Forget the six game winning streak.  Forget being in sole possession of second place, 2½ games behind the Tigers.  Forget being three over .500.  Tonight is the test to see how far the Chicago White Sox have come in the last month.  Tonight they face arguably the top pitcher in the American League Zack Greinke.

Greinke likes to throw inside.  In fact, over the course of his career, he's hit more White Sox than any other pitcher.  Greinke is 2-0 with a 1.32 ERA in three starts against the White Sox this season. He has struck out 24 Sox batters in 22 innings.  Even though he has a losing record during his career against the Sox at 5-8, most of his wins have come in the last couple of seasons. 

The White Sox could send a loud message to the rest of the AL Central with a big win tonight.  Don't let him get off the hook with a no decision like he did the last time these two teams met, get in his head early and dominate him.  You saw what this team did to last year's CY Young award winner Tuesday night, they are capable of doing the same thing to Greinke tonight.

Lightning Round

• With the Cuban Missile out due to an injured firing pin, Jayson Nix filled in at short last night and did a good job defensively and offensively.  My only question is why didn 't Ozzie try the Savior in the two hole.
• One of the things that few people are talking about is the development of the White Sox younger players.  Chris Getz and The Savior are getting a lot of good schooling from hitting coach Greg Walker, the same Greg Walker that post game callers want to run out of town every spring.  In fact, The Savior has raised his average to.278  If you are going to run Walker down, you also have to give him props.
• The now world famous J-Rod gives us his reasons why the Sox can make the playoffs. (Midwest Sports fans)
• A former White Sox pitcher has a surgical procedure named after another former White Sox pitcher.
• In an effort to make the news rather than report it, Joe Cowley thinks Brian Anderson should be sent packing. I disagree and here's why.  After Q comes back, the Sox will need Anderson as a late inning defensive replacement for Scott Podsednik.  Scotty Pods is an average center fielder with a below average arm.  Anderson is capable of making a spectacular defensive  play to win a game in the eighth or ninth inning.  I'd keep him over Dewayne Wise who is a good defensive player but not Anderson's caliber.
• The Sox have the Count, the Missile and the Sandwich.  Is this guy next? 
• The Sox have a new place for you to visit in cyberspace.
• Here's an interesting story about a talk show host in Kansas City who criticized the Royals trainer.  The Royals responded by no longer providing players for his radio show.  I've seen this before.  A couple of years ago, the Royals pulled the credentials for an entire station after they were critical of the Royals.  I almost had this happen to one of my stations until I talked some sense into team officials that clearly overreacted to something that wasn't directly our fault.  I think this kind of heavy handedness in teams trying to squelch criticism by pulling credentials or being uncooperative is silly for both entities.  Stations need to be held accountable but teams need to quit blackmailing them into only running positive content. P.S. Love the obiligtory "in the studio photo.  I've never worn a headset like that in the studio in my entire career. (Can't Stop The Bleeding)