If Dave Van Dyck of the Chicago Tribune has his story right today, it looks like Jose Contreras, one of the White Sox Fearsome Four starting pitchers could wind up as trade bait to the Orioles for their shortstop Miguel Tejada. I am unconvinced the White Sox need or want to make that trade, since Juan Uribe is excellent at short, and Contreras is Contreras. But, as the story relates, Kenny Williams, the Sox GM, has his sights on ending Cubs' domination of baseball culture in Chicago, and that trade would shoot another arrow into the daring heart a/k/a the "Cub's hopes". Maybe that kind of South Side will to win will bring needed upgrades in the Cubs' strategies. Otherwise our l'il bruins will wind up at best second best in what is now, by size, the "third city".