 
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’d like the bottom of the third inning from Friday night’s game bottled, if you please. Seriously, that was a high ABV brew to settle even the most high-strung Mets fan’s nerves. Down 2-0 against Charlie Morton — one of the few remaining big leaguers with sufficient tenure to have appeared at Shea — the Mets […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Duvall, Adam Ottavino, Braves, Charlie Morton, Eric Orze, Francisco Alvarez, Howie Rose, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jose Iglesias, Keith Raad, Lino Urdaneta, Marcell Ozuna, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Wild Card SNY spotlighted a clubhouse interview after Wednesday night’s game as if it was news. Francisco Lindor said the Braves were better than the Mets. This is news in the sense that this just in: Studies Show Pleasure Preferable to Pain. What’s the scoop here? That one of the Mets’ leading players recognized that the team that […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, DJ Stewart, Francisco Lindor, Jose Quintana, Marcell Ozuna, Sean Murphy, Sean Reid-Foley, Unflattering Comparisons Like everybody else, I’m mortal. I have an expiration date, a timer that will ring, a final quarter that will yield GAME OVER. One day I’ll have a final moment and once it’s past, I’ll be dead. I have no idea when that final moment will be — it could come a few minutes from now, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Charlie Morton, Mortality, Tylor Megill Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes One of my odder Met hobbies is keeping track of the franchise’s ghosts — players who are on the active roster but never appear in a game. Going into Tuesday night, the Mets had rostered four ghosts in 2022, which would be a record for a season: Gosuke Katoh, R.J. Alvarez, Sam Clay and Kramer […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Charlie Morton, Dylan Lee, Ghosts, Injuries, Matt Olson, R.J. Alvarez, Robbie Grossman, Taijuan Walker 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 A review of some emotions we were feeling not so long ago: amazement at the tenacity and resourcefulness of the Mets’ “bench mob,” pinch-me gratitude that the team was in first place, and perhaps even a little optimism that the starting rotation’s continued excellence would see it through such ancillary difficulties. The Mets are still in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bench Mob, Braves, Charlie Morton, Dansby Swanson, Drew Smith, Frustration, Injuries, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Robert Stock, Trevor May, Yennsy Diaz The good: A night after making solid contact but coming up short, Michael Conforto showed why he merits all the excitement, mashing a rising line drive off Charlie Morton that hissed over the fence above the Mo’s Zone. (Not sure it’s still called that; quite sure I don’t care.) That tied the game at 3 and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Davidson, Charlie Morton, Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes Kinda busy, kinda distracted. Mets score a run in the top of the first on no hits, I hear out of one ear. That’s nice, I think. But why didn’t we get any hits? Three straight Pirate hits and the tying run right after, it is mentioned while I’m still doing something else. Damn, I think, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Morton, Dillon Gee, Jack Fisher, Luis Rivera, Manny Acosta, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, Tim Bogar, Tim Byrdak |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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