These are never easy things to write.
In the midst of the unspeakable tragedies that are surrounding us, as thousands are slowed and felled by the coronavirus, news came early Thursday of the death of White Sox icon Ed Farmer.
He was 70. No cause of death has been given, but Farmer did suffer from a rare kidney cyst disease that even had began to affect him near the end of his playing career. A longtime advocate of organ donation, Farmer received a kidney from his brother around the time he joined the White Sox broadcast team (his brother was unaffected by the disease, as Farmer had inherited it from his mother, who died at 38) and had a massive volume of daily medications taken to help him deal with his illness.