Welcome to the eighth 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 |  Bobby J. Jones, Bobby Jones, Glendon Rusch, Jay Payton, Joe McEwing, Jose Valentin, Lenny Harris, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Hampton, Pedro Feliciano, T#m Gl@v!ne, Tom Glavine, Turk Wendell The Mets were teasing me again Friday night. For the second time this week, I went to see them, and for the second time this week, they got me revved up in the bottom of the ninth after spending eight-and-a-half innings essentially disengaged from the competition at […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, Farewells, Harvey Day, Matt Harvey, Steve Trachsel I really wanted Jacob deGrom to set the Mets record for most consecutive starts with a win, especially once I discovered that such a record exists and that Jake had tied it. I’m keenly aware of many Mets records. Some it’s never occurred to me to commit to memory. Most Consecutive Starts Won lands a […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Streaks, Team History, Tom Seaver What was Chipper Jones doing in the Mets clubhouse before Saturday night’s game at Turner Field? Presumably signing over the deed on the joint to the visiting team. Remember when Larry was loathed and Turner was terrifying? Vaguely. Like the Atlanta Braves who made the National League Eastern Division their private hunting preserve, it all seems […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobby Jones, Braves, Butch Huskey, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Greg McMichael, John Franco, Juan Lagares, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Sun Trust Park, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption, Turner Field, Worms That Turn I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver My regular team is nowhere to be found this October. I don’t have a temporary team at the moment. Some years I enter the playoffs with a cause. This year I’m just happy to be here as an unaligned onlooker. Some team will reveal itself to me as situationally mine soon enough. Wednesday night, however, I […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Allen Ripley, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Bobby Jones, Brandon Crawford, Ed Lucas, Giants, Ike Davis, Madison Bumgarner, Mark Gardner, New York Giants, Pirates, Polo Grounds, Steve Henderson I stumbled into a realization a few weeks ago: baseball is a metaphor for baseball. It’s not a metaphor for life. It doesn’t serve as our symbolic rebirth or any of that folderol. Opening Day means that after too many months without regulation games, we get one, to be followed almost immediately by another, and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Bobby Jones, Dillon Gee, Expos, Mets Opening Day, Rudy Mike Pelfrey’s still here, isn’t he? And if he’s still here, he’s going to be Mike Pelfrey, isn’t he? It’s a fact of life. Pelf’s gonna go out there and drive us nuts. He’s gonna put somebody on the twelfth pitch of a 3-2 count that he started ahead 0-2, he’s gonna balk him over to […] Coming this Sunday night: The favorite football team of many (if not all) Mets fans, playing for the championship of its sport. Coming NO Sunday night in 2012, as far as we know right now: The favorite baseball team of all Mets fans, playing for anything…not even to get us closer to 2013. ESPN released its preliminary […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro Pena, Alex Ochoa, Anthony Young, Bobby Bonilla, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Bret Saberhagen, Butch Huskey, Dick Schofield, Doc Gooden, ESPN, Jeff Kent, Jeff Torborg, John Franco, Kevin Morgan, Mackey Sasser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Schourek, Replacement Mets, Sonia Sotomayor, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History Last week I went on a road trip, for a number of reasons: I wanted to get some junk out of our apartment, a problem I solved by selling CDs and sticking my parents with boxes of baseball cards; I wanted to see Gettysburg; I wanted to drive around for a couple of days; and […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bob G. Miller, Bob L. Gibson, Bob L. Miller, Bobby J. Jones, Bobby Jones, Bobby M. Jones, Jose A. Reyes, Jose Reyes, Mike Maddux, Pedro A. Martinez, The Holy Books |
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