 
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. |
When the Mets are behind, Keith Raad likes to convey the score to those of us listening on the radio or some radio-adjacent audio product by informing us that they’re chasing whatever the deficit is. It’s a perfectly fine way to go about one’s business, and Raad has been a good addition to the narrator ranks. […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Houser, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, David Fry, Emmanuel Clase, Guardians, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jeff McNeil, Jose Ramirez, Josh Naylor, Keith Raad, Mark Vientos, Nick Sandlin, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Xzavion Curry I’d like to put 6:10 pm start times on the list of things that I thought would be good, or at least novel, and turned out to be terrible. First off, I completely forgot. I was doing something non-baseball-related, noted it was around 6:35 pm, and reflexively went back to what I was doing, because 6:35 […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Lively, Brett Baty, Guardians, J.D. Martinez, Josh Walker, Manny Gonzalez, Nick Sandlin, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill Believe it or not, the Mets did some good things on Saturday afternoon before decidedly not good things started happening. Mark Vientos collected a pair of hits, drove in a run and played the kind of defense I didn’t think he could play. J.D. Martinez once again looked like he’s shedding the rust of his late […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connects, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Martinez, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Rod Kanehl, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido At least the Mets seem to be accepting that some things aren’t working. They reported for duty in Philadelphia without Joey Wendle, mercifully DFA’ed in favor of Mark Vientos, and recalled Joey Lucchesi while sending Jose Butto down to presumably find coaches to help him tame his sudden bout of wildness. And, hey, the plan looked […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Grizzled Veterans, J.D. Martinez, Joey Lucchesi, Joey Wendle, Jose Bautista, Jose Butto, Jose Valverde, Mark Vientos, Mike Torrez, Phillies, Ranger Suarez There’s honestly not a lot of insight to be had comparing a mediocre baseball team with a very good one. Very good teams make plays and get hits when it matters; mediocre ones sometimes do and sometimes don’t. Christian Scott, forced to cosplay as a chimney sweep for his first-ever Citi Field start, was pretty […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Christian Scott, Futility, Humiliation, J.D. Martinez, Joe Jimenez, Max Fried, No-Hit Bids, Raisel Iglesias “What a break,” the player said. “Wow! This is great. I can hardly believe it. Imagine going to a club like the Phillies. I feel like I’ve been born again.” The player was Buddy Harrelson, on the occasion of his trade from the Mets in Spring Training 1978. The Mets were founded in 1962 and were […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Gonzalez, Adrian Houser, Bud Harrelson, Buddy Harrelson, Dom Smith, Harrison Bader, Home, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Tonkin, Opening Day, Patches, Sean Manaea, Tyrone Taylor, Yohan Ramirez, Zack Short One of the core tenets to emerge amid the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown is that the bromide “it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish” lacks foolproofitude. Sometimes the best part of a season is the start. Sometimes it’s somewhere in the middle. Sometimes it’s in the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, Billy Wagner, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Droughts, Endy Chavez, Football, J.D. Martinez, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Mets Jackets, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Oliver Perez, Orlando Hernandez, Paul Lo Duca, Staying Alive What Met tidings do the ides of March bring this spring? I’d like to believe glad, though in the middle a month devoted to merely getting ready for the season ahead, who can tell? Two sentences, two question marks. Only in March? Always in March. Entering the action of March 15, which includes a game matching Met […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, J.D. Martinez, Jeff McNeil, Jim McAndrew, Jose Quintana, Kodai Senga, March, Moment of Silence, Spring Training The Tigers lost a tough one on Sunday. Anibal Sanchez’s eight sterling innings went to waste, Francisco Rodriguez couldn’t maintain a ninth-inning tie, J.D. Martinez couldn’t unwrap a gift run in the eighth and the failure to cash in opportunity after opportunity was galling: three double plays in the first four innings and ten men […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anibal Sanchez, Frankie Rodriguez, J.D. Martinez, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Not Losing |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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