--Manager Ozzie Guillen was tossed out of Wednesday's game in the sixth inning, just minutes after OF Jermaine Dye was tossed for throwing his helmet down after a called third strike. With Dye out of the game and the Sox short-handed in the outfield anyway, Jayson Nix had to move from second base to right field and Chris Getz was brought into the game to play second base. It was the first Guillen ejection of the season. What got him tossed, exactly? Well, Guillen was actually defending an earlier called strike by umpire Mike DiMuro on Cleveland hitter Jhonny Peralta. "I was protecting Peralta," Guillen said. "I asked Peralta if that pitch was low and in, and he said, 'Yes.' They thought I was crazy because I wasn't protecting J.D., I was protecting the opposition. I was here to protect baseball. Really crazy-type argument when the manager argues for someone else. Like I say, (DiMuro) was really consistent behind the plate."
--1B Paul Konerko pulled no punches with what's going on with the defending Central Division champs, insisting after Wednesday's loss, "We're just not good right now, that's it." He continued, "When you think about it, baseball is a bunch of little individual jobs put together to have a good game, and that's what we're not doing right now. We're not putting it together, we're not putting anything together, really. It's not like other sports when you could say, 'OK, let's go defense, let's go offense," and everyone has kind of the same flow. It's just not like that. We all need to get better. Every guy on this team has something they can do better. That's where it starts. You have to look at yourself and say, 'What can I do to be a part of the solution?' That's it." --OF Scott Podsednik rejoined his teammates in Cleveland on Tuesday after the birth of his first child on Sunday. Podsednik and his wife, Lisa, had a baby girl, and Podsednik missed a few games. He arrived to find himself in the center field spot, hitting ninth.
BY THE NUMBERS: .208 -- Team batting average for the Sox in losses this season through May 10, compared to the .305 average in wins. That's why manager Ozzie Guillen considers this team so Jekyll and Hyde in 2009.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "We love this kid. This guy went out of his way to get in shape and come back. I told him, 'You're not supposed to be here right now. You were supposed to be here in July, August. Just take something positive out of the negative. You should still be in rehab.'" -- Manager Ozzie Guillen, on the talk he had with RHP Jose Contreras when he informed him he was out of the starting rotation.
