Dunham Bull?
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....
View ArticleThe 2014 Oscar’s Cap Awards
Oscar, Oscar…Oscar? We’d recognize his favorite team anywhere. As another year nears its end, it’s time once again to tip Oscar’s Cap. That is provided it is not stuck under a sea of petrified tuna....
View ArticleThe 2015 Oscar’s Cap Awards
It’s the one where Dick Clark is improbably playing himself as an afternoon drive time disc jockey on versatile WZAZ radio, and part of his gig is calling New Yorkers at random with trivia questions....
View ArticleThe 2016 Oscar’s Cap Awards
If there was one candidate for higher office everybody could get behind in 2016, it was Oscar Madison. Our favorite fictional sportswriter was running for New York City Council, which you might have...
View ArticleThe 2017 Oscar’s Cap Awards
How does one define age? “I wonder if I’m too old to be discovered by the Mets.” How does one define full? “Did you get enough to eat?” “Enough? I got enough for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New...
View ArticleFaith and Fear on TV (Humor Us)
You know we cherish our Mets Pop Culture here, so much so that at the end of every year we round up the previous twelve months of such sightings — anywhere that anything Mets shows up in a non-sports,...
View ArticleThe 2018 Oscar’s Cap Awards
Sure, Oscar Madison’s column was a big deal in the New York Herald sports section, but who made sure Oscar’s copy made its way from Oscar’s messy desk to his editor? None other than his secretary Myrna...
View ArticleThe 2019 Oscar’s Cap Awards
You had to love how Oscar Madison covered sports. For example, the New York Herald columnist was assigned a Jets-Dolphins tilt for first place, but his roommate Felix Unger, paralyzed by a fear of...
View ArticleFriends Who Thrive
Faith and Fear has the finest readers anywhere, we say with total objectivity, thus we thought we’d let you fine people about some Mets-related projects a few of our friends on the other side of the...
View ArticleThe 2020 Oscar’s Cap Awards
Considering he didn’t file a single column all year, Oscar Madison had a pretty good 2020. You might even say he showed up ready to play more often than Jed Lowrie did…but who among us in a Mets cap...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....