Welcome to the sixth 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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Francisco Rodriguez, Frankie Rodriguez, Josh Thole, Juan Uribe, Kelly Johnson, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mets of the 2010s, Mike Baxter, Pedro Feliciano, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier The Tigers lost a tough one on Sunday. Anibal Sanchez’s eight sterling innings went to waste, Francisco Rodriguez couldn’t maintain a ninth-inning tie, J.D. Martinez couldn’t unwrap a gift run in the eighth and the failure to cash in opportunity after opportunity was galling: three double plays in the first four innings and ten men […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anibal Sanchez, Frankie Rodriguez, J.D. Martinez, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Not Losing The Mets, losers of seven consecutive ballgames, will win again. They may win their next scheduled date this very afternoon against the Brewers. Jacob deGrom is still one of the finest pitchers around and the Brewers are still — despite taking the first two games of this series — a last-place team with the worst […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frankie Rodriguez, Jimmy Nelson, Losing Streak It’s not so much that if you watch enough baseball, you see something new every day. It’s that if you watch enough baseball, you see something you’ve seen some other day, thus allowing you to perhaps sense what’s coming directly at you. On the surface, the Mets’ come-from-moribund victory over the Brewers Friday night came out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mariano Rivera, Sixth Sense, Yovani Gallardo, Zack Wheeler Jordany, we hardly knew ye. Actually, we knew ye surprisingly well for someone who played relatively little — though I guess for all the exhibitionist Instagrams and clubhouse clucking, we didn’t know everything relevant there was to know. Now we know for certain we won’t be seeing you in September at Citi Field…though we could’ve […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, Frankie Rodriguez, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Marlon Byrd, PEDs, Suspension Stephanie and I spent Saturday with the Mets and with the Stems. The Mets are the Mets. The Stems are the opposite of the Mets, and they were embodied not by the victorious visiting Milwaukee Brewers but by two people who are the opposite of fans of the Mets. Let’s call them Mr. and Mrs. Stem. That […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acela Club, Angel Pagan, Brewers, Family, Frankie Rodriguez, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Thole, Stems In a telephone conversation Wednesday afternoon, Roenicke said he intends to use both Axford and Rodriguez in save situations and both in setup situations. John Axford was the closer for the Milwaukee Brewers. When the phone rang, he knew it was for him. AXFORD: Hey, I got this. But Francisco Rodriguez was one of the game’s most […] Funny, Frankie Rodriguez gets traded and I keep thinking about Omar Minaya. And not entirely in a negative way, either. In thinking about the confounding yet entertaining 2011 Mets, you can’t miss that a number of the team’s more encouraging success stories — Jonathon Niese, Daniel Murphy, R.A. Dickey, Dillon Gee, Justin Turner and Ruben Tejada — […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Frankie Rodriguez, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson “He slept, he stole, he was rude to the customers. Still, there goes the best damned employee a convenience store ever had.” I doubt there’ll ever be much nostalgia for the Francisco Rodriguez era of New York Mets baseball, an epoch officially declared over in the minutes following the National League’s second […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, An Appreciation, Frankie Rodriguez, Relief Pitching, Trades It’s wonderful to be a Mets fan right now. It really is. While everybody tells jokes, the Mets have assembled a Quadruple-A lineup of guys who don’t do too much but do just enough, playing the game the right way, not shooting themselves in the foot and — DICKEY! WOULD YOU NOT DO THAT? I KNOW […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Balks, Braves, D.J. Carrasco, Frankie Rodriguez, Fredi Gonzalez, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston |
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