 
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 really thought I had MLB At Bat licked. Volunteer duties and a kayaking trip kept me away from the Mets’ matinee against the Nats (I know, smallest of violins) and my post-vacation brain forgot to set the DVR to record the game. So when I arrived home a little before 8, my path to semi-responsible […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Blowouts, Corey Oswalt, Disappointment, Fans, MLB At Bat, Montreal Expos, Nationals, Paul Sewald, Steven Matz, Tyler Bashlor What if the secret of making the Mets better is being mean to them? No, not by forcing them to play a new position, letting them rot on the bench, warming them up too often and not putting them in a game, not putting them in a game for weeks, letting injuries linger without DL stints, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Kevin Plawecki, Nationals, Nicknames, The Jason Vargas Index That’s enough baseball for tonight, thanks. Honestly, it was kind of funny. Your recapper was three seats behind the left-field fence for the worst loss — mathematically speaking — in franchise history, and can report that it really wasn’t that bad. Losing 3-2 in 11 lingers unpleasantly in the memory. Getting jumped for a five-spot in […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Franchise Records, Jeff McNeil, Jose Reyes, Nationals Your recapper will begin by confessing something usually kept discreetly behind the Faith & Fear curtain: his direct experience of tonight’s game was limited to the bottom of the ninth, watched while scowling/frowning at a phone in a friend’s living room north of Boston. Well, fuck. That bottom of the ninth was brief. Mercifully, one […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Fans, Garrett Olson, Gerson Bautista, Hansel Robles, Hope, Jay Bruce, Lino Urdaneta, Mac Scarce, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz Baseball’s pretty fun under any circumstances. Buried in the standings and auditioning kids whom everyone knows aren’t ready? A September game’s still not a bad use of an evening. Grinding along in a summer you know won’t require keeping your fall calendar clear? Ditto. But baseball’s even more fun when it matters. Starting 11-1 doesn’t ensure a […] No, I’m not being cute. Too tired for that. I’m acknowledging that we’ve reached a familiar point in the progression of a lost season, though this familiar point isn’t the big reveal. The big reveal is that the games you’re watching are expository bric-a-brac, part of the lead-in to the real story, which you just realized isn’t being […] I wish Jeurys Familia the best in dealing with the arterial clot afflicting his right shoulder: a speedy recovery, a return to full health, a refreshed ability to throw a baseball better than all but a handful of pitchers let alone people on the planet. I wish anybody who has an arterial clot, a torn lat, […] Spring Training’s final public act was cancelled Friday when rain washed away a game against the United States Military Academy, a.k.a. Army, at Citi Field, an exhibition that was going to be carried out at West Point until the playing conditions at Doubleday Field at Johnson Stadium were deemed harmful for major leaguers and other […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allegiances, Buffalo Bisons, Casey Stengel, Fans, Long Island, New York, Quinnipiac, Rheingold, Surveys, Team History, Transitory Popularity, West Point My preparations for watching Friday night’s game included slippers and finding the fake fur throw that my wife was horrified when I bought — TV-watching components that made their last appearance one chilly day in May. It’s the baseball circle of life — a young season that needed spring thawing before we discovered what it […] Let’s get the late news in first: this time the Pirates did the job, stifling the Cardinals to move the Mets into a virtual tie for the second wild-card slot. (It’s virtual because St. Louis has somehow played three fewer games than we have.) Then the Rockies walked off the Giants. Your NL wild-card race […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Phillips, Fans, Keith Hernandez, Noah Syndergaard |
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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