Welcome to the fourth 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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bruce Chen, Damion Easley, Darren Oliver, Gary Sheffield, Jason Phillips, Kaz Matsui, Lastings Milledge, Mets of the 2000s, Pat Mahomes, Ramon Castro, Vance Wilson Congratulations to the five Faith and Fear in Flushing readers who each won a copy of Baseball’s Greatest Games: 1986 World Series Game 6 from A&E Home Entertainment in association with MLB Productions. These five industrious fellows answered a quiz issued last Tuesday to coincide with the 25th anniversary of what was then indisputably the greatest World […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2011 Postseason, Alejandro Pena, Bob Johnson, Bob L. Miller, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Oliver, David Cone, Jack Lamabe, Jeff Reardon, Juan Berenguer, Kenny Rogers, Kevin Tapani, Mike Remlinger, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Martinez, Rick Aguilera, Roger Craig, Team History, Tony Castillo, Tug McGraw In the same way the sight of “10.27” made me smile yesterday, the thought of “Game Seven” has got me grinning today. Yet this has nothing to do with 1986. This is all about 2011 and the World Series that is doing us the courtesy of sticking around one more night. Which still might not be […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Cardinals, Darren Oliver, David Freese, Lance Berkman, Rangers, Tony La Russa [NOTE: WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.] The story in Central Texas is Mike Napoli coming through loud and clear. The story in St. Louis is Tony La Russa hearing static on the line while his players left everything else on base. But here in Metsopotamia, where we take every opportunity we can […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2011 Postseason, Bill Buckner, Darren Oliver, Mike Napoli, Mookie Wilson, Octavio Dotel, Team History, Tony La Russa Rod Barajas is getting the treatment a Wise Veteran Catcher usually gets in Spring Training when he’s new on the team. He’s leading by example and changing the tone and offering guidance, which is exactly what we want to read this time of year after having just experience that type of year last year. He’s […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Sele, Bill Hepler, Bill Short, Bill Wakefield, Billy Murphy, Billy Short, Bob Aspromonte, Brent Mayne, Chad Bradford, Darren Oliver, Desi Relaford, Don Aase, Doug Simons, Duke Snider, Eddie Bressoud, Felix Mantilla, Fernando Vina, Gene Clines, George Altman, Jay Bell, Jeremy Reed, Jerry Morales, Joe Foy, John Sullivan, John Valentin, Kevin Appier, Luis Rivera, Mark Bomback, Mark Guthrie, Mickey Lolich, Mike Cubbage, Mike Hampton, Norm Sherry, One-Year Wonders, Orel Hershiser, Randy Tate, Richie Ashburn, Richie Hebner, Rick Cerone, Rod Barajas, Team History, Tom Grieve, Tommie Reynolds, Tommy Davis, Tony Clark The Carloses are a beautiful thing, aren’t they? ¡Nosotros Carlamos! We are them and they are us and we are all together…goo goo g’joob. Yet they’re not Ollie and Ollie, saviors in arms. Yeah, that’s who it figured to hinge on. All the series previews in print and on air had it exactly as it’s happened: Darren […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Darren Oliver, Oliver Perez |
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