White Sox players and fans watch the season come to a close.
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Chris De Luca: They stopped playing postseason baseball in the Midwest on Monday. No more Cubs. No more Brewers. And now no more White Sox.
A.J. Pierzynski looked around the clubhouse and started to smile. ''One word to describe this year? Roller coaster,'' the White Sox catcher said without a pause.
In the bitter end, the difference might have been Brian Roberts, after all. Maybe he wouldn't have overcome the walks in Game 1 or the errors in Game 2, but the Cubs' woeful lack of playoff hitting comes down to two big deficiencies: First, they have no left-handed hitters whom opponents respect. The second one is that the Cubs aren't built to hit in the postseason.
Andrew Herrmann: Jose Cardenal roamed the Wrigley Field outfield in the 1970s, a favorite with a lot of fans but especially so for certain females -- despite a bushy afro that, bursting from beneath his Cubbie ball cap, made him look more like Bozo than a ballplayer.
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The method is far from scientific, but Halloween stores are predicting the winner in the presidential election, and there’s no exit polling needed — only political mask sales. Halloween suppliers say sales of masks of presidential candidates have predicted the winner in the last several campaigns. So far, that’s good news for Barack Obama, whose mask is outselling John McCain’s at several national retailers.
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Roger Ebert: It was a night out of your dreams. We'd been invited by James Bond, the famed projection wizard, to see the new Kinowerks post-production and screening facility he designed and built on Chicago's north side. You have James to thank if you've ever attended the Grant Park outdoor film festival or Ebertfest. He'd arranged with Robert Harris, the famed restoration wizard, to show us Paramount's new print of "The Godfather."
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Sandra Guy: Nearly 11,000 Illinoisans with Countrywide mortgages -- most of them in the Chicago area -- are expected to get help to avoid foreclosure after Countrywide's new owner, Bank of America, agreed to an $8.7 billion settlement with Illinois and 10 other states.
Ouch! Dow ends down 369 after falling over 800 points
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Arbitron rollout jumps the gun
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