Welcome to the seventh 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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Addison Reed, Amed Rosario, Bobby Parnell, J.D. Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Blevins, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Mets of the 2010s, Mike Pelfrey, Wilson Ramos In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] And so it ends. The Mets will not play October baseball. The last invitation to the dance belongs to the Milwaukee Brewers, who thoroughly deserved it — they lost an MVP candidate and somehow found a higher gear, steamrolling all competition in a magical September. Congratulations to them, and solace to our fellow eliminatees, the Chicago […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brewers, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mathematically Eliminated, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Tyler Heineman, Wild Card It’s the faces I’ll remember. Steven Matz, hunkered down on the mound with his knees bent as Jorge Alfaro jogged around the bases, having authored a grand slam and a 6-0 Marlins lead. Matz’s face was a mask of horror and self-loathing, and for a moment I wondered if he’d be able to get back up. Pete […] While watching Tuesday night’s game against the Rockies, I thought of a good idea and immediately decided I wanted nothing to do with it for a while. The idea came from the shame bell in Game of Thrones, which you may know as an Internet meme even if you’re not familiar with the show. I was […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence When is taking an 11-1 lead to the ninth inning not a laugher? The answer isn’t “when you give the ball to Chris Mazza and wind up wondering if he can get three outs before the other guys score 10,” though Friday night’s game felt that way for a fidgety spell. No, the answer is when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Billy Crystal, Braves, Greg Maddux, Hope, John Olerud, Justin Wilson, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Wild Card, Zack Wheeler It’s too late for massive regret where Saturday night’s sloppiness is concerned. It’s Sunday morning, and another game is directly in front of us. It’s too early for despair where 2019 is concerned. Thirty-three games remain, and despite an ugly 9-5 loss facilitated by the Braves playing admirable heads-up baseball and the Mets playing abysmal […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Billy Hamilton, Brad Brach, Carlos Beltran, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Cervelli, Heads Up Their Asses, Heads-Up Baseball, Home Runs, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Juan Lagares, Pete Alonso, Team History, Todd Hundley, Zack Wheeler When the 2019 Mets look up “quit” in the dictionary, you know whose picture they see? It’s a trick question, because not only don’t they know the meaning of the word “quit,” it’s never occurred to them to investigate further. They’d been telling us for months that this is how they operate. “This team doesn’t quit.” […] The Mets took two out of three from the Royals. Their unlikely wild-card march has them two games behind the Cubs for possession of the second N.L. spot — but they’ve drawn even with fellow contenders Philadelphia and Milwaukee. That’s the upshot of a long weekend of baseball. Of course, that’s the straightforward solution to a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Hope, J.D. Davis, Pennant Race, Perspective, Pete Alonso, Royals |
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