 
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 won Sunday’s game by three if you’re counting high-leverage relievers rested. Brooks Raley? Rested. Yup, that’s three. Each pitcher pitched some on Saturday, and one of them (Raley) pitched on Friday, and you know what they say about relievers’ arms falling off should you try to use them a second or […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Billy Eppler, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Buck Showalter, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Dominic Leone, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Josh Walker, Network, Options, Relief Pitching, Saturday Night Live, Vinny Nittoli Winter does what it can to get us through itself. Every year it pounds signposts into the frozen tundra so we understand what feels like it will last forever doesn’t. We don’t anticipate the baseball rituals that get us through winter because we’re too busy anticipating the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Barbra Streisand, Brad Heller, Bryce Harper, Ed Coleman, Football, Gary Carter, James Loney, Justin Wilson, Manny Machado, Network, Radio, Truck Day, Wayne Randazzo, WCBS, Winter 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 “And when the twelfth-largest company in the world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?” When last we visited with Howard Beale on DiamondVision more than six years ago, he was urging us to get up right now, sit […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bobby Ojeda, Network, Poochie, SNY, The Simpsons While the Wilpons unscrunch the large wad of cash they’ve allegedly found underneath their couch cushions, I await anxiously the start of the biggest sporting event to ever touch down in our humble Metropolitan Area. I refer of course to Queens hosting the World Series, time of first pitch as yet undetermined. In the meantime, there’s […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Mad Men, Network, Team History, The Simpsons By now, it’s as intrinsic to the home game experience as the apple, the Italian sausages and the expansive parking. It’s too clever and stirring to have ever become wallpaper but also a little too out-of-context to be completely appreciated when we’re exposed to it. It’s delivered regularly by the only Finch — sorry, Sidd […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Howard Beale, Joe Wallis, Mad as Hell, Mets Pop Culture, Network, No-Hitters, Tom Seaver |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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