 
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. |
If you were looking for four hours that would renew your faith in the Mets, well, boy did you pick the wrong night. First the Mets played a thoroughly inept game against the Yankees, one in which a) they were atrocious once more with runners in scoring position; b) Steven Matz underpitched Chad Green to put them in an inescapably […]  52 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Hansel Robles, Injuries, Mark Teixeira, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes Well, the Mets finally got that big hit. Neil Walker, looking like April’s Neil Walker, crashed a three-run homer into the seats in the seventh inning Sunday, saving the Mets from a four-game losing streak, a season sweep at the hands of the Rockies, and an extra topping of misery and angst ahead of the Subway […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Injuries, Jay Bruce, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Trades, Wilmer Flores You probably didn’t need this reminder, but here it is anyway: baseball will make you look dumb. Like maybe in the afterglow of Thursday night’s thrilling comeback against the Nats (deliciously complete with hirsute heel Jayson Werth shooting his own team in the collective foot) you found yourself thinking that it was really too bad the Mets […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets entered their series against the Nationals with a clear shot at the top spot in their division and exited it scrambling for positioning in the Wild Card race. They scored four runs in the first three innings on Monday, two in the last inning on Wednesday and none in the intervening twenty-three. One […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attrition, Bone Spurs, Daniel Murphy, Dion, Faith, Injuries, Offensive Futility, Turnover, Unfamiliarity It came at the end of Terry Collins‘s press conference, and might have been funny except for the fact that it wasn’t funny: the small manager with the large personality tried to exit stage left, then had a brief, unhappy colloquy with someone not shown by SNY’s cameras. Collins objected that there hadn’t been any […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Cheslor Cuthbert, Injuries, Matt Reynolds, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, Royals, Whit Merrifield I realized Bartolo Colon was the batter. I heard something about a ball hit into the gap. I put 40 and 2 together and zipped (in my own Bartolian fashion) from the radio in the kitchen to the television in the living room to bear witness to the breathtaking site — taking the breath of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Injuries, Leadoff Homers, Surprises Losing by ten runs once you’ve fallen behind by four in the first inning isn’t better than many things, but based on recent, compelling evidence, it sure beats losing by one run when the tying run stands on third base. A 12-2 loss attributable primarily to Bartolo Colon simply not having it is almost relaxing […] The pitching’s too good to ever get too down. There’s not a Shaun Marcum reclamation project in the bunch, no Chris Capuano dutifully sucking up innings as if that’s the goal of any given game. One start you get Jacob deGrom, who opposing batters can’t hit; next game it’s Noah Syndergaard, who they can’t touch. In […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Friday Night Lights, Hope, Injuries, Mad Men, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz The Mets, for all the agita surrounding them, went to the other side of a fair continent and returned with a 4-2 trip. That’s not bad. In fact, it’s pretty far from bad. So why are so many Mets fans — most definitely including me — so prone to rending of garments, gnashing of teeth and […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Michael Cuddyer, Wilpons The good news: Nobody had to mention walking to describe Noah Syndergaard’s problems in San Diego Wednesday. The less good news: David Wright had to mention walking to describe his own problems before the same game that quickly became the worst of Syndergaard’s career. “Syndergaard’s career” is, to date, a five-start proposition, so except for denying us […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Benny Bell, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Goodfellas, Injuries, Noah Syndergaard, Octavio Dotel, The Sopranos, Youth |
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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