CHICAGO -- It was just another Friday night for the Chicago White Sox. Just another shutout. Just a triple play pulled off that nobody had ever seen to squelch a Rangers rally. Just another win, as the White Sox stayed even with the defending world champion Royals for most in the league in the early going. And just another one-game answer to the full-season question over whether this team might just have what it takes to win now.
How are the White Sox doing it? Setting aside the usual "it's not quite three weeks of games, it doesn't mean anything, yada yada yada," let's identify a bunch of reasons that suggest it does mean something, give some credit where credit is due, and identify the strengths they're winning with now and why those reasons might not go away once the weather -- and the pennant races -- heat up.