 
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. |
Another year in the books! Another decade in the books! And another class of matriculating Mets to welcome to The Holy Books! Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re in order of arrival in […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2019 Mets, Aaron Altherr, Adeiny Hechavarria, Baseball Cards, Brad Brach, Brooks Pounders, Chris Mazza, Donnie Hart, Edwin Diaz, Hector Santiago, J.D. Davis, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Justin Wilson, Keon Broxton, Luis Avilan, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rajai Davis, Robinson Cano, Ryan O'Rourke, Sam Haggerty, Stephen Nogosek, The Holy Books, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font, Wilson Ramos Welcome to the seventh chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Amed Rosario, Bobby Parnell, J.D. Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Blevins, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Mets of the 2010s, Mike Pelfrey, Wilson Ramos In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] The Mets kept their heartbeat faint but detectable by beating the Reds on Sunday afternoon — a game I started listening to on the Tripper Bus back from D.C. and that ended with me standing in my living room in Brooklyn. (First comment: “I know they’re throwbacks, but the Reds really need to retire those […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | BABIP, Brad Brach, Brandon Nimmo, Eugenio Suarez, J.D. Davis, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Reds, Wild Card The ample lady of renown may not be singing quite yet, but I heard another singer last night. Not exactly a matinee idol, this one — he had a puffy face, jet-black hair, and big black-rimmed Coke-bottle glasses. But his voice was a rich burr that rose to an unearthly falsetto. It’s over, it’s over, it’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Senzatela, Brandon Nimmo, Coors Field, J.D. Davis, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Steven Matz, Trevor Story With the Mets in a pennant race again, I’ve been remembering all the little stresses that come with meaningful games in September. Here’s one of them: Getting to within an hour or two of the game and thinking that this could be Execution Day — the day where, if they don’t win, you can pretty much […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Joe Panik, Joe Ross, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera Sometimes life — by which I mean, “that stuff scheduled around baseball games” — gets in the way. First there was dinner, then a podcast interview. I moved what I could thanks to the kindness of other folks involved, but only so much movement was possible, and the Mets would have to take a back seat […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Daniel Zamora, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Scott Kingery, Zach Eflin On the way out to Citi Field Thursday night, I tweeted that this was the Helm’s Deep of the Mets’ 2019 season. For those unfamiliar with The Two Towers, Helm’s Deep is the redoubt to which the hard-pressed warriors of Rohan retreat, fortifying it and making a last stand against the forces of evil. I also […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ends of All Good Things, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jon Lester, Perspective, Sadness, Victor Caratini It’s too late for massive regret where Saturday night’s sloppiness is concerned. It’s Sunday morning, and another game is directly in front of us. It’s too early for despair where 2019 is concerned. Thirty-three games remain, and despite an ugly 9-5 loss facilitated by the Braves playing admirable heads-up baseball and the Mets playing abysmal […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Billy Hamilton, Brad Brach, Carlos Beltran, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Cervelli, Heads Up Their Asses, Heads-Up Baseball, Home Runs, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Juan Lagares, Pete Alonso, Team History, Todd Hundley, Zack Wheeler When the 2019 Mets look up “quit” in the dictionary, you know whose picture they see? It’s a trick question, because not only don’t they know the meaning of the word “quit,” it’s never occurred to them to investigate further. They’d been telling us for months that this is how they operate. “This team doesn’t quit.” […] |
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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