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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.

Submit questions here and come back for the chat.

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

Submit questions here and come back for the chat.

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

Submit questions here and come back for the chats.

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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Bruce Levine enters the baseball chat room at 12.

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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.

Cubs utilityman Brent Lillibridge discusses the differences between Dale Sveum and his manager last year with the White Sox, Robin Ventura.

ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine took your Cubs and White Sox questions during a live chat from spring training. Click here to read the chat wrap and his answers on Jorge Soler, the potential of trading Chris Sale and more.