Welcome to the first 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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anderson Hernandez, Cory Sullivan, David Cone, Eric Valent, Fernando Nieve, Luis Castillo, Mets of the 2000s, Nelson Figueroa, Roberto Alomar, Robinson Cancel, Shawn Estes Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the founding of Faith and Fear in Flushing, which puts our start date at February 16, 2005, which isn’t exactly news. It was news to Jason and me sixteen years ago today, but the outer world of Mets fans who liked to read wouldn’t instantaneously discover us. That took […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Internal Affairs, Mets of the 2000s When Joey Lucchesi, acquired from the Padres on January 19, Inauguration Eve, makes his first appearance as a Met, he will become the first Met to go by Joey. That’s a legitimate choice. Just ask Joey Votto, Joey Bishop or David Geddes, who took “Run Joey Run” to No. 4 in 1975. Just ask Joe […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Joe Biden, Joe Christopher, Joe Crawford, Joe DePastino, Joe Foy, Joe Ginsberg, Joe Grzenda, Joe Hicks, Joe Hietpas, Joe McEwing, Joe Moock, Joe Nolan, Joe Orsulak, Joe Panik, Joe Pignatano, Joe Sambito, Joe Smith, Joe Torre, Joe Vitko, Joey Lucchesi, Names, Presidents, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files Recently, as in a day or two before a revised Spring Training schedule embedded with a pod of Marlins, Nationals, Cardinals and Astros was issued and my mood instinctively if temporarily brightened, I was feeling pretty nihilistic about the whole Mets baseball thing. “Can you imagine them trading…?” I asked myself about pretty much every […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Brach, Injuries, Metallica, Nihilism, Relief Pitching, Seth Lugo, Spring Training Boys, gather round. I’ve got something important to say. For those of you who haven’t met me yet, I’m here to show you how to win. Don’t feel bad that you’ve got to hear it from me. Nobody you know was going to tell you. They’re too polite. You haven’t won because of your surroundings. You […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Attitude Adjustment, Droughts, New York Championships The Mets have been turned down by the National League Cy Young Award winner. To invert the 5th Dimension, I should be unhappy, but all I do is shrug. True, I was as much on tenterhooks over the marquee free agent pitching decision of the offseason as any Mets fan, even once I realized I didn’t […] So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books It wasn’t that long ago, yet it was long enough ago that it was a face-to-face conversation (remember those?). The topic was Met managers of very recent past and very near future. Mickey Callaway was ex-manager of the Mets by then. The person I was talking to was somebody whose observations I appreciated as earned […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disgusting Behavior, Harassment, Mickey Callaway, Sandy Alderson |
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