So far, so good for White Sox — knock on wood

During a break in White Sox camp last week, manager Rick Renteria discussed his team’s resiliency.

At the end of a long, meandering, answer, he curled his hand into a fist and bumped a framed photograph of Mark Buehrle on the wall behind him.

“Knock on wood, we’ll hope that continues to occur,” he said.

Unable to contain myself, I pointed out the factual error.

“Uh, that’s not wood,” I said.

Renteria acknowledged the mistake and changed course.

“I’ll give it to you right here,” he said, knocking on his head.

The ability to poke fun at himself is one reason Renteria is so popular with his players. A lot of laughs are coming from behind the walls of the closed-door team meetings at Sox camp, led by…