 
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. |
The Mets lost, and their season is over. Sean Manaea didn’t have his putaway stuff, Phil Maton looked gassed, and Kodai Senga turned in one good inning but not a second. Meanwhile, the hitters worked solid ABs and kept creating traffic, but couldn’t get the big hit they needed: They were 2 for 9 with runners […]  24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2024 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Brandon Nimmo, Disappointment, Dodgers, Farewells, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor Some random observations from the Mets’ cudgeling of Patrick Corbin and the Nationals: I’m going to get the complaining out of the way first: Dear God, what did they do to the black uniforms? Eliminating the white drop shadow was a dreadful idea; without it, the tops look murky and muddy, with the orange and blue […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Grimace, Hope, Jake Diekman, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Reed Garrett, Summer Nights, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms, Wild Card John Olerud was at Citi Field for the Mets game on the fourth Sunday in May, just as he was at Shea Stadium for the Mets game on the fourth Sunday in May a quarter-century before…though “just as” might be a stretch. In 2024, Olerud was a visitor, sitting in the stands, brought to the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Adrian Houser, Brett Baty, Curt Schilling, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Harrison Bader, James Schapiro, John Olerud, Joy, Logan Webb, Omar Narvaez, Pinch-Running, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Walkoffs The rocket ride, amazingly, continues. In front of a packed, delirious house, the Mets kept on playing baseball with verve and swagger and a talent for the impossible whenever it was necessary. From Noah Syndergaard shaking off some early stumbles (though Juan Soto will make even a sure-footed pitcher miss a step or two) to home-run […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Fathers and Sons, J.D. Davis, Joy, Juan Soto, Luis Guillorme, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Seth Lugo, Wilson Ramos All Mets fans who were around for 1969 enjoyed 1969 in their own way. My friend Garry Spector, who was eleven, enjoyed it so much it drove him to tears. Garry recently penned a sweet reminiscence on the always exquisite Perfect Pitch blog (the unique baseball/musical diamond tended by Metropolitan Opera oboist and Metropolitan Baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Ed Charles, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Joy, Poetry Putting aside every other familiar point of contention — that the DH is an affront to nature and has been since its implementation by a misguided league in 1973; that whatever offense the DH generates for your team has to be balanced by how much offense your pitchers will surrender to the other team’s DH; […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Gilkey, Carlos Delgado, Designated Hitter, Hitting Pitchers, Jay Bruce, Joy, Matt Franco, Mets DHs, Mike Piazza, Pitchers Hitting, Seth Lugo, Team History I just got my mental images developed from the World Series. Wanna see ’em? They’re right here in this envelope. This is one of me all excited to realize I’m going to a World Series game for the first time in my life. No, I wasn’t there any of the other times the Mets were in […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Citi Field, David Wright, Joy, Juan Uribe, Noah Syndergaard, Superstition A while back I declared that we’d already won, and anything else that came our way would be lagniappe — games stolen from wintertime. That wasn’t an attempted reverse jinx (though I’m far from above such things) — I meant it. The postseason’s a crapshoot but gets all the attention; the regular season’s the prize, but the […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Clayton Kershaw, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dodgers, Fans, Fear, Jacob deGrom, Joy, Pedro Baez My pal Will likes to strip away the sepia Valhalla folderol around baseball and replace it with a simple rule: “When my team wins, I am happy, and when they lose, I am sad.” Pretty much. But there are degrees of happy and sad. There’s the sad of losing a ho-hum game in August when you’re a dozen games […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Comebacks, Drew Storen, Joy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Matt Williams, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes Given my choice, of course I wouldn’t have been in Orlando. Nothing against Orlando, or Disney World (where I’m staying while signing books at Star Wars Weekends), but on the night Johan Santana freed us from our ancient, unwanted distinction, my first choice would of course have been to be in the stands at Citi Field, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, Johan Santana, Joy, Superstition, Twitter |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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