A win is a win, and it’s only one game.

Those two excellent clichés out of the way, is anybody else alarmed at the chilling vision of the 2009 baseball season today’s game painted?

Consider the leadoff man taking the failing even at the golden sombrero AND popping up two consecutive attempted bunts. In the same game! That has to be a first.

Consider then the second inning, when a bases-loaded-no-outs situation becomes one lonely run while Jermaine Dye is thrown out trying to score behind Jim Thome.

Later in the Inning that Stumped Them All, Josh Fields becomes the aggressive baserunner nobody saw coming and Chris Getz channeled the ghosts of situational hitting past to set up an inning with all the trappings of a classic, fundamentally sound rally. You know, the kind that doesn’t just earn a victory but actually wins. It all so optimistically pointed towards an awesome future of well-rounded offensive attacks until Jim Thome rendered it all beautifully useless with a three-run homer that in and of itself meant all the difference. Of course; live by the home run, die by the home run.

Then consider the ace who’s not hurt and feeling great tossing 97 pitches in five innings and putting nine men on base. Were it not for our old friend Kyle Farnsworth, the whole thing would just have been another infuriating loss instead of another suspect win.

But yes, a win. The kind that reeks a little too much of 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004 and the decade before it. But hey, you know what? It’s a long season. Anything can happen. One game at a time grinder grit 2005 and for the time being, the Chicago White Sox have the best record in baseball.

Wire to wire starts now!