Welcome to the fifth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […]
 
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. |
 Comments closed | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Darryl Hamilton, Dennis Cook, Duaner Sanchez, Julio Franco, Kevin Appier, Mets of the 2000s, Pedro Astacio, Roberto Hernandez, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton Ol’ No. 48 had been there before, so he knew how it goes. He’d pitch well, his team wouldn’t score for him and they’d go on to lose. Jacob deGrom practices the whole season ’round for All-Star Games. He seemed happy to have been there nonetheless. Ol’ No. 20 was no longer new to the spotlight, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 6, Al Weis, All-Star Game, Jeff McNeil, Melvin Mora, Pat Roessler, Six, Team History, Timo Perez, Uncle Floyd, Uniform Numbers, Wally Backman I heard myself stick up for Kenny Rogers and Timo Perez the other night. Yeah, they left their fingerprints all over two of the most notorious moments in Mets postseason history, but, I said, the Mets wouldn’t have gotten as far as they did without them. Being so generous of spirit, you’d figure I’d apply the […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, Daniel Murphy, Errors, Kenny Rogers, Max Scherzer, Selective Granular Memory, Timo Perez We now interrupt the Mets’ first pennant race in seven years to race all the way around the bases for the first time in five years. We won’t pause to do so, however, for this is one of those plays in which you can’t hit pause. You hit and you run, or as Tom Hanks […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Albert Achievement Awards, Angel Pagan, Bad News Bears, Bud Harrelson, Charlie Neal, Damion Easley, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Domonic Brown, Don Hahn, Doug Flynn, Edgardo Alfonzo, Gil Flores, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Inside The Park Home Run, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Kevin Elster, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bradley, Marlon Anderson, Richie Ashburn, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Steve Henderson, Team History, That Thing You Do, Tim Bogar, Timo Perez, Wally Backman, Warner Wolf Your correspondent, taking a whirl at Beating the Booth, for fun and self-flagellation. Beat the Booth, the thoroughly Metted game show that pairs Howie Rose and Gary Cohen and therefore offers plenty of reason to watch, is at last coming to an SNY near you. It will air tonight and tomorrow following your regularly […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Armando Benitez, Bud Harrelson, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Jay Payton, Johan Santana, Mets Fan Instinct, R.A. Dickey, SNY, Timo Perez The Mets and Astros combined to throw 266 pitches tonight at Citi Field. For 265 of them — that’s 99.62% of the game if you’re mathematically inclined — the results were pretty much unbearable for Mets fans. The preteen girls in the stands, most of whom were waiting to watch someone named Austin Mahone, unleashed 266,000 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Mahone, Brooklyn Cyclones, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, music, Pat Mahomes, Timo Perez When they opened it in 2009, the Mets of Fred and Jeff Wilpon dedicated themselves to convincing potential patrons that Citi Field would present a premium ballpark experience because it would grant those with the right kind of ticket access to exclusive clubs. That first year, very specific castes were established in terms of who […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brad Penny, Bud Selig, Citi Field, Eerily Quiet, Milestones, Promenade, Timo Perez, Todd Zeile, Wilmer Flores And then there was one. Or there appears to be. With Jason Isringhausen’s reiteration of his intention to retire after putting in a yeoman year’s worth of work with the L.A. Angels — though he left the door open a crack in case “some GM is dumb enough to want to sign me” — it means […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Armando Benitez, Bruce Chen, C.J. Nitkowski, Jason Isringhausen, Last Met Standing, Long Island Ducks, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scutaro, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Team History, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton Matt Harvey is clearly ready. Or almost ready. Or not ready, but a better bet than the barely any longer ready for prime time Miguel Batista, which is what matters in the short term. I kept an eye on the Bisons and the Mud Hens last night from lovely, lonely Buffalo, and I can’t say […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Buffalo Bisons, Fred Lewis, Long Island Ducks, Matt Harvey, Miguel Batista, Timo Perez The Braves shoved nine runs down the Mets’ throats Monday. They shoved nine more there Tuesday. They were en route to dishing up their usual nightly serving on Wednesday when they realized it was hardly worth the trouble. Why bother scoring nine runs when no more than two would be necessary? Mighty thoughtful of Bobby […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bart Shirley, Calvin Schiraldi, Herm Winningham, Jay Payton, Joe Moock, Joe Nolan, Julio Valera, Keith Hughes, Kevin Collins, Lucas Duda, Met Debuts, New Toy Club, Rich Puig, Rob Gardner, Ron Gardenhire, Ryan Thompson, Sandy Alomar Sr., Sandy Senior Tour, Team History, Timo Perez |
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