We probably would. I'm stir crazy, cranky, and tired of this covid shit. While I find it to be serious, I find the overreactions of many to be insane. I understand the immunocompromised, but the OCD weirdos who started with the toilet paper thing kind of set me off.

Literally every scolding post I see from people just triggers "fear mongering" in my brain at this point.

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RIP Farmio. I really liked him as a broadcaster, though you could tell his health was deteriorating the past couple years.

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

This goes out to half of Curious Hair, too, but he was the only damn broadcaster to wish you a happy seder. #respect

Following BigW72, here are some other Farmio expressions:

"(A Sox batter) could do some damage here or tie it with a slam!"
"He's up in the ump's grill!"
"He's from Medicine Hat, which is only twelve miles from Bakersfield . . ."

I was a really big fan. Could tell some great stories from his MLB and minor league days. He and DJ had a great rapport, and you could tell they were close friends.

Connor and Bernsie just did a good job on this in their first segment. I had forgotten for a while I guess about the Al Cowens/Frank White thing.

Anyway, I guess I had the advantage of moving away and not hearing some of the times near the end when maybe he wasn't great. For me though as a lifelong Sox fan Farmer was Sox radio for me and as odd as it may seem Farmer and DJ were just the best.

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Elections have consequences.

Does Bernstein still have Ed Farmer's Warning To The Jews banked?

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AMEN!!!!

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2018
#ExtendLafleur
10 More Wins

I loved Ed's dry sense of humor. It more than made up for his "Where was that?" and "What was that?" play by play.

he grew on me over the years.

In the end I liked him. This sucks.

Didnt know he had such a serious-ass health problem. Glad it wasnt Chinese virus.

And I didnt know he was up there at 70. Seemed a lot younger.

Glad I got to hear him tell his story last year about how he negotiated with Reinsdorf to get more money as a young player, and Reinsdorf gave in

RIP

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On the bottom of that pile was Farmio after being cowardly attacked by Al Cowens......maybe this is where Ed got his famous get up off the deck call, If you wanted an obscure Big Leaguers California High School playing days info Farmio was your guy. RIP

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

love the home plate umpire just strolling by watching as if nothing is happening

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Well shit, turns out this is real then?

Dreadful.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

He talked about it in a nice funny way actually.

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Elections have consequences.

Rooney and Farmer in 2005 and prior...Since then, woof.

RIP.

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@audioidkid

ah when baseball wasn't run by the nanny state.

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

Had no idea about kidney transplant. That's pretty amazing he lived that long.

He didn’t shit all over a beloved broadcasters memory huh ? Odd.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

This sucks. Really liked hearing him doing play-by-play and he seemed like a nice guy.

R.I.P. Farmio

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Dennis DeYoung on ESPN 1000 NOW!!!

Talking about Ed Farmer

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I never liked him as a broadcaster.

But I heard people tell stories about him all day on the SCORE. And he was a nice guy. Which is more important than being a good broadcaster.

Condolences to his friends and family. Sounded like he had a lot of friends.

I was just about to post this as my earliest Sox and Farmer memory.

I was at that game. I wasn't even double digits in age. I remember seeing Farmer leaving the field with a towel covered in blood held to his face. We had about as good of seats as my dad ever got, along the 1st base line about even with first. The crowd was ready to riot.

I loved Ed Farmer as a player and that is all I have to say about that.

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

The guy who runs the Chicago Microbreweries FB group had a good Farmer story today. Seems like everyone who met him had a good story about him, except for Al Cowens.

I would frequently catch an inning or two while driving home from my parents' house. I always enjoyed DJ just driving Ed insane. You figure that if they had a camera in the booth, you'd have seen them both cracking up, and not in that fake way that Zaidman laughs at Pat Hughes and his insipid "jokes."

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Please don't soil the Ed Farmer thread with any discussions of that nameless "ginger haired genius".

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"Yeah I could have worked at Harvard Medical School but I didn't" is the good stuff.

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