Welcome to the ninth 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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Jonathon Niese, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Mets of the 2010s, Wilmer Flores I spent the last five days in Chicago, getting my Star Wars on at McCormick Place and in the hotel bar. So my Mets attention was fitful and scattershot. I saw news of the first night’s events in amazing seats behind the plate at Wrigley Field (plenty of good options available when it’s still frigid), […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Baseball Cards, Guillermo Mota, Jon Niese, Jonahs, Jose Vizcaino, Paul Sewald, Ramon Ramirez, Steven Matz For the diehard Mets fan who pined away through 1,725 regular-season games awaiting the return of Jason Vargas — and there’s bound to be one of you out there somewhere — congratulations. You got exactly what you were missing. On July 3, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bill Pulsipher, David Cone, Frank Lary, Jason Vargas, Jon Niese, Recidivist Mets, Starting Pitching, Team History, Tom Seaver Maybe Terry Collins should have motivated the Mets more directly once they got to the postseason. Maybe he should have taken a page from Walt Michaels, the Jets head coach who, in the midst of the 1982 NFL playoffs, grabbed his players attention by focusing it squarely on the bottom line. “I remember Walt Michaels walking […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2016 Mets, Antonio Bastardo, Asdrubal Cabrera, Carl Erskine, Football, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Motivation, No Decisions, Postseason Shares, Terry Collins, Walt Michaels, World Series Shares When Jim Henderson entered Tuesday night’s game at St. Louis — one on, one out, Yadier Molina coming up, Mets leading by two in the seventh — it occurred to me that this was potentially a pivotal moment in Henderson’s Met legacy. If Henderson surrendered a two-run homer to Molina, which wasn’t out of the […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Cardinals, Debuts, Injuries, Jim Henderson, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Pennant Race, Robert Gsellman, Wilmer Flores, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Thirteen thoughts after staying up late with the Mets and watching alongside them as their opponents crossed the plate thirteen times. 1. Jon Niese, per the late Dennis Green, is who we expected him to be. Three fine innings against those poisonous Arizona Diamondbacks, a dreadful fourth, gone in the fifth. You can’t say he didn’t […] 74 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Diamondbacks, Expectations, Jon Niese, Josh Edgin, Mirages, Possibility, Ty Kelly, Yasmany Tomas, Zack Godley Here’s your roundup of another thrilling day rooting for the incredible shrinking National League champs: Zack Wheeler‘s return to the mound was followed by not being able to throw because of elbow pain, so he’s off to see Dr. James Andrews. We’re all sure this will turn out great. 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hopelessness, Jon Niese, Logan Verrett, Michael Conforto Perhaps it’s not a fortuitous weekend for the Mets to be playing the Tigers from my perspective given the condition of my eldest cat Hozzie. In a nutshell, the tabby who prefers to keep his own counsel when not expressing a desire to be fed and fed some more wasn’t doing great before the Mets arrived […] 48 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Double Plays, Ernie Harwell, Gary Apple, Hozzie the Cat, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Lineups, Logan Verrett, Tigers, Ty Kelly So the Jay Bruce era — you must’ve known I wasn’t going to call it Jon Niese 2.0 — is off to a roaring start. No thanks to Bruce himself, but that’s OK — Yoenis Cespedes needed a couple of days to acclimate too. Most of us, if suddenly transferred across the country to work for a […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejando De Aza, Dilson Herrera, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sandy Alderson, Travis d'Arnaud On Saturday, before I slipped into my beloved PIAZZA 31 in order to pay tribute to our beloved Piazza’s 31, I dressed as a mild-mannered reporter at Citi Field. It doesn’t take much to dress like a mild-mannered reporter at Citi Field. You just wear what you’d wear to go out and get the mail, […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Neil Walker, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud |
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