 
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 have played a fair number of snoozy low-scoring games this year, but on Tuesday they played a fun low-scoring one — a genuine pitchers’ duel, followed by a sequence of unlikely events, capped off by a satisfying cameo for one of the stranger secret weapons they’ve had in a long time. The pitchers’ duel […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Almora Jr., Dom Smith, Freddy Galvis, John Means, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Orioles, Patrick Mazeika, Unlikely Events, Walkoffs True confession time: Your recapper earns no accolades for being an attentive student of the game Wednesday night, dozing off before the conclusion of Game 1 (“Did they lose?” I asked Emily when roused) and remaining groggy and befuddled for a good chunk of Game 2. Just as well, since I figure we don’t particularly […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Cardinals, Doubleheaders, Ghosts, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Patrick Mazeika, Paul DeJong, Tomas Nido The Mets lost and it was excruciating on so many levels. They weren’t even playing the Phillies, really; rather, they were playing the lesser half of the Phillies, shorn of Bryce Harper and Didi Gregorius and J.T. Realmuto and Jean Segura. It didn’t matter. They probably would have lost to a bunch of Norristown tykes who […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Jose Alvarado, Larry Bowa, Marcus Stroman, Miguel Castro, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Ron Darling After the Nationals were thoroughly dismantled by Jacob deGrom Friday night, even the defeated team’s social-media gang had to acknowledge his insane dominance: Sometimes you’ve just gotta tip your cap. FINAL // Nats 0, Mets 6 pic.twitter.com/Bi0Re8wPhV — Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 24, 2021 A classy gesture! And on Twitter, no less! The next day, deGrom’s Met teammates […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Moscoso, Jacob deGrom, Joe Ross, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Stephen Tarpley 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 Acknowledging up front that a pair of regulation baseball games trimmed in advance from nine to seven innings apiece — with ties in the top of the eighth and beyond designed to be resolved expediently by dispatching a runner to second base before anybody stands in the batter’s box — is an affront to nature, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Dom Smith, Doubleheader Sweeps, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Jean Segura, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Stripes, Stupid Rules, Taijuan Walker, These Challenging Times, Unearned Runners People don’t ask us what we do in spring when there’s baseball. They know what we do. We stare out the window and we hope it’s not raining. You didn’t have to be Rogers Hornsby early Sunday afternoon to know there might not be baseball this soggy April day and that it was a rainy day in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Forecasts, It’s Five Games, Marcus Stroman, Rainouts, Rogers Hornsby, Suspended Games, Trading Places Tuesday night’s Mets triumph in Philadelphia may have been the least convincing 8-4 victory in the history of 8-4 victories, but the key words here are “triumph” and “victory,” both of which the Mets achieved. The win column greets them with no hesitation. Fortunately, the Style Council is not authorized to award points within the National […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxiety, Bullpen, Dom Smith, Jeurys Familia, Marcus Stroman, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Trevor May Perhaps I should put a SPOILER WARNING on this one, but I received a special media preview of the Mets’ 2020 highlights video, and it’s 23 minutes of Jeff McNeil screaming “FUCK!” after making an out and five minutes of Andres Gimenez smoothly fielding hard grounders. And you know what? I’m strangely OK with it. The Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Jeff McNeil, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Rick Porcello, Zack Wheeler Monday wasn’t a good day for Mets pitchers hailing from Long Island. Long Island’s own Marcus Stroman (LIOMS), heretofore rehabbing his torn calf and presumed to be returning to the Mets’ disturbingly depleted rotation soon, announced in the afternoon he was opting out of 2020 due to his family’s COVID-19 concerns. Come nightfall, Long Island’s […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Asdrubal Cabrera, Long Island, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Opting Out, Position Players Pitching, Steven Matz |
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. 
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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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