It has been a strange winter on the North Side. They played a hockey game at Wrigley Field last week, and now a team coming off its first back-to-back postseason appearances in 100 years is taking drastic measures to get over the biggest hump in sports.
Chris De Luca: Manager Ozzie Guillen has the uncanny ability to affix a label on just about anything, even if most of his words are unprintable. So let's go to Guillen for guidance on just what to call the 2009 White Sox. Youth movement? Rebuilding club? Guillen stops the game right there.
Chris De Luca: Cubs general manager Jim Hendry walked out of the Bellagio on Thursday essentially empty-handed. No big left-handed bat. No new leadoff hitter. No Jake Peavy.
LAS VEGAS -- The subject was Jake Peavy and the Cubs, but Lou Piniella was more interested in the horse race unfolding on one of the TV screens at the Bellagio's sports book.
LAS VEGAS -- Looking to rebuild their rotation, the New York Yankees showed they mean business Wednesday, reaching a tentative agreement with free-agent left-hander CC Sabathia on a record-setting seven-year, $161 million contract during Day 3 of the winter meetings.
LAS VEGAS -- Javier Vazquez and Josh Fields: two distinctly different players who each had a terrible closing month of the 2008 season with the White Sox.
LAS VEGAS -- It wouldn't happen in today's climate -- even with the Cubs' parent company filing for bankruptcy. Had a Greg Maddux in his prime become a free agent now, there's no way the star pitcher gets a chance to sign with the Atlanta Braves.
