 
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. |
Brandon Nimmo brightened the grim Bronx skies Saturday afternoon. Is there anything that ray of light can’t do? Nimmo, like Jeff McNeil and Michael Conforto fairly recently, returned from the injured list and reminded us that, oh yeah, we had players in place before we fell in love with players who replaced them, and we liked […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Subway Series, Taijuan Walker, Veneer of Optimism Friday was, thoroughly unexpectedly, one of the better days in recent Mets history. The Mets beat the Yankees twice in one day, coming from behind both times, and Steve Cohen was left as the last man standing in the competition to purchase of the team, despite repeated Wilpon hissy fits thrown in an effort to […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. LeMahieu, Dellin Betances, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Luis Castillo, Robert Gsellman, Steve Bieser, Steve Cohen, Subway Series, Wilpons, Wilson Ramos, Yankees When the 2020 season was in the uncertain talking stage — after Spring Training, before Summer Camp — I was pretty sure of one thing: other than for historical perspective purposes, I would never want to see highlights of whatever transpired on the field once the Mets started playing, if they started playing. And once […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Amed Rosario, Billy Hamilton, Dom Smith, Doubleheader Sweeps, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series It’s bad enough that Major League Baseball’s schedulemakers have left the Mets idle on this most iconic of summertime dates, but you’d figure they could have at least let them play on the eve of our nation’s 243rd birthday. What’s that? The Mets did play on July 3? Yesterday? Wednesday? Funny, I have no recollection of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1981 Mets, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series, Un-American Activities The lazy interpretation of a Mets win over the Yankees is that the Mets looked like the Yankees and vice-versa, ha-ha; you can almost hear it coming out of the generic local anchor throwing it to sports. Excuse me while I step outside and punch that narrative in the face. Yet now that I’ve gone there, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Opposite, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler When you play in a bandbox, strike up the band nice and loud. The Mets hit only one home run on Tuesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium and lost by seven. The Mets hit three home runs on Tuesday night in the same selectively diminutive venue — brothers […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1976 Mets, 90th Birthdays, At This Pace, Carlos Beltran, Contemporary Bobby Riggs Reference, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Doris Day, Frank Thomas, Hack Wilson, Home Runs, Marlon Byrd, Mickey Mantle, Pete Alonso, Roger Maris, Subway Series, Team History, Todd Hundley Doubleheaders are funny beasts. Lose the first game — as the Mets just did in the Bronx against some team from an arriviste beer league — and you simultaneously take solace in the fact that doubleheader sweeps are hard to pull off and are gripped with horror at the prospect of dropping two games in one […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Doubleheaders, Luke Voit, Masahiro Tanaka, Subway Series, Yankees, Zack Wheeler To borrow a phrase favored by Josh Lewin, what did we learn on Saturday afternoon watching the Mets lose in the Bronx, other than Saturday afternoon Subway Series conflicts have diminished in appeal since Matt Franco was in fullest bloom? We learned the […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, Bobby Wahl, Branon Nimmo, Communications, Designated Hitter, Devin Mesoraco, Jeurys Familia, Josh Lewin, Lack of GM, Matt den Dekker, Mickey Callaway, Ron Hunt, Subway Series, The West Wing, Trades, Will Toffey, Yoenis Cespedes Last month I quoted the old Earl Weaver maxim that momentum’s only as good as tomorrow’s starting pitcher, not knowing what a cruel joke that would turn out to be. The Mets managed the head-scratching accomplishment of losing eight in a row while getting brilliant starting pitching: in that stretch, no Mets starter allowed more […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Dave Mlicki, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Reyes, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Todd Frazier, Yankees The Mets lost. Again. As they have done throughout this stake-in-the-heart homestead. As they have done with numbing regularity since mid-April. The details don’t particularly matter, so we’ll buzz through them quickly: they ambushed Yankees starter Domingo German for an unfathomable three runs in the first, on home runs by Todd Frazier and Asdrubal Cabrera. If you […] |
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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