CHICAGO -- Yes, that was a hesitant Alfonso Soriano rounding third base and coming home in the seventh inning Saturday at Wrigley Field.
CHICAGO -- A big-league clubhouse is a place where you can eat candy for breakfast and where pants are optional, so it's not like the White Sox dropped a pair of inflatable dolls in the middle of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
How good are the Cubs? How bad is the baseball they're playing right now?
CINCINNATI -- And the White Sox thought they needed slump-busting help.
CHICAGO -- Gavin Floyd was trying to remember Wednesday how many times he has flirted with no-hitters during his brief career when he finally gave up.
ST. LOUIS -- Don't believe the April hype or the gaudy numbers or the five- and six-game winning streaks the first 30 games of the season.
TORONTO -- There stood Jeff Cox on Saturday, cap off, proudly displaying his freshly shaven head. Also gone was the '70s-style mustache that the White Sox third-base coach had been working on.
CHICAGO -- It started in the rain and biting cold with an extra-inning loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on March 31. It ended on another cold night in Wrigley Field on Wednesday against the Brewers, but with a decidedly better outcome.
MINNEAPOLIS -- It was never supposed to be easy.
CHICAGO -- April may be only the first month of the baseball season, but for some it's never too early to hype a pennant race if it involves the Cubs in first place.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Whistling-through-the-graveyard time has just about ended for White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen.
CHICAGO -- Brian Roberts understands that uncertainty is simply part of the job, that right now trade rumors shouldn't even be classified as distractions.
His average had slipped below .200 going into the game Sunday, but Paul Konerko was driving in runs at almost a one-per-game clip for the White Sox - 13 in his last 15 games to be exact.
WASHINGTON -- After the game Sunday, Cubs right fielder Kosuke Fukudome sat in the trainer's room having that bothersome cyst above his right eye lanced again.
WASHINGTON -- After the game Sunday, Cubs right fielder Kosuke Fukudome sat in the trainer's room having that bothersome cyst above his right eye lanced again.
WASHINGTON -- Carlos Zambrano made a point this spring to stay away from Cy Young predictions, but one month into the season, the Cubs' ace is doing it again.
CHICAGO -- The statistics show the White Sox are hitting again after last season's offensive slump, leading the American League in home runs and runs per game and ranking a healthy fourth in runs scored.
Editor's note: Thursday's Yankees-White Sox game ended after The Sun went to press.
DENVER -- As the Cubs rolled into first place and racked up nine wins in 10 games over the last two weeks, it has been easy to ignore the team's surprising weakness in the early going.
DENVER -- Don't look now, but the National League might be starting to catch the long-mighty American League in marquee talent and championship-caliber teams.
CHICAGO -- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen had no problem expressing his affinity for New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter.
CHICAGO -- The matrix that forms the Major League Baseball schedule is essentially a collection of self-interests. Factors can range from the demands of ESPN, to the preservation instincts of Chicago aldermen negotiating night games at Wrigley Field, or a historic visit by the pope.
This is ridiculous. Who are these guys? With only a couple of additions to the lineup this April, the free-swinging, oft-missing Cubs, well, aren't anymore.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Joe Crede would like to say that he and perennial MVP candidate Alex Rodriguez have a lot in common.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Joe Crede would like to say that he and perennial MVP candidate Alex Rodriguez have a lot in common.
A year ago, closer Ryan Dempster would have been angry at himself for blowing a save for his Cubs teammates.
John Danks was getting tired of being "the guy."
Slumping designated hitter Frank Thomas was released Sunday by the Blue Jays, who cut the 19-year veteran one day after he became angry for being taken out of the lineup.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- There was a buzz around the White Sox clubhouse Saturday when they heard former teammate Frank Thomas had been benched in Toronto.
John Danks was getting tired of being "the guy."
Slumping designated hitter Frank Thomas was released Sunday by the Blue Jays, who cut the 19-year veteran one day after he became angry for being taken out of the lineup.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- There was a buzz around the White Sox clubhouse Saturday when they heard former teammate Frank Thomas had been benched in Toronto.
CHICAGO -- Derrek Lee's already three months ahead of his home run pace of last season. So what's the deal?
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Andy Sonnanstine threw a three-hitter for his first career complete game and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago White Sox 5-0 on Saturday night.
BALTIMORE -- Body language was everything.
CHICAGO -- Dusty Baker got a win at Wrigley Field while managing the Cincinnati Reds, thanks to Joey Votto and Ken Griffey Jr.
BALTIMORE -- The "yeah, buts" were still floating around the South Side when the White Sox left town Tuesday for their five-game road trip.
CHICAGO -- So Alfonso Soriano was last seen hopping down the DL trail, $136 million worth of power-hitting Cubs left fielder gone for at least two weeks.
CHICAGO -- Northern Illinois will always be the place where Scott Lawler met his wife, where the new assistant took classes with some of his players, where he swerved onto his professional fast track.
CHICAGO -- White Sox left-hander John Danks remembered winning on his birthday before. "I guess I'm 2-0," he said of turning 23 on Tuesday with another victory.
CHICAGO -- Conventional wisdom said the aggravating hop Cubs left fielder Alfonso Soriano does before each catch of a routine fly ball was going to cost him one day.
CHICAGO -- As Nick Swisher jogged back to the dugout in the eighth inning, he couldn't help but flash the "that close" sign, holding his thumb and finger just an inch apart.
CHICAGO -- Will Dusty Baker get booed today when he returns to Wrigley Field with his new team? Of course he will. And it's his own fault.
CHICAGO -- The fireworks that an 11-0 White Sox victory brings were enough to warm the chilled 26,294 fans at U.S. Cellular Field Sunday.
PHILADELPHIA -- The last time the Cubs went to Philadelphia, Ted Lilly was about the only thing that went right, pitching the Cubs to one of only two victories during an otherwise ugly seven-game Eastern swing and making that freshly signed $40 million deal look like a bargain.
CHICAGO -- Gavin Floyd had been here before, flirting with a no-hitter no less than three times in his career.
