All Cubs, all Sox, all the time

Three down. Three to go. Please head on over to the Chicago Sun-Times today at 3 p.m. CST to join the author and fellow wise-cracker Kevin Allen for a live blogcast of today's Cubs-Sox game at U.S. Cellular Field. Here's a little sampling of what you can talk about around the water cooler while you wonder where Santa's going to outsource his labor to:

The White Sox can't win the season series with the Cubs, but maybe if they start winning Ozzie can enjoy his dinner in peace. Guillen explains: "I don't want to hear people talk about baseball as soon as the game is over, but you're in Chicago, you have to do that. I went to an Italian restaurant, they only know about soccer. All of a sudden, this guy comes up to me speaking in Italian about [one of the games last weekend]. I'm thinking, 'Oh, God, that's just what I need.' ''

One of Chicago's toughest critics says the Cubs have what it takes to break that oh-so-vexing hex that's been hanging over their heads for a century. And they seem to be taking the high road in the little war of words started last series.

This is pretty cool, but kind of renders all this weekend's silly baseball-playing a little pointless.