Welcome to the first chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here, but the concept is pretty self-evident. 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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Young, Collin McHugh, David Aardsma, Juan Centeno, Kevin Plawecki, Luis Hernandez, Mets of the 2010s, Paul Sewald, Pedro Beato, Ronny Paulino, Vic Black Jed Lowrie was sitting next to Brodie Van Wagenen on Wednesday answering a reporter’s question about being reunited with Chili Davis, which is a scene that would have been a rather random one to describe as recently as the middle of October — a perfectly viable page […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Wahl, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chili Davis, Coaches, Free Agents, Gregor Blanco, Hector Santiago, J.D. Davis, Jed Lowrie, Keon Broxton, Kevin Plawecki, Luis Avilan, Mad Libs, Rajai Davis, Trades, Walker Lockett Jason Vargas headed into winter in style Thursday night, allowing three hits and no runs over seven innings as the Mets beat the Braves. In fact, Mets starting pitchers allowed the Braves exactly zero runs in the two teams’ final series of the year. Asterisk time! Vargas may have shaved nearly three runs off his ERA […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Devin Mesoraco, Fans, Hope, Jason Vargas, Kevin Plawecki The Mets’ second-half surge to the periphery of mediocrity ran into a roadblock Monday night: a team decidedly better than them. Not that the Mets can’t lose within their peer group or take random advantage of a contender bogged down in doldrums, but for the most part […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Cubs, Daniel Murphy, Good Teams Beating Bad Teams, Jon Lester, Jose Bautista, Kevin Plawecki, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Neil Simon, Noah Syndergaard, Suckbomb What if the secret of making the Mets better is being mean to them? No, not by forcing them to play a new position, letting them rot on the bench, warming them up too often and not putting them in a game, not putting them in a game for weeks, letting injuries linger without DL stints, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Kevin Plawecki, Nationals, Nicknames, The Jason Vargas Index Whoever decided to release Jason Vargas and replace him with this new dynamic starting pitcher VARGY deserves the full-time GM job. VARGY was NOT AT ALL VARGAS as he tamed the Phillies for five innings and lasted well into the sixth on Sunday night, providing all the pitching required […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Ike Davis, Jahn's, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Plawecki, Little League Classic, Michael Conforto, Reluctant Youth Movements, Vargy, Williamsport My itinerary to take in Friday night’s Mets-Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park was not configured by an app that promises to suggest only the longest journeys possible, but it could have been. One of the things I like about Citizens Bank is it’s close enough to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Daniel Zamora, Greg Luzinski, Journeys, Kevin Guilfoile, Kevin Plawecki, Milestones, Most Mets in One Season, Noah Syndergaard, Old Friends, Phillies, Richie Ashburn, Roberto Clemente, Team History, Trains Why win by one when you can win by eleven? The Mets can win by eleven? The answer to the latter is yes, apparently. The answer to the former is never win by one when you can win by eleven. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Deep-Dive Mets Fandom, Jack Reinheimer, Jose Reyes, Kevin Plawecki, Lou Thornton, Mets Third Basemen, Most Mets in One Season, Orioles, Romps, Routs, Team History, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler When they’re tired of a player, fans have been known to opine that they’ll drive him to the airport themselves. I’ve certainly said it a few times. Heck, I’ll give Jose Reyes a piggyback ride to LaGuardia if that will end the current farce. But what we don’t hear often enough is the opposite sentiment […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gregory Polanco, Joe Musgrove, Kevin Plawecki, Trades, Zack Wheeler The Mets lost on Saturday afternoon. The Mets will lose any afternoon, any evening, any day of the week. It’s what they do more often than not. Very recently it was only what they did as often as not. In their previous four games, the Mets had […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bobbleheads, Kevin Plawecki, Losing, Rays, Steven Matz |
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