 
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. |
Welp, that first West Coast trip is out of the way, and the Mets went 3-4, but 2-87 if you adjust the results by Depressed Met Fan Black Cloud Overhead Factor. 2-87 is obviously horrible, and in our spiritual standings the Mets are now 10,462 games out of first place. 3-4, on the other hand, is not horrendous […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Diamondbacks, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores 1. Bartolo Colon sucked. 2. Wilmer Flores made another error. 3. The bats did zero against a guy who came in with an ERA north of 7. 4. Dilson Herrera, one of the only players worth watching in this disaster, broke his fingertip and is headed for the DL. 5. Herrera will be replaced on the roster not by […] Hang with ’em. It was one of the first bits of baseball advice I gave Joshua to pass along to the little figures on the TV who can’t hear us. Blasted a ball up the gap that the right fielder barely speared at a dead run? Hang with ’em. Laser beam perfectly intersected by the apex of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rizzo, Dilson Herrera, Jacob deGrom, Johnny Monell, Jon Lester, Kris Bryant, Lucas Duda, Wrigley Field The Mets won a game tonight that was a little snoozy, frankly. Jacob deGrom was pretty good, being more inclusive with the change-ups he’d left out of his repertoire in his last two starts. Kevin Plawecki came out during the game’s key at-bat by gigantic Orioles slugger Chris Davis and gave deGrom a little pep talk, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Jacob deGrom, Willie Montanez Useful reminder: Baseball will drive you crazy if you let it. Every so often a thought creeps into my head that I immediately try to shoo away: It’s that the team that wins the World Series will be the good team with the best luck, the one that has the fewest guys injured and the most bounces […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Gio Gonzalez, Ian Desmond, Jonathon Niese, Juan Lagares OK, show of hands. Back in February, who’d have taken ending April 15-8 and in first place by 4 1/2 games? Yeah, I thought so. And yet here we are in the opening hours of May and everybody’s unhappy. The bullpen’s gone to pieces. The bats haven’t been productive. And most glaringly, the defense up the middle has fallen […] Your meaningful games in September update: The Mets are officially better than they were the last two years — they won their 75th game of the year tonight. For the moment at least they’re better than the Marlins, though tied in the lost column. Can they finish with a winning record after the All-Star break? They’ll need to […] Whaddya know? The Mets really can beat the Nationals. They did so tonight — you could look it up. They did so despite the umpires failing up to correct a bad call even with a replay review, which burned Terry Collins‘s challenge, which meant he couldn’t challenge the next play, when Ian Desmond overslid second stealing and was called […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Hope, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Nationals, Travis d'Arnaud, Umpires When Saturday’s one-run loss to the Reds was over, it was easy to pinpoint the most obviously pivotal play. It happened at third base in the ninth inning, when Eric Young, who has somehow stolen 29 bases in a season when it feels like he’s played in maybe 29 games, was called safe by Alfonso […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Donald Lutz, Eric Young, Jorge Toca, Terry Collins, Tim Teufel, Video Review 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 |
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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