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 Tuesday night’s game … oof. Let’s rip this Band-Aid off quickly: Jonathon Niese was terrible. Despite that, the Mets turned a 6-0 Phillies lead into a 6-4 contest. Enter Bobby Parnell, who combined with Eric O’Flaherty and Carlos Torres to allow eight runs in the inning — “a snowman,” as Keith Hernandez put it repeatedly. And that […] 81 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Torres, Eric O'Flaherty, Fans, Jonathon Niese, Pennant Race, Terry Collins Hard to fathom that baseball grapples with a pace-of-game problem when a season that you could swear just started is almost three-quarters over. It goes quickly, doesn’t it? There are 44 games remaining in this one, not counting anything that gets added on for good behavior. You know it was a veritable five minutes ago that […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | August, Bobby Parnell, Long Season, Matt Harvey After I got home and watched the replay, Michael Conforto’s one-on, two-out, ninth-inning drive to left-center proved ordinary. It was a deep fly ball but quite catchable, and sure enough Andrew McCutchen caught it to send Friday’s Mets-Pirates game to the tenth inning, knotted at one. From Row 21 of Section 109, however, it looked perfect. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Arnold Hano, Bartolo Colon, Batting Practice, Bobby Parnell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Frustration, J.A. Happ, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Leo Durocher, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Skid Rowe, Sparky Anderson, Terry Collins, Tim McCarver, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes For the first time in seven years, I’m finding myself more than moderately bothered by the result of a Mets game lost on this late a date on the calendar…an indicator of progress for the franchise, if not for myself. We must be stepping up in class. Get to July 22 of previous seasons — or […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Disappointment, Jordan Zimmermann, Noah Syndergaard, Pennant Race, Richard Nixon, Terry Collins I wish the Mets weren’t already out of the pennant race. I wish the Mets weren’t always getting their brains beaten in by the Washington Nationals. I wish the Mets weren’t always falling apart after the All-Star break. 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Eric Campbell, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Nationals, Pennant Race, Perspective, Wish Fulfillment Perhaps you’ve heard the story of John Daly, host of CBS’s What’s My Line?, introducing his broadcast of Sunday night, May 31, 1964, with the honest admission that he’d been backstage watching the most “marvelous” — or in one retelling “fantastic” — baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants just before […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Martinez, Carlos Torres, Carlos Villanueva, Curtis Granderson, Dorothy Kilgallen, Eric Campbell, Extra Innings, Jeurys Familia, John Daly, Jon Niese, Kevin Pawlecki, Kolten Wong, Kurt Warner, Lucas Duda, Marathons, Satchel Paige, Sean Gilmartin, Tim Cooney, Yadier Molina And then I fell in love Then one day And when I didn’t 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Champions, Dillon Gee, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Peggy Lee, Rico Brogna, Stephen Stills, Tom Seaver This was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been dreading, the game we knew in our bones was coming. This was the game that you couldn’t hide inside the supposedly reassuring (and likely temporary) confines of first place. This was the game that came tumbling forcefully out of the closet of Metropolitan […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bobby Parnell, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Torres, Danny Muno, Darrell Ceciliani, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Overmatched, Shelby Miller Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we notice how Met turnover subtly became Met stability. There was an article in the Washington Post the other day that fascinated me. It informed […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Team History |
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