Beckham hopes to play

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is keeping his fingers crossed on the injury reports and physical progress of second baseman Gordon Beckham and closer Bobby Jenks.

Beckham did not play Sunday night in the series finale against Detroit, and both he and Guillen hope he will be ready for the beginning of the West Coast swing Monday.

"Just waking up, I feel it," Beckham said of the pain in his still swollen right hand. He was hit by a pitch on Aug. 20 at Cleveland. "I expect to come back. I definitely don't want to sit out the last two weeks."

"I don't want to shut anybody down," Guillen said of his young star, but he added that he will do whatever is right for Beckham and the organization.

As to Jenks, he's still nursing a sore elbow and may not even make the West Coast trip.

Now - and later: Manager Ozzie Guillen said he's still determined to win as many games as possible.

"We're all disappointed," he said. "I'm very, very proud of those players. We had injuries. We overcame that. This is the team I'm proud of the most."

However, Guillen emphasized, "I'm never satisfied finishing second or third."

Makeup, please: Ozzie Guillen says he'd be willing to join a local sportscast with its postseason baseball coverage.

The White Sox manager has reservations, though, because, "It's a bad, terrible feeling watching someone else play" and doing media commentary in the postseason.

But Guillen added that he's sticking around Chicago after the regular season, and if Comcast or FOX-TV call, "- make sure they have the check ready."