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Ted had received an e-mail from a reader, Bob Belke, who astutely complained, “I can’t take it anymore. These guys make Santo sound informative. All Farmer offers is where every major-league player went to high school, or what he did 20 years ago.”
That about nails it, as the transcript from the top of the third in a June 20 game against the Florida Marlins shows:
Singleton: Looking at some of the eye black, I guess you’d say, that the Marlins have on. They look like Dale Torborg, one of the strength coaches for the White Sox, when he’s doing his wrestling in the off-season. The eye black’s not just a strip. If you look under Amezaga’s eyes, it’s almost like a rock band, there are all kinds of jagged edges to it. Several of the Marlins players have that going on.
UPDATE: Ted Cox’s Herald piece on the move is up now.
