 
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. |
Take a moment and consider the life of Huascar Brazoban. Not long ago he was stuck on the Marlins, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. offering near-daily examples of being a bad teammate, Skip Schumaker staring out of the dugout like a man who can’t bear to think how long he’ll be on county work release, and the […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jake Cronenworth, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Padres, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Reed Garrett, Rene Rivera As a lifelong fan of the little brother team, I bristle when Mets doings get put in a Yankees context, whether it’s sports-radio chuckleheadery about who owns New York or ostensibly more serious discussions of free agency or baseball philosophy. But the connection was inescapable in the ninth inning of Saturday’s game, when Luis Severino took […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Complete Games, Luis Severino, Marlins, Shutouts Given the ebbs and flows of a entertaining yet maddening season, perhaps we’ve lost track of a simpler formula to make sense of the 2024 Mets: They need to outhit their mistakes. The rotation is pedestrian, a bunch of No. 4 starters with ceilings as No. 3s. The relief corps is spaghetti at a wall. The […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Audacy, Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, George Soriano, Hitting, Jeff McNeil, Jose Butto, Lack of Hitting, Marlins, MLB At Bat, Radio, Roddery Munoz, Sean Manaea, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Tiki Barber Monday night’s game against the always delightful Marlins in always delightful New Soilmaster Stadium unfolded as your recapper and family made their way from coastal Maine to an ancient inn outside of Boston, and the game kept morphing and changing shape along with our situation and surroundings. While we were bombing down 95 south of Portland […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, Jake Burger, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Josh Bell, Marlins, Yonny Chirinos “Why is Howie talking about LBJ? I wonder if that means … oh.” It was quite a way to find out about the latest election-year earthquake, with the news delivered via MLB Audio a second after we tuned in while scooting around midcoast Maine with friends on the final day of this year’s summer residency. Discovering […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Howie Rose, Jake Burger, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Marlins Mets Classics showrunner, slow your roll. Thursday night’s game against the Marlins ended on a blissful note, but said blissful note was first heard and completed in the very last minute of the game. The previous 144 minutes? They were nonstop squealing and blatting, a baseball cacophony alternately dull and unpleasant to the ears. The Mets didn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Luis Severino, Marlins, Roddery Munoz, Starling Marte, Tanner Scott, Walkoffs So the Mets came home fresh off a heady, game-saving final play by Luis Torrens … and looked pretty much like the Mets we increasingly have no interest in watching. Francisco Alvarez returned from the IL, which seemed heartening, and Tylor Megill pitched well in the early innings against the Marlins, looking like a young hurler […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryan De La Cruz, Francisco Alvarez, Harrison Bader, Jake Burger, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Mark Vientos, Marlins, Tylor Megill The Mets looked listless in dropping the second game of Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Dodgers, and that limp display was the highlight of the day. Certainly it was better than the first game, in which a terrific start by Tylor Megill went down the toilet when his teammates couldn’t field, pitch or manage to hit […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, bad, Bad Fielding, Bad Fundies, Bad Hitting, Bad Relief Pitching, Chase Field, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Doubleheader Sweeps, Marlins, Michael Tucker, Mike Piazza, So Bad, So Fucking Bad, So So Fucking Bad, So So So Fucking Bad, Tylor Megill Believe it or not, the Mets did some good things on Saturday afternoon before decidedly not good things started happening. Mark Vientos collected a pair of hits, drove in a run and played the kind of defense I didn’t think he could play. J.D. Martinez once again looked like he’s shedding the rust of his late […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connects, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Martinez, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Rod Kanehl, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido Baseball is always about momentum. On Thursday night the Mets emerged from a terrifying game with the Phillies as the owners of a hard-fought win. It’s the kind of game that pulls teams together, that gives them a certain sense of purpose when they head for the next battleground, newly confident that they can, in fact, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Kirby Snead, Mariners, Marlins, Marv Throneberry, Michael Conforto, Milestone Mets, Nick Fortes, Soilmaster Stadium |
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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