yea they used their checkbooks to acquire pavano and johnson, tell me has that helped them any??? pavano last year only had allowed 16 homeruns, already has given up 17. sox took him down in that 17 - 1 defeat at the yankees home. He even leads the majors in hist allowedd, which is so far up to 129. and johnson, he has these spurts of the dominance, and then the lowly d-rays will come into town and he reamian on the mound for just the first three innings. think they should consider bernie williams on the team, routine flyballs are skippin out of his glove like butter, never mind his hitting this year. make a trade offer to the A's for kotsay, bernie williams and some of their prospects with cash considerations also.