Sox earn sweep revenge

CHICAGO - Lou Piniella saw it coming, his team's fall from grace. “I tried to tell you people about it a few weeks ago ... but when you're 20 games over .500, the sky's never falling,” he said Sunday, hours before his team dropped its season-high fourth consecutive game, 5-1, to the White Sox. “This is not gloom and doom. It is a reality, though. This is something that I have been concerned about. I (thought) about this, (worried) about this on a daily basis. “I gave it a heck of a lot of thought. And I was concerned.” Piniella's prophecy proved right on the money - the Cubs (49-33) have lost eight of 12 overall, six straight on the road. They're beat up, physically and mentally. Their starting pitching is confounding, their offense incons