CHICAGO — One of the great observations of the Chicago baseball scene appeared several decades ago in a column by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Steve Daley.
“Baseball has no offseason in Chicago,” Daley wrote. “Interest only starts to wane when the teams start to play their games.”
That was long before the Cubs and White Sox ended their respective championship droughts, when both teams spent the winter months bragging about all their moves, only to watch those big signings blow up in their faces the following season.
