When looking back on last night's game with Kansas City, maybe it will be the spark that ignites the Chicago White Sox. The bull doggedness of Jake Peavy , the rally in the seventh inning when you thought this would be another bad loss.  Those are the kind of things that galvanize a team and set it going on streaks.  A streak the Sox desperately need to have if they want to be in competition later on with the Twins and Tigers in the AL Central.

You saw last nigh why Kenny Williams wanted Peavy on his team.  Peavy gets it.  Peavy understands that you don't always have your best stuff and you don't always pitch your best game and that sometimes, like last night, you have to reach down and suck it up.  And sometimes, your teammates see your effort and dig in too.

Kenny Williams is probably going to wait until Memorial Day to begin to tweak his roster .  When you look at the collection of players he's assembled, you realize that he has very little latitude.  The position player who has struggled the most is Carlos Quentin.  What do you do with Q?  Right behind him is the Savior, so you send him back to Charlotte?  The starter who has struggled the most has surprisingly been Pink Gavin Floyd. Is Kenny thinking about dealing him?

The minors don't necessarily look like a breading ground of  players who can plug themselves in and have immediate impact.  So, what exactly is Kenny going to do besides releasing people? Sure, you can dump Kotsay, Vizquel, maybe Tony Pena, but what's that going to do?  You still owe the salary.  And where or what do you go to improve yourself in an impactful way?  The waiver wire?  Trade more prospects for one big impact player?

No, it's clearly up to this group to follow the lead of Jake Peavy and the words of Hawk Harrelson and "strap it down."  The time to whip the horse is now and the Sox need to get some momentum quickly or be left on the beach with the struggling Royals and Indians.  The first thing is ti get back to .500 as quickly as possible.  That means in the next ten or so days they need to go on a tear.  A BIG tear.  Then, they need to work their way past the Tigers and bring themselves to within three or so games of the Twins. 

It's pretty much a critical point right now for the White Sox.  Using Jake Peavy's example from last night and feeding off of that could be a turning point for a so far lackluster season.