White Sox Feel Right At Home In Minnesota's New Digs

I love that guy.

New member of the unemployment crowd

The last time the Sox won a game outside? In Minnesota?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN198005270.shtml

Two and a half weeks before I was born.

Executive Summary:

1981: Metropolitan Stadium was a house of horrors. Surely, we’ll do better in the Metrodome.

2010: The Metrodome was a house of horrors. Surely, we’ll do better in Target Field.

at the start of the season that Konerko was going to be leading the league in HR, Rios was going to be ripping the cover off the ball and Freddy was going to be pitching like this, I would have said, “First place, baby!”

What a nerd-o!

no Quentin

CHICAGO at MINNESOTA (1:10)

*John Danks (90 BPV) has posted a 4-PQS or better in four of his last five starts and had a 4-PQS against the Twins on 4/9. He has yet to give up more than 2 ER in a start and carries an ERA of 1.98 into the start at Target Field. Danks will be tested on Wednesday, however, by on of the American League’s top offenses — one that hits lefties hard and has hit Danks himself hard in the past (.306/.387/.502, 1.4 CMD).

Carl Pavano (106 BPV) has posted losses in each of his last two games despite earning PQS scores of four and five; he’s allowed 6 ER over his last 23 IP, with 18 SO against 5 BB. The Twins’ right-hander pitched well against CWS last season, when he compiled a 2.42 ERA (3.46 xERA) in 22.2 IP. He owns a career .637 OPSA in 135 PA against CWS batters.

NOTES: Pavano is easy to run on — he’s given up 17 SB in 18 attempts as a Twin, and last year runners collect 33 total steals off of him. This should bode well for Juan Pierre (OF, CWS) and Alex Rios (OF, CWS) owners. Both are getting on base a lot recently (Rios .471 OBP last 8G). … High-SO/BB innings-eater Alex Burnett (RP, MIN) will likely be rested on Wednesday afternoon — he threw 40 pitches in a solid three-inning appearance on Tuesday.

A former Marine who neighbors say obsessed over his University Park lawn is being held on $3 million bail, accused of gunning down a neighbor whose puppy urinated on the man’s well-manicured grass.

Charles J. Clements, 69, had won the south suburb’s beautification and lawn upkeep award but also was known for threatening people who dared to set foot in his yard, neighbors said.

Joshua Funches, a 23-year-old father of two, was walking his fox terrier Gucci in the 500 block of Landau Road on Sunday night when the dog lifted its leg and went on Clements’ lawn, said Funches’ mother Patricia, 53.

The two men began arguing, and at some point, Clements, a retired truck driver, pulled out a pistol and pointed it at Funches, a Crete-Monee High School graduate who drove a bus, said Will County Assistant State’s Attorney Sondra Denmark.

Witnesses said Funches then said to Clements, “Next time you pull out a pistol, why don’t you use it?” Denmark said. At that point, witnesses said they saw orange and white light and heard a loud noise. They saw Funches fall to the ground.


“It was all over a little wooden plaque,” said an emotional Patricia Funches, referring to the beautification award. “It was a senseless death.”

Clements then returned to his house and changed his clothes. When University Park police arrived, they found the master landscaper in his garage with the door open.

“I knew you were coming for me,” he told police, according to Denmark. “That’s why I changed my clothes. I knew you were coming for me.”

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/05/man-69-charged-south-suburban-fatal-shooting.html

But last night Target Field may as well have been Petco.

good luck on your finals cheat

He OWNS Danks….just saying……but sox still win.

Did Gordon Beckham move a step closer to Triple-A when he was dropped from second to eighth in the White Sox batting order Tuesday?

The slumping second baseman was 0-for-3 agaimnst the Twins, dropping his average to .188 with 28 strikeouts.

“Worst-case scenario is they send me down,” the 2008 first-round draft pick told the Chicago Tribune. “I don’t think it will be forever if they end up doing it. But it’s not going to happen because I’m going to come out of it, and it will be an afterthought. In July, we’ll laugh and say ‘I almost got sent down,’ but it’s not going happen.”

Beckham is not short on confidence, but manager Ozzie Guillen ultimately is interested only in results.

I cannot find one – ONE – person in Florida to accompany me to the Sox game in Tampa the 30th of this month. My buddy here tells me “I don’t even want to see those losers”. Thank God one of you idiots is meeting me there or I’d have an empty van and have to do a Blanche DuBois.