Paul Konerko says retirement may be nearing as he enters the 2012 season with two years left on his contract. "No doubt it could be," Konerko said in an interview with Comcast SportsNet. "Yeah, in all reality I would see it ending after next year or maybe another year. I mean, at some point you got to go home and be around your kids and have other things to do." Konerko, who will turn 36 in March, has 396 career home runs and is coming off the two best offensive seasons of his career. It could be the tough plight of the White Sox that may be pushing the slugger into retirement. "Truth be told, there was that little glimmer at the end of '08 where we got hot, the Twins got kind of cold and ... we found ourselves in the playoffs. But the honest truth is since '05, we've kind of slowly but surely just kind of given back everything we earned steadily. We're kind of at this spot now where it's like, 'Here we are, back at square one again