Edwin Kanehl. For those 21 words contain a multitude. You can use them as a lens for examining the lives of kings and commoners, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Edubray Ramos, Hansel Robles, Howie Kendrick, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, Rod Kanehl OK, 161-1 isn’t actually going to happen — and at the risk of disappointing someone, I’m guessing 151-11 will be a stretch too. But such giddy enthusiasm seemed eminently sensible after Jerry Blevins shuffled off the mound with a strikeout and a grounder on his 2017 resume, a combination that kept the game tied 1-1, simultaneously […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Adonis Garcia, Brandon Phillips, Defense, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins I need to find a hobby that’s better for my health than watching the New York Mets. I’m thinking maybe Russian roulette. A long time ago, when I was still innocent and believed there was good in the world, it was a beautiful night for a ballgame. I was sitting in the stands with my wife, enjoying a crystal-clear […] 111 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Disasters, Ender Inciarte, Overmanaging, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes Maybe I was just in a good mood. Emily and I were supposed to be back Monday night — Portland, Me., is an easy 45 minutes or so away by plane. But Monday night’s rainout also scratched our plane, shifting us to a 5:30 am departure Tuesday. Ugh … and then they cancelled that one too, telling […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Martinez, Doubleheaders, Jedd Gyorko, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Teufel, Tommy Pham, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes When the 2016 Mets trudged home to Citi Field earlier this week, it sure looked like they’d ceded the divisional race on June 29, dragged down by injuries, bad luck, lack of clutchness and Daniel Murphy, to name but a few maladies. Later today, somehow, they’ll trust a four-game sweep of the big bad Chicago Cubs […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Jake Arrieta, Storytelling, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud SNY’s cameras really shouldn’t have lingered on Braves’ bench coach Terry Pendleton, acting as manager, after Brian Snitker was ejected for arguing the result of a replay review Thursday night. Snitker is obviously too interim to fully understand the intricacies and ramifications of replay review rules (and when we’re straight on them, we’ll be sure […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Adonis Garcia, Brian Snitker, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Ralph Branca, Replay Review, Terry Pendleton, Time Machine, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilson Betemit |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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