Now that the Twins' open-air production of "Who's the Boss?" has ended its three-night run at the Cell, the Sox can begin sifting through the debris. Check that. The Sox still have some baseball games to play, as mandated by the MLB rulebook. So for now, it's up to the fandom to play the game of "Where did it all go wrong?" (No fair blaming everything on Joe West. Leave that for Hawk to do.) The better question is: Why are the Twins so much better than the Sox? It's a question that's been asked frequently in recent years. It's a question Ozzie Guillen desperately tried to answer before this …

In other news, the Cubs were mathematically eliminated from playoff contention Tuesday night. Well, I tried. But even that doesn't lessen the sting of the clear and present truth: The 2010 Minnesota Twins are a better team than the 2010 White Sox.  With the Twins' 9-3 victory at the Cell on Tuesday night, the Sox have fallen to seven games out of first with 18 left to play. An optimist might say that Sox victories Wednesday and Thursday would keep hope alive, but an optometrist would say, "Have your eyes examined." The sad fact is the Twins haven't blinked. Instead, they've dominated the Sox …

I know we're all giddy with Bears Euphoria after the Monsters of the Middle Screen won their opener in a fashion that left no doubt as to their championship viability. But let's put off the Super Bowl party planning just a little while longer — at least until the White Sox and Twins have finished this week's important series (that just a few weeks ago figured to be so much more important). Sure, the Sox are six games behind the Twins with 19 games left to play, giving them a 3.5 percent chance of making the playoffs, according to some formula ESPN uses. But considering the thrills the Sox …