 
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 was in L.A. Thursday morning through Monday night attending Star Wars Celebration (and probably getting COVID, but we’ll see), and felt the usual guilt about abandoning my post. Though I didn’t, really — the Mets kept sneaking into the picture, as they have a way of doing. There they were for the last couple of […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Drew Smith, First Place, Hope, Starling Marte, Trevor Williams In Bicentennial Detroit, when Mark Fidrych was in full flight, The Bird was the word. On TV in the 1950s, a duck delivered the $100 prize to contestants on You Bet Your Life who used Groucho Marx’s secret word. Frankie Valli ruffled few feathers when he informed us repeatedly in the summer of ’78 that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Directions, First Place, Frankie Valli, Groucho Marx, Mark Fidrych, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Suffixes For the ninth time in franchise history, the New York Mets have completed 108 games, or two-thirds of a regulation schedule, with a playoff spot in hand. In six of the eight previous instances when they led either the NL East or the NL Wild Card race at this juncture (1986, 1988, 1999, 2000, 2006, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, James McCann, Javy Baez, LOBs, Marlins, Schedules, Steve Kornacki One half of a season is behind the New York Mets and so is the rest of the National League East. You can’t ask for a much better situation following 81 games. The chips don’t settle that way very often. The Mets have finished the statistical first half in first place six times previously. They’ve won […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bette Midler, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Bunting, Depth, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, First Half, First Place, Francisco Lindor, Michael Conforto, Neckerchiefs, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Team History, Trevor May, Tylor Megill Steven Matz went deep. Amed Rosario went deeper. Pete Alonso went deepest of all. Edwin Diaz made certain we didn’t plumb the depths. And that is how the New York Mets took sole possession of first place twelve games into the 2019 season, which clinches the Mets absolutely nothing. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Amed Rosario, Braves, Edwin Diaz, First Place, Freddie Freeman, Homers Hit as Hard as Hell, Jonny Venters, National League East, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, SunTrust Park With a one-and-a-half game lead over two rivals and an off day today, the Mets are guaranteed go into the books as the kings of April 2018, provided there are books devoted to April kings in any year. At most, there’s maybe a pamphlet.
Welcome to Tuesday night, Citi Field, Flushing, New York, August, the 2010s. It is not by chance we are here. We make a date. We make this date. August 10, 2010 Did we ever have a meeting to decide? Did it go through committee? Did we take […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Rockies, Ryder Chasin, Shake Shack, Tradition Perhaps you’ve heard about the butcher and the baker and the people on the streets, all of whom have gone to Meet The Mets. More than 27,000, whatever the vocation, did so Monday night, myself included. We gave ’em a yell, gave ’em a hand and let ’em know we were rootin’ in the stand. Yes, […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, First Place, Meet The Mets, Seats, Skid Rowe, The Simpsons 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 […] “Essentially, though, these were young men, seizing the opportunity to make the careers all normal ball players yearn for — victory, earning power, fame, respect. They were no different from the dozens of other young clubs that had suddenly found themselves, all through baseball history, in some dramatic season. The comic origins of the name […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2015 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, First Place, Leonard Koppett, Michael Conforto, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes |
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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