Welcome to the third 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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angel Pagan, Bubba Trammell, Dae-Sung Koo, Jae Seo, Jeff Francoeur, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Jacobs, Richard Hidalgo, Ryan Church, Shawn Green, Victor Diaz You don’t see too many games like we saw Friday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never seen them win by before and there’s no telling if or when you’ll […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Sele, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Bonilla, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Granderson, Dave Magadan, Duke Snider, Harmonic Convergence, Irish Rovers, Jason Phillips, Jeremy Griffiths, Juan Samuel, Julio Machado, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Jacobs, Mike Marshall, Mike Pelfrey, Offensive Explosion, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tony Clark, Tracy Stallard, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes Gentle Reader: The topical hook of this column is incredibly outdated, but the historical stuff is still keen! *** Michael Bourn. Not a Met. Not yet. Maybe never. Maybe soon. It’s not a story that seems to include resolution. (EDITOR’S NOTE: Resolution came.) But if Bourn is gonna be one of ours soon, he’s gonna start his […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Brady Clark, Brandon Lyon, Chan Ho Park, Chris Aguila, Clem Labine, Clint Hurdle, Dale Thayer, Dan Wheeler, Dave Kingman, David Cone, David Lamb, Dennis Springer, Dick Stuart, Don Aase, Elmer Dessense, February Finds, George Foster, Hisanori Takahashi, James Baldwin, Jason Isringhausen, Jason Pridie, Jay Bell, Johan Santana, Jose Lima, Livan Hernandez, Luis Alvarado, Luis Hernandez, Mark Johnson, Marlon Byrd, Michael Bourn, Mike Glavine, Mike Jacobs, Nelson Figueroa, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ricardo Rincon, Rich Rodriguez, Ricky Bottalico, Rod Barajas, Ron Taylor, Scott Erickson, Team History, Todd Zeile “It feels good for me, but it would have felt even better if we had won that ballgame.” “We lost, so I can’t get too excited. If we would’ve won, it would’ve been more exciting.” “I just wanted to play hard, but it didn’t matter because we lost.” “It was great while it was happening. but when they […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Biggest Donkeys, David Wright, Desi Relaford, Doug Flynn, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frank Thomas, Gregg Jefferies, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Lastings Milledge, Luis Hernandez, Mackey Sasser, Marlon Anderson, Mike Jacobs, Mo Vaughn, Moises Alou, Rusty Staub, Scott Hairston, Steve Bieser, Team History, Todd Hundley Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 124th game in any Mets season, the “best” 125th game in any Mets season, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2006 Mets, Carlos Beltran, Fiftieth Anniversary, Mike Hampton, Mike Jacobs, Team History, The Happiest Recap I believe there’s a reason above all others that Ed Kranepool resonates like no one else in the Met mythology: He was here from the first year through the eighteenth year of the franchise uninterrupted. Ed Kranepool’s entire Mets career (his entire major league career, for that matter) can be expressed via a simple en-dash. Ed […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolome Fortunato, Bill Pulsipher, Bob L. Miller, Bobby Bonilla, Cleon Jones, Comma Mets, Daniel Murphy, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Hubie Brooks, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Gosger, John Franco, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Jacobs, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Feliciano, Punctuation, Recidivst Mets, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tim Foli, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw Jonathon Niese endured. Ike Davis awoke. David Wright served the main course to one lucky Acela Club patron. The Florida Marlins learned that no one — and I mean no one — comes into our house and pushes us around (hubris not applicable on final days of seasons). And while all this was going on, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, Acela Club, Bad Luck, Bernie Williams, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Chase Utley, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Duke Snider, Gary Sheffield, Gil Hodges, Home Runs, Ike Davis, Injuries, Jimmy Sheckard, John Milner, John Stearns, Jon Niese, Kelvim Escobar, Mark Teixeira, Mel Ott, Mickey Mantle, Mike Jacobs, New Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Renovated Yankee Stadium, Rod Barajas, Rudy, Shea Stadium, Steve Henderson, Steve Zabriskie, Team History, Tim Jordan, Washington Park, Yankee Stadium Violinist Issac Stern played great music. Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote great fiction. First baseman Issac Benjamin Davis made a helluva catch on a foul popup in the first inning of Wednesday’s otherwise desultory Met loss. All these Isaacs were blessed with a talent for doing something most people can’t. Stern was awarded the Presidential Medal […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Carlos Baerga, Dave Roberts, David Cone, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, George Foster, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Stern, Jim Fregosi, Joe Ginsberg, Manny Acosta, Metropolitan-American, Mike Jacobs, Norm Sherry, Scott Schoeneweis, Seaverite, Shawn Green, Tobi Stoner, Woody Allen It’s great to be young and a Met, Ike Davis could tell you after his most successful major league debut Monday night. The 23-year-old first baseman was the toast of Citi Field from the moment he showed up wearing No. 42. If ever anybody stood out in a mononumeric crowd, it was this kid who […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Cautionary Tales, Chris Jones, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Great Starts, Hope, Ike Davis, Mark Clark, Mike Jacobs Pirates manager Jim Leyland took issue with the team’s We Play Hardball promo. “We can’t say we play hardball, I’m tired of that bleep,” he said. Adam Wainwright gave the Cardinals everything they could have asked for Sunday night: a 107-pitch complete game victory. John Maine gave the Mets everything […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Brent Gaff, Brian Costa, Charlie Daniels, Daveotronic 5000, Felipe Lopez, Frank Catalanotto, Hype, Iron Man McGinnity, Jerry Manuel, Joe Mather, John Maine, Jon Heyman, Luis Castillo, Major League, Marketing, Michael Kinsley, Mike Birkbeck, Mike Jacobs, Office Space, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, Raul Valdes, Rick Aguilera, Tobi Stoner |
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