Nov 08 2008 05:35 PM
This is great. 
I'll pick up copies for my brothers and I while Xmas shopping.
Master Index of Archived Threads
FAFIF the Book
| G-Fafif Nov 01 2008 08:07 PM |
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Word leaked into an earlier thread, but I said I'd mention it more definitively once there were Amazon and Barnes & Noble listings, and now it appears there are, however bare bones.
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| seawolf17 Nov 01 2008 08:10 PM |
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Sweet! Compilation of posts, or all-new material?
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| G-Fafif Nov 01 2008 08:12 PM |
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All new narrative, though there will be some familiar elements. Jason will be writing a foreword and there is a celeb introducer TBD.
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| themetfairy Nov 01 2008 08:42 PM |
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WTG :)
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| DocTee Nov 01 2008 08:56 PM |
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Excellent and congratulations!
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| A Boy Named Seo Nov 01 2008 10:54 PM |
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Cheers, man. Can't wait to get my mitts on it.
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| SteveJRogers Nov 02 2008 08:28 AM |
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Free copies for everyone right? =;)
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| G-Fafif Nov 02 2008 09:54 AM |
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If I could Steve...if I could. I'm just a spread the wealth kind of guy, lack of wealth notwithstanding. Thanks everybody for the support. Look for it around Pitchers & Catchers.
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| Nymr83 Nov 02 2008 11:49 AM |
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2009?
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| Rockin' Doc Nov 02 2008 12:50 PM |
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Congratulations on your upcoming book. I look forward to checking it out.
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| metirish Nov 02 2008 12:52 PM |
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So you're a freaking socialist ?(NTTIAWWT in my book) Congrats and I look forward to getting the book.
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| TheOldMole Nov 02 2008 01:15 PM |
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Boy, am I looking forward to this.
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| G-Fafif Nov 02 2008 05:00 PM |
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You're probably right. Of course now I'll have to change the ending from "of course this year Carlos Beltran will have the last laugh on Jimmy Rollins."
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| RealityChuck Nov 02 2008 05:04 PM |
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Congratulations!
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| Kong76 Nov 02 2008 05:12 PM |
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Way cool, I second Rockin' Doc's emotions.
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| Willets Point Nov 02 2008 05:38 PM |
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Soon everyone here is going to have a book published except me. Good job. I look forward to reading it and putting it on the shelf next to JC Lunchbucket's book.
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| Edgy DC Nov 02 2008 05:39 PM |
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I'll congratulate you as soon as my jealousy dies.
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| Fman99 Nov 02 2008 07:51 PM |
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How awesome, man. Kudos to you, I envy your wordsmithiness.
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| seawolf17 Nov 02 2008 08:26 PM |
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Which reminds me... I have to start working on that.
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| G-Fafif Nov 03 2008 03:31 AM |
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"I'll show Fman if it's the last thing I do!" were the words that drove me forward. That and something about Komiyama.
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| Fman99 Nov 03 2008 07:05 AM |
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I believe the line was "Komiyama was the Japanese me," quoted by title subject Mike Maddux for those who don't recall in painstaking detail. I have won so few things in life, excuse me if I savor my play-in victory from last season.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 03 2008 07:20 AM |
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wtg, gwp.
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| metsguyinmichigan Nov 03 2008 11:09 PM |
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Fantastic!!!
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| Vince Coleman Firecracker Nov 04 2008 06:50 AM |
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Awesome! Can't wait to read it!
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| G-Fafif Nov 08 2008 04:18 PM |
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Thanks again to all for the encouragement. First bit of book promotion Sunday night on Mike Silva's NY Baseball Digest. Pat Zachry's my opening act.
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| themetfairy Nov 08 2008 04:24 PM |
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Excellent!
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| Zvon Nov 08 2008 05:35 PM |
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This is great.
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| G-Fafif Nov 10 2008 05:16 AM |
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Me and the first FAFIF The Book interview, with Mike Silva on NY Baseball Digest is here. I come in after 62:00 and ramble on for quite a while.
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| themetfairy Nov 10 2008 06:47 AM |
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Very nicely done :)
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| metsmarathon Nov 10 2008 08:10 AM |
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i think you'll have a book long before me. i'm a freaking engineer - who the hell wants to read words written by an engineer, assuming that engineers can write words! with all these writers and otherwise creative folk around here, its no wonder i get routed each and every year in the parody contest. and, seriously, i can't wait to get me a copy of this book. congrats!
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| seawolf17 Nov 26 2008 08:47 AM |
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I was kicking around the B&N site because I got a 40% off coupon and I was going to preorder -- but it doesn't seem to be available there. I only see it on Amazon.
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| A Boy Named Seo Nov 26 2008 08:50 AM |
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Hire m.e.t.b.o.t. as your ghost writer. That little thing's entertaining as hell.
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| G-Fafif Nov 26 2008 09:02 AM |
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It was on Barnes & Noble in early November. Then it hasn't been lately. I have been told B&N is an intrinsic part of the push behind this thing, so I assume it will be again soon. I know very little about the mechanics, but will look to find out and report back. (I didn't know it was listed on Amazon or B&N until somebody stumbled across it and e-mailed me.) One bit of noteworthy news is the book will contain a Q&A with Gary Cohen (listed on Amazon as the foreword, but more likely as the afterword). He gave me a very generous dollop of his time and insights regarding the ending of Shea Stadium and some other aspects of Mets history. I'm also pleased to announce my FAFIF partner Jason wrote a wonderful intro.
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| G-Fafif Dec 03 2008 05:50 PM |
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Barnes & Noble listing seems to be back.
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| G-Fafif Feb 02 2009 09:35 AM |
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To press. Today.
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| TheOldMole Feb 02 2009 11:55 AM |
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This is very exciting. Go man go!
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| Benjamin Grimm Feb 02 2009 01:08 PM |
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Congratulations!
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| Benjamin Grimm Feb 02 2009 01:11 PM |
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I'm not exactly sure why, but I find myself curious to see what the back cover looks like.
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| G-Fafif Feb 02 2009 02:25 PM |
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This picture will be prominent. In fact, our comrade Iubitul makes a substantial photographic contribution to the book, a fact for which I am grateful and the project is that much more appealing.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 02 2009 02:41 PM |
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I saw the cover galleys the other day in fact, where there was a note wriiten to insert a "W" between Greeg and Prince.
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| G-Fafif Feb 02 2009 02:44 PM |
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I only saw the galleys this morning. Good job!
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| G-Fafif Feb 04 2009 02:29 PM |
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I suck at posting pictures, but here is what the final cover looks like, with accurate lineup of contributors and actual subtitle.
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| metirish Feb 04 2009 02:33 PM |
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Wonderful , can't wait to get it. Can you share your thoughts on why those two images?
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| Benjamin Grimm Feb 04 2009 02:35 PM |
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My guess: The top picture is faith, when things turn out okay. And the bottom picture is fear, when things don't.
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| metirish Feb 04 2009 02:36 PM |
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Yes , I suppose my question is why those particular pictures and not another two.
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| G-Fafif Feb 04 2009 02:43 PM |
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Yes, Faith and Fear, in effect. Why those two? Honestly, I don't know, other than my editor and whoever he works with thought they represented the polar opposites of Met emotion (and they were readily available for licensing). I'm perfectly happy with the images, but would have gone with Karl Ehrhardt for Faith and The Collapse Guy for Fear myself, but never got any response to this suggestion.
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| themetfairy Feb 04 2009 03:48 PM |
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At least they took your suggestion for the subtitle.
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| G-Fafif Feb 04 2009 04:19 PM |
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Thanks. Regarding the picture on top, somebody said he wondered what David Wright was doing with Gary Carter, until he remembered there was once another players whose name ended in GHT.
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| Kong76 Feb 04 2009 08:04 PM |
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Looks cool, the subtitle is more exciting than the one currently on amazon
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| G-Fafif Feb 06 2009 06:17 AM |
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As of 8 A.M., "FAFIF: AIPHOFTNYM" (hyped in earnest for the first time on the blog yesterday) is No. 7 on Amazon's hourly sales rankings chart in the Baseball Writings & Essays category. And No. 5 is a basketball book.
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| metirish Feb 06 2009 10:00 AM |
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When and where might any signing be when the time comes?
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| G-Fafif Feb 06 2009 12:06 PM |
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First one scheduled is for Happy Endings downtown on April 2. It's part of a series called Varsity Letters and once a month they have a few sports authors come in and read and what not. Kind of an unorthodox locale (I think it used to be a massage parlor), but Jason and I were part of a bloggers night there two years ago and it was fun and lively.
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| Benjamin Grimm Feb 06 2009 01:30 PM |
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Happy Endings?
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| metsmarathon Feb 06 2009 01:53 PM |
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i guess after you read the book, geg'll be there to give you a hand job. that's certainly one way to fluff up the sales.
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| G-Fafif Feb 06 2009 02:02 PM |
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Me read you long time.
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| TheOldMole Feb 08 2009 07:46 AM |
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I think it's a handsome cover.
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| G-Fafif Feb 09 2009 10:44 AM |
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"Playboy Mansion, strip clubs, whorehouses -- I go where the meetings are." --Ari Gold, Entourage That is to say, I'll go where there's Mets fans. Thanks for inquiring.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 15 2009 01:44 PM |
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Hey Greg-- preordered mine yesterday. Do you know when Amazon's shipping the bastahhhd (it's coming with my BP 2009)?
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| G-Fafif Feb 16 2009 09:39 AM |
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Saw this in the other thread first. Late March probably, but officially "before Opening Day".
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| G-Fafif Mar 03 2009 05:22 PM |
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It exists. Got an advance copy today. The words, the pictures, the cover...I'd seen them all on the computer for months, to say nothing of those I'd envisioned in my head for years, but to have this three-dimensional thing in my hands is very different.
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| themetfairy Mar 03 2009 05:54 PM |
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Very cool!
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| Benjamin Grimm Mar 03 2009 06:33 PM |
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That is very cool. You must be (justifiably) proud.
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| themetfairy Mar 11 2009 05:33 AM |
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According to BarnesandNoble.com, my copy has been shipped!
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| themetfairy Mar 11 2009 10:51 AM |
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It arrived. And it's gorgeous in person. In addition to G-Fafif's wonderful prose and an afterward conversation with Gary Cohen, the book contains Iubitul's typically extraordinary photography.
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| Kong76 Mar 11 2009 06:25 PM |
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I got a false alarm on my Blackberry this afternoon from Amazon. I forgot
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| Edgy DC Mar 11 2009 08:29 PM |
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My boss, not knowing poop about FaFiF --- not knowing a New York Met from a Penthouse Pet, to be honest --- ordered the book for my birthday.
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| G-Fafif Mar 12 2009 10:44 AM |
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What a cool boss (though one look at Ramon Castro should clear up any confusion between species).
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| seawolf17 Mar 12 2009 10:47 AM |
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Although not in B&N stores. (Yet?)
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| G-Fafif Mar 12 2009 11:26 AM |
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Not sure about the release date in stores. But it will be at your local Barnes & Noble right between the Faith Hill biography and "Faith and Feed: Praying for Your Chicken".
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| G-Fafif Mar 14 2009 03:04 PM |
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Facebook page for FAFIF the Book here, I think.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 14 2009 05:05 PM |
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I got a copy in my bathroom now.
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| dgwphotography Mar 15 2009 09:23 AM |
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I just got my copy in the mail - I'm just completely blown away here...
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| Kong76 Mar 16 2009 07:42 AM |
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*FXHealy* Gahhtitt!!! */FXHealy*
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| G-Fafif Mar 16 2009 10:39 AM |
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I should've named it "Can of Corn".
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| Edgy DC Mar 16 2009 10:46 AM |
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Great photo captions:
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| G-Fafif Mar 16 2009 11:29 AM |
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Captions included, free of charge.
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| seawolf17 Mar 16 2009 12:34 PM |
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Thank goodness. Lunchbucket made us pay for the fucking captions in his book.
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| G-Fafif Mar 16 2009 12:48 PM |
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Yeah, well he's always been about "the numbers".
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| G-Fafif Mar 16 2009 06:29 PM |
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New York Magazine's Will Leitch kind enough to plug FAFIF the book and the blog (specifically, a post from 9/30/08) here.
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| A Boy Named Seo Mar 18 2009 02:43 PM |
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Mine just arrived on my desk here at work. It's a beaut, and the photos inside are just gorgeous. Can't wait to dive in.
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| Edgy DC Mar 18 2009 02:53 PM |
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: Porn for Mets Fans.
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| G-Fafif Mar 19 2009 06:48 AM |
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As if your encouraging words here aren't enough, I've been asked by my publisher to ask anybody who likes the book (a.k.a. Porn For Mets Fans) to post a review to Amazon and/or Barnes & Noble. They actually do help the uninitiated make their purchasing decisions.
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| seawolf17 Mar 19 2009 11:18 AM |
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Picked it up at Borders in Lake Grove at lunch. The guy had to get it out of the back, but he brought a whole stack up and put them on the front table, so that's nice. It's "educator's week," so I got 25% off.
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| G-Fafif Mar 19 2009 12:25 PM |
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Seawolf and Gary Cohen are my co-heroes of the day. The latter just mentioned the blog in the bottom of the fourth (used phrases like "smart" and "erudite" and elicited a total lack of interest from Keith). But the former...he's making sales happen.
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| Edgy DC Mar 19 2009 12:44 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 19 2009 01:45 PM |
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Keith is so bored by life, he really should have been a rich existential European with expensive and destructive hobbies.
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| G-Fafif Mar 19 2009 01:30 PM |
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I tend to think of Keith as the ultimate club kid, albeit without the raves and the ecstasy as far as we know.
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| seawolf17 Mar 19 2009 05:49 PM |
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Holy crap, Greg. I'm fifteen pages in and it's already the best baseball book I've ever read.
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| Edgy DC Mar 19 2009 07:13 PM |
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Makes you laugh and cry at the same bloody time, doesn't it?
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| seawolf17 Mar 19 2009 07:18 PM |
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It's like Greg is inside my head, writing exactly what I would write, exactly what I would think, if I'd been given the wonderful gift that he has. It's incredible.
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| Edgy DC Mar 19 2009 07:35 PM |
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I'm just jumping around right now, but the passage on page 27, between +* * *" and "* * *"? That page alone should get the national book award right there.
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| seawolf17 Mar 20 2009 11:50 AM |
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His words wash over me like a soft rain.
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| G-Fafif Mar 20 2009 12:07 PM |
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I, Rivera. (You, Klapisch.)
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| seawolf17 Mar 20 2009 12:17 PM |
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That's it. I'm returning the book and giving you one star on Amazon.
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| G-Fafif Mar 20 2009 12:21 PM |
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I don't know if the Borders in Lake Grove has its act together enough to accommodate you. They have a hard enough time displaying their vital inventory.
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| batmagadanleadoff Mar 21 2009 12:57 AM |
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My copy of FAFIF is on its way. At amazon.com, brand new FAFIF's ($16.46) are cheaper than used copies ($17.66) of the same book. Used? Already?
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| TheOldMole Mar 21 2009 02:08 PM |
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| G-Fafif Mar 21 2009 03:02 PM |
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I have absolutely no idea how that works. There was a used copy up from a dealer before it was released. Must be the same people who can get you tickets to games that have yet to be scheduled.
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| TheOldMole Mar 21 2009 03:32 PM |
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Put a couple of plugs here and here -- check the comments.
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| batmagadanleadoff Mar 21 2009 04:05 PM |
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For the extra buck, you get someone else's greasy pizza stained fingerprints. I was in Border's bookstore today on lower Broadway, and even though my own FAFIF is en route, I sat down on one of the stools in the sports section and, jonesing for some Mets, read some of your stuff on Cleon and the '69 Mets (Jonesing! - Haha!), your first chapter, part of the second and the entire chapter on the 1975 Mets. I enjoyed every page and can't wait to finish it. Congratulations on what must have surely been a labor of love.
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| G-Fafif Mar 21 2009 07:32 PM |
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Lovely thoughts, Mole. Thanks. All conversations should be steered the book's way, natch.
BML, I'm both thrilled that you enjoyed your sneak peek and that Borders had it out (given Seawolf having to nudge them in Lake Grove to bring it in from the back and given my own experience not seeing it out at the Penn Station store last night -- was listed in the DIY store computer as in stock but it was too busy, and I was running too late, to make an issue). I look forward to your receiving it. Tonight, my sis and bro-in-law took us out to commemorate the book's release (at a Glen Cove Rd. diner, true to the spirit of FAFIF) and we stopped in at the B&N in Carle Place, essentially my home store. Wonderfully stocked displays on the baseball table and baseball shelf (which I attempted to enhance at the expense of various MFY books). I also got quite a kick out of showing "MBTN" and "100 Things Mets Fans Should Know" and a couple of others whose authors I know and explaining to my sports-oblivious sister their significance and so forth. I also found it amusing that she had absolutely no idea where the sports books were kept, given her previous lack of need to know such a fact. Last night, I made an excursion to the B&N in Union Square where I spent many a lunch hour when working in that neighborhood browsing baseball books and wondering if/hoping that I'd be in that section someday. It took a while, but three copies of "FAFIF" faced out from the top shelf. It was the moment this thing finally broke through to me. When I went to call Mrs. FAFIF and share this revelation, I realized I had put my stuff down on the sports book remainders table in doing so. I could be seeing my book here next year, I thought. But even then, it would still be in the store.
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| G-Fafif Mar 26 2009 03:04 PM |
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Friday afternoon I'll be interviewed for Baseball Digest Live at Foley's NY, West 33rd between Fifth and Sixth, 12:30-1:00. Listen here, drop by here if you're in midtown at midday (podcast available after the fact, presumably). Not a signing per se, but I'll sign anything ya got (except for the check and my own death warrant).
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| themetfairy Mar 27 2009 10:37 AM |
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*Bump* The interview is on NOW!!!!
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| metirish Mar 27 2009 12:23 PM |
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Blocked
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| G-Fafif Mar 27 2009 05:12 PM |
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Archived and available for downloading here. I come in around 1:30:00. Audio's a bit strange early on, making me sound a little more...special than I do in real life. Perhaps I'll make a pity sale or two.
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| G-Fafif Mar 30 2009 08:09 PM |
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The folks who organize the Varsity Letters reading series, where I'll be making my FAFIF The Book debut Thursday night, do a profile with each of their authors. Mine's here.
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| G-Fafif Mar 31 2009 02:06 PM |
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FAFIF in NYT Mets Bloggers Roundtable '09 here.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 31 2009 02:09 PM |
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Good to see Cerone finally get some exposure.
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| metirish Mar 31 2009 02:22 PM |
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I thought Sam Page harped on too much about Lowe , and are the Mets the most top heavy team in the majors , I'm not even sure what that means.
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| OlerudOwned Mar 31 2009 03:47 PM |
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Heh. Those links don't aggregate themselves.
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| G-Fafif Apr 01 2009 11:26 AM |
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Seven o'clock and you'll wanna rock (wanna get a belly full of beer) because Wednesday night's all right for Mike Silva's NY Baseball Digest. I'll be joining Mike and Howard Megdal for an in-depth discussion of FAFIF the book.
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| Edgy DC Apr 01 2009 11:58 AM |
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Matt, last I checked, hitting behind Delgado was Beltran. And, if that doesn't float your boat, it certainly isn't because of a lack of spending.
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| themetfairy Apr 01 2009 05:06 PM |
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Listen up NOW!!!!
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| G-Fafif Apr 02 2009 05:04 AM |
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Mike Silva got me going on Mets fandom last night, though it doesn't take much. Download for listening here.
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| themetfairy Apr 02 2009 06:18 AM |
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Member promotes member here. Warning - don't drink anything while reading it or you might spit it out over your monitor.
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| G-Fafif Apr 02 2009 09:12 AM |
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Definitely more Giamatti than Affleck.
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| Rockin' Doc Apr 02 2009 10:42 AM |
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Nice review and a fun read from the MbtN site.
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| Gwreck Apr 02 2009 10:35 PM |
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I went to this event tonight and it was a great time. Congratulations of course to Greg for the book release. Hearing him read from it was a treat. He ended with a passage from the story of Game 6 (how could that ending be topped?) but also a wonderful bit about the end of the 2007 season that struck me as it touched on things that I had thought I was the only one to notice. Thanks as well to Greg for signing my book with a CPF-related note stemming from our friendly disagreement in the infamous song v. song thread, the one place where I could argue with Greg and be right. (Thanks Greg, I appreciated that). Especially because you I could argue with him about baseball, but he'd remember it better than you or I would. Any you'd probably wind up agreeing with him anyway. And, as the book shows, he'd be able to describe it and make it come to life better than you could. Congrats on the book. It's fantastic.
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| G-Fafif Apr 03 2009 12:44 PM |
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Happy to see the 'wreck and several other friendly faces last night. I hope there are a few more of these types of things in somewhat more traditional/accessible venues, though accessible depends on one's locale.
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| TheOldMole Apr 04 2009 06:06 AM |
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I tuned in WKNY just time to hear them thanking Greg for the great interview.
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| G-Fafif Apr 04 2009 06:52 AM |
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So that was you listening?
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| TheOldMole Apr 04 2009 09:07 AM |
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You weren't actually up in Kingston, were you? It never occurred to me to ask.
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| G-Fafif Apr 04 2009 11:35 AM |
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Spoke to WKNY via phone.
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| TheOldMole Apr 05 2009 06:41 PM |
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Well, next time come up, and I'll buy you a beer.
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| G-Fafif Apr 05 2009 09:13 PM |
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You're on (even if it's the morning show again).
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| TheOldMole Apr 06 2009 04:41 PM |
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About a hundred pages into it. It ain't just your friends making nice on this forum. It really is that good.
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| G-Fafif Apr 06 2009 07:17 PM |
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That's even better to hear than the offer of the A.M. beer. Thanks!
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| G-Fafif Apr 07 2009 08:44 AM |
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If you're on L.I. or in Queens this day (4/7), pick up the Daily News, flip to the Queens News insert and find a brief story on your favorite book...or mine. Picture and author interview included. No online link for the vast majority of the world's population that lives elsewhere.
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| Edgy DC Apr 07 2009 10:03 AM |
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Look harder:
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| G-Fafif Apr 07 2009 10:12 AM |
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Good find. I notice it was posted at 10:29 AM when the rest of that section was up at 4:00 AM. Then again, I always did oversleep.
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| TheOldMole Apr 08 2009 08:26 AM |
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How come you've got over 3000 hits and I only have 800?
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| G-Fafif Apr 08 2009 01:23 PM |
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Because I get on the phone to the press box and pester the official scorer to change that ball the shortstop bobbled briefly from an error.
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| G-Fafif Apr 08 2009 01:25 PM |
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Q&A from the Monarch of Minutia, Mets Walk-Offs here.
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| G-Fafif Apr 13 2009 11:15 AM |
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Man reads from book here.
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| G-Fafif Apr 15 2009 12:41 PM |
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Game? What game? Tonight at 9, tune into NYSportstalk here. Show will be archived later, but nothing like going out live.
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| G-Fafif Apr 23 2009 02:22 PM |
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Variety piece on new NYC parks here, includes mildly inflammatory, modestly out of context quote.
I was referring to the middle class of the ballpark itself, the seats that weren't the absolute cheapest (thus gobbled up quickly) or the ritziest. No mezzanine, so to speak. It wasn't Joe Sixpack can't come. Joe Sixpack can sit upstairs and Mets Inc. can say "see? see?".
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| themetfairy Apr 23 2009 03:01 PM |
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Hey - you're now famous enough to be quoted out of context!
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| G-Fafif Apr 28 2009 12:58 PM |
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Tonight at midnight: The Joey Reynolds show on WOR (710 AM), me, Jackie The Jokeman Martling and god knows what. Be there.
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| G-Fafif Apr 29 2009 12:42 AM |
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Well, I take it nobody adjusted their sleep patterns to hear me with Joey Reynolds and Jackie the Jokeman. It was memorable, if not for any reasons related to selling a book, but memorable nonetheless. Michael Sergio called in late in the hour and we commiserated over the Mets' failure to have him parachute in again.
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| Edgy DC Apr 29 2009 05:24 AM |
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Wow, go Michael Sergio.
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| themetfairy Apr 29 2009 05:31 AM |
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Sorry Greg - it was past my bedtime....
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| G-Fafif Apr 29 2009 08:54 AM |
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TRMS is pals with the host. Everybody's kind of pals with everybody in the seamy underbelly of the Joey Reynolds Show. I'm pals with Jackie the Jokeman now, almost, sort of, not really. Nice guy, though.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 29 2009 08:57 AM |
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Was Jackie a guest? Or a co-host?
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| batmagadanleadoff Apr 29 2009 09:21 AM |
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I'll confess. I tuned in.
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| metirish Apr 29 2009 12:55 PM |
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Is there a podcast of the interview?
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| G-Fafif Apr 29 2009 04:56 PM |
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Jackie was a guest, but is apparently a semi-regular visitor, so he was very much at home. I was very much a visitor.
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| TheOldMole Apr 30 2009 08:06 AM |
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Greg -- can I interview you for my column?
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| G-Fafif Apr 30 2009 09:43 AM |
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I haven't said this to anybody ever, Mole, but it would be a pleasure to be Examined by you. Contact me through whichever portal works best for you.
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| TheOldMole Apr 30 2009 11:50 AM |
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Do you Instant Message? That works really well for me.
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| G-Fafif Apr 30 2009 01:22 PM |
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Contact me through PM and we'll set something up.
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| G-Fafif May 01 2009 05:57 AM |
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The polar opposite of being on with Joey Reynolds and Jackie Martling: SportstalkNY from a couple of weeks ago (they had technical difficulties and just posted the Podcast) here.
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| G-Fafif May 01 2009 12:30 PM |
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FAFIF is featured on SNY's Mets Weekly this week. Airtimes: Saturday at noon; Sunday at 4:30; Monday at 1:30; and Thursday at 1. Catch it, TiVo it, enjoy it...unless it's gruesome, in which case avoid it.
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| seawolf17 May 01 2009 12:58 PM |
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Is it too late to nominate myself to play you in the movie version of the book? I need to call my agent and get myself on the short list.
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| G-Fafif May 01 2009 02:44 PM |
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Better you than Oliver Platt.
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| themetfairy May 02 2009 09:26 AM |
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Bump Let's give this episode of Mets Weekly the biggest ratings boost ever!
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| Kong76 May 02 2009 10:05 AM |
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I just turned on the tv and it was still on SNY from last night and he was on
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| Kong76 May 02 2009 10:32 AM |
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Nice job!!
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| G-Fafif May 02 2009 10:33 AM |
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I had much the same reaction.
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| themetfairy May 02 2009 10:37 AM |
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Nice job Greg :)
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| G-Fafif May 02 2009 10:49 AM |
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Thanks for watching, K76 & TMF. And thanks to JCL for the line about blogging and Banner Day, which I've been quoting a lot, with and without proper attribution. I just wish they had spelled "Alfonzo" correctly.
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| G-Fafif May 04 2009 12:00 PM |
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Except for there being two minutes of silence after the intro and one of the hosts blowing my last name twice (as in Price), Jason and I had a fun half-hour with Seven Train to Shea. We're on for about half an hour after that little technical delay if you're interested.
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| G-Fafif May 06 2009 06:37 AM |
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Neil Best in Newsday hates sports fan memoirs. But he didn't mind mine too much, from what I can tell.
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| metsguyinmichigan May 06 2009 10:49 PM |
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He looks like a young Abe Vigoda.
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| G-Fafif May 08 2009 09:34 PM |
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Crossover alert! The Examiner examines FAFIF. And does it well.
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| G-Fafif May 09 2009 05:15 PM |
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Some more Q'ing and A'ing with Metsblog here.
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| G-Fafif May 10 2009 07:34 AM |
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Watch party! An interview on Manhattan Neighborhood Network's On The Sportslines, at the 12:05 mark. Runs about three minutes, from the 5/7/09 edition.
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| Edgy DC May 10 2009 01:29 PM |
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Nice. Who is that poised, polished TV veteran you got to play yourself?
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| G-Fafif May 10 2009 05:18 PM |
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It comes from years of talking to the television.
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| DocTee May 10 2009 05:23 PM |
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Very cool.
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| Fman99 May 10 2009 09:54 PM |
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Greg pimps this book! I need to get my own whore to trick out.
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| G-Fafif May 11 2009 06:31 AM |
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A li'l more pimping, this time of the audio variety on Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf.
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| Edgy DC May 11 2009 07:12 AM |
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See, Bobby Valentine had it right. The problem wasn't so much the Dominicans coming to Shea to root for Sammy Sosa, the problem was that our inability to appreciate Armando Benitez kept them from coming to Shea to root for him.
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| themetfairy May 15 2009 07:44 PM |
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FAFIF is making inroads into Phillies territory - I saw it at the B. Dalton's at the Quakerbridge Mall in Lawrenceville, NJ (hometown of Jon Stewart) this evening :)
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| G-Fafif May 31 2009 06:23 PM |
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Jason and I joined the hosts of the Happy Recap radio show for the better part of an hour. I rambled a bit, but we had fun. Listen to the 5/31/09 podcast here.
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| Willets Point Jun 01 2009 08:18 PM |
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FAFIF goes to Harvard.
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| metirish Dec 17 2009 07:24 AM Re: FAFIF the Book |
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Wanted to buy this on Amazon as gifts for friends so I clicked on the amazon link that's on Fafif....
Luckily Barnes & Noble expect to ship it today after I ordered it from them instead.
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| G-Fafif Dec 17 2009 05:02 PM Re: FAFIF the Book |
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Amazon choking in the clutch, way to go, B&N. Thanks for having that great gift idea! And if you know anyone dying to fill up a Kindle, "Faith and Fear" available in that newfangled format as well (albeit on Amazon, but no wait).
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| G-Fafif Feb 27 2010 10:53 PM Re: FAFIF the Book |
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Due out in paperback imminently, with an epilogue covering the first year at Citi Field. Noticed by the Post's Required Reading column this very Sunday.
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| DocTee Mar 30 2010 10:11 AM Re: FAFIF the Book |
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Nice piece in the Times today:
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| G-Fafif Apr 01 2010 10:38 AM Re: FAFIF the Book |
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Thanks Doc.
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