 
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 will worry about the Mets bullpen the first time a starter departs and runs are scored. Then I will stress. For now, I take comfort in the sudden stockpiling of arms, whether strange or familiar (and presumably temporarily un-Familia). Jerry Blevins is returning. This stands as the front office accomplishment of late winter pending resolution […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Wilk, Fernando Salas, Jerry Blevins, John Maine, Relief Pitching, Tom Gorzelanny, West Wing Friday night, as I was watching the Nets lose — an activity surely signifying the depths of winter for both me and the team to which I’ve clung through four post-Julius Erving decades as if I’m convinced the Doctor will be coming out of the locker room shortly to start the second half — we […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Ben Rowen, Cory Burns, Endless Winter, Football, Relief Pitching The Chicago White Sox were the sore thumb of my Logging for twenty seasons, ever since it was decided National League teams should play American League teams for something less than all the marbles. Whoever the junior circuit sent to Shea Stadium, I dutifully saw at least once, entering the encounter in the steno book […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, Extra Innings, Interleague Play, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Jerry Cram, Jerry Sands, Jon Matlack, Logan Verrett, Matt Albers, Mike Piazza, Relief Pitching, Rene Rivera, Slumps, Todd Frazier, Todd Hundley, Ty Kelly, White Sox “The Mets — ah, the Mets! Superlatives do not quite fit them, but now, just as in 1969, the name alone is enough to bring back that rare inner smile that so many of us wore as the summer ended. The memory of what these Mets were in mid-season and the knowledge of what they […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jenrry Mejia, Relief Pitching, Roger Angell, Writing There are nights when you love how much you love sports. And then there are nights like Wednesday when you prefer to drown your sporting sorrows in prime time soap operas. The Nets, who occasionally lift my spirits in spite of my knowing that eventually they will find a way to pull them down, mishandle them […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Josh Edgin, Kyle Farnsworth, Masahiro Tanaka, Nashville, Rafael Montero, Relief Pitching, Subway Series When a bargain ceases to be a bargain, then it’s just business. LaTroy Hawkins was a baseball bargain in 2013, getting paid a paltry (in the business where “paltry” is a highly relative term) million bucks for his Metropolitan services. He proved so valuable, he earned himself a nice raise. Too nice to remain a bargain […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jose Valentin, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Relief Pitching What a marvelously well-behaved afternoon the Mets provided those of us who filed into Citi Field on Sunday. Our Ron Darling bobbleheads awaited us in a pleasing stack; our fish tacos didn’t take any longer than the “few minutes” the notoriously pokey Catch of the Day promised; our shadow-situated seats were convincingly but not excessively […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Brandon Lyon, Bryce Harper, Dillon Gee, Fish Tacos, LaTroy Hawkins, Relief Pitching, Scott Rice When the Mets receive a really good start, as they did on Tuesday night, or plate a whole lot of runs, as they did on Tuesday night — or if they do both (Tuesday night again) — then they’re pretty damn unbeatable. I guess you could say that for any club in receipt of those […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2012 Mets, Chris Young, Cliff Lee, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fan Instinct, Miguel Batista, Relief Pitching, Tim Byrdak Some days you have to go to the ‘pen and go with the arm that feels it most — feels it as a fan and feels it as a writer. When we talk about Rivera’s pitching motion, his mulish imperturbability, his athletic grace under pressure, we think of artists not ball players: Buster Keaton, Fred Astaire, Al […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Belth, Injuries, Mariano Rivera, Relief Pitching, Yankees It may feel like we’ll see more losses like Wednesday afternoon’s than Ruben Tejada will see pitches this year, but it won’t be nearly that bad, statistically speaking. We can’t lose more than 158 games and Ruben sees almost that many pitches in a given week. Yet sometimes you can’t argue with how something feels. Wrightlessness […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Johnson, Ike Davis, Injuries, Johan Santana, Relief Pitching, Roger Craig, Ruben Tejada, Stephen Strasburg, Walter Johnson |
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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