Morning Cubs and Sox Links

Cubs beat up on the Nationals thanks to Rich Harden and Derrek Lee. The White Sox took an extra day to collect their thoughts before facing mighty Baltimore.

Cubs win! Tribune. ST. Herald. MLB.

Cubs sign BJ Ryan. You can read all about it.

Lou spent some time with the President. What I would have paid to see that.

Speaking of Barack. Rick Morrissey is clearly out of things to write about.

Sox are getting ready for the second half. Various ways of explaining how they will go about it from all the usual suspects. Tribune. ST. Herald. MLB. ESPNChicago.

I missed this the other day, but here is a story about Hawk and his new "Hell, yes" call.