Welcome to the third 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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Capuano, Collin Cowgill, Edwin Diaz, Frank Francisco, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Marcus Stroman, Mets of the 2010s, Robinson Cano, Tim Byrdak, Tyler Clippard There ain’t much left to play for: A .500 season vanished from the realm of possibility with the afternoon’s listless defeat, and draft picks are too much of a crapshoot for me to take seriously. But as is often the case, I think I’m moved on to acceptance. It was … kinda fun watching the Mets […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Keith Hernandez, Shaun Marcum Surprise! Aaron Harang was … not that bad. He wasn’t great, but he pitched capably enough — a team with an iota of offense might have had a chance out there, which unfortunately doesn’t describe the current Mets. A couple of weeks ago, our young players might have frowned at hearing that baseball conventional wisdom is […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Frank Francisco, Jayson Werth, Ron Darling, WFAN Joaquin Andujar, a quotable pitcher from a bygone era, famously remarked that his favorite word in English was “you never know.” Which is a good way to break down Sunday’s Mets-Indians finale: * Daisuke Matsuzaka was good. No really, he was. Though as Scott Kazmir showed, that’s what happens when you’re facing a club that let […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Frank Francisco, Joaquin Andujar, Justin Turner Strange world we live in when the Mets game on what we used to call “free TV” isn’t readily available via the service millions pay for because…well, ya got me. Two corporations are in the middle of a pissing match and it’s the loyal customers who get spritzed. So what else is new? When I […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corporate Nonsense, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Mike Baxter, Radio To dig up a phrase a very mellow college buddy of mine liked to roll out six or seven times per conversation, Frank Francisco is a trip. I don’t think I’ve thought that about any of our modern-era closers. All my thoughts on our modern-era closers were laced with expletives rarely deleted. Not that I don’t […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chickens, Daveotronic 5000, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Subway Series, Tim Byrdak “Losing to the Yankees is no different than losing to Colorado. What stings is losing to the Marlins. They’re in our division.” “I can’t wait to strike out those chickens. I want to strike out the side against them. I’ve done it before.” “What […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Quotes, Subway Series If the Mets need a new midseason slogan, how about this one: THE MOST EXCITING .500 TEAM ON EARTH! Splattered by the Yankees in three straight at Leni Riefenstahl Stadium, the Mets then rose up in indignation and savaged the Rays on the road, sweeping a three-game set. They then strutted home from that encounter […] Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight runners the Mets had gotten into scoring position but neglected to score were lining up for a big, juicy bite of cosmic retribution. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Canada, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Eric Thames, Frank Francisco, Mike Baxter, The Shawshank Redemption Seven scoreless from Jamie Moyer’s spiritual younger brother from another mother Miguel Batista…spectacular. Daniel Murphy skipping a ball between Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s strides and through the shortstop hole Gary Cohen had detected a moment earlier…delicious. Terry Collins ordering a squeeze bunt and Ronny Cedeño executing it to two-nothing perfection…wunderbar! David Wright…superlatives implied. So many marvelous morsels to chew on for […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closers, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Miguel Batista |
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