 
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. |
Other than Wild Card Games, the 2016 National League version in particular, I don’t recall watching a postseason showdown and thinking it absolutely needed to continue beyond its agreed upon parameters. But I have now. The Dodgers just defeated the Giants in five, but five wasn’t enough. It was the Dodgers in too soon. This National […]  21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Postseason, Dodgers, Five-Game Series, Giants, Justin Turner, Max Scherzer, Wilmer Flores No matter what the standings have to say, a night at the ballpark feels a little like getting away with something. And Wednesday night was nice at Citi Field — a hot day turned into a breezy evening, enjoyed by a boisterous crowd. Even our neighboring Giants fans — of which there were admittedly too […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Double Plays, Giants, Javier Baez, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker “A long flight across the night? You know why late flights are good? Because we cease to be earthbound and burdened with practicality. Ask the important question. Talk about the idea nobody has thought about yet. Put it in a different way.” That was Jed Bartlet aboard Air Force One, somewhere over America, sometime late at […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | (Not) Phone Company Park, 2002 Mets, Falls From Grace, Field Of Dreams, Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, The West Wing It’s good to be the Giants. The 2021 Giants are what happens when everything breaks right — when veterans thought to be on the back end of the career curve have career years, role players step up, and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. And you know what? Good for them and […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | bad, Disappointment, Giants, Kris Bryant, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Rich Hill, Trevor May By definition, extra-inning losses are cruel. To come so far, battling and staving off ruination, only to have it arrive anyway? That always hurts. To that, let us add the noncontroversial contract rider that extra-inning road losses are crueler still. Ruin, when it comes, leaves you stuck in mid-gesture, on a field where nothing you do […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Mazza, Extra Innings, Giants, Madison Bumgarner, Marathons, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso Let’s be clear about one thing after a day where clarity was sadly lacking: Zack Wheeler was wonderful. Wheeler’s blossoming is one of the unalloyed positives to come out of this weirdly bitter Mets season: Wheeler seems to have shaken off injuries and rust and youth to become the top-flight starter we’d imagined since he arrived. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aramis Garcia, Chris Shaw, Communications, David Wright, Giants, One-Car Funerals, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler Most of Tuesday night unfolded the way most of Monday night had: we watched a Mets team at home doing a worrisome amount of nothing. Steven Matz gave up a two-run shot in the first inning, then settled down and looked much more like himself, though it should be said that we still don’t quite know […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Jeff McNeil, Steven Matz, Wilmer Flores Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees Can we play the Giants for the rest of the year? Let’s be clear about something: the Mets’ three-game sweep of San Francisco doesn’t mean they’re suddenly good. They’re just better than the Giants, for whom “can’t get out of their own way” would be a kind assessment. The Giants are having a once-in-several-generations cratering of […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Bradford, Curtis Granderson, Giants, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera There I sat, an unaffiliated baseball fan, watching the game because it was the only game that was on, the final game that would be on, Game Seven of the World Series, October 29, 2014, the Royals playing the Giants for the championship of the sport I loved. Those teams and that circumstance had nothing […] 93 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Conor Gillaspie, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Giants, Jeurys Familia, Madison Bumgarner, Mathematically Eliminated, Moneyball, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Wild Card |
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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