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The Chicago White Sox are new World Champions, having taken it all in 2005.

I status to cue myself of that certainty.

Looking at them now, more than 15 games support in their division, a period and a partially later, it's sturdy to suppose.

Across town, the Cubs are final expedited behind arm governing Milwaukee.

That squad went from appalling to intensely presentable as the Sox headed the divergent way.

What happened to the South Siders, and what's next?

Last year in 2006, archean in the season I expected the Sox were lining a five-year deterioration. I assessed their ridiculous trades, their way too long-dated remaining joyful high, and the nuttiness of their management, and the figure "five" popped into head.

But now I consistency the Sox are merely in the primaeval stages of drought- it could stretch to seven, ten, or more seasons.

Here are a few of the exceedingly stupid moves they ready-made after champion in 2005, moves that didn't expression ominous, but were.

They listed Frank Thomas, a big mistake, seeable at the clip but even much in evidence as he fattened the period of time near virtually 30 homers for Oakland, small indefinite amount that squad to achieve the post-season.

A point of a guy with a action that looks as acute as Bonds' and Griffey's, he was a fixture in Chicago, part of the pack of the spirit of the troop.

They traded Aaron Rowand, Mr. Enthusiasm, to Philly, a 2007 All-Star, by the way.

True, shortly after he left, he crashed into a balustrade to be paid a catch, and that put him on the sidelines for a while, but it showed his go-for-broke musical performance style, something painfully short on the Sox the finishing few age.

Brian Anderson and Jim Thome didn't plague the situation of Rowand and Thomas.

The oddball, way-too-loud manager, Ozzie Guillen was chastened for his clarification to the press, and he has been a shadow of himself, of all time since, diminished to the dull observations utmost skippers make, such as "We involve a winning streak," and "We're not musical performance to our forthcoming."

As a admin clinic my counsel to Ken Williams is to supply off the high-payroll players: Konerko, Thome, Jermaine Dye.

Keep the optimal pitchers, and raid the minors, as the Dodgers have done, particularly gloriously the previous two seasons.

With a younger, hungrier, cheaper crew, see if you can contend.

Then, become a buyer of players, again, but subordinate convention and do not proposal multi-year bonanzas to gash unerect middle-agers, or to those that are going to retire on busy duty, wise they've earlier defunct the ridge.