David Wright has been back with the Mets since Monday. The Mets have been back in first place since August 3. The Red Sox are back in Queens to play the Mets for the first time since July of 2001. Charles Prince is back and sort of in the middle of all this for the […]
 
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. |
 29 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Jeopardy, Pitch Counts, Red Sox This happens, right? Against all playoff probability odds, let alone preseason projections, some team finds the field and proves itself better than imagined, better than its competition, better than its most fervent and loyal supporters dared to dream. This is happening…right? Wright. Brothers and sisters, rub your eyes, pinch your extremities, do a double-, triple- and quadruple-take. Those […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, David Wright, Home Runs, Precedent, Records, Sean Gilmartin, That Thing You Do, Unicorn Scores For the second night in a row, the Mets lost a one-run game amid a relapse of Narcoleptic Offense Syndrome. On Saturday night the problem was compounded by Noah Syndergaard having an off-night; on Sunday Bartolo Colon was good enough to win, but the Mets’ attack against hyperactive Chris Archer (who must cover at least two […] Super-exciting spine-tingling headline-grabbing narrative-changing straight-to-the-SportsCenter-open wins are great, of course. But the key to playing in October is racking up the more mundane sort of victories. Which is exactly what the Mets did Tuesday night. Of course, only by recent pinch-me standards could the Mets’ 5-1 dispatching of the Marlins be considered dull. Jon Niese pitched […] 63 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric O'Flaherty, Jon Niese, Rafael Montero, Terry Collins The good news: Nobody had to mention walking to describe Noah Syndergaard’s problems in San Diego Wednesday. The less good news: David Wright had to mention walking to describe his own problems before the same game that quickly became the worst of Syndergaard’s career. “Syndergaard’s career” is, to date, a five-start proposition, so except for denying us […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Benny Bell, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Goodfellas, Injuries, Noah Syndergaard, Octavio Dotel, The Sopranos, Youth A 9-1 game in Pittsburgh. It sounded familiar. It should have. It was the score and scene of the first game the Mets ever won. Oh, those Original Mets. Such infamy is attached to their shortcomings, but when the Mets played that first 9-1 game in Pittsburgh on April 23, 1962, and upped their record to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2015 Mets, Bobby Gene Smith, David Wright, Elio Chacon, Felix Mantilla, Gil Hodges, Harvey Haddix, Jack Lamabe, Jay Hook, Robin Ventura, Tom Sturdivant, Unflattering Comparisons I’m one of the few Mets fans to have had an uplifting Harvey Day Saturday. You might say I had a Charlie Day. Charlie’s my father. Charles, really. Dad to me. Dad doesn’t care about baseball, which is why he doesn’t show up often in these pages. But this week Dad has been front and center […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bonnie Franklin, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, Stenosis The Mets playing a relatively ho-hum game wasn’t the worst thing in the world, after the emotion and intensity and wall-to-wall zaniness of whatever that was last night. Of course, a ho-hum game is a satisfying thing provided you win. Which the Mets did rather handily. Some quick takes and then we’ll get on to the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda, Milestones, Phillies Before the manager had to deliver the news that something “major” had happened to his indispensable player’s hamstring…before a backup catcher presumably said a prayer that nothing be hit to him in his unforeseen debut as a third baseman…before baseballs brushed back batters hither and yon…before replays weren’t reviewed even though it sure as hell […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alfonzo Marquez, Anthony Recker, Chase Utley, Citi Field, David Buchanan, David Wright, Harvey Day, Jeff Francoeur, Matt Harvey, Phillies, Terry Collins, Video Review Baseball’s a mental game. Perhaps you’ve heard. For a maddening, frustrating game this one was actually kind of fun. Wait, hear me out on that. The Mets lost because multiple members of the team made physical errors, followed by multiple members of the team making mental errors. Those weren’t the fun parts. But these parts were pretty neat: back-to-back home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, David Wright, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Phil Gosselin, Rafael Montero, Wilmer Flores |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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