 
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. |
I missed the first game of Sunday’s day-night doubleheader, but it was for a baseball-related reason: we took the Staten Island ferry to get our first look at the 2017 Brooklyn Cyclones. It hasn’t exactly been going well down on Coney Island — the Cyclones are last in their division and have a .266 winning percentage, […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Brooklyn Cyclones, Hansel Robles, Juan Lagares, Wagner Lagrange Noah Syndergaard had just finished retiring 19 of his last 20 batters faced and was sitting in the visiting dugout in Atlanta, perhaps thinking about his ninth win of the season. Tyler Clippard was on the mound, squinting in at Travis d’Arnaud with that little lip curl of his, trying to navigate through some wildness. […] 46 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Brooklyn Cyclones, Fans, Ghosts, Kelly Johnson, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Stauffer, Tyler Clippard The Mets and Astros combined to throw 266 pitches tonight at Citi Field. For 265 of them — that’s 99.62% of the game if you’re mathematically inclined — the results were pretty much unbearable for Mets fans. The preteen girls in the stands, most of whom were waiting to watch someone named Austin Mahone, unleashed 266,000 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Mahone, Brooklyn Cyclones, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, music, Pat Mahomes, Timo Perez I hope everybody had a good Labor Day. Which is another way of saying I hope you didn’t waste a perfectly good holiday witnessing whatever it was the Mets spent their afternoon doing. Terry Collins said it wasn’t a big-league baseball game, and he was right. The Marlins were horrible too, with Marcell Ozuna managing […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Staten Island Yankees, Travis d'Arnaud The Mets lost to the Pirates in a quiet, unmemorable game that at least saw Terry Collins manage a bullpen the way one would like: he was cognizant of his starting pitcher’s gas tank and brought his closer in when it mattered instead of when baseball conventional wisdom (which is 90% mythical and the other […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Hagerstown Suns, Ike Davis, Jordany Valdespin, Minor Leagues, Terry Collins, Willie Mays It’s been a beautiful couple of nights in New York City, with gentle weather, nice breezes and the western horizon still faintly painted in sunset colors after 9:30. The Mets have been in Atlanta, far from here but right at hand — if you’ve got a TV they’re before your eyes, if you’ve got a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Fathers and Sons, Foul Balls, Jonathon Niese, Omar Quintanilla If the Mets get shellacked 7-0 by the Cubs, does it make a sound? I ask because looking around the series of tubes, I see a lot of first-half-of-the-season stuff, and not a lot of stuff about a normally patient club making like nine Jeff Francoeurs so they could get in their SUVs and be somewhere […] The Mets were horrible again. Stripped of a flu-ridden Carlos Beltran in addition to everybody else, they made Clay Hensley look like a shoo-in for Cooperstown, mustering one cosmetic run in falling to the just-passing-through Marlins. Though, in fairness, they got an assist from Angel Hernandez, everybody’s favorite umpire. With two outs in the third, Chris […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Brooklyn Cyclones, Jose Reyes, Umpiring When Jenrry Mejia clutched some indeterminate part of his upper body and walked unhappily off the mound, I just stared at the TV. It could be nothing — when a young pitcher whose arm is potentially worth millions does anything odd on the mound, the catcher rears up, the trainer double-times it to the mound, the […] Not so long ago, the Mets losing two in a row was something that happened at least twice a week, and three times if the week were particularly unlucky. Now, it’s vaguely shocking. Waitaminute, we lost? But we’re great! We didn’t come back? Our starting pitching wasn’t dominant? Everything didn’t turn out OK? In truth, Johan Santana […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Omar Minaya, Subway Series, Yankees |
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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