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Paul Sullivan: It's Bizarro World for the Cubs and White Sox

CHICAGO - The arrow was pointing up for the White Sox going into Wednesday's City Series matchup.

Tuesday's opener at Wrigley Field ended with the homer and the gloating, giving Sox fans a chance to look down on their North Side peers for the first time in a long time. Eloy Jimenez's sudden power surge and the eventual arrival of rotation savior Dylan Cease were proof positive the rebuild finally had turned a corner, and better yet, the Sox stole them from the Cubs in broad daylight.

The Cubs, meanwhile,

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