Admit it, you mocked me.  You thought I was a crackpot.  You thought whatever mind I have left was gone.  Now, you have a plate with a healthy serving of crow on it because the Chicago White Sox are now a .500 team and have picked themselves off the mat. You mocked me because I refused to give in to the poison pens, the neigh sayers and the bandwagon jumpers who wrote this team off in the middle of May.

I was right not because I am smarter than you, but because this team couldn't be as bad as everyone made it out to be and as bad as some thought they were.  Kenny knew it.  Ozzie knew it.  Ranger knew it.  And anyone who is a true believer and knowledgeable White Sox fan knew it.  Okay, these guys are not the '27 Yankees, but they are not the '62 Mets either.

Yes, this band of misfits, castoffs and sewn together pieces are now a .500 ballclub.  They did it yesterday thanks to the help of Freddie Garcia, their best pitcher thus far this year, who led them to a 6-3 win over Washington.  They did it yesterday with the help of Alex Rios, Paul Konerko, Omar Vzquel, JJ Putz and even the Cuban Sandwich, who got his first major league hit yesterday and is already more successful at the major league level than the much ballyhooed Pedro Alvarez.

And before you think it or say it, I do not give a rat's rump who the Sox have been playing.  Good teams are supposed to beat bad teams. But no matter, you still have to go out and play the game.  And lately, the White Sox have been the playing the game well.

The Sox get a real test beginning tomorrow night against the Braves.  Then, it's a weekend series against a minor league team the Cubs.  It's an interesting week for the Cubs in that we'll see if their twelve run outburst yesterday is a turning point or just a blip on the radar.

One other thing that struck me as hilarious.  Listening to the score post game show yesterday, the callers went from the jerks two weeks ago who wanted to fire Kenny and Ozzie and trade the whole team for a bucket of balls to callers wanting the Sox to add one more player for a stretch run.  The Chairman is right when he says winning solves everything.