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 Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. It would be an exaggeration to say that Faith and Fear in Flushing exists because the Mets signed Carlos Beltran in January 2005. But it wouldn’t be an enormous exaggeration. In 2005 the Mets already had […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, A Met for All Seasons, Adam Wainwright, Alex Cora, Astros, Carlos Beltran, Julio Franco, Managers, Mike Cameron, Omar Minaya, Yadier Molina My first numerical obsession as a baseball fan developed in the waning days of the 1969 regular season. There was nothing waning about late September and early October if you loved the Mets, but I did catch on, at age six, to the finite nature of the schedule, so I figured out that the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Age, Brooks Pounders, Chuck Hernandez, Coaches, Cubs, Dave Eiland, Jeremy Accardo, Julio Franco, Pete Alonso, Phil Regan, Ricky Bones, Todd Frazier, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font “It has happened! In their fifty-first season, Johan Santana has thrown the first no-hitter in New York Mets history!” “And what’s left of a never-got-one nature to ache for anyway? Put aside a World Series championship even if you’ve never seen one before, because the Mets have two of those. They […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bill Veeck, Bobby Thomson, Breaking Bad, Car Wash, Darryl Strawberry, Designated Hitter, Gary Cohen, Home Runs, Howie Rose, Impossible, Jack Lang, James Shields, Joe Garagiola, Johan Santana, Julio Franco, Ken Davidoff, Kentucky Derby, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Memory, Nyquist, Pitchers Hitting, Ramon Castro, Red Smith, Team History, The Power to Evoke, The Shawshank Redemption, The Total Uselessness of the Designated Hitter, Vin Scully, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra The Royals’ 7-2 victory in Wednesday night’s Game Two provided a healthy reminder that there are two league champions vying in this World Series. Or, more cynically, the Giants’ 7-2 defeat in Wednesday night’s Game Two provided a pointed reminder that an 89-win team is playing an 88-win team for the championship of the world. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Bruce Chen, Dennis Cook, Ed Lynch, Jose Reyes, Julio Franco, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Luis Lopez, Marco Scutaro, Masato Yoshii, Mike Glavine, Mike Piazza, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Rigo Beltran, Scott Strickland, Team History, Tony Phillips, Turk Wendell, Ty Wigginton, Willie Blair Zack Wheeler’s soon going to be able to say something no Met, from Richie Ashburn to Carlos Torres — not even magnificent Matt Harvey — can say: “I was born in the 1990s.” Yes, gentle reader, you’re getting old, but this isn’t about you. This is about the New York Mets promoting and pitching, as precipitation and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Giles, Decade-First Mets, Ed Kranepool, Felix Mantilla, Garry Sheffield, George Foster, Jim Beauchamp, Joe Vitko, Julio Franco, Pat Strange, Richie Ashburn, Team History, Tim Foli, Warren Spahn, Zack Wheeler It’s not the Flashback Friday I was envisioning, but real-time events have caused me to adjust my rearview mirror. “You know, there comes a day in every man’s life, and it’s a hard day, but there comes a day when he realizes he’s never going to play professional baseball.” “You’re just having that day today?” “Yes I am.” —Josh […] |
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