 
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. |
James McCann sure has some strange at-bats. I’m not talking about the crotch readjustment before every pitch, which I really want Steve Gelbs to inquire about one day. (Did his Little League coach try to get him to stop? Has his mom and/or wife ever wished he wouldn’t?) I’m talking about the fact that the Mets’ […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Minter, Andy Beck, Braves, Charlie Morton, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Mets History, Todd Radom, Tylor Megill, Uniforms, Unlikely Events One of the many fun things so far about 2021 is the Mets winning games that in a lot of previous years you’d expect them to lose. On Tuesday night I was nervous after the Mets took a 3-2 lead and stubbornly refused to extend that to a safe distance, because I was all too aware […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Defense, Dom Smith, Eric Sogard, Jake Marisnick, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Seth Lugo, Taijuan Walker, Willie Harris The Mets made it out of San Diego in one piece and first place. The 26 Mets who began the series with two aggravating losses were the 26 Mets who ended it with two energizing wins. Could these be the Mets we come to know and love for more than just a four-day Southern California […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brandon Drury, Dom Smith, James McCann, Likable Mets, Lovable Mets, Marcus Stroman Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish Well, at least the pig exited covered with lipstick. The Mets fell behind 4-0 against a scintillating Yu Darvish on a night when Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff, kept getting into trouble of his own making, and had very little in terms of bullpen and bench behind him – a situation that led to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Billy McKinney, Disappointment, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Ha-Seong Kim, James McCann, Jurickson Profar, Kevin Pillar, Late Night West Coast Games, Luis Rojas, Managers, Manny Machado, Mark Melancon, Mason Williams, Padres, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tim Hill, Tomas Nido, Travis Blankenhorn, Yu Darvish The Mets’ run of injuries has been Biblical — witness this recent post, from Fangraphs, noting that Mets on the injured list account for nearly 20 WAR, going by preseason predictions. That’s by far the most WAR lost in the majors and should have been a recipe for disaster. And it still might be! But not […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brandon Drury, Braves, Cameron Maybin, Charley Smith, Defense, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, James McCann, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker “Please cover your left eye and tell me what you saw Wednesday night from Atlanta.” “David Peterson carrying a no-hitter into the fifth inning, showing the promise that gets us so excited about him … defensive prodigy Khalil Lee making his second sensational catch in two nights … Cameron Maybin using his wheels and wits to […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, David Peterson, Expectations, Frustration, Jacob Barnes, James McCann, Khalil Lee, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tomas Nido Kvetching about the mounting mountain of injuries to Met players is darkly amusing until somebody gets hurt. I mean really hurt. Monday night in Atlanta, Kevin Pillar was smacked in the face by a rising 95 MPH fastball thrown with no purpose other than getting him out by the Braves’ Jacob Webb. It happened literally in a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jacob Webb, James McCann, Kevin Pillar, Noah Syndergaard, Sean Reid-Foley, Tomas Nido, Velocity The Mets won the damn thing, by a score of 8-7. Those of you with enough years of scar tissue will remember that as channeling Bob Murphy’s judgment after the Mets held off the Phils at the Vet in the summer of 1990, with the last out a liner speared by momentary Met Mario Diaz on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bob Murphy, Bryce Harper, Didi Gregorius, Edwin Diaz, ESPN, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Jose Alvarado, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Phillies, Replay Review, Rhys Hoskins You can’t talk about Sunday’s 2-1 Mets win at Coors Field without acknowledging the run the Mets strung together in the second inning, built on a Pete Alonso single, a Michael Conforto double and well-placed Jeff McNeil groundout. You can’t talk about the Mets taking their three-game series without taking note of J.D. Davis’s bat […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caught Stealing, Coors Field, Defense, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Juan Lagares's Glove, Kelly Stinnett, Kickball, Marcus Stroman, Omir Santos, One-Run Victories, PItching |
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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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