Ed Farmer's backpack is filled with pills — just in case.
There was a time when Farmer swallowed 56 per day — and he can name every one.
"I had to," Farmer said. "My life depended on it."
The White Sox's radio play-by-play man has polycystic kidney disease and has been living with his brother's kidney inside him for 26 years. These days he is down to one medicine — cyclosporine —which he takes every night at 10.
He carries the backpack when he travels, in case his body rejects the kidney that saved his life.