Final Update: In my ultimate generosity the contest has been (briefly) extended through midnight tonight. If you’re reading this and you haven’t yet made a submission…shame on you! It’s a free book for Keith’s sake!
"Win me!"
It’s time for a cherry to be popped here on TRDMB – we’ll be giving away copies of Greg Prince’s recently published book -Â Faith and Fear in Flushing!
The New York Mets fan is an Amazin’ creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Prince’s Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team.
Prince, coauthor of the highly regarded blog of the same name, examines how the life of the franchise mirrors the life of its fans, particularly his own. Unabashedly and unapologetically, Prince stands up for all Mets fans and, by proxy, sports fans everywhere in exploring how we root, why we take it so seriously, and what it all means.
What was it like to enter a baseball world about to be ruled by the Mets in 1969? To understand intrinsically that You Gotta Believe? To overcome the trade of an idol and the dissolution of a roster? To hope hard for a comeback and then receive it in thrilling fashion in 1986? To experience the constant ups and downs the Mets would dispense for the next two decades? To put ups with the Yankees right next door? To make the psychic journey from Shea Stadium to Citi Field? To sort the myths from the realities? Greg Prince, as he has done for thousands of loyal Faith and Fear in Flushing readers daily since 2005, puts it all in perspective as only he can.
Skyhorse Publishing has been gracious enough to provide us with not only this enthralling description of Faith and Fear in Flushing, but also with three copies of the book to give away to our contest winners. You can check out Greg Prince’s blog here, and you can watch/listen to a certain Gary Cohen on every SNY Mets broadcast, who wrote an afterward for the book.
Contest details:
Imagine a world where John Sterling was the radio announcer for the Mets (gasp!). That may send chills down your spine, but Sterling’s home-run calls are undeniably over-the-top fun. We’d like to see if you can come up with some Sterling-esque home-run calls of your own, for our very own Metsies! For this contest we’ll use David Wright as our guinea pig. Use all of your brain power to come up with the most creative, over the top, pun-filled, and clever home-run call for David Wright!
The example I came up with for Daniel Murphy is “The Mets just chugged a mug of Murphy’s Irish Stoutta here!” It’s terrible – so do David Wright prouder than I did to Murphy!
You can send your submission to adam@nleastchatter.com with the subject line “Contest Entry”. Please include your username (yes, you must be registered with NLEastChatter/TRDMB to win!), first name, hometown, and contact info (a valid email address is fine) in your entry. All submissions must be sent by 8:00pm, Tuesday June 30 and the winners will be revealed the following day. Get to work readers, and good luck! (please limit one submission per user)
Disclaimer: International fans are welcome to participate in the contest, but shipping fees would apply to any international winners.
10 comments
CaseStreet
6/24/2009-1:45pm at 1:45 pm (UTC -4)
this should be fun
QnsNative718
6/24/2009-2:17pm at 2:17 pm (UTC -4)
“The example I came up with for Daniel Murphy is “The Mets just chugged a mug of Murphy’s Irish Stoutta here!†It’s terrible.”
It’s terrible… and that’s EXACTLY what Sterling would say!
wannybackstra
6/24/2009-2:21pm at 2:21 pm (UTC -4)
before he corrected himself and noted that the ball never left the field.
GravediggerHebner
6/24/2009-2:24pm at 2:24 pm (UTC -4)
“It is high, it is far, it is gone! Murphy drop kicked it over the wall!”
wannybackstra
6/24/2009-2:34pm at 2:34 pm (UTC -4)
he almost threw it to the wall from 1B last night.
GravediggerHebner
6/24/2009-3:19pm at 3:19 pm (UTC -4)
That post game made me sad. Just 2 nights ago Murphy was so obviously excited about his HR, then last night right back into the shame spiral about the error.
metsfan4decades
6/24/2009-2:40pm at 2:40 pm (UTC -4)
I just finished this book a couple of weeks ago. Great read. I thoroughly enjoyed it as Greg Prince is only a couple years younger than I and became a Met fan just one year after me. His memories of certain seasons, certain games, certain players brought back so many memories for me. And his accounting of what it means to really be a Met fan through thick and thin is spot on.
Good luck to all contestant entries!
Kingman 26
6/24/2009-3:16pm at 3:16 pm (UTC -4)
Damn, this is the closest I have ever seen you to giving away your age!! I guess you must be about 5 or 6 years older than me….the 1973 postseason series are my oldest really defined and clear memories…..
metsfan4decades
6/25/2009-9:25am at 9:25 am (UTC -4)
Ha! – just saw this Kingman. Since I was lucky enough to see the ’69 series I would assume too I’m a few years older than you – LOL.
Suffice it to say that from everything I’ve read, I appear to be the oldest fan of the regular posters on here. Could be depressing…..but I prefer to think of it as better that than the alternative.
gategem
6/30/2009-10:12pm at 10:12 pm (UTC -4)
You’re just a youngster. I’m 66 and at the age where (among other things):
If I tell people I’m a passionate Mets fan they accuse me of having Alzheimer’s and
with Fred Wilpon the Mets owner I probably won’t live long enough to see another Mets Championship. lol