Welcome to the second chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the first installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade is […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Recker, Bobby Abreu, Buddy Carlyle, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Devin Mesoraco, Jason Vargas, Logan Verrett, Mets of the 2010s, Rajai Davis, Scott Rice, Shaun Marcum When your team has been immersed in an era of losing, your main ambition for them is that they start winning. Or at least stop losing more than they win. Nobody aspires to be .500 unless you can’t get and stay there. We haven’t gotten there and then beyond it for keeps since 2008. Hence, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Banner Day, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, Doubleheaders, Rafael Montero, Ralph Kiner I missed being in the house for Weather Education Day Thursday afternoon, but I recognized its sound over the air after inadvertently attending several since the Mets inaugurated them in 2007. Weather Education Day means a noisier, shriller, noticeably younger crowd, albeit one that reacts without much relation to what’s going on in the game. […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Abreu, Chris Young, Climate, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Facebook, Kids, New York Times, Weather One National League East Narrative Reinforcement comin’ right up! While the Braves were doing everything they could on Wednesday to earn their fans’ gratitude, the Mets were finding new, characteristically clumsy ways to show they’re as sorry as any organization can be. Atlanta invested more than $14 million in Ervin Santana, the best available pitcher on the […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Considerateness, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dan Jenkins, Dan Warthen, Ervin Santana, Jeff Cutler, Kris Medlen, Media Criticism, Stu Woo Kyle Farnsworth has been invited to Spring Training. Daisuke Matsuzaka has been invited to Spring Training. Taylor Teagarden conjures images of an idyllic spot where those who sew for a living might seek a civilized respite from the drudgery of cuffing trousers, but he’s actually a catcher and he, too, has been invited to Spring […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Dirk Hayhurst, Kyle Farnsworth, Matt Clark, Minor League Contract, Non-Roster Invitees, Spring Training, Taylor Teagarden You know why you should pay attention to your Metsies 162 times a year, even between 12:35 and 3:26 in the afternoon of the 158th time they play in a lost year like 2013? Because if you do, you might find yourself immersed in the unlikeliest of debates, such as the one my friend and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Day Games, Juan Centeno, Midweek Afternoon Games, Reds, September Imagine if the men who rule baseball reduced each team’s schedule to its most elemental struggle. The Yankees and Red Sox would play each other 162 times — 81 in New York and 81 in Fenway — with at least 130 of those games shown on ESPN or FOX. (This would lead to only a […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Citizens Bank Park, Cole Hamels, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Phillies There ain’t much left to play for: A .500 season vanished from the realm of possibility with the afternoon’s listless defeat, and draft picks are too much of a crapshoot for me to take seriously. But as is often the case, I think I’m moved on to acceptance. It was … kinda fun watching the Mets […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Keith Hernandez, Shaun Marcum Joaquin Andujar, a quotable pitcher from a bygone era, famously remarked that his favorite word in English was “you never know.” Which is a good way to break down Sunday’s Mets-Indians finale: * Daisuke Matsuzaka was good. No really, he was. Though as Scott Kazmir showed, that’s what happens when you’re facing a club that let […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Frank Francisco, Joaquin Andujar, Justin Turner Final Score: Braves 13 Mets 5. Monday’s Belabored Day matinee was played on the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Comebacks, Craig Swan, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Derek Wallace, Doc Medich, John Stearns, Tim Byrdak, Vic Black |
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