 
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. |
Hope is a self-healing thing. The Mets have won four in a row. I’d say “somehow,” except they’ve been playing the Phillies and the Reds, two teams that (like the Mets) are quantitatively and officially lousy. Still, they all count and during this modest but thoroughly welcome winning streak the Mets haven’t looked half-bad. Which is all […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dominic Smith, Hope, Kevin Plawecki, Phillip Evans, Rafael Montero In the summer of 1977, with Tom Seaver exiled to Cincinnati, the Mets tried to lure fans back to Shea Stadium with the cheery come-on “bring your kids to see our kids.” It didn’t work — nothing short of M. Donald Grant’s public execution would have worked under the circumstances — but this month I keep […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Flexen, Dominic Smith, Hope, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Youth The Mets lost, and it was annoying — after a drought in the clutch, they came back to tie the game against the Diamondbacks and their dreadful uniforms, forcing the business of determining a winner to extra innings. Then Erik Goeddel came on as the latest reliever, and it was immediately clear that he didn’t have […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Pollock, Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Erik Goeddel, Robert Gsellman, Steven Matz June 3, 2017, was a fine Saturday night for the New York Mets, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field, 4-2, with, Lucas Duda at first, Neil Walker at second, Curtis Granderson in center, Jay Bruce around in right, René Rivera catching, and Addison Reed pitching the eighth and ninth innings to record his […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Curtis Granderson, De Facto Designated Hitter, Dominic Smith, Kevin Plawecki, M&M's Sweet Seats, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera, Youth of America At this stage of a lost season, it’s no longer about the standings or even particularly about the score. Baseball becomes a game of individual accomplishments, and the roster a collection of atomized pieces to be assessed for some future mosaic. Keep this one, dump that one, maybe we can swap that one for something […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Ballparks, Dominic Smith, New Yankee Stadium As SNY spoke with Dave Mlicki Monday night about claiming first blood in a Mets-Yankees tilt that mattered, I found myself more than a little distracted. Mlicki had blanked the Yanks 20 years ago? No, that couldn’t be right. Surely it was five years ago. OK, maybe 10. But nope, you could look it up. The Mets and Yankees […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Rafael Montero, Subway Series, Yankees, Yoenis Cespedes One of the things I’ve enjoyed about this Mets era — 2015, 2016, 2017 — is the sense that even when these guys aren’t quite playing good ball, they know how to be good ballplayers, particularly good teammates. That probably comes from a proliferation of decent fellas playing the game for a decent interval. Live […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Debuts, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Hansel Robles, Joe Orsulak, Met Debuts, Veteran Presence Hmm, is that how you spell Milestone Achieved? It looks a little funny, but there’s no wavy red line under it, so I guess it must be correct. As you may have heard, Tuesday’s night game — played in whatever suburb of Dallas that’s considered to be in whatever that park that looks perfectly new but […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Milestones With the fifteenth pick in the 2015 draft, the New York Mets selected the present. They didn’t put their trust in a marker for the future. They went with a Michael for the season directly in front of them. If the Mets’ signing of Michael Cuddyer — 36 years old in 2015, which will be his […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Dominic Smith, Draft, Free Agents, Michael Cuddyer The Mets didn’t lose! Coincidentally, they didn’t play — their game against the Nats was washed away by the advance guard of Tropical Storm Andrea, which will also wash away tomorrow night’s game here against the Marlins. We’ve been saying for some time that you should make other plans, but this time we really mean […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pulsipher, Dominic Smith, Fans, Wilbur Huckle |
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. 
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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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