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Looking ahead to 2024: Cubs look to build on last season’s successDec 26, 2023 6:00 am - They didn’t land Shohei Ohtani, and the Cubs likely never had much of a chance at signing baseball’s best player. An impact talent like Ohtani would have made the Cubs in...
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Looking back on 2023: Cubs run out of gas; Counsell replaces RossDec 24, 2023 6:12 pm - It was a season of ups and a big down for the Cubs in 2023. Expected to finish in the middle of the NL Central pack and possibly play .500 baseball, the Cubs wound up sec...
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Looking ahead to 2024: White Sox have to be better, right?Dec 24, 2023 6:00 am - On and off the field last season, everything that could go wrong for the White Sox did go wrong. There were losses, lots of them (101). The clubhouse was morose througho...
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Looking back on 2023: White Sox look to regroup after miserable seasonDec 23, 2023 6:00 am - The best thing about 2023 for the White Sox? It’s almost over. In the 123-year history of the franchise, last season checks in near the top of the misery list. Just ask t...
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History can help explain Cubs’ offseason cautionDec 18, 2023 11:16 pm - There's still a couple months before players start filing in for spring training, but Cubs fans seem anxious for some action. When will the team sign a free agent? Will m...
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Ohtani aces this math quiz, but you have to wonder about the DodgersDec 17, 2023 6:00 am - Let’s look at this another way. In 1930 Babe Ruth’s highest salary was $80,000. That would be worth $1.3 million today. On the other hand, Shohei Ohtani’s $700 million de...
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Jim O'Donnell: If Reinsdorf's team is going, please leave a fresh AL franchise on the South SideDec 10, 2023 7:00 am - ALMOST ALL OF THE BEST PLOTS involving Jerry Reinsdorf only grow thicker and thicker. The man could have been a conceptual adviser to spy novelist John le Carre'. The Wh...
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Baseball Way Back: Former White Sox announcer's Kennedy assassination connectionDec 09, 2023 6:00 am - White Sox fans of the Dick Allen era might dimly recall Bill Mercer as Harry Caray's broadcast partner on radio station WMAQ-AM in 1974 and 1975. It was not, to say the ...
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White Sox acquire catcher Max Stassi in trade with BravesDec 09, 2023 12:00 am - Max Stassi is on the move - again. A day after he was traded from the Angels to the Braves, the veteran catcher was flipped to the White Sox Saturday in exchange for a p...
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Sorry, Cubs fans: Ohtani agrees to record $700 million, 10-year contract with DodgersDec 09, 2023 12:00 am - Shohei Ohtani has set a financial record to go along with his singular on-field performance, getting a record $700 million to make a 30-mile move up Interstate 5 to the ...