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If the White Sox were as good against the Twins as the Twins are against them, the Sox would be leading the Twinkies by 5.0 games.  Flip that 5-11 record the Good Guys have against Minnesota to 11-5 and the Sox are 85-59, while the Twinks are 80-64.  So when the story of this season is written, the central (no pun intended) theme is this: The two teams are pretty much the same against the rest of baseball (75-53 for Minnesota; 74-54 for Chicago), but the Twins are going to win the Central Division because they've been able to beat up on the Sox.

Last night was the Twins-Sox in a nutshell.  The Sox fell behind 2-0, tied it at 2-2, even went ahead 3-2, but eventually allowed Minnesota to come back, and wound up losing 9-3.  The details aren't important -- although both Paul Konerko and Manny Ramirez fanned with the bases loaded to kill a potential rally in the seventh that likely would have put the Sox back on top.  What matters now is the result, which was more of the same.  The Sox can't afford to tank against the Twins and still expect to win the division.  And with the Yankees, Rays, and Red Sox being as good as they are now, failing to win the Central means watching the postseason from the sidelines. 

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you'd probably figured that out already.  Go Sox!