 
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. |
OK, so that little speech about patience? Today was why it needed to be said. Today when the Mets rudely interrupted their own romp over the Phillies by blowing a five-run lead. Today when the mangy zombie Phillies rose up and justified Ruben Amaro Jr.’s dingbat refusal to admit the obvious, disemboweling our bullpen and then shambling off […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Injuries, Jenrry Mejia, Vic Black, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler With apologies, if not royalties, to Helen Reddy… I am Wheeler The Nats had me on But you should get wise 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Helen Reddy, Unlikely Inspirations, Zack Wheeler It’s not so much that if you watch enough baseball, you see something new every day. It’s that if you watch enough baseball, you see something you’ve seen some other day, thus allowing you to perhaps sense what’s coming directly at you. On the surface, the Mets’ come-from-moribund victory over the Brewers Friday night came out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mariano Rivera, Sixth Sense, Yovani Gallardo, Zack Wheeler Steve Gelbs seems like a capable enough young broadcaster. We know him mostly from filling in for the singular Kevin Burkhardt on SNY, which, in the realm of roving reporting, is a little like starting Todd Pratt on Mike Piazza Poster Day. Pratt may perform ably — more than ably at his best — but […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hyperbole, Josh Edgin, Kevin Burkhardt, No-Hit Bids, Odrisamer Despaigne, Padres, Seth Smith, SNY, Steve Gelbs, Vic Black, Walkoffs, Zack Wheeler “Lou Klimchock can be considered by virtue of his intense and persistent labors on behalf of innovative baseball mediocrity one of the few truly seminal figures in the drab and dreary history of this era. […] Here’s to you Lou. You gave the common fan someone to identify with. You were a constant source of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Inconsequential Mets, Lou Klimchock, Zack Wheeler It’s dangerous to saddle wins or losses with caveats. Wins are good, losses are bad. You depart from this simple equation at your peril. The Mets put themselves in an eight-run hole tonight against the A’s, as Zack Wheeler had no feel whatsoever for his curveball and iffy location with everything. (He also claimed the A’s had […] Hey, sometimes you can develop players and win games at the same time! It helps when the young player in question has the arsenal of Zack Wheeler and the command of that arsenal shown by the Zack Wheeler we saw Thursday night. I differentiate the two not to be snarky, but because that’s the way it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Marlins, Patience, Paul Wilson, PItching, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler The Mets didn’t win last night. Oh well. What were they going to do with a win if they’d attained it, anyway? Throw it on the pile of wins that never quite measures up to their taller pile of losses? Then what? Win again? Come now. Much as youth is said to be wasted on the young […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Gregor Blanco, Jerry Grote, Joe Torre, John Stearns, Josh Edgin, Larry Bearnarth, Losing, Rod Kanehl, Ron Darling, Terry Collins, Todd Hundley, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler It’s not surprising that they lost. Losing is what they do. They’ve lost more often than they’ve won as a matter of course for five going on six seasons. On May 31, 2009, buoyed by a week of having played teams who seemed indisputably lousier than them (Washington and Florida), the New York Mets stood seven […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Jake Arietta, Losing, Nate Schierholtz, Team History, Zack Wheeler I saw mention of the sports fan pejorative “bandwagon” last night in the wake of the New York Rangers skating their way into the Stanley Cup Finals. Those who are not inclined to root for the Rangers scoffed at the onslaught of their opposite numbers who weren’t necessarily so bold and brassy when shots on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bandwagons, Chris Young, Hockey, Jenrry Mejia, Scott Rice, Vic Black, Zack Wheeler |
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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