What a difference a week makes.  Last week at this time, John Danks was being lauded after knocking off the Indians for the Sox first win of the year.  Sox General Manager Kenny Williams was being called a genius for picking up Danks and Nick Masset, who performed well in relief of Mark Buehrle in the season opener.  A week later and both pitchers were involved in a 12-4 train wreck loss against the Minnesota Twins.

This will happen with young pitching.  They are, consistently inconsistent. 

Danks never got out of the gate last night, going only 2 1/3 innings while surrendering seven runs.  Masset didn't fair much better, surrendering 5 runs in 3 2/3 innings.  Meanwhile, Minnesota's Scott Baker held the Sox to 3 runs over five innings.

The key for the Minnesota were twin five run innings in the third and sixth.  The Twins took a 7-0 lead before the Sox started to chip away at it, but put it away with the big sixth.  Jason Kuebel killed the Sox all night.

Lightning Round

• Tonight it's a battle of Cubans as Jose Contreras takes on Livan Hernandez.

• In other news, Sox manager Ozzie Guillen ripped alleged Umpire Phil Cuzzi, saying that he believed that Cuzzi doesn't like him.  For his part, Cuzzi told reporters that he was just doing his job.  You know Phil, if you did your job BETTER, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
• In the interest of fairness, I tend to be rather harsh on Sox reliever Mike MacUseless (see what I mean?)  MacUseless has now pitched two decent outings in mop up relief, with the score and situation a non-issue..  If that isn't proof the guy can't handle pressure, nothing is  (damn, there I go again.)