The baseball offseason is just starting to heat up with Chicago's baseball teams and local media stoking trhe flames of their fans' free agent hopes, once again only to be let down. The way the Tribune and Sun-Times were playing it, Omar Vizquel and Troy Percival were no-brainers to sign with the Sox and Cubs, respectively, who turned around and signed with San Francisco and Detroit (Detroit?!!) without any visits to the Windy City. Who is at fault here? The media driving expectations with mere speculation, or are the Cubs and Sox just talking a good game, as they've done for years? Either way, I can't believe that the Cubs couldn't attract Percival, unless they saw something in the MRI on his elbow or otherwise just flat out refused to make a competitive offer to one of the better closers in free agency. Hope there's a plan here, but I've experienced about one-third of nearly a Century of Futility...
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