 
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. |
After the Mets rose up in indignation to snatch a win away from the Cardinals, I said it was the kind of unlikely comeback that would keep me on my couch for umpteen nights when no such good fortune was coming out way. Nights like Monday, in other words. How many things do you want to stew […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Chad Fairchild, Chris Bassitt, Collin McHugh, Jeff Wilpon, Travis d'Arnaud, Trevor May, Umpiring, Wilpons As September morphed into October in 2000, I had a revelation that I’ve revisited annually. We Mets fans were very high on the Mets as the playoffs approached. I heard over and over again from my fellow Metsopotamians that this would be our year. I may have said it out loud myself, though I cautioned […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, 2021 Postseason, Art Shamsky, Braves, Lenny Dykstra, Not Quitting, The Shawshank Redemption, Travis d'Arnaud, World Series, World Series Ending But — I said to myself — I want to get in. This is a World Series opener. I’d never seen one. There is nothing in baseball equal to it… Maybe you’ve heard the old saying, “If you keep letting the Braves make the playoffs, sooner or later a pennant […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Postseason, Arnold Hano, Astros, Braves, Brian Snitker, Dusty Baker, Eddie Rosario, Moment of Silence, World Series Saturday night’s penultimate Mets game of 2021 had a little moment near the end that will swiftly be forgotten, given the meaninglessness of the contest. Which is only natural. But if things had been different — if, say, the Mets had avoided their August swan dive and been playing for a postseason berth — that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Jacob Webb, Jonathan Villar, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso The Atlanta Braves are going to the playoffs, which meant on Friday night the Mets faced a lineup that featured a handful of Atlanta’s young frontline players but not its older ones — a sop to hangover recovery times, perhaps. That made the game meaningless multiple times over, with no chance for the Mets to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Garbage Time, Pete Alonso, Tylor Megill Well, that wasn’t much fun. The Mets were forced to start TBD — again! So they turned to Jerad Eickhoff — again! And it didn’t go well — again! Eickhoff, you may recall, had already been DFA’d twice by the Mets this year. He opted for free agency, but signed another minor-league deal and reported for duty […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Jon Matlack, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Noah Syndergaard, Rich Hill Seeing baseball in person always reminds me that the game is really two different experiences. The view from your couch lets you play HD voyeur, seeing everything from the pitcher’s grip to how the catcher frames each pitch — and with stats and expert analysis handed to you, like a surgeon taking tools from an […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Dansby Swanson, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Freddie Freeman, James McCann, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo Give this much to the Mets during their current run of troubles: They’re finding new ways to lose. But then that’s appropriate for the ballpark they were trapped in Thursday night: White Flight Stadium (or whatever the Braves are calling their shameful taxpayer-extorted shrine to suburbia these days) may not quite be the house of horrors […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Braves Who Are Pains in the Ass, Dom Smith, Ehire Adrianza, Ender Inciarte, Freddie Freeman, Guillermo Heredia, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Ronald Acuna Jr., Seth Lugo, Walkoff Losses Elton John’s “Levon” was “born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day when the New York Times said, ‘God is dead, and the war’s begun.’” What exactly does that mean? As Jimmy Rabbitte said in The Commitments regarding the lyrics to “A Whiter Shade of Pale” in the imaginary interview he conducted throughout […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Albert Almora Jr., Bernard Gilkey, Blowouts, Bobby Bonilla, Braves, David Peterson, Debuts, Elton John, Lance Johnson, Mark Clark, Position Players Pitching, Procol Harum, Rico Brogna, Sean Reid-Foley, Team History, The Commitments, Thomas Szapucki, Todd Hundley James McCann sure has some strange at-bats. I’m not talking about the crotch readjustment before every pitch, which I really want Steve Gelbs to inquire about one day. (Did his Little League coach try to get him to stop? Has his mom and/or wife ever wished he wouldn’t?) I’m talking about the fact that the Mets’ […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Andy Beck, Braves, Charlie Morton, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Mets History, Todd Radom, Tylor Megill, Uniforms, Unlikely Events |
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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