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You will be greatly missed, Farmio.

We've long had discussions on their limitations, but Farmer and DJ made me belly laugh a lot. They were so weird, such a different pairing than you'd seek to put together for a broadcast. That had its issues, but also its highs.

Rest In Peace Farmio, I will always have a special place in my heart for Ed. I spent a lot of time delivering pizzas growing up in Tinley Park, listened to Sox games in the car as much as I could. My favorite Farmer call from that era was when Bob Howry beaned Torii Hunter, apparently Hunter was giving Howry the stare down, Farmer said something to the effect of "yeah, go on out there Torii, you'll have one less "I" in your name and in your head!" Right around that time I was able to meet Ed, a family friend happened to be a chef in the clubhouse restaurant, once a year he would get us a free skybox. The last year he worked there he took me down the hall and into to the broadcast booth to meet Ed during an inning, my 17 year old mind was blown. Ed popped up, shook my hand all while Rooney handled the game, asked me where I went to school, I told him Providence Catholic, his reply "ahhhh the Augustians!" At the time I didn't know he went to St Rita, so I was taken aback by his knowledge of Catholic orders. Longest fingers of any man I've shaken hands with, must have come in handy for wrapping up those curve balls! Ed wasn't everybody's cup of tea, but you can't deny the passion Ed had for White Sox Baseball and the love he brought to that park every day. I feel like there's not many of these guys left, every time we lose one it is a sad day. Thanks for the memories Ed, your passion for baseball rubbed off on this Sox fan and you got me through many a long shift!

Terrible news. Growing up, we didn't have cable so we listened to games. Every night. Ed has been part of the soundtrack of my life for nearly 30 years. Listening to him while playing backyard ball, at the dinner table and every time I was in the car. It won't be the same with out him. Rest in Peace, Ed. Turn on the fireworks!

I'm hoping that as a society, we change the way we view the importance of so many working class jobs. How many "unskilled" workers are putting their health on the line right now for little pay and no sick leave or job security while most of us work from home? Perhaps we should recognize them as essential and important always, and above all as people equally worthy of dignity and respect and living wages. I hope too we recognize the importance of making our society more resilient to these sorts of crises in the future. We could have been much better prepared and equipped to deal with this, and we will need to deal with more global warming induced crises in the near future.

You come back and stir up shit with posters you have never interacted with, literally blame them for a pandemic based on a comment from months ago and now want to complain about a comment being masked? GTFOH with that bullshit

I really am going to miss hearing his voice when listening to games while driving in the car. I learned to enjoy the give and take between him and DJ. I truly wish he is in heaven finally driving one of those windy city limos, or whatever else makes his dreams come true. Prayers to his family at this difficult time.

I think we all can acknowledge that Caulfield was right from the beginning. I think we all could have taken this more seriously two months ago and, based on some posters’ comments, some more than others.

Ed Farmer and DJ were 100 times better then what the cubs put on the air. Thank you for keeping me company in my car with your knowledge and experience . You loved Chicago ....and Chicago loved you . Thank you Mr. Farmer ...Peace

I'd like to think Eddie loved baseball so much , he couldn't live without it. RIP true Chicagoan !

Ha, it's incredible to me anyone didn't know he went to St. Rita 😜

30% unemployment is a crisis. If you're 65 you likely served in Vietnam, so thanks for your service. But do you know that more people will likely die in this virus than all US losses in Vietnam? By a factor of 2-3 even? This is much worse than the fake ass crisis in Vietnam, with the now discredited domino theory of Soviet expansion. I mean, my mom is 66, this is the worst thing she says that's ever happened, not even close. This is the worst crisis since WWII, that is more than fair to say.

Seriously! They weren't just weird by baseball broadcast standards, they weird by any standard and it was so funny. But when the game's pressure was on, even though Farmer was not visual in what happens, DJ and him really got into the psychological part of the game that I loved. So good at talking about the battery game within the game. Also that relationship of radio, listening in your car on road trips and laughing together. So upsetting to not have again.

Agreed. This is what I liked about them. Unique. Not run of the mill boring professionals. It was fun. I for one will greatly miss him and that unique booth. Godspeed.

Farmio: "Flowers to the mound to talk to Noesi. Here comes Coop." Farmio: "Here's how that conversation is gonna go: (Coop) how's he throwing? (Flowers) I don't know, I haven't caught one" RIP Ed Farmer. "GO CRAZY!"

https://news.yahoo.com/behind-scenes-kushner-takes-charge-235545283.html You know you’re in serious trouble when a secret government cabal behind the scenes led by Jared Kushner offers the greatest promise. The senseless death threats to Dr. Fauci are just the icing on the cake.

I had not read anything. Last spring training (2019) he sounded really rough, but he picked it up as year went along. I remember thinking then something was wrong. When he signed on for another year I figured he was fine. very sad. RIP Farmio the best call of the World Series “Sox Lead! SIX FOUR!”

We are doomed (We've known this for months)

I agree when Rooney and Farmer were together it was great. Farmer MUCH better color guy than PBP. I can't help think of '05 without thinking of some of Rooney and Farmer's calls. Quick Farmer story....I got to caddie for him once as a kid. He was a great guy, took time to talk to me even as a kid. He was especially enjoyable to talk to considering all I wanted to talk about was the White Sox. I think it was around '02 or '03. He was a very good golfer at that time as well...not sure how many times he played Olympia Fields CC, but he played pretty well for a guest. I wasn't as much of a fan of him with DJ, probably mostly because I think Farmer was better suited for color than PBP, but I will certainly miss his voice whenever regular life can resume. RIP Farmer, you will be missed by Sox Nation.

Nothing. Now have another sip of Kool aid.

If it's not on my magamouthbreathers.com page it is not legit.

Peter Hotez has been a frequent face on CNN and MSNBC lately, so swing and a miss here.

This is as good as it gets. The Sox are World Series Champions, and Chicago: Go crazy!" RIP Ed,

Germany ramped up for this at the same time our leadership was mocking it. They had their first case the day after we did.

Julie DiCaro canned at 670. Of course she plays the woman card immediately. No, Julie, you just suck and are a horrible champion for women. Good riddance.

Oh I'm not saying liquidity is bad right now. We don't want tons of businesses cratering due to completely uncontrollable circumstances. But that's why the stock market goes up on a day we announce 6.6 million unemployment claims. The subtext there is that we're still doing far, far too little for actual everyday people as rent and mortgages come due, and floating SALT deduction rollbacks as your next big policy idea is just shockingly inadequate. The next wave is going to be tens of millions losing insurance because their jobs evaporated combined with severe state and local austerity as tax receipts collapse, leading to more unemployment. Congress appears to be completely incapable of even conceiving of ways to address this crisis right now let alone put them into action.

There’s a great story Mitch Rosen told about him. He grew up without a lot but his Mom saved some money to take him and his brother to Yankee Stadium and his mom asked a security guard to let them in since they wanted to see Yankee Stadium and they were out of town. The security guard told them to get lost. He noticed the security guard was missing a thumb. He debuted at Yankee Stadium and was driven to the field by a security guard from the bullpen. He noticed the thumb was missing and turned to the guy saying, “You son of a b****, you're the guy that told my mom off so many years ago when we were at Yankee stadium! Now I'm pitching at Yankee Stadium. You can go fuck yourself!" RIP Ed Farmer. Swing and a long one to left! Go crazy!

I spent about 10 summers living on the island then moving inland the rest of the year. I still have a lot of friends down there. It's tough to get down as much as I would like. It's about a four hour drive from San Antonio. They keep the beaches clean near the developed areas. I would mostly drive north towards the Port Mansfield cut. I actually prefer the Laguna Madre side. As you go north the inter-coastal is incredible.

The disruption is what is going to cause the social change not necessarily the virus itself. There are going to be A LOT more poor people in 2021 than there were in 2019.

This right here is why you have the hoax/conspiracy nuts. Young people (under 30) have a terrible understanding of history and how society today compares. So when you say crap like this, the Trump supporter who is 65-75 and has seen some worse shit (e.g., being forced to go to war vs. being forced to stay home and watch TV all day) immediately discounts it. This isn't the most dire crisis this country has faced. It probably doesn't even rank in the top 5. It's a serious, serious problem though and overstating it's seriousness is just as detrimental as understating it.

I loved that pairing. Rooney is magnificent, and Ed was so great as the analyst. I loved when he got into the pitchers mindset, I learned a lot about baseball strategy from Ed.

(He’s a liar)

Him and DeSantis are taking their cues from Trump. This is not me being snarky, it's the truth. It's why DeSantis wouldn't shut down the beaches and why he would only accept people from Florida off the cruise ship, and why both of them refused to issue stay at home orders until it the horse was way out of the barn

Because the administration is setting him up as the fall guy by making the failings of the CDC all seem like his doing. The blood is already in the water, everyone knows Trump hated that he contradicted him multiple times. People are now blaming him for the virus spreading

Who could possibly be threatening Fauci and why? Because he corrects the used car salesman?

What's wrong with Breitbart?

She does have a point with some women leaving or being let go though.

He's right though. This is first time an illness has shutdown the entire country in over 100 years. While Boomers might think that isn't a big deal, they are wrong.

This is good news and matches what I've heard from friends at hospitals:

I just think this is the best Fed Reserve in our lifetimes. The action they have taken has been more correct and faster than certainly 2008. Powell has been the most responsive to the dual mandate of any FED since the economists took over. But more, the stock market is down, and it already lost 1/3rd of it's value in a month. But more, I think it's just a reality that much of the growth of the last 4 years has come from the top companies. And those are also the least likely to be hurt by this growth and likely will benefit (maybe not apple, but then again, maybe it gets their terrible streaming off the ground). So I'm not shocked.

it's amazing they are willing to print as much money as they will need, but cut a pandemic team because it's considered wasteful spending.

I don't even get what is going on now. Why is the market up today? 6.6 million jobless claims. That's 10 million in 2 weeks. Using that number there is currently a 9.5% unemployment rate. At the peak of the Great Recession, it was 10%. People are losing their insurance, and it isn't gettng better next week. When they get sick, what is going to happen? There are many who don't qualify for medicaid, and don't have the means for COBRA. Why aren't they opening up Obamacare other than political reasons? Apparently people are betting on a fast bounce back, but we have no idea when this ends. Probably at least a month or two after the administrations worst case scenerio, and if you look at China, while their economy is bouncing back, it's bouncing back very slowly. No one has a stimulus check, and that $1200 or so will be gone almost immediately. The small business loans don't even start until tomorrow. How long is it going to take for them to process all of the unemployment claims? And more and more people keep getting sick and dying.

But you won't see that on a personal level like after 9/11. Businesses may clean more, for example, but that's behind the scenes. Travel won't change for the average person (I can't see them implementing mandatory health checks for each flight...they aren't even doing that in the height of the pandemic). And yeah, hopefully the government takes this seriously and keeps a pandemic response/biological security team in place, but we had that just a few years ago and no one thought about it. On a personal, day to day level, this doesn't compare to the effects of 9/11 except for the disruption which I grant you will be months, not weeks.

I watched Trump presser yesterday. Why is any of our time and tax money being spent on a useless border wall instead of on hospitals, medical staff, CV-19 testing and medical research to find treatments and a cure ? And what does drug interdiction at the border have to do with this pandemic ? Maybe the House has to propose legislation to stop any funding for the border wall, at least until after the response to the corona emergency has been funded and resolved.

I always thought it started out as a complete mismatch and awkwardness mixed with a crabby old guy, which kind of turned into a long series of inside jokes. I spent a lot of time broadcasting myself, and always paid extra close attention to the home teams announcers and never heard anything like Farmer and DJ.

The pandemic behavioral timeline from the White House starting in 2017 is pretty outrageous and egregious. When you present direct documented evidence it is met with disbelief disdain and denial. There can be no dispute that we have moved far beyond truth and logic and we will get what we deserve. This will all be capped off in November by an equally disturbing upheaval.

Uh no. The study in France involved people who were not Seniors and those without serious pre-existing medical conditions. You can give a placebo pill to otherwise healthy young people and most will recover after being infected the Covid-19 virus To cast further doubts, the dude who is promoting hyrochloriquine looks like Trump's family doctor. https://www.france24.com/en/20200329-french-expert-says-second-study-shows-malaria-drug-helps-fight-coronavirus

Rodon still has four more weeks on the IL, he suffered a setback earlier in the year. Burger has moved to first base for Winston-Salem. He's hitting .283/.370/.479 with 18 HR and 62 RBI in 95 games. Dunning has been abjectly terrible in Charlotte, going 3-11 with an ERA of 8.25.