 
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. |
With the Mets batting because they had to in the eighth inning of Thursday night’s game, I got out of my seat at Citi Field and took a walk. The immediate reason was straightforward, but there were other reasons, too. My feet were cold. My legs were stiff. I was upset. And I knew that for […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2024 Postseason, Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Danny Young, Disappointment, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Mark Vientos, Max Muncy, Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, The 7 Line, Tommy Edman, Yoshinobu Yamamoto It was the ninth inning against the Phillies, 10 days ago, and ESPN’s little win probability thing (a sop to gamblers, but that’s another post) was making me insane. It said the Phillies had an 8% chance of coming back to beat the Mets, which was obviously wrong. Obviously and deliberately and nefariously wrong. I didn’t […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Ashby, Brewers, Brice Turang, ESPN, Freddy Peralta, J.D. Martinez, Jackson Chourio, Jesse Winker, Joel Payamps, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Adames The Mets live. You didn’t necessarily see that coming, did ya? Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. Hope for the best, expect the Mets is my credo. I expected the Mets to do their best on Sunday in Milwaukee. Whether that and concurrent events in Atlanta and Arizona would be enough to survive and then some […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Life LOOK WHO’S NO. 6 OK, maybe that message isn’t inspiring enough to make a September scoreboard in Queens, but it’s true: At this writing the Mets are a game ahead of the Braves for the third National League wild card, which is a fancy way of saying sixth in a league that now grants playoff spots […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Bill Spiers, Carson Spiers, Danny Young, Defense, Double Plays, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.D. Martinez, Jakob Junis, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Pete Alonso, Reds, Sam Moll The Mets’ ebullient recent narrative showed a couple of cracks Friday night against the Reds. Francisco Lindor continued his hitting streak and made a nifty play at shortstop, but he didn’t walk off the Reds or solve the Middle East conflict in an idle moment between innings, somewhere between surprising and shocking given how he’s been […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexis Diaz, Brett Baty, Edwin Diaz, Elly de la Cruz, Hebrew Tattoos, J.D. Martinez, Jake Fraley, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Justin Wilson, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Reds, Reed Garrett, Sean Manaea, Spencer Steer, TJ Friedl, Walkoffs The authors of this book are drawn to baseball’s great losers. Not to individuals, but to entire teams. We prefer our calamities as the product of collective effort, a shared culpability not unlike Watergate. […] Besides, to err is human, to screw up royally requires a team effort. 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, J.D. Martinez, Legends, Tylor Megill, White Sox, Worsts After their 131st game, the 2024 New York Mets accomplished something Sunday they hadn’t managed to do after their previous 130: they posted their first Unique Record of the year. With their loss to the Padres, they appear in the standings at 68-63. No Mets team has ever been 68-63 after 131 games. I can’t say […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George H.W. Bush, J.D. Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Leon Russell, Mark Vientos, Padres, Team History, The Simpsons, Unique Records, WCBS, White Sox It is one of my most deeply ingrained articles of faith that if a Met hits a grand slam, especially if a Met hits a grand slam that puts the Mets in front — especially if a Met hits a grand slam that puts the Mets ahead in the late innings of game that stands […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Grand Slams, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Kevin Pillar, Lack of Momentum, Roy Kent All is fleeting, grasshopper. Even baseball teams. Especially baseball teams. Mets come, Mets go. The franchise is an ever-shifting assemblage of overlapping stints in orange and blue, some lasting years, some concluded in minutes. For a fun game, construct a chain of overlapping Met teammates back to 1962 with as few links as possible; what I […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Bullpen Churn, David Festa, David Stearns, Edwin Diaz, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Mark Vientos, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Trade Deadline, Twins, Tyler Zuber I’d like the bottom of the third inning from Friday night’s game bottled, if you please. Seriously, that was a high ABV brew to settle even the most high-strung Mets fan’s nerves. Down 2-0 against Charlie Morton — one of the few remaining big leaguers with sufficient tenure to have appeared at Shea — the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Duvall, Adam Ottavino, Braves, Charlie Morton, Eric Orze, Francisco Alvarez, Howie Rose, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jose Iglesias, Keith Raad, Lino Urdaneta, Marcell Ozuna, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Wild Card |
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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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