Welcome to the eighth 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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angel Pagan, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Beltran, Ike Davis, Mets of the 2010s, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler It’s the faces I’ll remember. Steven Matz, hunkered down on the mound with his knees bent as Jorge Alfaro jogged around the bases, having authored a grand slam and a 6-0 Marlins lead. Matz’s face was a mask of horror and self-loathing, and for a moment I wondered if he’d be able to get back up. Pete […] The ample lady of renown may not be singing quite yet, but I heard another singer last night. Not exactly a matinee idol, this one — he had a puffy face, jet-black hair, and big black-rimmed Coke-bottle glasses. But his voice was a rich burr that rose to an unearthly falsetto. It’s over, it’s over, it’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Senzatela, Brandon Nimmo, Coors Field, J.D. Davis, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Steven Matz, Trevor Story Ready to kick that football, Mets fans? I’m not talking about the unasked-for arrival of a certain inferior sport before its time. Rather, I’m talking about Lucy Van Pelt and her ongoing invitation for Charlie Brown to kick the football she’s holding. Lucy, you probably remember, invariably yanked the football away, causing poor Charlie Brown to let […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Hope, Robbie Ray, Steven Matz, Wild Card How would you describe Friday night’s Mets game? Thrilling? Reaffirming? Anxious? Horrifying? Maybe all of the above? I spent most of the evening not knowing what to think, with good and bad arriving one after the other. For openers, I wondered when I started trusting Steven Matz. Matz hasn’t had a bad outing in more than a month, […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, J.T. Realmuto, Justin Wilson, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Steven Matz Congratulations, fellow Mets fans, we did it. We made it to September and we still have standings to pore over (don’t “pour” over them; they’ll just get wet). On Sunday morning, September 1, the 2019 Mets are four games removed from a playoff spot with four weeks to go in the regular season. It’s four […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Brycemen of the Delaware Valley, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hitting Streaks, Moises Alou, Precedent, September, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Wilson Ramos If MLB plans to sell gameworn home team apparel from this past weekend’s Mets-Braves series at Citi Field, it had better come in an urn. There should be nothing but ashes left from those ghastly ghostly getups that we never need see again. They weren’t pleasant to squint at as you tried to figure who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baserunners, Dallas Keuchel, Josh Donaldson, Mantras, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Steven Matz, Sweeps, Tailor-Made Double Plays 1) Thanks to the kindness of an old friend, Greg, Emily and I got to see batting practice from the edge of the field. Michael Conforto is David Wright-level kind, signing anything and everything, posing for pictures and being supernaturally patient even when it might not be called for. (If you’re a major-league player who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Beauty, Citi Field, Indians, J.D. Davis, Jeff Francoeur, Michael Conforto, Shane Bieber, Steven Matz If you’ve been reading us for the last two years (in which case thank you, by the way), you know that I think Mickey Callaway is a bit dim. That said, I have sympathy for him right now. A fair amount of it, in fact. He’s got a closer who can’t be relied on, a setup guy […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Bullpen, Edwin Diaz, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Josh Donaldson, Managers, Mickey Callaway, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz Well, so much for the easy part. Oh my God, Fry, couldn’t you go seven words without being a bringdown? Honestly, I didn’t mean to do that. Let me zoom out a bit and try that again. There have been a number of Mets seasons in which a cupcake part of the schedule has beckoned, suggesting a chance […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz |
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