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2006's baseball season brought disappointment to both sides of Chicago. Coming off their 2005 World Series title, the White Sox won 90 games but missed the playoffs — in spite of a number of roster upgrades during the offseason. Did Kenny Williams tinker too much with the chemistry that won them a title in '05? Last year's team never seemed to find its rhythm. On the North Side, the Cubs climbed ever closer to that...

Will Lovie switch teams or will he stay with the Bears? The Cubs signed Cliff Floyd. Scott Podsednik hurt his groin, but the Sox signed Darin Erstad. Dusty Baker finalized a 2-year contract with ESPN. Are the Bulls looking to trade for Pau Gasol? The lions outside the Art Institute are about to show their Bears pride. A fire in a Lakeview apartment yesterday may have been started by a charging laptop. MetroFi may...

With all the potential candidates now known, the Cubs' list to fill Dusty Baker's vacancy seems to be: Lou Piniella, Joe Girardi, Bob Brenley and maybe even Buck Showalter -- the last of the managerial casualties. Braves third base coach Fredi Gonzalez had been on early wish lists, but the Florida Marlins snatched him up within hours of dumping Girardi.

Baseball's regular season concluded yesterday, and as expected, the Cubs and Dusty Baker have parted ways. With his 4-year deal expiring, the Cubs chose not to retain his sevices.

Chicagoist is clearly in the camp with those who believe that Dusty Baker's days as Cubs manager are numbered. With his contract expiring, the Cubs floundering and his blaming everybody but himself we just don't forsee Dusty manning the Wrigley dugout come April.

A few weeks ago, we noted that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban expressed an interest in buying the Cubs. But he's not the only billionaire who could imagine himself in the owner's box at Wrigley. Donald Trump would also be interested! The brash real estate tycoon and reality show star said that he'd like to own the team. When asked by Mike North on 670 the Score, the Donald responded, "I would be interested, yeah....

So is Dusty Baker on the hot seat or not? Recently, comments from Cubs GM Jim Hendry made it sounds like the Cubs skipper might not be returning from the All Star Break.

While we questioned the ability to get up for the Cubs-Sox series a few weeks ago, in light of the White Sox World Series title along with the Cubs poor play, the on-field action between A.J. Pierzynski and Michael Barrett sure created some interest right quick! The ensuing weeks have been far from quiet for both teams. The Cubs' Michael Barrett returns today, after serving his 10 game suspension. Brian Anderson recently returned from his...

Does Wrigley Field need to join the 21st, err even the 20th, Century? Or is it fine just the way it is? Some think that the park's landmark scoreboard needs to be replaced with one featuring a Diamond Vision screen. Chicagoist clearly doesn't spend as much time drinking in the Wrigley Field bleachers as Tribune reporters do, because that's the only logical explanation for the Trib's Eric Benderoff's proposal. He suggests that, while the ivy...

Well, at least the Cubs are number one in something. Dusty Baker has moved from second to first place on Maxim's list of Major League Baseball's Worst Baseball Managers this year. Dusty's job has been safe until recently due to his early success with the Cubs. He guided them to back-to-back winning seasons in 2003 and 2004 something; that had not happened in the previous 30 years. But as the Cubs continue to struggle and...

The Cubs and White Sox each won their season openers Monday. Of course, the Sox actually began their opener on Sunday. A 3-hour rain delay pushed the game into Monday morning, when the game ended around 1:00am.

We're still a week away from baseball's Opening Day, but the crosstown rivalry between the White Sox and Cubs is already in mid-season form. The two teams played against each other in front of a HoHoKam Park record crowd of 12,894 in a Cactus League game yesterday. The game ended in a 4-4 tie after 9 innings. The Cubs rallied from a 4-2 defecit in the final frame, but prior to that Sox skipper Ozzie Guillen had signaled to Cubs manager Dusty Baker that he wasn't interested in playing extra innings -- a luxury of these being exhibition games.

For those who've been living in a cave for the past three years, this week's Sports Illustrated cover story may come as a surprise to you -- Barry Bonds used steroids! Excerpted from the upcoming book Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the article details the extensive regiment of steroids, supplements, growth hormones and other chemicals the slugger used to bulk up on his way to breaking the single-season home run record....

The 2005 regular season ended yesterday, so there's a lot of baseball to discuss. As expected by many, one of our two teams heads into the post-season. Of course, the specific team many thought would be playing in October will be starting their off-season today. The other team is the one who's still gunning for the first Chicago World Series title in more than 85 years.

Today is a day of significant changes for the Cubs, and it'll be interesting to see which direction the team goes in coming weeks as a result.

Cubs fans can rest easy once again now that Ronnie "Woo Woo" Wickers has been found, alive and ... well alive and himself. Chicagoist questions whether he's ever been well. "I've been around, trying to catch up with Dusty Baker and talk to him about pitching and why we're 14 games back," Wickers said. "I was just on an All-Star break, like the players. I've just been spreading love."

Thing just aren't going right for the Cubs lately. Looking like a playoff contender heading into the Cubs-Sox series, the Cubs remain winless in July and have fallen 4 games under .500. Hoping to shake things up, the Cubs sent both Corey Patterson and Jason Dubois down to the minors, where they'll join the AAA Iowa Cubs. Don't worry guys, they've even got an Olive Garden in Des Moines now!

Cubs fans are understandably nervous following the unsettling news from Mesa. Arm troubles have lead the club to shut down both Kerry Wood and Mark Prior.

A week after their South Side rivals held theirs, the Cubs kick off their convention this weekend. Held at the Hilton downtown, the Cubs Convention will feature over 60 current and former players, broadcasters, coaches and management, as well as "autograph and photo sessions, question-and-answer seminars, baseball clinics, hard to find Cubs paraphernalia and much more."

Yesterday brought one of this town's slugger's departure, and it looks like another may soon be packing his bags... if they're not already packed. A Sun-Times article mentioned that groundwork for the Cubs to trade Sammy Sosa appear to have been laid during the recently concluded winter meetings and that a trade may be completed within the next week to 10 day. The Cubs are desperate to move Sosa, whose relationship with manager Dusty Baker is strained beyond repair. While it's looking like it'll cost the Cubs more to move him than they initially thought, the $10 million worth of his salary they'll likely have to pick up will be worth it.

As Chicagoist reported previously, the Cubs had a couple high profile vacancies in their broadcast booth to fill this off-season after both Chip Caray and Steve Stone.

The Cubs sure went out quietly, losing 7 of 9 to close out the season and missing out on making the playoffs. But the Cubs have sure made a lot of noise off the field. Everybody seems to be feuding, blaming others for the team's failures.

Chicagoist had hoped to perform our own taste test the other day, but our local Subway was out of roast beef -- an early indicator pointing to Guillen's popularity. The South Sider combines roast beef with turkey, bacon Swiss cheese and ranch dressing.