 
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 important thing: The Mets actually won. The less important thing: The Mets barely won a thoroughly strange, confounding game against the Nationals, one that left you without much confidence that any kind of worm has turned in any direction one would want a worm to turn. (If you’ve ever wondered, that strange turn [ahem] of […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carl Edwards Jr., Counterintuitive Wins, David Robertson, Drew Smith, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Lindor, Mackenzie Gore, Nationals, Pete Rose, Three-Run Singles, Tug McGraw, Tylor Megill The good news: The Mets fixed the New York-Presbyterian patch, the one that was unreadable and looked vaguely like an ad for the Phillies, Dunkin’ Donuts or some nightmarish chimera of those two entities. It annoyed Steve Cohen, and when you’re Steve Cohen and you’re annoyed, people hop to it. The other good news: Nope, that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Josiah Gray, Luis Guillorme, Nationals, Steve Cohen, Uniforms On Tuesday morning, pulling up my email in an idle moment at work, I noted that Mets postseason tickets were on sale — and then I deleted the email that had told me that and went back to work. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that what I’d done — or rather, what […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Hope, Jeff McNeil, Jordan Groshans, Mathematically Eliminated, Nationals, Paolo Espino, Wild Card OK, there isn’t a plan — baseball routinely makes a mockery of plans — but there is a blueprint a team tries to follow, and I’m pretty sure the Mets’ blueprint wasn’t labeled LOSE WITH BARELY A WHIMPER TO PATRICK CORBIN AND ERICK FEDDE. I flashed back to 1990, when the Mets’ quest for a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Nabholz, Erick Fedde, Expos, Frustration, Nationals, Trevor Williams The barrage of Rob Manfred-encouraged ya gotta gamble on baseball! entreaties overwhelming SNY’s airwaves in some incarnation seemingly every half-inning (never mind that Major League Baseball in the minuscule personage of Bowie Kuhn once cast out Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle — in retirement — for accepting jobs that required them to golf with a […] A hangover game for the Mets would have been annoying but forgivable Friday night, what with the team having just taken a series — immediate and season — from the mighty Dodgers, AKA the Probably Inevitable NLCS Level Boss. Happily, the Mets didn’t have one — or perhaps they did but the innate lousiness of the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eduardo Escobar, Mychal Givens, Nationals, Pete Alonso Jacob deGrom returned, as promised, and was more or less as we remembered — he hit 102 on the D.C. gun, looked like his old lanky and deadly self, and befuddled various Nationals with most of his arsenal. The lone blemish came in the fourth, when deGrom’s location eluded him and Victor Robles and Luis […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, Cory Abbott, Darin Ruf, David Peterson, Farewells, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Joey Lucchesi, Joey Meneses, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Kramer Robertson, Lefties, Luis Garcia, Mychal Givens, Nationals, Sam Clay, Stephen Nogosek, Steve Cohen, Thomas Szapucki, Trade Deadline, Trades, Yadiel Hernandez, Yoan Lopez Back in the second game of the season, the Mets faced the Nats in D.C. behind Max Scherzer, who was making his debut in orange and blue. (Scherzer followed Tylor Megill, the obvious pick for Opening Day starter.) It didn’t go well for Nats starter Josiah Gray, who was driven from the mound in the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Steve Cishek Wait. Wait a little more. Wait just a little more. Now. Now you can have your Opening Day. I mean Opening Night. I mean Opening Night win. It’s yours. No strings. No hamstrings even, as far as we know. It arrived in our laps a little bruised, a little soggy and a little too late to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Buck Showalter, Designated Hitter, Eduardo Escobar, Gambling, Hit By Pitch, Jerome Hruska, Long Waits, Mark Canha, Mets Opening Day, Mets Third Basemen, Nationals, Opening Day, Opening Night, Replay Review, Robinson Cano, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Tylor Megill “L’shanah tovah,” give or take the “L’” (and maybe the silent h’s), is a greeting that’s passed back and forth when the Jewish calendar changes, as it has from 5781 to 5782. The Mets could use a new year themselves. One-hundred thirty-eight games in, this 2021 business can’t quite work the kinks out. On Monday afternoon, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Doom, Edwin Diaz, Labor Day, Nationals, Rosh Hashanah, Trevor Williams |
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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