 
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. |
I’m assuming the five-day interregnum between the conclusion of the League Championship Series and the commencing of the World Series was built into the postseason by MLB this year to give us time to get used to the nearly unfathomable presence of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic. But here we are, four days […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Billy Joel, Brad Hand, Don Buddin, Noah Syndergaard, pH Factor, Phantom Pain, Phillies, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler A Mets fan pulls into a gas station — gas prices, huh? The Mets are playing. They’ve just fallen behind at Minute Maid Park, 5-1, on Yordan Alvarez’s second home run of the game. The Mets fan missed the first one. He also missed Alex Bregman’s, which preceded Alvarez’s first in the first. It hasn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggravating, Astros, Carlos Carrasco, Drizzle, Gas Prices, Lower Back Tightness, Rafael Montero, Spritz Welcome to the fourth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Eric Campbell, Hansel Robles, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Edgin, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Cuddyer, Neil Walker, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera Someday Spring Training will be over. I’m basing that solely on precedent and occasional commercials hawking ticket packages that include access to Opening Day. Otherwise, we’re marooned inside that Journey song that implores us to not stop believing, the one whose movie never ends, it goes on […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Astros, Big Shirtless Noah, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dom Smith, Injuries, Jim Bouton, Jonathan Lucroy, Journey, March, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Spring Training, Terry's Kids, Travin d'Arwecki, Yo La Tengo, Yoenis Cespedes For six innings Tuesday night, I was content to float along on the echoes provided by the visitor who used to call Citi Field home, the visitor who was the first Met to make Citi Field feel like a home. R.A. Dickey was pitching a shutout for the Braves against the Mets. See past the […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, A.J. Minter, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Braves, Craig Brazell, Dominic Smith, Echoes, Ender Inciarte, Esix Snead, Kevin Plawecki, R.A. Dickey, Rafael Montero, September, Terry Collins, Travis Taijeron It will never supplant “cripes” at the top of the charts within the Terry Collins lexicon of frustration, but I’ve noticed another revealing phrase creep into his postgame repertoire of responses lately: “I haven’t the faintest idea.” He said it during the last homestand in regards to which pitcher was going to start the next […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Lack of Discernment, Rafael Montero, Terry Collins Hope is a self-healing thing. The Mets have won four in a row. I’d say “somehow,” except they’ve been playing the Phillies and the Reds, two teams that (like the Mets) are quantitatively and officially lousy. Still, they all count and during this modest but thoroughly welcome winning streak the Mets haven’t looked half-bad. Which is all […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Hope, Kevin Plawecki, Phillip Evans, Rafael Montero The Mets won by shutout. Their starter went at least eight-and-a-third innings. He gave up no more than three hits and got the win. According to Baseball Reference, those specific boxes have been checked 119 times in franchise history, about twice a year since 1962. It’s a total that includes some of the most memorable […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, Adam Duvall, AJ Ramos, Bill Short, Cal Koonce, Gil Hodges, Jim McAndrew, Joey Votto, One-Hitters, Rafael Montero, Reds, Scooter Gennett, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver June 3, 2017, was a fine Saturday night for the New York Mets, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field, 4-2, with, Lucas Duda at first, Neil Walker at second, Curtis Granderson in center, Jay Bruce around in right, René Rivera catching, and Addison Reed pitching the eighth and ninth innings to record his […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Curtis Granderson, De Facto Designated Hitter, Dominic Smith, Kevin Plawecki, M&M's Sweet Seats, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera, Youth of America As SNY spoke with Dave Mlicki Monday night about claiming first blood in a Mets-Yankees tilt that mattered, I found myself more than a little distracted. Mlicki had blanked the Yanks 20 years ago? No, that couldn’t be right. Surely it was five years ago. OK, maybe 10. But nope, you could look it up. The Mets and Yankees […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Rafael Montero, Subway Series, Yankees, Yoenis Cespedes |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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