Welcome to the second 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…and the decade future former […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brian Stokes, Carlos Gomez, Esix Snead, Fernando Tatis, Kris Benson, Luis Ayala, Mark Guthrie, Mets of the 2000s, Mo Vaughn, Nick Evans, Omir Santos Yep, this was all too typical of recent Mets games: in the seventh, the second baseman had a runner dead to rights at third, and hit the third baseman’s glove, only to see the ball bound away and skitter up the third-base line to bring the enemy go-ahead run home. It wasn’t over — they fought back […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Comebacks, Cubs, Home Runs, Jeurys Familia, Mo Vaughn, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes Marlon Byrd joined the Mets’ 20-home run club Monday. As exclusivity goes, it’s an honor that falls somewhere between the United States Senate and one of those Facebook groups that requires an invitation. It’s not that incredible that you’d get in, but making it there probably says something about your interests and perhaps your capabilities. Byrd […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bobby Bonilla, Brian McRae, Butch Huskey, Charley Smith, Cliff Floyd, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Donn Clendenon, Eddie Murray, Frank Thomas, Home Runs, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Mike Cameron, Mo Vaughn, Richard Hidalgo, Rico Brogna, Scott Hairston, Team History, Todd Zeile, Twenty & Out Club Answers already? Yup. Sharp-eyed readers Chris D’Orso of Sound Beach and Walter Harvey of Highland Mills are our winners of the 1986 World Series Game Six DVD quiz, brought to us by MLB Productions. They knew: 1) The three former Mets who became All-Stars with the Red Sox were Felix Mantilla (1965), Jeff Reardon (1991) and […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Carl Everett, Eddie Bressoud, Felix Mantilla, Jason Bay, Jeff Reardon, Jimmy Piersall, Jose Offerman, Mo Vaughn, Pedro Martinez, Red Sox “It feels good for me, but it would have felt even better if we had won that ballgame.” “We lost, so I can’t get too excited. If we would’ve won, it would’ve been more exciting.” “I just wanted to play hard, but it didn’t matter because we lost.” “It was great while it was happening. but when they […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Biggest Donkeys, David Wright, Desi Relaford, Doug Flynn, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frank Thomas, Gregg Jefferies, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Lastings Milledge, Luis Hernandez, Mackey Sasser, Marlon Anderson, Mike Jacobs, Mo Vaughn, Moises Alou, Rusty Staub, Scott Hairston, Steve Bieser, Team History, Todd Hundley It was a win, which made it much better than a loss, but for a Mets fan, it was mostly uneasy. The Mets were making their second Sunday Night Baseball appearance of 1998 on ESPN, their twentieth overall. The previous nineteen — beginning with the very first SNB telecast in 1990 and running through early […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Billy Wagner, Brian McRae, Carlos Baerga, Carlos Delgado, ESPN, Jason Bay, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Mo Vaughn, Replay, Robin Ventura, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History, Victor Zambrano, Willie Randolph Sandy Alderson’s honeymoon period as Mets GM is apparently over now that he’s decided to hand the managerial reins to Terry Collins. At least that’s what you’d conclude from the squawking on the FAN and in certain web precincts. I’m trying to figure out why, exactly. Yes, I’m aware that once upon a time Terry Collins had […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hope, Jerry Manuel, Managers, Mo Vaughn, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trust, Wally Backman Ben Sheets won’t be a Met. Didn’t think he would be, and I wasn’t thinking he should be except for a song. Instead, the dude got himself an entire $10 million opera (albeit an opera whose running time is just one year). I’m not crushed. Think of the last time the Mets counted on somebody […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Ben Sheets, Johan Santana, John Smoltz, Jon Garland, Mo Vaughn, Orel Hershiser |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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