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Sorry, folks, but work -- and a lack of enthusiasm for this season -- have prevented me from posting when I normally would have.  But here's a bit of what you missed:

• Pretty in Pink: No not the Molly Ringwold, Jon Cryer movie -- the White Sox wearing pink on Mother's Day in honor of breast cancer awareness. and winning the rubber game in the series with the Mariners.  That was their first series win since taking three out of four from the Rays in the first homestand of the year.  Paul Konerko was particularly pretty, or at least his pink cleats and 5 for 5 batting day were.  Paulie entered the game hitting .295 and left having raised his average by 28 points to .323.  Over his last 10 games, the Captain is 11 for 32, which works out to a .344 average.
• Still Perfect: Sergio Santos still has not given up a run this season.  He's 3 for 3 in saves and he picked up the win (his first this year) on Sunday when the Sox pushed across three runs in the 10th inning.  Opponents are batting a meager .140 against Sergio (significantly better than the  .261 he put up last year).  His WHIP -- walks plus hits per inning pitched -- is a minuscule 0.87 (compared with last year's 1.53).  Ozzie finally listened to me and made him the closer, or at least I think he did.
• Back in the Saddle Again: That was one of former Angel owner Gene Autry's lines, which is only fitting since Jake Peavy is set to make his 2011 major league pitching debut on Wednesday against the Halos.  Peavy, who has been rehabbing from a torn lat, says he's ready to go, and this time, so does the medical staff.  Hopefully, he'll be the spark that turns this ugly season around.
• Caught Red-Handed or Not Caught at All:  This is the only lowlight I'm going to talk about and it's not so much about the weekend as it is the season.  Juan Pierre has five errors in the outfield this season, matching his total for the last three years combined.  Pierre also has been caught stealing more often than he has successfully swiped a base -- 6 CS vs. 8 SB.  The man is killing us and that doesn't even count his hitting: .260 BA/.338 OBP/.290 SLG this year vs. .297/.347/.365 lifetime.  I hate to dump on Juan because he tries so hard, but the fielding and base running stats are just inexcusable.

Anyway, the Sox are still in last place, 10.0 games behind the Tribe.  They're still on the West Coast, where they played surprisingly well last year.  And they're still the team we root for.  So Go Sox!