He tells you details about the matchup about to happen before the game starts. He lets Darin Jackson name the starting lineup and info about the other team. He gives you the stuff you need to know like the stats and information about players and managers. He also lets Darin Jackson chime in whenever he feels like. He doesn’t say where the pitch is really.
Even though he’s a former pitcher he doesn’t know what the pitch was sometimes. He does talk about things that don’t have to do with the game or baseball. He does give clear concise information about the players and who’s up to bat and pitching. The thing I like about Ed Farmer is that he was a former pitcher so he can actually say something about what a pitcher is doing and critique it without someone questioning it.
I don’t care for them talking about College Football it’s a baseball game. He gives you no life in what he’s calling it sounds like he’s just talking to someone or reading something to someone. He is like Hawk Harrelson without the personality. The White Sox are one of the only teams with a Play-by-play guy being a former athlete and having to former athletes in the booth. When he was working with Steve Stone he was really a pushover and let Steve talk lots.
I like the chemistry that he and Darrin Jackson have they have a good real conversation during the game even if it’s not about baseball. As a former player he has lots of insights and stories from the time he was playing. He does after a while when getting on a tangent story about something he does because there is time between pitches he can give update on score and outs and pitches. He does talk about things going on during game besides the actual action.
He is really the straight man of calling baseball games even though you would think that being a former player he would have some sort of personality like most of the former athletes do. He sometimes doesn’t give what goes on too much talking to Darin Jackson. His voice actually changes volume when the Sox doing something good like score that’s the only time he show his emotions. I guess it’s a good thing there isn’t much dead air because he talks all the time either if it’s about the game or things around baseball or just them talking like they usually do but it seems like the game is secondary. He’s really monotone when calling the game. He has to ask if he was right about what the pitch was.
He keeps saying inside or just low not much detail like where inside or outside. Some good insights on the past about the other team but it takes away from doing the play by play, it seems like it’s the secondary he’s more like the color commentator. Being a former Sox player and me being a sox fan I like him being a homer on the home radio network. He lets Darin Jackson do some play by play instead of him and that doesn’t make sense he’s the play by the play man not the color unless he wants to switch jobs.
I actually think Darin Jackson does a better job being the play by play guy because it looks like they switch off and it doesn’t make sense to me whatsoever. Ed Farmer is being paid to be the play-by-play announcer not Jackson so it’s just very stupid and confusing because of Farmer doesn’t want to call the whole game then guess what Farmer become a color commentator.