Game-time forecast: Clear. Winds blowing from right to left field at 5-10 m.p.h. Temperature around 80. PALE HOSE: SP, Noesi Eaton CF Ramirez SS Garcia RF Viciedo DH Konerko 1B Taylor LF Flowers C Semien 3B Sanchez 2B TWINS: SP, Milone Santana CF Dozier 2B Mauer 1B Vargas DH Plouffe 3B Arcia RF Suzuki C Escobar SS Schafer LF --------------------------- Okay, Brian ... what have you got? ------------------------------------------- Love Is... What I Got... I said remember that... Love is... What I got. Things to Think About: 1. The Bench -- The Lineup looks like the same guys we were rolling with before roster expansion... Not that there is anything wrong with that... Which in this context is much different then the Seinfeld line. I just figured that we might see someone pop into the lineup. A Hicks or a someone. 2. Chicago White Sox -- Jeez... It feels like someone is throwing mud on me when I just got clean from the last time. It seems like we have been playing the White Sox and Royals at high frequency and I had to take a shower after the last time we played the White Sox. Now they are again infecting our beautiful stadium and getting all over us. 3. AL Central last place battle -- The White Sox and Twins are in a battle for last place. Just two games seperate them. This always conflicts me... I don't want the White Sox to have a better record than the Twins and I don't want the White Sox to draft before the Twins. The only way I can solve this is hope for playoff Twins or Twins that finish below the White Sox. Providing that the Twins beat the White Sox senseless in their game matchups while finishing below the White Sox. I don't think that's asking too much. So go Twins for this series and then... umm... go ahead and finish below them... It's Ok. 4. Beckham and Dunn -- Both of these long time White Sox are gone and this makes the White Sox lineup a little different. Beckham is now playing for the Angels and Dunn for the A's. Michael Taylor is now playing LF while Viciedo moves from LF to DH to replace Dunn and something called Carlos Sanchez moves into 2B... at least for tonight. I know very little about Taylor and Sanchez but they are now card carrying members of the White Sox so it has taken me about a second to hate them. 5. The Internet -- I was talking with a Police Detective today. I asked him how they go about finding missing people and he mentioned to me that nowadays internet usage is a very effective way to find missing people or other clues in all kinds of investigations. I was thinking... I sure hope I don't turn up missing because of where my internet usage will lead them.