Welcome to the third 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 |  Chris Capuano, Collin Cowgill, Edwin Diaz, Frank Francisco, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Marcus Stroman, Mets of the 2010s, Robinson Cano, Tim Byrdak, Tyler Clippard Someday Spring Training will end, and when it does…what’s that? It’s over? More or less? Didn’t see that coming. Hallelujah, the Mets are done with grapefruits and slot machines at last, saving a couple of days here near March’s conclusion for un petit peu de poutine up Montreal way. Nice to pretend the Expos exist again for […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Aaron Sele, Anthony Seratelli, Brian Lawrence, Dan Wheeler, Dave Williams, Debuts, Farewells, Guillermo Mota, Jason Bay, Jeff Conine, Livan Hernandez, Omar Quintanilla, Orlando Hernandez, Rick Ankiel, Rod Barajas, Sandy Alomar, Scott Rice, Shawn Green, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Valentino Pascucci, Willie Collazo Final Score: Braves 13 Mets 5. Monday’s Belabored Day matinee was played on the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Comebacks, Craig Swan, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Derek Wallace, Doc Medich, John Stearns, Tim Byrdak, Vic Black For a minute, let’s turn off the car in the closed garage, unknot the noose and descend the ladder, and drop the plugged-in hair dryer on the floor beside the tub instead of between our knees in the water. We’re going to try to gain some distance, and assess a certain recently concluded debacle from […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Bullpen, Debacles, Jason Bay, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, Scott Hairston, Tim Byrdak There’s an old joke about an inveterate optimist and a pile of horse manure, the punch line of which is, “There’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere.” And indeed, you’d think that after the last 18 innings of steaming, redolent folderol in Atlanta, the least the Mets would be able to pull out of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, C.B. Bucknor, Dale Scott, Fox, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, R.A. Dickey, Tim Byrdak, Turner Field When the Mets receive a really good start, as they did on Tuesday night, or plate a whole lot of runs, as they did on Tuesday night — or if they do both (Tuesday night again) — then they’re pretty damn unbeatable. I guess you could say that for any club in receipt of those […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2012 Mets, Chris Young, Cliff Lee, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fan Instinct, Miguel Batista, Relief Pitching, Tim Byrdak To dig up a phrase a very mellow college buddy of mine liked to roll out six or seven times per conversation, Frank Francisco is a trip. I don’t think I’ve thought that about any of our modern-era closers. All my thoughts on our modern-era closers were laced with expletives rarely deleted. Not that I don’t […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chickens, Daveotronic 5000, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Subway Series, Tim Byrdak The Mets all but screwed up a game started by Mike Pelfrey and it had absolutely nothing to do with Mike Pelfrey. Now that’s what I call progress. Other events covering the bottom of the eighth through the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday afternoon…now that’s what I’d call retrogression. It was going to be such a simple […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, Aubrey Huff, Billy Wagner, Brandon Belt, Bruce Bochy, Buster Posey, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dumbass Wins, Frank Francisco, Gary Cohen, Idiotic Managing, Iron Triangle, Jon Rauch, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Luis Castillo, Mental Backpack, Mike Pelfrey, Philip Humber, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, Tim Byrdak, Tim Teufel It’s not as rare as Jason Bay homering in a Mets uniform, but we saw something else we don’t see very often as the Mets beat the Braves in Atlanta Monday night. And we saw it at the exact moment the Mets beat the Braves. With two away in the bottom of the ninth, Tim Byrdak […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Myrick, Chan Ho Park, Dennis Cook, Dick Rusteck, Doug Sisk, Eric Cammack, Jason Middlebrook, Jay Hook, John Hudek, Jon Matlack, Last K's, Mark Bomback, Mark Clark, Mike Bacsik, Mike Birkbeck, Pete Schourek, Rick Trlicek, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Tim Hamulack Somewhere around the poorly named 46th St-Bliss I got a little carried away: On Opening Day even the 7 local seems awesome. That wasn’t true. The 7 local is never awesome, particularly not when the MTA has decided that Opening Day at Citi Field is a fine time to do track work. But I swear it felt […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Johan Santana, Mets Opening Day, Tim Byrdak, Tyler Pastornicky |
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