In the eighth inning of yesterday's 6-2 Sox win over the Twinkies, something big happened.  With one out and the sacks packed with Sox, Toby Hall hit a ground ball that made you slap your skull and say "damn, it's another double play.

But something funny happened on the way to the foregone conclusion.  Juan Uribe slid.  Hard. And clean.  And broke up the double play, scoring Jermaine Dye from third and giving the Sox a 5-2 lead.  This after Uribe's home run in the fifth put the Sox ahead 4-2.  Not bad for a guy who some thought was going to be DFAed on Tuesday.

Back in 2004, the watershed moment of a season that could have been was Torii Hunter taking out Sox catcher Jamie Burke and Ozzie Guillen's refusal to put one in his ear hole when he came to bat in the ninth. The Sox went downhill from there, never recovered and finished out of the money.

This time, the sock was on the other foot (be here all week folks, try the veal) as Uribe took out Twinkie second baseman Brendan Harris.  Maybe, just maybe, this is the spark this team needs to crank up their offensive engine.  Hopefully, it will work out better than the blow up dolls, anyway.

For Uribe, it was payback in a variety of ways.  Payback on the Twinkies for always seeming to have the White Sox number and payback to all of the media members and fans (me included) who have encouraged Sox management to show his large posterior the door.

Let's hope that this one small slide begins an avalanche on the west coast.