 
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. |
When your opponent puts double digits in the run column and you win, anyway… When you record a final score in your favor that you haven’t posted since the final months of the previous century… When the prohibitive favorite to lead your team in his signature category for a record-tying fifth consecutive season might be compelled to […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, ABBA, Brett Baty, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Carrasco, DJ Stewart, Eddie Bressoud, Francisco Alvarez, Home Runs, Mets shortstops, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Polo Grounds, Robin Ventura, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, White Sox A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks Bill James recently tweeted, “Things happen in baseball every day of the season which haven’t happened before. It isn’t ‘History’ unless someone writing a history of baseball or a history of the franchise or some such would bother to mention it. Otherwise, it’s just an oddity, or trivia.” In that case, I’m here to mention […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1989 Mets, Bill James, Billy McKinney, David Cone, Duke Snider, Johneshwy Fargas, Juan Samuel, Rich Hill, Rod Kanehl, Roel Ramirez, Stephen Tarpley, Team History, Tommy Hunter, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores In a sixty-game season whose primary appeal may be the encompassing of elements largely unprecedented, you pretty much have to be in it for those things you’ve never seen before. They may not add up to an orthodox major league campaign, let alone big-picture success, but they sure do get your attention. Take a 1-unassisted at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Blue Jays, Buffalo, Erasmo Ramirez, Game-Losing Pickoffs, Pitchers Fielding, Saves, Seth Lugo, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Wilson Ramos That creature you thought you saw rumbling across the landscape at Citi Field late Friday night…it wasn’t your imagination. It was that most elusive of baseball figures, the Unicorn Score. The New York Mets posted what was for them an unprecedented final, beating the Colorado Rockies, 14-2. Thanks to Baseball Reference’s Play Index tool and my […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Replay Review, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes When Yoenis Cespedes re-accommodated yet another baseball over a relatively distant fence five innings into Wednesday night’s beatdown of Philadelphia, I was quite pleased. Really, I was. I glanced up from my tablet, mentioned aloud, “Hey that’s his third,” and, I’m pretty sure, raised a fist slightly above my right ear to further signify my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Home Runs, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Passover, Ray Ramirez, Ren & Stimpy, Travis d'Arnaud, Ty Kelly, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes A Unicorn romps around Flushing. Sunday was ostensibly Closing Day at Citi Field. More like Door Left Ajar Day, I suppose. On paper — the glossy, accordion-foldable kind that fits easily in your pocket — it was what it sometimes is. September 25 versus the Phillies was definitely the final scheduled home game of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closing Day, Robert Gsellman, Shutouts, Unicorn Scores This happens, right? Against all playoff probability odds, let alone preseason projections, some team finds the field and proves itself better than imagined, better than its competition, better than its most fervent and loyal supporters dared to dream. This is happening…right? Wright. Brothers and sisters, rub your eyes, pinch your extremities, do a double-, triple- and quadruple-take. Those […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, David Wright, Home Runs, Precedent, Records, Sean Gilmartin, That Thing You Do, Unicorn Scores You don’t see too many games like we saw Saturday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never seen them win by before and there’s no telling if or when you’ll […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Coors Field, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores You don’t see too many games like we saw Friday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never seen them win by before and there’s no telling if or when you’ll […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Sele, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Bonilla, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Granderson, Dave Magadan, Duke Snider, Harmonic Convergence, Irish Rovers, Jason Phillips, Jeremy Griffiths, Juan Samuel, Julio Machado, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Jacobs, Mike Marshall, Mike Pelfrey, Offensive Explosion, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tony Clark, Tracy Stallard, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes |
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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