Award-winning journalist and member of the Hockey Hall-of-Fame, Michael Farber, guests on Conversations with Griff. A New Jersey native who paid to see Bruce Springsteen perform for $2.50 at Rutgers University, Farber moved from a Yankees beat in Newark to Montreal to join the Expos beat for The Gazette in 1979. He still lives with his wife Danielle in Montreal and offers up work for TSN television and TSN 690 radio, as well as hockey insights for NBC. Michael and Griff discuss the memorable Expos years from 1979-94, focusing on the special bond those teams had with the city in which they played. Farber recalls the details of his exclusive access and coverage of the Tim Raines drug rehab winter, at age 23, between 1982-83, and the Hall-of-Fame redemption song that followed. Griff and Mike offer their opinions on Expos managers from Dick Williams to Felipe Alou, with personal reflections on all the special moments in those special years of Les Expos, Nos Amours.

INDEX:

00:00 – Welcome, Michael Farber!

00:50 – Difference between TV hit and writing a great column?

01:50 – Working the Sochi Olympics

4:00 – Hailing from New Jersey + Duke Snyder Stories

10:45 – Covering the Expos and Moving to Canada

14:50 – The Expos in the late 70s

19:20 – Lost lustre of the All Star Game

23:30 – Randy Johnson, Denis Martinez and Pascual Perez Stories

30:05 – Memories of the 1980 Expos

33:14 – Dick Willims Firing + Jim Fanning

39:50 – Bill Verdon years

43:30 – Advice for young media members

44:40 – Al Oliver Story

48:00 – Bill Lee/Rodney Scott Incident

53:40 – How did you handle the Strike?

57:05 – Covering Tim Raines during his difficult times

1:02:25 – Dave Dombrowski

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