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 The more you watch baseball and the more you mature as a person, the less you are inclined to blithely dismiss the people who play the game in a glib, pejorative fashion. For example, it would have been shallow and unfair of me to have thought, in 2011, “My god, Chris Capuano and Chris Young […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Perceptions, West Coast Trips Of course Chris Capuano pitched a great game Friday night. Mets starters always pitch great games when hurricanes are bearing down on New York. Mind you, my sample size is now three, which is a good thing since although we all want more well-pitched Mets games, none of us wants any hurricanes. Seems to me you […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1976 Mets, 1985 Mets, Chris Capuano, Dwight Gooden, Hurricanes, Mickey Lolich, Pop-Tarts 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 Things looked promising Saturday night right from the get-go in the top of the first when Carlos Beltran doubled for the 1,854th hit of his illustrious career and Daniel Murphy doubled right behind him for the 268th hit of his illustrious career to give the Mets an early 1-0 lead. But then Tim Lincecum settled […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Career Hit Totals, Chris Capuano, Illustrious Careers, Mechanical Bull, Tim Lincecum No Braves. No balk. No lead blown. No comeback dashed. No sense of drama, really, until the ninth, and then no drama. Nothing like Thursday night’s manic Holy Hellfest, so named per what I just kept muttering to myself over and over and over as I pieced together what happened to K-Rod by intermittent earbud […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Chris Capuano, Heck, Jordan Walden, Torpor In one of those misbegotten seasons when Daniel Murphy doesn’t leave too soon on Jason Bay’s sacrifice fly but Angel Pagan forgets to brush a foot over second, Pagan is out at first before Murphy gets home — and Murphy likely leaves too soon anyway. But the whole thing is moot because Bay strikes out […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Chris Capuano, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Jason Bay, Reluctance, Willie Harris Over the years I’ve had the honor — and the anxiety — of introducing a few people to their first baseball game. While I’m sincere in my belief that baseball is the highest art form yet to spring from the human mind, not all baseball games are created equal. For someone’s first three hours of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Carlos Gomez, Chris Capuano, Jose Reyes Bad to have lost. Better had it been won. Good that it was played. That was Friday night, Mets vs. Phillies, undesirable outcome disallowed from overshadowing several elements that pleased me greatly as I sat and watched from my living room couch. • Justin Turner returned to all-world status, 4-for-5 at bat, all-encompassing in the field, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, Michael Stutes, Ruben Tejada, Rudy The lineup for today’s game has been posted in Houston. Chris Capuano will bat ninth. We are assuming that he’ll be OK with it, that he won’t need a day, that he doesn’t have to clear his head and that he won’t be the least bit insulted. Capuano, incidentally, is batting .182 — or seventeen points […] |
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