 
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. |
The City Connects were the perfect uniform for Saturday night’s Mets game, played in murky gray conditions with an inescapable wet chill, cascades of mist wafting through the air, and any ball that touched outfield grass leaving a spray of droplets to mark its progress. A surprisingly big crowd showed up despite the obvious attractions of […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Blue Jays, Brendon Little, Chris Bassitt, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, George Springer, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Jeff Hoffman, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Jose Siri, Nick Sandlin, Starling Marte, Yimi Garcia The fans who wait for their team to come off the road while the year is still young are rewarded for their patience with two Openers. There’s Opening Day, which is festive no matter that it’s taking place in another ballpark, and there’s a discrete Home Opener, which grants us a second helping of holiday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Blue Jays, Bobby Jones, Buffets, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Francisco Lindor, Home Opener, Interleague Play, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Replay Review, Team History, Tylor Megill So, what do I lead with when this no-hitter is over? Bob Moose in 1969? Max Scherzer in 2015? Proof that a no-hitter thrown at the Mets late in a season doesn’t necessarily preclude that season from having a successful (maybe Amazin’ly successful) postseason? That’s a tough sell. I know it’s true, but when the […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Bowden Francis, Dramatic Comeback Wins in September, Foiled No-Hitters, Francisco Lindor, Keith Raad, No-Hitters, Sean Manaea, Thought Processes Baseball, I’ve long insisted, is humanity’s acme of artistic expression. But that’s not to say every game is a work of art. Whatever that was that the Mets and Blue Jays foisted on us tonight would definitely not qualify. It was a mess, with Tylor Megill mowing down anonymous Blue Jay recruits (and a morose-looking Vladimir […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Danny Young, Ed Kranepool, Eddy Alvarez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Jose Butto, Leo Jimenez, Pablo Reyes, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill On June 18, 2015, an ex-Met pitching for the Blue Jays beat the Mets — not just any ex-Met, but beloved former Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey, taking his first turn against his old club since scaling the heights of fame in Flushing. It also wasn’t just any start. Dickey’s dad Harry had died […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Chris Bassitt, Justin Verlander, R.A. Dickey, The Circle of Life Thanks to doctor’s orders that didn’t come with an expiration date, I haven’t indulged in an Oreo or, for that matter, a Hydrox in many a year, but I think I still remember the optimal method for sandwich cookie enjoyment: 1) Pull apart. 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Brandon Drury, David Peterson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Injuries, Sandwich Cookies, Taijuan Walker Steven Matz made his debut for the Mets in June 2015, pitching against the Reds. It didn’t start out ideally — the young lefty from Long Island surrendered a home run to the first batter he faced in the big leagues, Brandon Phillips — but it soon got better. A lot better: Matz doubled in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Homecomings, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, Tylor Megill In a sixty-game season whose primary appeal may be the encompassing of elements largely unprecedented, you pretty much have to be in it for those things you’ve never seen before. They may not add up to an orthodox major league campaign, let alone big-picture success, but they sure do get your attention. Take a 1-unassisted at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Blue Jays, Buffalo, Erasmo Ramirez, Game-Losing Pickoffs, Pitchers Fielding, Saves, Seth Lugo, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Wilson Ramos You don’t remember Jose Bautista was a Met? Yeah, he was another one of those veterans the Mets picked up when nobody else wanted him, another one of those faded stars of whom it was assumed he had nothing left. This was in 2018 when the Mets seemed to be doing a lot of that. Maybe that’s […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Blue Jays, Gil Hodges, Grand Slams, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jose Bautista, Memories, Rays, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores Shockingly, flipping the calendar to July did not, in fact, mean an end to the Mets’ woes. Here’s the faintest of silver linings about this terrible, horrible, no-good, very very very bad season: awful, soul-killing, rip-your-heart-out losses no longer even leave a mark. The Mets led Toronto by a cool 5-0 early Tuesday night, with Asdrubal Cabrera, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Blue Jays, Hopelessness, Robert Gsellman, Tim Peterson, Zack Wheeler |
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. 
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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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