A real quick recap since most of you have better things to do on the weekend.

• Jose Contreras was terrible, looking almost nothing like the pitcher who filled us with cautious optimism in spring training. He was throwing far too much from his drop-down delivery, was falling behind a lot, and if not for the out-making abilities of Magglio Ordonez and Edgar Renteria plus an unusual double play he might have given up 10 plus runs. He was that bad.

• Carlos Quentin may be in the process of playing his way into the lineup more regularly. He put the White Sox up early with a 2-run homer in the second after Contreras provided foreshadowing of his poor outing in the first. Though I expect Ramirez and Anderson to see some action this weekend in Detroit.

  "If [Quentin] keeps playing like that, he'll be in the lineup and we'll figure out the rest," Guillen said.

• AJ Pierzynski is off to great start. He already has 2 HR and 7 RBI, which is greater than the output from last seasons back-up catchers, and I'd be willing to bet that it exceeds the production of Toby Hall for the rest of the season. With that in mind, AJ has to stay healthy. He's the batter the Sox can least afford to lose.

• Jermaine Dye has surprised me with his fast start. He was terrible in spring training, and looked like his bat speed and reaction time was way down. But since the games started counting, his swing is much more direct and he's been pounding the ball. He even closed the game with one of those awkwardly good catches that he seems to make on balls in front of him.

• Scott Linebrink has looked fantastic in his two innings of work the last two days. The velocity isn't quite what it used to be, but the curveball he's shown the last two days more than makes up for it.

  Linebrink combined with Logan, Dotel, and Jenks for 4 innings of scoreless relief. They allowed just one hit, and with the exception of Jenks, who needed 25 pitches to get through the 9th, made quick work of the Tigers.

Top 8, up 3

A marvelous pitching perormance by Jose!

Jose Contreras vs. Nate Robertson

Time: 12:05 a.m. CT, TV: WGN, Radio: WSCR AM-670 (B-R preview, Live Boxscore; 2007 MLB Gameday; 2008 MLB Gameday)

Good Guys:

	Name		 AVG	HR	RBI	SB
1. N Swisher, CF	.250	0	0	0
2. O Cabrera, SS	.273	0	0	1
3. J Thome, DH		.167	2	4	0
4. P Konerko, 1B	.100	0	2	0
5. J Dye, RF		.417	1	1	0
6. A Pierzynski, C	.500	1	2	0
7. C Quentin, LF	.250	0	0	0
8. J Crede, 3B		.250	1	2	0
9. J Uribe, 2B		.250	1	1	0

	Name		 AVG	HR	RBI	SB
1. C Thomas, CF		.400	0	0	0
2. P Polanco, 2B	.071	0	0	0
3. C Guillen, 1B	.455	1	1	0
4. M Ordonez, RF	.250	0	0	0
5. M Cabrera, DH	.125	1	1	0
6. E Renteria, SS	.308	0	1	0
7. I Rodriguez, C	.083	0	0	0
8. J Jones, LF		.000	0	0	0
9. B Inge, 3B		.333	1	1	0