Welcome to the third 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 |  Angel Pagan, Bubba Trammell, Dae-Sung Koo, Jae Seo, Jeff Francoeur, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Jacobs, Richard Hidalgo, Ryan Church, Shawn Green, Victor Diaz The Mets are 4-0 in the last four; were 0-5 in their previous five; and were 3-0 in the three before that. I’d say they’re streaky, but that doesn’t seem to cover a team that expertly wavers between exhilarating and exasperating. Are the Mets good enough to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 2007 Mets, Carlos Gomez, Dominic Smith, George Foster, Long Island, Paper Lace, Parkways, Recidivist Mets, Robert Caro, Shawn Green, Steven Matz, Sweeps, Wilson Ramos I haven’t had many complaints with Mickey Callaway of late, but I do not believe he properly prepared his team on Wednesday night in Philadelphia coming off of the Yom Kippur fast, for they played as if lightheaded and starved for offense. Perhaps Rabbi Callaway or Cantor […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Amed Rosario, Champale, Final Records, Losing Seasons, M*A*S*H, Mathematically Eliminated, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Shawn Green, Statistical Obsessions, Team History, Tim Peterson, Yom Kippur What constitutes a trend? For our purposes, let’s say it’s when two people you know relay to you, independent of one another, the same piece of information accompanied by a similar slice of curiosity. In her upcoming memoir, Not That Kind Of Girl, the reliably trendy Lena Dunham says her gynecologist used to pitch for the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Dave Roberts, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Joe Ginsberg, Josh Satin, Lena Dunham, Mets Pop Culture, Norm Sherry, Randy Jones, Randy Milligan, Randy Myers, Randy Niemann, Randy Sterling, Randy Tate, Scott Schoeneweis, Shawn Green, Tug McGraw, Wally Backman Someday Spring Training will end, and when it does…what’s that? It’s over? More or less? Didn’t see that coming. Hallelujah, the Mets are done with grapefruits and slot machines at last, saving a couple of days here near March’s conclusion for un petit peu de poutine up Montreal way. Nice to pretend the Expos exist again for […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Aaron Sele, Anthony Seratelli, Brian Lawrence, Dan Wheeler, Dave Williams, Debuts, Farewells, Guillermo Mota, Jason Bay, Jeff Conine, Livan Hernandez, Omar Quintanilla, Orlando Hernandez, Rick Ankiel, Rod Barajas, Sandy Alomar, Scott Rice, Shawn Green, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Valentino Pascucci, Willie Collazo Violinist Issac Stern played great music. Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote great fiction. First baseman Issac Benjamin Davis made a helluva catch on a foul popup in the first inning of Wednesday’s otherwise desultory Met loss. All these Isaacs were blessed with a talent for doing something most people can’t. Stern was awarded the Presidential Medal […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Carlos Baerga, Dave Roberts, David Cone, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, George Foster, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Stern, Jim Fregosi, Joe Ginsberg, Manny Acosta, Metropolitan-American, Mike Jacobs, Norm Sherry, Scott Schoeneweis, Seaverite, Shawn Green, Tobi Stoner, Woody Allen Back in 2007, the Mets brought up a young man named Carlos Gomez. Gomez could burn — he and Jose Reyes used to race each other out to their positions, which I thought was adorable. He was just 21, but pretty big — the kind of guy you see as a doubles and triples hitter […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Hope, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Prospects, Shawn Green Who thought there could be three variations on essentially the same name and it would be the Jets who got the best of the lot? Since when do the Jets get the best of anything? On the other hand, is it terribly surprising the Mets got the Shawn — not to mention the Sean — end […] Now that Shawn Green has let it be known he won’t be playing baseball for a living any longer, I can let it be known I rooted just a little extra harder for Shawn Green. Not to the point that it clouded my judgment on his decreased offensive output, his limited mobility, his disappearance from the runs […] Game Eleven went to the Mets, just as did Games Eight, Nine and Ten. Where 2006 is concerned, those are four wins that do us a fat lot of good. But where 2007 matters, the sweep of the Cardinals to start the season certainly pushed us toward a better future and last night’s Shawnoff shot […] |
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