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ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine takes your Cubs and White Sox questions during a live chat at noon CT Tuesday. Click here to submit your questions.

Jesse Rogers enters the Cubs chat room at 12 CT, followed by Doug Padilla on the Sox at 12:30.

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Bruce Levine enters the baseball chat room at 12 CT to talk Cubs and White Sox.

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CHICAGO -- A.J. Pierzynski returned to the city he called home for eight seasons Tuesday evening, but with a new team. After leaving the Chicago White Sox as a free agent, the catcher signed a one-year, $7.5 million deal with the Texas Rangers. Coming back to play the Chicago Cubs has a little less meaning, according to the feisty competitor.

"That series -- the Cubs and Sox is special,” he said before Tuesday's game. “For that, the city turns it up a notch. Everyone here is either a Cub or Sox fan. You are on one side or another, you can’t walk down the middle. It was always fun to come here, it was always fun to play on the other side of town. It was a special series.”

Pierzynski had some big games against the Cubs in the past. That included a game-winning home run off of Ryan Dempster and a fistfight with Cubs catcher Michael Barrett after a home-plate collision.

“It was always very special when you were on the White Sox side coming here," he said. “That was especially true when I first got here because the Cubs were really good. When both of us were really good, it was really fun to play these games. Everyone expected something special to happen, and most of the time it involved something that I had to do. People were just waiting for something to happen.”

The Cubs fans always seemed to save their loudest jeers for Pierzynski when he played for the crosstown Sox. “It was always great and always very fun,” he said. “The fans here have always been great to me. Yeah, they boo, they yell and stuff, but they never cross the line here. They were always very cordial and fun. I expect nothing less.”

Chicago Cubs infielder Brent Lillibridge considers former teammate Carlos Quentin a good friend, which is why he knows how intense Quentin is during a game.

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Jesse Rogers enters the Cubs chat room at 12 CT, followed by Doug Padilla at 12:30.

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ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine takes your Cubs and White Sox questions during a live chat at noon CT Tuesday. Click here to submit your questions.

ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine takes your Cubs and White Sox questions during a live chat at noon CT Tuesday. Click here to submit your questions.

CHICAGO -- For the second straight season, the Chicago Cubs and White Sox have lowered ticket prices.

The move makes sense. Both teams have suffered annual declines in attendance and neither has made the playoffs since 2008.

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CHICAGO -- Spring is coming.

Not to get all Eddard Stark on you, but it's time to batten down the hatches, say a prayer to the Baseball Gods, and prepare for another season of anger and apathy, raised hopes and dashed spirits.

Prepare to endure Chicago baseball. Hey, at least we have the weather.

How many days of your precious life have you spent cursing at the Cubs? How many nights wasted smoldering at the Sox?

Furthermore, would you have it any other way?

Well-intentioned baseball people try to change that with witty slogans and bottom-to-top rebuilding plans, and even in one occasion, an actual World Series championship, but if existence is about dealing with disappointment, then Chicago baseball is perfect.

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ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine takes your Cubs and White Sox questions during a live chat at noon CT Tuesday. Click here to submit your questions.

ESPNChicago.com's Jesse Rogers and Doug Padilla takes your Chicago baseball questions on Friday. Rogers kicks things off talking Cubs at noon CT followed by Doug Padilla on the White Sox at 12:30. Click here to submit your questions.

MESA, Ariz. -- The Detroit Tigers may have done the Chicago White Sox or Chicago Cubs a favor by releasing outfielder Brennan Boesch on Wednesday.

Boesch, who will be 28 next month, had a strained oblique early in spring training and had just started to play again. He is a lifetime .259 hitter with 42 home runs and 175 RBIs. His best season was in 2010 when he batted .283 with 16 home runs, 54 RBIs and a .799 OPS. Boesch missed the entire 2011 season after undergoing right thumb surgery and batted .240 with 12 home runs in 132 games last season.

Two talent evaluators told ESPNChicago.com that a change of scenery might be the best thing for Boesch.

"This kid lost his confidence last season," an American League scout said. "He has good power and runs well for a big man. I think a number of clubs will make him an offer."

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ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine talks Cubs and White Sox during a live chat at noon CT Tuesday. Click here to submit your questions.