When Oscar Madison, our avatar of Mets in the Popular Culture, is sloppy, dog bites man. When Oscar Madison attempts to be neat, the fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves (Shakespeare). In the Odd Couple episode “Cleanliness is Next to Impossible,” Oscar is unwittingly hypnotized to Felix Unger levels of fussiness. Only […]
 
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. |
There’s Oscar pouring ketchup on his salad. There’s Felix expressing revulsion. There’s Oscar explaining to him ketchup is the culinary equivalent of tomato wine (tomato dressing would have been a more logical retort, but maybe somebody in the writer’s room was thinking wine on salad evoked oil and vinegar). Oscar, of course, is wearing a […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Mets Pop Culture, Nanette Fluhr, Oscar's Cap Awards With apologies to Moonlight Graham awaiting a lifetime for his first at-bat in Field of Dreams; Blue Moon Odom, mainstay of the dynastic 1970s Oakland A’s; Wally Moon’s “Moon shots” down the right field line when the Flatbush-abandoning Dodgers put down temporary stakes at the woefully misshapen L.A. Coliseum; and even Pete Alonso’s shall we […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Bar Mitzvah, Lonny, Lunar Codex, Mad Men, Nanette Fluhr, Oscar's Cap Awards, The Moon “There’s gonna be a lot of talk tonight,” Oscar Madison warned his audience during his tryout as a sports talk radio host in 1974. “Some of it you’ll like and some of it you won’t.” This was after he heeded his roommate Felix Unger’s advice and altered his style to reflect the hostility, sarcasm and […] 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 didn’t? Oscar and his milieu enjoyed a recurring role across the pages of The New York Mets […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, 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 flying, convinced him to accompany him on a flight Houston by persuading him that his talents would be better challenged writing […] 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 Turner. The same Myrna Turner who made halftime history showing off her […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Luplow, Billy Connors, Chuck Taylor, Dan Ingram, Dave Anderson, Ed Charles, Frank Lary, George H.W. Bush, Jack Hamilton, Jerry Moses, Johnny Lewis, Larry Eisenberg, Larry Miller, Lee Leonard, Mets Pop Culture, Moment of Silence, Neil Simon, Oscar's Cap Awards, Penny Marshall, Peter Simon, Philip Roth, Rusty Staub, Stan Lee, Tommy Moore, Tracy Stallard, William Goldman, William Nack 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, non-news context — and present them with Oscar’s Cap Awards. That, of course, is Oscar as in […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A League of Their Own, Blogging, Chico Escuela, Dave Kingman, Don Hahn, Greg Goossen, Humor Me, Internal Affairs, Juan Samuel, Madam Secretary, Mets Pop Culture, Oscar's Cap Awards, Rudy, Sam Hoffman, Show Business, Television, Unlikely Events 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 York Mets.” How does one explore the year in Mets popular culture? By referring to words spoken by the signature […] 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 missed amid other political news, but in reruns, the best campaigns always pick up right where they left off. In “The Odd […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Matt Harvey, Mets Pop Culture, Noah Syndergaard, Oscar's Cap Awards |
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