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Baseball is off on its annual winter cruise, basking in better weather and no pauses for commercials. "Small ball" has gone away, too, along with Craig Biggio's dirt-smudged helmet, Red Sox Nation, and the speculation about Roger Clemens's mother's deathbed references to Shoeless Joe Jackson. The 2005 season will be replayed every day on the south side of Chicago, including Christmas and Easter, now that the astounding White Sox have won the championship, their first since 1917, while the rest of us make do with briefer recapitulations. What first comes back to mind here is not a play or a strikeout but a noise: the flat, room-filling whock! or Whock-k-k! of the ...