 
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. |
From the beginning, I’ve loved watching Jeff McNeil play baseball — somehow never more so than when things don’t go his way. McNeil responds to any misfortune in an AB — an umpire’s poor judgment, his own excessive haste, a perfectly executed enemy pitch, a great play by a defender, a quirk of fate — with […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Leiter, Cardinals, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Lenny Dykstra, Masyn Winn, Miles Mikolas, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso A grab bag of Mets drawing Adam Wainwright during his farewell tour, with John Smoltz and Fox painting the word picture? Hasn’t 2023 been mean enough already? That’s what we got Thursday night, with the only reasonable source of hope that baseball’s innate cussedness and delight in confounding storylines would come to the fore. Which, in fact, […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Cardinals, Drew Smith, Fox, Francisco Alvarez, Grant Hartwig, Jeff McNeil, John Smoltz, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Quintana, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso, Tim Locastro, Trevor Gott I don’t like being mad at the Mets. They’re an important part of my life — while I’m not as doctrinaire about it as I was in the not so distant past, it’s odd for me not to see or hear every pitch, and decidedly rare for a game to go in the books wholly unglimpsed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Adam Wainwright, Cardinals, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Paul Goldschmidt In April, it didn’t merit our attention. In April, the Mets were the Mets who were going to make a habit of it. In April, the Mets beat the Padres one game, the A’s the next; the A’s one game, the Dodgers the next; and the Dodgers one game, the Giants the next. In April, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Cardinals, Daniel Vogelbach, Dominic Leone, Fatalism, Francisco Lindor, Josh Walker, Successive Wins Versus Different Opponents, Tommy Pham, Tylor Megill Can the Mets win by seven and have that feel like an afterthought? It turns out they can — if the takeaway from the game isn’t a blast of a homer by Pete Alonso or a hustling triple by happily hale and hearty Brandon Nimmo or a host of hitting to break the second half of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Brandon Nimmo, Cardinals, Hope, Hopelessness, Injuries, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pitchers Did I want a pencil, the fella who sold me my program/scorecard asked me. Since the pencil was free and the paper bag with handles was a nickel, of course I said yes to the pencil with no eraser and not even NEW YORK METS written across it. Rule No. 1 of ballpark retail customer […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Citi Field, Doubleheaders, Jake Reed, Pencils, Splits, T-shirts, Tom Seaver Statue, Trevor Williams Yoan Lopez came up and in on Nolan Arenado in the eighth inning of Wednesday afternoon’s almost incidental Mets loss to the Cardinals. Like what Shawn Estes threw in the greater geographic vicinity of Roger Clemens’s backside twenty years ago, Lopez’s pitch didn’t touch the batter he was facing. Unlike with Estes, Lopez’s pitch did […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Baseball Etiquette, Buck Showalter, Cardinals, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Davis, Kabuki, Nolan Arenado, Roger Clemens, Shawn Estes, Yoan Lopez Pitchers’ duels are one of the earliest tests of budding baseball fandom — dull to the casual observer who wants action and doesn’t get why those around him are oohing and aahing over hitters swinging and missing or just looking flustered at balls zipping from hurlers’ hands to places they weren’t expected to wind up. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Comebacks, Dom Smith, Giovanny Gallegos, Jeff McNeil, Joey Cora, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Miles Mikolas, Pitchers' Duels, Robinson Cano, Trevor May, Tyler O'Neill The Mets have guaranteed they won’t win 90 games in 2021. They’ve guaranteed it quite a bit by their play in the second half, but they clinched not reaching a win total generally associated with playoff participation on Monday night by losing at Citi Field to the Cardinals, 7-0, and nailing down their 73rd loss. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Cardinals, September, When Pigs Fly, Yadier Molina True confession time: Your recapper earns no accolades for being an attentive student of the game Wednesday night, dozing off before the conclusion of Game 1 (“Did they lose?” I asked Emily when roused) and remaining groggy and befuddled for a good chunk of Game 2. Just as well, since I figure we don’t particularly […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Cardinals, Doubleheaders, Ghosts, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Patrick Mazeika, Paul DeJong, Tomas Nido |
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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