Hall-of-Fame journalist Michael Farber joins Conversations with Griff for best of the Expos

Swapping stories from the era when the Expos and downtown Montreal were one

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 wife Danielle in Montreal and still offers up feature 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, with Rock at age 23, in 1982-83, and the Hall-of-Fame redemption song that followed with Andre Dawson standing by him at spring training and taking him under his wing. Griff and Mike offer opinions on the Expos managers from Dick Williams to Felipe Alou, with personal reflections on all those special moments in those special years of Les Expos, Nos Amours.