I got word this morning that the Carlos Quentin era is over at the White Sox - he's on his way back home to San Diego. I'm literally the only person in the city outside of the White Sox who openly cheered when Carlos came to Chicago - nobody else knew who he was and friends and family peppered me with "Who is Carlos Quentin?" questions before he came here and proved what I had already seen - I should have been a sports scout! Carlos Quentin was a standout on the reality program "The Show", about six guys playing AAA baseball for the Diamondbacks. Carlos was one of the few to get to "the show" playing for his major league team coming to play against the Cubs and staying at the Westin on Michigan Avenue. Carlos was an "overnight sensation" getting a major hit on his first at bat - kids in candy stores and little girls bouncing out of "American Girl Place" don't have smiles as wide as Carlos did when he came to Chicago as a Diamondback playing at Wrigley against the Cubs - he was eating steak, sleeping in a California King bed, head resting on goose down pillows under an eiderdown comforter. I've been a Carlos Quentin fan since that day and I wish him well as he goes back home, but I wish he were still with us - the White Sox need home runs and he delivered.
