Sunday afternoons and Citi Field haven’t gotten along in 2017. Far be it from me to horn in on the middle of their mysterious feud, but sometimes you gotta go where you gotta go, and on this last home Sunday afternoon of the 2017 season, I went to Citi Field. It was not like asking […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Billy Joel, Bobby Darin, Dominic Smith, Fan Appreciation Weekend, Hansel Robles, Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Phil Evans, Quality Starts, Rafael Santana, Sundays, Victor Robles For not long would they tell of the night the New York Mets of September of Two Thousand Seventeen didn’t lose. An ostensibly memorable win in a month that begged to be forgotten never stood much of a chance to survive amid a forever unspooling narrative whose natural bias leaned toward critical mass. Wins sprouting […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Not Losing, Travis d'Arnaud We’ll begin with the bringdown portion of today’s recap. Matt Harvey lasted five innings, threw his fastball around 93, and got a grand total (if I’m remembering the broadcast correctly) of one swinging strike from a position player. 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Juan Lagares, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Thoracic Outlet Surgery, Travis d'Arnaud To paraphrase the scintilla of a solo I had in my portrayal of Senator Jack S. Phogbound in our high school’s production of Li’l Abner, of all the very ordinary, most unloved, unnecessary ballclubs on this earth, the Mets are…well, extraordinarily ordinary. That’s the problem with this team that’s been losing in copious amounts for more […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chris Flexen, Injuries, Juan Lagares, Nori Aoki, Ordinariness, September I missed the first game of Sunday’s day-night doubleheader, but it was for a baseball-related reason: we took the Staten Island ferry to get our first look at the 2017 Brooklyn Cyclones. It hasn’t exactly been going well down on Coney Island — the Cyclones are last in their division and have a .266 winning percentage, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brooklyn Cyclones, Hansel Robles, Juan Lagares, Wagner Lagrange Technically, Sunday afternoon’s Mets win over the Nationals was the day half of a day-night doubleheader, but you’d be excused for confusion in that the day game itself proceeded like day and night from a Met perspective. Maybe that was appropriate at the end of a week that commenced with a solar eclipse. DAY BREAKS: Asdrubal […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Daniel Murphy, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheaders, Edwin Jackson, Gary Cohen, Great Calls, Hansel Robles, Juan Lagares, Relief Pitching, Strike Zones, Tommy Milone, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Wilmer Flores As Metsian sequences of events go, the one that unfolded in the top of the first Friday night at Nationals Park was among the Metsiest of 2017. Asdrubal Cabrera was on first base, Yoenis Cespedes was on second, Dominic Smith was batting. Smith singled up the middle. Cespedes came around to score. Except Smith’s ball […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, AJ Ramos, Brandon Nimmo, Elton John, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Juan Lagares, Travis Taijeron, Uniforms, Yoenis Cespedes Thursday night found me at Bergino Baseball Clubhouse in Manhattan for my talk on Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star. It was a wonderful — or 31derful — time, and I thank proprietor and all-around ace human being Jay Goldberg for inviting and hosting me. I also appreciate all who showed up to listen in and […] Gladys Knight wasn’t wrong when she concluded, over radios everywhere as 1973 became 1974, that she really had to use her imagination to keep on keepin’ on. Yet her compadres the Pips couldn’t have been more right when they offered her this message of positive reinforcement: You’re too strong not to keep on keepin’ on. If you’ve […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Comebacks, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Gerry Goffin, Gladys Knight, Injuries, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Josh Smoker, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, Paul Sewald, Pinch-Hitting, Pitchers Hitting, Rafael Montero, Steven Matz, The Pips You so knew this was coming, you could’ve baked a cake. The Mets were leading, but they could’ve been leading by more. Five batters in, you realized the Mets were bracing you for what lied ahead three-plus hours later. With two out in the top of the first, Jay Bruce homered. Mets up, 1-0. Great. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew McCutchen, Cake, Gerrit Cole, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, John Jaso, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Neil Ramirez, Pirates, PNC Park, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Pill, Zack Wheeler |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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. 
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