 
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. |
Spring is here … oh wait it totally isn’t, it’s cold and barren and horrible out there. But spring will be here soon enough, believe it or not. Which means we’d better welcome 2022’s matriculating Mets, now proud members of The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Alex Claudio, Baseball Cards, Brett Baty, Bryce Montes de Oca, Chris Bassitt, Colin Holderman, Connor Grey, Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Deven Marrero, Eduardo Escobar, Ender Inciarte, Francisco Alvarez, Ghosts, Gosuke Katoh, Joely Rodriguez, Jose Butto, Kramer Robertson, Mark Canha, Mark Vientos, Max Scherzer, Michael Perez, Mychal Givens, Nate Fisher, Nick Plummer, R.J. Alvarez, Rob Zastryzny, Sam Clay, Starling Marte, Terrance Gore, The Holy Books, Travis Jankowski, Tyler Naquin, Yoan Lopez, Yolmer Sanchez To review, these days the Mets play two kinds of games, which for simplicity’s sake we’ll tally up in separate columns. In Column A, we record games like these, to quote some dumbass blogger: “ones in which they lose seemingly winnable affairs in horribly frustrating ways”. Column B is the home for games like these: “ones in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Cubs, Darin Ruf, Frustration, Javier Assad, Mark Canha, Tyler Naquin You score 15 runs, what do you get? Enough peace of mind to carry you through an off day, I hope. The New York Mets, who entered Wednesday tied for first place in the National League East, exited Wednesday a half-game ahead of their closest competition. Not bad for a team declared deceased by a vocal […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2007 Mets, Alex Claudio, Bob Moose, Chris Bassitt, Jacob deGrom, Lloyd Bentsen, Questionable Invocation of Precedent, Tyler Naquin OK, lemme see if I got all this. You want the pair of Slugger Milestones — the 100th RBI and the 30th homer, wrap them separately. Yeah, those’ll stay cold. They’re Polar. You want the Speedy Duo with the Double Steal, the back half being the steal of home. You got it. We keep that on […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joely Rodriguez, Keith Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Pinch-Running, Regional Cuisine, Starling Marte, Stealing Home, Trevor May, Tyler Naquin Some days this year as a Mets fan, if you’re lucky (which you are if you’re a Mets fan this year), you feel a little like Tommy Flanagan — pronounced fluh-NAIG-un — Jon Lovitz’s truth-stretching character whose Saturday Night Live catchphrase “that’s the ticket” had the country in stitches for about a year in the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Almost Too Good to Be True, Daniel Vogelbach, Francisco Lindor, Jon Lovitz, Liz Callaway, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tyler Naquin For me, the Mets are rarely if ever on the periphery. Most nights they’re front and center. But now and then even they have to share space with other pursuits. We’re finishing up three weeks in my folks’ summer cottage in Maine, an annual visit extended this year as an experiment in remote work and escaping […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Keith Hernandez, Orlando Arcia, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tyler Naquin Through seven innings Friday night, the Mets-Marlins contest could have gone either way. It’s not unusual that the identities of a given game’s winner and loser are yet to be determined with two regulation innings to go, but this brand of uncertainty gnawed a bit deeper. Lose this game to the Marlins, and it’s a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Afterschool Special, Billy Crystal, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Leon Russell, Marlins, Old Wives’ Tales, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Trevor Williams, Tyler Naquin A long time ago, it looked like Noah Syndergaard was on his way to a perfect game. That wasn’t 40 days and 40 nights ago — that’s the story of another Noah — but by the end of this deluged and drowned evening, with its two rain delays, it sure felt like it had been that […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Indians, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Noah Syndergaard, Paul Sewald, Rain Delays, Tyler Naquin |
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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