With just six days remaining before baseball's winter meetings start in Dallas, there were signs that the Sox were heading toward a resolution. Former Orioles vice president Jim Beattie said last night that he spoke with Sox CEO Larry Lucchino on Thanksgiving and again on the weekend. ''I've been given an indication that the first part of this week I might hear something," said Beattie, the Maine native who was GM of the then-Montreal Expos and shared the Baltimore GM job with Mike Flanagan until getting dismissed by the Orioles earlier this fall. Another candidate for the job, Dave Wilder, the director of player development for the White Sox, did not get a second interview with Boston, as did Beattie and Washington Nationals GM Jim Bowden (who did not return a phone call last night). But Wilder may yet be in the running, perhaps in some kind of tandem arrangement with Beattie. On Sunday, Lucchino called White Sox GM Kenny Williams and questioned him about Wilder; one of Lucchino's closest advisers, Jeremy Kapstein, also called Wilder on Thanksgiving with holiday greetings.