 
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. |
On Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh the Mets … won a baseball game. That’s it. They played a baseball game and it ended with more runs for the Mets than their opponents, so they won. That shouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, yet alone breathtaking, yet after the frustrations of Toronto and the horrors of Atlanta and the hungover […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Dauri Moreta, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Steve Cohen The schedule works out well for the Mets this weekend, positioning them to take advantage of their place in the standings. They are three games out of the third Wild Card spot in the National League and they are in Pittsburgh for three games this weekend to take on the team that it turns out […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Bullpen, Francisco Alvarez, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Jim Mora, Justin Verlander, Tommy Hunter, Wild Card The Mets’ losing streak is over — and so, as it happens, is mine. I went 0 for 2022. Every time I attended a Mets game they lost the damn thing, including two playoff games. The only time they won a game for which I held a ticket was Closing Day, and I bailed out of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Citi Field, Francisco Lindor, Kodai Senga, Phillies, Ranger Suarez The Rockies has somehow now been around for 30 years. I was at their first-ever game, which they lost to the Mets at Shea. I watched them beat the Mets behind Dante Bichette in extras at Coors Field’s christening. Since then I’ve seen the Mets play at Coors far too often for my liking. I’ve […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Coors Field, Eduardo Escobar, Max Scherzer, Mike Moustakas, Nolan Jones, Rockies In the Mets’ first four seasons, the club twice lost home games by a score of 13-6. The first of them, on May 30, 1962, marked the coming out party for a chant you might hear enthusiastically when the Mets are coming on strong or ironically when the Mets pausing from going down meekly: “a […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 13-6 losses, 1982 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Dick Young, Expressing Oneself, Joey Lucchesi, Middle Relief, Party Deck, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Strawberry Sunday, Team History I know nobody wants to hear it, but Justin Verlander didn’t pitch that badly. Even I don’t particularly want to hear it. I’m up in New England, running around doing nonsense, and so on Thursday afternoon I got MLB At Bat fired up a little late and this was more or less my reaction: Waitaminute, 2-0 already? […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Rodriguez, Frustration, Justin Verlander, Medi, Tigers The man used sweat and rosin, he said. He said it a lot. He repeated it enough so that I believed him, which doesn’t always work. The pitcher doth protest too much, methinks might be applicable here, except the pitcher pitches for the Mets and Met-think is how methinks. Besides, this is Max Scherzer in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Ejection, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard, Rosin, Suspension, Sweat, The Manchurian Candidate, Umpiring “Do you have any other ideas? It’s getting late.” 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Drew Smith, Dustin May, Late Night West Coast Games, Story Conferences It looked like everything had finally come together for the A’s. Not a new stadium without acres upon acres of foul ground, lots of other deficiencies and, well, possums — that’s too much to ask. And not owners more interested in building a winner than in civic extortion — ditto. But good starting pitching and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Brandon Nimmo, Dany Jimenez, David Robertson, Eduardo Escobar, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Pete Alonso, Tony Kemp Baseball is a fine diversion in all its forms, with one of its bedrock pleasures how those forms change day to day. On Friday the Mets inflicted horrors on the A’s and the A’s inflicted horrors on themselves, leading to a 17-6 win unique in the annals of Met scorekeeping and verging on unique for […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Conner Capel, David Robertson, Kevin Smith, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Pitch Clock, Shintaro Fujinami |
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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