Welcome to the second 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…and the decade future former […]
 
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 |  Brian Stokes, Carlos Gomez, Esix Snead, Fernando Tatis, Kris Benson, Luis Ayala, Mark Guthrie, Mets of the 2000s, Mo Vaughn, Nick Evans, Omir Santos I’m kind of sorry I ever heard the admonition to not trust what I see in September since I’d like to believe what I watched and listened to Saturday was a true indication of where the Mets (and the Phillies) are headed. Yet I understand that they were just two games getting played because contractually […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Jason Pridie, Nick Evans, Willie Harris By about the fifth inning or so it was clear that the only way to capture this Bataan Death March of a game was chronologically, as fear ebbed and flowed and was overtaken by exhaustion. If you have trouble fixing just when something happened or recalling what sparked some outburst from me, rest assured that […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bobby Valentine, Extra Innings, Gary Cohen, Greg Dobbs, Hatred, Jack McKeon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Nick Evans, Ronny Paulino, Soilmaster Stadium I think that I won’t raise a peep, A sweep half-won on R.A.’s wits; A sweep, thanks to Gee, in Game Two, A sweep enhanced by healed Jose, Upon Evans, this squad depends; Posts are blogged […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Joyce Kilmer, Nick Evans, R.A. Dickey, Sweeps The mysteries of baseball are part of its wonder, and nothing is more of a mystery than pitching. A pitcher can completely fall apart without warning, missing targets and walking guys until he’s trapped trudging around behind the mound, pain etched on his face. His mechanics are gone, the baseball feels like a foreign object […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Len Barker, Nick Evans, No-Hitters, PItching Greg Gibson is bad. That’s all there is to it. Clayton Kershaw is spectacular. That, too, is all there is to it. If the Dodgers wanted to beat the Mets every game ever, they’d start Hong Chih-Kuo each time and never take him out. The Mets can’t afford to play shoddy defense. Nobody can, obviously, but there’s a […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Dillon Gee, Dodgers, Nick Evans, Umpiring, West Coast Trips If I’d told you back in March that September 28’s game would come down to whether somebody named John Axford could survive ninth-inning confrontations with Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Josh Thole and Ruben Tejada, you probably would have deduced that September 28’s game wouldn’t mean very much. And you would have been right, for this […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Corey Hart, Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Ruben Tejada Let’s not mistake this for a triumph. A triumph is clinching your division. The Phillies will know triumph very soon. But they don’t know it yet. You can only win what’s in front of you on a given day. The Mets won a ballgame they didn’t want to lose, one I’m pretty sure none of us wanted […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Division Clinching, 2006 Division Clinching, Carlos Beltran, Clinchings Delayed, Nick Evans, Phillies, Relief Pitching My gosh, that was a lot of fun at Citi Field on Tuesday night! R.A. Dickey with another complete game, Ruben Tejada skilled at bat and in the field, Nick Evans maintaining his momentum, Angel Pagan making like it was the first half of the season and Carlos Beltran making like it was the first […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Carlos Beltran, Citi Field, Depressing, Empty, Fun, Nick Evans, Pirates, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada For any Mets fan who survived 2009 by telling yourself it couldn’t get any worse, this one’s for you. It’s 2010, and, technically, it didn’t get any worse. The 2009 Mets limped to the finish line with 70 wins — and required a three-game sweep of the Astros the final weekend to accumulate that many. The […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, Attendance, Dillon Gee, Gouging, Hisanori Takahashi, Lucas Duda, Luis Hernandez, Marketing, Nick Evans, Pricing, Ruben Tejada, Tickets |
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