Griffey the talk of winter meetingsCubs hope to be active, but Sox sitting out

ANAHEIM, Calif. Fantasyland - OK, Disneyland - is just down thestreet. So this would seem to be the appropriate setting for thebaseball winter meetings, where wish lists usually get detoured intothe land of reality.

It is hard to gauge what a few days in the California sunshinewill bring, but it will not produce the gold rush of last December,when the Los Angeles Dodgers spent $105 million on pitcher KevinBrown.

In the past, the winter meetings have been flesh markets for freeagents. But the paltry crop of available players this offseason wouldbe hard-pressed to find roles in B movies.

Opinions vary about what will happen during the next few days,from …