 
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. |
Are you supposed to know when you’ve been born again? Because I’m pretty sure I have been, fanwise. Somewhere between Thursday night, when I expected everything to go wrong but it didn’t, and Friday night, when it never occurred to me anything would go wrong and it didn’t, I underwent some kind of transformation. Perhaps Bartolo Colon […]  34 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolo Colon, Danny Muno, Juan Lagares, Reborn Mets Fan Baseball’s a mental game. Perhaps you’ve heard. For a maddening, frustrating game this one was actually kind of fun. Wait, hear me out on that. The Mets lost because multiple members of the team made physical errors, followed by multiple members of the team making mental errors. Those weren’t the fun parts. But these parts were pretty neat: back-to-back home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, David Wright, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Phil Gosselin, Rafael Montero, Wilmer Flores I could have dropped my electronic device from mild shock when I read on it Wednesday the bulletin that the Mets were extending Juan Lagares before they had to. And it would have been fine for me to have dropped it, because of course Lagares would have caught it. He gets that good a jump on […] Happy Election Day! It’s your Metstitutional duty to vote for the candidates of your choice. You could do worse — and no better, in this analyst’s opinion — than theoretically casting a ballot for the following slate. • Juan Lagares, National League Gold Glove center fielder. This race will be called tonight. If Juan grabs the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Deserved Election, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Ken Boyer Whaddya know? The Mets really can beat the Nationals. They did so tonight — you could look it up. They did so despite the umpires failing up to correct a bad call even with a replay review, which burned Terry Collins‘s challenge, which meant he couldn’t challenge the next play, when Ian Desmond overslid second stealing and was called […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Hope, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Nationals, Travis d'Arnaud, Umpires Over the past three games, the sub-.500 Mets have scored 20 runs and allowed 20 runs against the sub-.500 teams directly adjacent to them in the standings. It’s been like a sporadically entertaining round-robin of mediocrity. But they’ve won two of these three games, which is good news for those still keeping track of the Mets’ […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Individual Goals, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Metropolitan Hospitality, September, U.S. Open We gather today to mourn the passing of our spherical brother Rawlings Official Major League Baseball, or as he was known to those who watched him in action, Rawly. In many ways, Rawly was just like you and me, stitched together from the same materials that comprise us all. His most basic chemistry was standard-issue. Science […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Juan Lagares, Juan Lagares's Glove, Where Fly Balls Go To Die The Mets are chocolate and the Cubs are peanut butter: We’ve got a surplus of young pitching and not enough bats; they’ve got a surplus of young bats and not enough pitching. So plenty of baseball matchmakers want to know what, exactly, is taking so long: Send some prospects from Column Mets west while some prospects […] Who among us doesn’t remember being a kid in the backyard, dreaming — if only for a second — of a career in the big leagues? I’m Lucas Duda. It’s the last out of another ass-kicking administered by the Nationals. I’m standing sort of near the plate, looking out at Rafael Soriano standing sort of near […] The life of a freelance writer is by turns exciting and terrifying, but one of its undeniable benefits is that a weekday matinee is no big deal. Well, except when you’ve taken a fairly intense temporary office gig. And when you don’t check the schedule carefully enough during the process of dividing game duties with your blog partner. I […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben May, Fans, Giants, Juan Lagares, MLB At Bat, Radio |
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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