 
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. |
Let it be chronicled that on their way back to the postseason, renewed relevance, New York supremacy or wherever it was we thought they were going, the 2015 New York Mets hit an obstacle. Themselves. Sunday night’s rubber game against that other New York team started well enough, with Curtis Granderson blasting a home run off Nathan […]  29 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Rodriguez, Alex Torres, Eric Campbell, Erik Goeddel, Jonathon Niese The Mets playing a relatively ho-hum game wasn’t the worst thing in the world, after the emotion and intensity and wall-to-wall zaniness of whatever that was last night. Of course, a ho-hum game is a satisfying thing provided you win. Which the Mets did rather handily. Some quick takes and then we’ll get on to the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda, Milestones, Phillies Thanks to the technological marvels of the day, I didn’t go Mets-less during nearly a week in Iceland. Maybe we don’t have flying cars yet, but I did use my phone to sit out in the post-midnight sunshine in rural Iceland listening to the Mets playing baseball on the other side of the world. My childhood […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Fans, Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda Jon Niese looked like he wanted to strangle Terry Collins. Anthony Recker was all set to deck Angel Hernandez. Carlos Torres appeared ready to tear his own head from his neck out of frustration. Who says the Mets don’t have any fight left in them? Hits and runs are another matter, of course, and few of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Anthony Recker, Carlos Torres, Jonathon Niese, Kevin Burkhardt Well, for 10 minutes or so that looked like a nice ballgame. The Mets looked like they might get no-hit by Matt Cain, but escaped that indignity when Ruben Tejada slapped a single beyond the extremity of where a shortstop can field it. Hooray for a hit, but could they score a run? They’d need to, because […] It must have been a sportswriter who came up with that line about ballplayers you’d pay to see since baseball writers don’t pay to see baseball. In that spirit, since I didn’t pay to see Thursday night’s game, I will detour to Cliché Stadium and declare I’d pay good money to see Yasiel Puig play […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Dodgers, Eric Campbell, Jon Niese, Jonathon Niese, Media, Yasiel Puig In recent history, the Mets haven’t led the league in much, but they’ve been a powerhouse when it comes to excuses. Terry Collins would always sound philosophical when he noted the conditions, the weather, the late arrival, the flu, or whatever bogeyman had snuck in to sink its teeth into the Mets. It was never quite […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cole Hamels, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Weather It’s a big world with lots of people of it. Even our little part of it — in which people in the New York area cheer for a baseball team — is pretty big. No, I wasn’t specific about the baseball team. For one night, I’m going to expand our circle to include Yankees fans. Only […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Jonathon Niese, Kyle Farnsworth, Michael Pineda, Michael Wacha, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees The first week of the season is hard because you’re either transported by ecstasy or mired in despair: We know on an intellectual level that you can’t extrapolate from a small sample size, but after an empty winter the heart is in charge and the head is sidelined. After the Nats’ series I knew we […] Maybe this is actually the year of the overlooked Mets pitcher. Sure, Matt Harvey has been Olympian and each start makes Zack Wheeler looks more like the phenom he was heralded as. But the other day we were talking about Dillon Gee’s turnaround. Not so long ago Jenrry Mejia came off the prospect scrap heap to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Derek Jeter, Diamondbacks, Jonathon Niese, MLB, New York, Todd Zeile, Tuffy Gosewisch, Uniforms, Yankees |
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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