Humber shuts down bombers

Well Sox fans, we did it. We scored enough runs to win, the starting pitching was flawless and the bullpen was lights out. Everything clicked arguably for the first time this season for the White Sox. Phil Humber was on fire in the house that Ruth built on Monday night. Holding the Yankees hitless until the 7th inning. The kid came out and performed like a veteran. Pitching in the 5th spot in a rotation for a team who has been STRUGGLING, in Yankee stadium, on ESPN, and Phil Humber looked like Cy Young. Talk about stepping up for your club, Humber knows his team has really been struggling and when a team is struggling as hard as we have been, it becomes mental. Humber went out and refused to let his team lose, he knew the offense has been struggling to score, so what does he do? Refuse to let the Yankees score a single run. He kept his team in the game and was tremendous for 7 innings.

Phil Humber? More like Phil "Humbler".... Cause.... Cause he "humbled" the Yankees offense....

The offense show signs of life for the first time in days, putting guys on base multiple times, and actually knocking in a couple of those guys. It was the first time they had scored since the 7th inning on Friday night, crazy. Konerko and Dunn each had an RBI as the middle of the lineup did what they're paid to do.... drive in runs.

The bullpen was stellar as Santos recorded the 4 out save. I'll be honest, I did not have the highest of expectations for tonight's game. We've been struggling, its Yankee stadium, Phil Humber was on the mound. But you know what, sometimes when you least expect it, the season hits a turning point. We can only hope Monday night was our turning point. It was an unexpected win for a team desperate to put a "W" on the schedule. Its hard fought wins like the one tonight that can pull a slumping time right out of said slump.

We can only wait and see what the Sox do tomorrow. Hopefully the offense will wake up and start putting up runs, because the pitching has been good enough to win almost every game this season. The bullpen IS settling in, which is great to see. Once this offense gets going, this team is going to be very dangerous.

On a side note, how about those ESPN announcers? My God are they horrendous. I kept the volume on for a half inning. ESPN does nothing but employ East Coast biased blowhards who don't know shit about baseball. Aaron Boone? What is he going to analyze? How not to be successful at the plate? Yea, hey Aaron, next time I'm wondering how to wiff at a batting practice fastball IN A HOME RUN DERBY (2003), I'll call you, until then, get off the roids so it doesn't sound like theres a 12 year old schoolgirl doing a crappy job at analyzing my baseball game on TV.

Tim Kurkjin? My God, talk about a blowhard..... why not just put Bobby Valentine and Skip Balis in the booth with Boone and Kurkjin? They can all talk about the most absurd and unrealistic topics during the game while only being able to truly agree that the MLB only consists of the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers and Phillies. I literally only had the volume on for less than half an inning and I couldn't stand it. All they talked about was how awful the Sox are (because you know theres ONLY 140 games left, so we can make that assumption, I mean the seasons practically over already)  And Derek Jeter/Aroid. What a joke....

My cousin Tim and I were talking the other day, Why doesn't ESPN make another Network? They'll have their regular ESPN like they have now, where all they'll focus on are East Coast teams, Tiger Woods, the Miami Heat/Lebron James and Jim Tressel. And then they can have another one called "ESPN Everyone Else" where they actually focus on the other 97% of the sports world and teams that just get neglected by the "World Wide Leader in Sports."

 I just can't stand the national sports media.

Anyway, big win, we NEED to build on this, its all mental at this point, guys are pressing hard, they just need to relax and stroke the ball. We'll be just fine, mark my words, June 1st we will be above .500 and in contention.