Welcome to the fifth 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 most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Torres, Eric Young Jr., James Loney, Jay Bruce, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Wilson, Mets of the 2010s, Rod Barajas, Scott Hairston, T.J. Rivera Repeatedly as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Mets, I get slightly irked. Not by the celebration or the feat celebrated but by a tiny detail that is continually reported inaccurately. Those Mets, it keep getting said, fell ten games behind the Cubs in the National League East in mid-August before turning their […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2017 Mets, Edwin Diaz, Half-Games, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeurys Familia, Ken Johnson, Replay Review, Rocky III, Spiritually Eliminated, Statistical Obsessions Before the Internet, original thoughts were easier to enjoy. Nowadays, thanks to all manner of instantaneous communication, you realize that clever thing that just occurred to you organically occurred simultaneously to others, perhaps many thousands of others. Gosh, you tell yourself, maybe I’m not so clever or original. But it doesn’t mean your thought wasn’t right, […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bad Relief Pitching, Dominic Smith, First Half, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Predictability, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Stephen Nogosek It occurs to me that I haven’t been exceedingly happy when greeted by offseason news of a fresh Mets acquisition (meaning a Met who hadn’t declared free agency sticking around, basically meaning Yoenis Cespedes twice) since the trade for Johan Santana nearly eleven years ago. He was Johan Santana, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Brodie Van Wagenen, Bull Durham, Edwin Diaz, Gerson Bautista, Jarred Kelenic, Jay Bruce, Justin Dunn, Robinson Cano, The West Wing, Trades The Mets and Marlins were supposed to play two baseball games starting at 4:10 pm, but at 4:10 pm it was raining. Not particularly hard — you could almost call it Corey Oswalt weather — but hard enough. It stayed that way through 5:10 pm, through 6:10 pm, through the time the Mets would have played […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Doubleheaders, Jay Bruce, Rafael Ortega, Rain Delays, Zack Wheeler How can you have a recap when you don’t have a final score yet? When that final score’s yet to be recorded but the show everyone came to see is over. That’s how. No offense to Seth Lugo, Steve Cishek or whatever Met and Cub relievers follow them when the game resumes, tied 1-1, in the 10th. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Jackson, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Javy Baez, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Rain Delays, Suspended Games What if the secret of making the Mets better is being mean to them? No, not by forcing them to play a new position, letting them rot on the bench, warming them up too often and not putting them in a game, not putting them in a game for weeks, letting injuries linger without DL stints, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Kevin Plawecki, Nationals, Nicknames, The Jason Vargas Index You don’t bring a Jason Vargas to a slugfest if you wish to prevail in the slugfest. Then again, you might not have a full-fledged slugfest without Jason Vargas, for as offensive a bent as Coors Field possesses, it takes a Vargas to ensure at least one side’s scoring […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Art Donovan, Asdrubal Cabrera, Butch Huskey, Carlos Mendoza, Chris Beck, Coors Field, Dom Smith, Don Joyce, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Rockies, Team History, Tim Peterson, Young Outfields When the Mets are mired deep in one of their patented extended funks, I tend to be asked — given that I’ve been around and remember things — some variation on the question, “Has it ever been this bad before?” The fact that the Mets have patented […] Steven Matz pitched well on Sunday afternoon, showing no signs of any woes from an injured finger. This concludes the good-news portion of the recap. Everything else was trash, and familiar trash at that: bad defense, zero offense, a certain fatal sleepiness. The Cubs beat the Mets, 2-0, completing a four-game sweep in which they never seemed […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Javier Baez, Jay Bruce, Luis Guillorme, Steven Matz |
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