Vladimir Guerrero is back!

OK, maybe not. But he homered twice on Thursday. The first one broke his 30-game homerless streak. The second came in the following at-bat. He finished the night with four RBI in the Angels' win over the A's.

While Guerrero hadn't homered other than in the Home Run Derby - in which he belted 17 - he still hit .312 with 13 doubles and 15 RBI in the homerless skid.

There was some wondering by Angels' people that Guerrero's homerless streak could have been attributed to the derby, but Garret Anderson, who won in 2003, didn't think so.

"It's a theory. I don't believe in it," he said. "The only thing I believe in is factual stuff. If you can't prove it, I don't have time for it."

(We'll wait to ask him what he thinks of the Big Bang theory for another day).

I guess the one bad thing - from my perspective - about Guerrero's two homers was that I had scheduled a one-on-one interview with him tomorrow to talk to him about the homerless skid.

As you may have noticed as Angels fans, Guerrero doesn't often speak to the media, so anything he says is either pre-arranged or comes after a big game or big news. The last time he agreed to a group interview was when he decided to participate in the derby. He is extremely shy and it's difficult to get him from time to time.

Hence my pre-arranged meeting with him. Oh well. And so it goes.