Chicago ? Jake Peavy woke up from a nap and had about 40 minutes to make a decision on his future. The clock was ticking toward the end of Friday’s non-waiver trade deadline and the Chicago White Sox — the team he’d turned down back in May — were beckoning again.

This time, Peavy said yes. He would leave the only team he’d ever pitched for, the San Diego Padres, and try to help the White Sox reclaim the AL Central championship.

“I just didn’t think the timing was right in May. … We certainly left the door open,” Peavy said Saturday after pulling on a No. 44 White Sox jersey in a photo op with general manager Ken Williams, who was persistent in his pursuit of the 2007 NL Cy Young Award winner.

Family was a big consideration when the White Sox first came calling, and still is for Peavy.

“At the time, I thought San Diego was the place to be for me. We were right in the thick of things, had won five or six in a row, eventually ran off 10 in a row,” Peavy said at a news conference that was attended briefly by Spike Lee. “Injuries struck our team pretty hard. We obviously are in a different place right now than we were there then.”

“The White Sox are in a totally different position than they were,” he added.