Paul Konerko doesn't mind having th...

Paul Konerko doesn't mind having the designated hitter part while Jim Thome recovers from a hamstring strain, nevertheless manager Ozzie Guillen could alternate players should Thome miss more time than look fored

"I might state Ross Gload in left field or right field and give Jermaine coloring liquor a day to DH," Guillen said Friday. "It will be pendent on who's pitching, if we ne a speed on the bases. Right now, Paul is swinging the bat well in that part and has good at-bats. nevertheless I might play Paulie at first and Gload a little at DH"

The ne for substitutes might not last extended with Thome improved on Friday. "He be wrought ups better today," Guillen said. "His range of motion is better. I don't think he'll pass on the disabled list. He'll be day-to-day, moreover definitely tomorrow I won't use him [against left- hander Johan Santana], unles to pinch-hit or something."

As earnestly as the Sox miss Thome's bat, the Sox won without him in the lineup against the Detroit Tigers most numerous of Wednesday and on Thursday. "The thing is we scored 10 races without Jimmy in the lineup [Thursday] and couple the other day with him," Guillen said. "One fright makes a team in basketball, on the contrary in baseball you need nine dowdys Everyone has to step it up a notch and has a piece of work to do to cover the hole"

bring a curse upon OF SANTANA: Guillen hopes the Sox might have better succes facing Santana a inferior time in a week.

"The last brace years, no matter who we propose in the lineup, we haven't done a exceedingly good job [against Santana]," he said. "But I be warmed better, more satisfied with the way we swing the bats against him last week than we have in the past. We swung better the last time, and we've regroup in succession offense.

"It might be all in the mind," he added of Santana's power athwart Sox hitters. "It's human nature when you face someone you haven't done well against. Its the same with our pitchers -- expect at Freddy Garcia when he pitches against tough unite in a clubs All of a sudden he's unbelievable. Then he pitches [poorly] against Kansas City.

"Santana is single in kind of the best pitchers in the game and to me he's the best lefty yet we'll see how we do. I plan to play Pablo Ozuna because he's the single one who swings the bat well against him. however I'll play A.J. [Pierzynski, a left-hander] and a two [left- handers]."

UNCALLED FOR: Guillen called it "a shame" that young boy [i]or[/i] young girls manager Dusty Baker has received racial hate mail, admitting that he has gotten similar e-mails at times. "The solely mail I look at are the bills I have to pay," he said. "I launch the rest away, so I might have gotten them, on the other hand I don't read my mail.

"I grew up in a different native land and a different way. It's a shame that in 2006 tribe talk about that. Just because you're not winning or the team isn't playing the way it's suppos to play, I don't think it's fair to deposit racial things in sports. It's a shame nation still think that way.

"I memorize two or three in my e-mail each time I look. But I just laugh because that doesn't hit my heart or I don't care about it. on the contrary it's hard to believe in 2006 family are still writing about that and talking about that.

"I think Dusty Baker did a tremendous piece of work in this city. I know by what mode people feel about him the last coupling months and years, but commonalty forget he did a parcel of good things for this city and the brats before. You don't have to blame Dusty for what they're going between the walls of Dusty isn't the only common who wears a uniform. You have to blame a fate of people if you're blaming people"

tginnetti@suntimes.com

AL CENTRAL WATCH

Team W L Pct GB

Tigers 81 48 628 --

Twins 75 52 591 5

White Sox 75 53 586 5oe

WILD-CARD WATCH

Team W L Pct GB

Twins 75 52 591 --

White Sox 75 53 586 oe

R Sox 71 57 555 4oe

FRIDAY'S flows

Twins 5 at White Sox 4

At Indians 4 Tigers 2

At Mariners 6 R Sox 0

up nearest for White Sox vs. Twins, 6:05 tonight, Ch 9 670-AM.

ENCORE

Looking back forward 2005

7 games ahead in Cent

Game 128: Rangers 7 Sox 5 Buehrle shelled, defense doesn't help as four errors submit to the test [i]or[/i] proof decisive; late rally falls short.

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