 
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. |
On Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh the Mets … won a baseball game. That’s it. They played a baseball game and it ended with more runs for the Mets than their opponents, so they won. That shouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, yet alone breathtaking, yet after the frustrations of Toronto and the horrors of Atlanta and the hungover […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Dauri Moreta, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Steve Cohen I would prefer not to. Glop is the word that occurred to me after sitting through the Mets and Pirates getting gloppy with one another at Citi Field Sunday afternoon. I don’t even know if I’ve ever used the word glop before, but it seems to fit. I had to look it up to make sure it really is a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Darin, Citi Field, Dan Fogelberg, Daniel Vogelbach, Dark Brandon, Hit By Pitch, Jacob deGrom, Joan Hodges, Moment of Silence, Pinch-Running, Pirates, Strikeouts, Sundays, Terrance Gore, Tote Bags Saturday night’s Mets win over the Pirates had a certain family resemblance to Friday night’s win: smothering starting pitching, enough offense to secure the victory, not enough offense to feel secure about said victory. The margin was more comfortable, to be sure, but once again the Mets proved curiously allergic to the tack-on hit that would […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Eduardo Escobar, Pete Alonso, Pirates On Friday night the Mets played one of those OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR games: They seemed to have the Pittsburgh Pirates well in hand for a second straight night, starting with Taijuan Walker not giving up a hit until the fourth. The Mets repeatedly looked on the verge of knocking the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Farewells, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Oneil Cruz, Pirates, Taijuan Walker MISSING: Sole proprietorship of first place in the National League East. AGE: Approximately 5 months. ANSWERS TO: Let’s Go Mets, LFGM or “Not Again”. LAST SEEN: Leaving PNC Park following a third consecutive barely competitive loss to a last-place team. RECOGNIZABLE MARKINGS: World-class starting pitching, unrelenting middle-of-the-order production, indestructible right fielder, preternatural ability to quash lesser opponents. ***PLEASE LOOK HARD […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Timing, Braves, Injuries, Losing Streak, Pirates, September, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker If you’ve ever met me outside Citi Field to go to a game, I’ve probably added a minute or two to our entrance because I always insist on detouring to check on my brick, the one that reads: OUR FIRST DATE The brick commemorates the first time my future wife and I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 1987 Mets, 1993 Mets, Gene Clines, Jeff Innis, Moment of Silence, Pirates If there’s one thing I’ve learned in more than four decades of having my heart ripped out by baseball, it’s this: Don’t ever assume you’ve hit rock bottom. A reasonable person might call the Mets taking eight innings to blow a five-run lead over the Pirates, with Edwin Diaz surrendering the fatal runs, rock bottom. But no, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Jacob Stallings, Pirates, Walkoff Losses The first game after the All-Star Break is supposed to feel like a warm bath. Oh that’s better, you think as you sink back into the routine of having something to do a little after 7 or 4 or 8 or sometimes even 1 in the afternoon on the weekends. At first that little break was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Kuhl, Francisco Lindor, I Hate Baseball, John Nogowski, Marcus Stroman, Pirates What a way to get a game going! Which is where a Mets fan of tenure turned from dispensing exclamation points to issuing question marks. The way this Mets fan of tenure saw it, there […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, All-Star Break, Blown Leads, Francisco Lindor, Gut Instinct, Kumar Rocker, Michael Conforto, Pirates |
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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