 
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. |
We talk up great starting pitching, we crave great starting pitching, we built this Citi on great starting pitching, so when we are surrounded by extraordinary starting pitching, we are compelled to celebrate it…even if not all of it is necessarily Mets starting pitching. The Mets took part in a fine game Sunday. The wrong part, […] Even in Little League I was a no-tool player: completely inept at hitting, catching and throwing. (I could run, but never had any reason to.) The only thing I could do, kind of, was play catcher. To be sure, I couldn’t even do that. There was no stealing in our league and maybe one play at the […]  31 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Jeurys Familia, Little League, Matt Harvey, Mets Catchers, Rene Rivera I don’t know what’s wrong with Matt Harvey. Neither does Dan Warthen, or Terry Collins, or Sandy Alderson, or Kevin Plawecki, or Matt Harvey himself. The weird thing is, suddenly that’s no longer as important as what happens next, which is that Matt Harvey be made to Go Away. Not so long ago, Harvey had managed to […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Sportswriting Well, that’s better. Steven Matz was superb, watching a Chris Carter home run in the first and then allowing next to nothing after that. The Mets, meanwhile, didn’t exactly light up Wily Peralta, but they did enough to win and chase the blues away, at least for a night. We’ll return to those blues in a minute. (Of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Wily Peralta The clot in his bladder. The load of innings in 2015. The lack of innings in Spring Training. The to-be-expected second year after Tommy John trajectory. The residual mental strain from trying to be The Man in the deciding game of the World Series and famously not succeeding. A general psychological breakdown. Something physically wrong […] There are moments when you sense things can’t get any better for your team. Those are moments that are both gratifying and terrifying. Peak Mets, to dabble in the fashionable vernacular, may have been achieved early this past week. Bartolo Colon had homered on Saturday, his accomplishment stayed the toast of the town well into Monday. […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Charlie Blackmon, Coors Field, Jerry Blevins, Jon Gray, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Network, Noah Syndergaard, Superstition A day after Bartolo Colon shocked and delighted the baseball world, it seemed somehow anticlimactic for the Mets to be expected to go out and do something as mundane as win a game. It would have been fitting if Major League Baseball had declared Sunday a national holiday. It would have been fine — as I suggested in moderate jest […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Birthdays, Derek Norris, Eric Campbell, Families, Howie Rose, Jon Jay, Matt Harvey, Padres, Todd Radom Some Mets fans find Matt Harvey too chilly and self-involved to embrace wholeheartedly. But maybe they’d feel more charitable if they considered Tuesday and Wednesday’s games together. On Tuesday Harvey wasn’t great — the velocity was missing and the mechanics were uncertain, as they’ve been for three confounding months. But the Mets also did nothing to support him at the plate. Even […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jonathon Niese, Lack of Offense, Matt Harvey, PItching, Steven Matz Tuesday was Harvey Day, though you could have been excused for identifying it as simply Tuesday. Matt Harvey, as has been the case most of his six starts this season, pitched well enough to not lose had he been facing the 2016-to-date version of himself. Unfortunately, he was up against Matt Wisler, and Wisler’s been […] The only thing missing from Wednesday night’s game was Keith Hernandez requesting that someone put a tent on the circus. This is not a blueprint for constructing a satisfying baseball game: a seemingly much reduced Matt Harvey giving up a home run to Zack Cozart on the fourth pitch thrown, followed by Ivan De Jesus smacking the seventh pitch […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Scott Schebler |
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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