This month's Chicago magazine has a story on Disco Demolition that has some funny quotes from Farmer.

The first is a questionable (I've never heard any other player mention such a thing) remembrance of fans trying to break down the clubhouse door and being held back with a four-by-six in the door jamb.

The second one is even funnier:

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

The Porsche dealer is a dear friend

I saw Ed Farmer backstage at a Chicago concert. The only thing bad about him was his extreme suntan. I guess that's why he looks like he's pushing 70.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I had the radio broadcast on in the car yesterday. I love to listen to baseball on the radio. After about 5 minutes of the Sox game, my 14 year old looks at me and says, "these announcers are terrible." It was another proud dad/son moment, coming conveniently on Father's Day.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

He should have bought a limo. He always wanted to buy one.

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bottom of the resume pile

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

He'd look marvelous driving one while wearing one of those little black caps!

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I'd like to see this punctuated in a way that matches Farmer's radio register and strange idiolect.

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It really was just a humblebrag to let everyone know he drove a Porsche.

Farmer likes to present himself as some kind of tough guy but he looks like a strong wind could blow him over.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

"St. Rita tough guy" is an oxymoron.

But he did break that guy's jaw with a pitch once. (Someone from the Royals.)

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JORR prefers cookie cutter guys like Benetti. Farmer is about the 1000th thing on my list of White Sox complaints.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

No, but Farmer is a goof. And this Douchebagging of him is only tangentially related to the White Sox and has nothing to do with his broadcasting whatsoever.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Well, he is 66.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Sorry,should have mentioned,I'm talking about 13 years ago.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

was that when he was dying of liver disease?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Could be. I also saw Norm Van Lier and Cook County Board Commissioner,Pete Silvestri.
It was a night of thrills.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

we found out early, that the second game was going to be called. I went to the family room, and got my wife.

and my daughter.

Shanda.

who was 3.

i got them in the caaaar, and, somebody pounded. on the roof of my car. you want to know what i told my wife, darrin?

i'll tell ya what i told my wife.

i told my wife, "Anyone pounds on the roof of my Porsche again,

...

i said anyone pounds on the roof of my Porsche again, i'm going to get out.

and knock them for a loop.

my daughter

shanda, by the way.

goes, "Daddy, what's a loop?" I heard boom boom, and you know what i said, darrin?

you know what i said?











you're about to find out.

was what i said, that is. they were about to find out. three and one the count on alexei.

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see, I find that pretty humorous.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

The game gets in the way of his humblebrags

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No chance that there is a 4" x 6" piece of lumber in the booth..or any booth at any time..not buying it.

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a. not the booth
b. never went to old comiskey did you

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Ok..clubhouse is a bit more plausible.. Yeah I been to comiskey several times as a kid, liked it a lot better than the cell.

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the whole place was falling down with rafters and pipes hanging eveywhere. I have no doubt there was some random lumber lying around.

farmio's like barney fife. who doesn't enjoy a little barney fife?

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As I have mentioned here before, I was there that night, totally by accident. I was a big Steve/Garry fan, but we had been out of town on vacation for two weeks (CHFeels vibe), flying back into town Thursday ( mid-week flights were cheaper). We got tix for the double header to take my Grandpa, a huge Tigers fan, and lifelong bargain enjoyer. Rolling up to the gate was the first I learned of the Disco Demolition promotion. I WAS wearing my ubiquitous LOOP t-shirt, at least.

My first time to actually see someone smoking weed, the group right behind us had a bong. We were upper deck box, first base line where Grandpa always wanted to sit to see the action. Everything under the roof was a cloud of smoke.

SRO for sure, probably 100K? Every other person, some yet unborn, claim to have been there. Dad handed me the binoculars during the on-field riot, said "check out the action at home plate" or something similar. One lucky dude and his girl were scoring right there on the plate!

We, being the well-behaved, money-invested conservatives never left our seats, and joined the chant to "Go back to your seats!". What wild and crazy tourists! When they finally called the game, we sat there waiting for traffic to clear, another family tradition. Ushers/cops made their way through the stands to clear everyone out, and we up and left. I recall a long wait in the lots, but no one pounded on the roof of our 1974 Plymouth Satellite. I missed the great opportunity to purchase a souvenir Insane Coho Lips or Disco Sucks t-shirt from the street corner vendors, eventually settling for a locally printed black tee with plain block letters of ICL on the front...but it was cheaper.

Edit - From the interwebz...

While still playing with the Royals in 1979, on May 8, in a game against the Rangers, Al Cowens was injured when a pitch by reliever Ed Farmer struck the right-handed batter in the jaw. Also in that game, Cowens’ teammate Frank White was hit by a Farmer pitch. As a result of his beaning, Cowens missed three weeks. When he returned he wore a protective mask attached to his helmet to guard his surgically repaired jaw.

More than a year later, in a Tiger uniform, Cowens finally faced Farmer again. With the Tigers facing the White Sox in Chicago (Farmer had moved on to a new team also), Cowens led off the 11th inning of a 3-3 contest. After the tall right-hander coaxed Cowens into a grounder to short, he turned to watch the play behind him. Instead of going to first base, Cowens went straight out to the mound, surprising Farmer by tackling him from behind. Both benches emptied, as did the bullpens. Cowens was ejected, of course. But in his mind, he’d exacted a level of revenge.

Cowens bizarre tactic rattled Farmer. The reliever walked Lance Parrish and allowed a run-scoring double to John Wockenfuss before being pulled from the game.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

a very young good dolphin was in attendance. I remember the game. Hate was in the air

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I had a couple of details wrong so I did an edit. You are right - there was a bad feeling throughout the entire game.

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Farmer is fine. DJ is one of the worst color men of all time. He's right up there with Joe Carter.

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