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"I was trying to put the finishing touches on our half-assed 2012 lineup last night and it came to me," said Sox GM Kenny Williams and Cubs President Theo Epstein in unison. "I should join forces with that poor sap on the other side of town. He's got it just as bad as me, maybe even worse."

With the Chicago Cubs hoarding most of the baseball headlines this offseason, it may be easy to forget about the city's other team on the South Side. For Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein, the actual existence of the Chicago White Sox was news to him.

The Baker Clause is a contractual provision allowing Wood to personally club Dusty Baker before any Reds-Cubs game. Wood has pined for the clause for years after Baker’s regime in Chicago—wherein Baker single-handedly destroyed the career of Mark Prior, and nearly did the same to Wood.

Cubs fans who don't want to be completely depressed about sexual assault allegations against Starlin Castro have been encouraged by the team to do nothing but look at pictures of puppies on the Internet all day.

It appears nobody is immune to Theo Epstein's efforts to make the entire Cubs organization more youthful, athletic and cost effective. The new Cubs president announced today that he has worked out a deal to ship TV broadcasters Len Kasper and Bob Brenly to the Class-A Fort Wayne TinCaps for a pair of 23-year-old broadcasters holding no experience other than recently obtained degrees from Ball State.