 
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. |
None of that should have worked. Presented to you is a short sentence in which “that” is carrying a heavy load, referring to two games played over more than nine hours, the first of them featuring an emphatically run-suppressing wind, and the Mets spending both games not so much stumbling as failing to deliver a knockout […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheader Sweeps, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frank Schwindel, J.D. Davis, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Yan Gomes, Yoan Lopez The story before Monday night’s game in Atlanta was discerning what the hell Robinson Cano was doing in a Braves uniform, in the Braves lineup, in the Braves infield. Wasn’t Robinson Cano, having washed out with the San Diego Padres, an El Paso Chihuahua literally the day before? Did the surging Atlanta Braves really need […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Psyche-Outs, Robinson Cano, The Odd Couple With one out in the top of the ninth in Cincinnati Wednesday night, a baseball team and its adherents desperately needed therapy. Mark Canha had just started the inning by fouling out against Hunter Strickland, conspicuously useless as a 2020 COVID Met and now somehow the Reds’ closer. The Mets had managed two runs against Cincinnati, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam MacKay, Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Angel Hernandez, Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Colin Holderman, Dauri Moreta, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frustration, Hunter Strickland, James McCann, Paul Clemons, Reds, Starling Marte, Umpiring, Victory! Jacob deGrom pitched to six minor league batters on Sunday night. Five of them turned into smoldering holes in the dirt adjacent to home plate. I didn’t notice what became of the sixth. As far as we can tell, nobody was actually harmed, neither the young Jupiter Hammerheads whose future still remains ahead of them […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Interleague Play, Jeff McNeil, Jonah Heim, Rangers, Starling Marte, Trumpets It was tight. It was tense. It was pitched the way you would swear under oath you prefer your games to be pitched. It was the kind of game you could really enjoy for the sake of sublime baseball until you remembered you had a rooting interest. To be fair, if your rooting interest emanated from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jason Castro, Justin Verlander, Luis Guillorme, Pitchers' Duels, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver It’s unlikely the Mets know they’re accessories to a furniture-moving caravan traveling the East Coast, but that’s what they are. Day 2 of the extravaganza featured a drive from outside Philly to Brooklyn, unloading furniture there and loading up more stuff in its place that’s headed to Maine later today. Aside from a couple of bumps […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Beck, Avisail Garcia, Don Mattingly, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Howie Rose, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jon Berti, Taijuan Walker Everybody misplaces their Mojo from time to time. In the summer of 1999, Austin Powers had to chase his Mojo all the way back to 1969. A couple of months later, the 1999 Mets’ Mojo experienced dizzying spikes and frightening declines despite Jim Morrison’s advice that it should keep on risin’. For a night-and-a-half in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Austin Powers, Bloated Pitching Staffs, Brewers, Chasen Shreve, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Hunter Renfroe, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Mojo, Nick Plummer, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Robin Ventura, Seth Lugo, Short Benches, Starling Marte, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill OK, so Sunday’s 4-1 victory over the Angels wasn’t the most memorable of ballgames — no crazed rollercoaster of lead changes, indelible highlights or controversies. But it was satisfying nonetheless: a trim, tidy baseball game, easy to admire if not necessarily one to commit to the top shelf of memory. The Mets got a couple of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Buck Showalter, Closers, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Kurt Suzuki, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tony La Russa, West Coast Trips Following Friday night’s 7-3 victory over the Angels, the 2022 Mets are 39-21 after sixty games. Here is a comprehensive list of every Mets team that had as good a record or better than the current edition at the same juncture in its season: 1. 1986: 44-16 That’s it. That’s the list. It may not feel as if […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2022 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Team History, Tylor Megill, Unsurpassed Records “Kid, we’re short of staff this weekend. I need you to go out to Citi Field and cover Sunday night’s Mets-Phillies game. The main thing is the lede. Watch what happens, and when you think you know what the main story is, type up a graf and shoot it back to the copy desk. We […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Chris Bassitt, Comebacks, Drama, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Nick Plummer, Starling Marte, Stephen Nogosek, Walkoffs |
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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