 
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. |
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Good start to a famous Russian novel; excellent advice for baseball bloggers. It’s easier to write about miserable failing baseball teams than it is to write about happy successful ones. Angst and agita drive clicks and sports-radio hits and they also generate […] “No way we were losing that game!” I exclaimed the instant after we won that game, “that game” being Wednesday afternoon’s ten-inning thriller at Citi Field and “we” being the New York Mets, with me implicit in the first-person plural. Of course there were many ways we could have lost that game, as most games […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A Touch of Giddiness, April, Balks, Baserunning, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hayden Senger, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Nick Castellanos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reversals, Rob Thomson, Starling Marte, Sweeps, Winning Streaks, Zack Wheeler Some years ago, I improved my baseball life considerably by swearing off April games. Yes, I know April baseball can be lovely — Greg and I once spent a snoozy but idyllic March 31 at Shea in 80 degree weather, watching the Mets and Phillies do nothing in particular until Alberto Castillo, of all people, won […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Cristopher Sanchez, Fans, Griffin Canning, Jose Butto, Juan Soto, Kyle Schwarber, Luis Torrens, Nick Castellanos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Ryne Stanek The Mets won again, once again by not scoring a bunch of runs but getting remarkable pitching. Remarkable pitching … and having every key moment go their way. Which, granted, is often two different ways of saying the same thing. I started off listening to Howie and Keith in my backyard and then moved to watching […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Alec Burleson, Brendan Donovan, Brett Baty, Cardinals, Edwin Diaz, Fox, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Luisangel Acuna, Nolan Gorman, Pete Alonso, Thomas Saggese, Uniforms, Yohel Pozo I turned on the Mets game a couple of minutes after my Metro-North train starting trundling south out of Waterbury, Conn., picking up the voices of Keith Raad and Pat McCarthy from distant West Sacramento. I switched trains in Bridgeport as old friend Luis Severino won an extended battle with Brett Baty even as he […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brett Baty, Howie Rose, Journeys, Keith Raad, Kodai Senga, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Pat McCarthy, Pete Alonso, Radio Mets 3, A’s 1, game called after four and a half innings because your recapper was weary and collapsed into his bed. Wait, they don’t do things that way? Apologies — I figured maybe they did, what with everything else that was strange about watching the Mets and the A’s play in a ballpark that looks […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Billionaires We Don't Like, Dallas Braden, Edwin Diaz, Griffin Canning, John Fisher, Las Vegas, Lawrence Butler, Mark Vientos, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Ron Darling, Sacramento, Sleep, SNY, Sutter Health Park A day after Monday night’s freeze-fest, the Mets played a game that had been moved to Tuesday daylight hours and yet somehow took place in even less pleasant conditions. (They closed the Promenade, which ought to tell you something.) That verdict was clear pretty much from the jump: Clay Holmes‘ third pitch of the afternoon […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Clayton McCullough, Cold, Connor Gillispie, Derek Hill, Farewells, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Marlins, Moment of Silence, Not Conor Gillaspie, Octavio Dotel, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Weather, Xavier Edwards The fans who wait for their team to come off the road while the year is still young are rewarded for their patience with two Openers. There’s Opening Day, which is festive no matter that it’s taking place in another ballpark, and there’s a discrete Home Opener, which grants us a second helping of holiday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Blue Jays, Bobby Jones, Buffets, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Francisco Lindor, Home Opener, Interleague Play, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Replay Review, Team History, Tylor Megill It might stretch credulity if I declared, yup, I knew Pete Alonso was gonna launch a three-run homer to tie the Mets-Marlins game at four in the eighth inning on Wednesday. The Mets had played ragged ball across the first seven and they weren’t too many outs away from a tails-between-their-legs flight home for a […] On Monday, I was excited to receive in the mail an advance copy of a great new book called More Amazing Mets Trivia, put together by my dear friend Ken Samelson and his co-author David Russell. I’m delighted to reveal that I did a little reconnaissance on the manuscript last summer, as Ken knew I […] |
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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