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It could because Bailey has contributed nothing, Sweeney is out for the rest of the season and he didn't hit a single Home Run in 2012, and Melancon's ERA is still over 8. Oh, and the White Sox are ahead of us in the Wild Card race and Lillishit is gone already and the minor league pitcher we got is a piece of garbage.

We need starting pitching. Could he be worse than Cook?

You guys have completely missed my point. I have said consistently that I like Breslow. Second, I never said that Breslow wasn't an upgrade over Albers. I said that it didn't address the team's major need-- starting pitching. To those who say that getting a Breaslow allows us to put Morales in the rotation, I disagree. We'd already had him in the rotation. We didn't put him back in the pen because the pen was struggling. We put him back in the pen, because we already had 5 starters. Our 5 starters stink, and pitting Morales back in the rotation should help, bit we didn't need Breslow to make that move. We needed Cook to do his Home Run Derby routine 3 times in a row. He would have been replaced with Morales whether or not we got Breslow. Morales was already in house, and he will not be enough. Who takes Doubs spot when he hits his innings limit at the end of August? Do they go back to Cook? Dice K? Are they solutions? Is the solution that we blow out Doubs arm by throwing him 200 innings? Who steps in if Beckett lands on the DL or Lester continues to s*** all over himself? The problem is not getting Breslow. Do I have to type it all in caps. I have no problem upgrading a bullpen spot in a vacuum. The observation that I have made that it was a nothing Trade Deadline for the Sox is because it did not address the major need that this team has had since day 1m. We don't have enough good starting pitching. About that, I am completely right. If they don't get at least a wild card berth, the starting pitching will be the reason. Ther Sox should have won that game last night, but we sent an over the hill infwrior pitcher to the mound that had their big dogs licking their chops. It was a missed opportunity at home. Cook shouild not be in this rotation down the stretch. He should not even be on the roster.

It's time to cut ties with Cook.

2 k's and a DP for Salty tonight, and his timing couldn't have been worse.

Oh, Ross is DHing. Too early to give up the DH. Ciriaco does it again. I liked this kid in Spring Training. He was a guy who I didn't know when I got down there, but he was an attention grabber. I like him even more now. They should package Iglesias and send him someplace while he still has trade value. Salty really took an axe to this inning.

he could have PH Lavarnway here.

I thought they should have sold high on him at the deadline and brought up Lavarnway to share catching with Shop.

I agree. I voted to sell. I think this was as close to a nothing move as they could have made. It certainly wasn't a "buy" move.

WMB picked up Salty.

I'd rather he have k'd than the DP.

1or 2 lefties in the pen is not going to make a difference for us. I don't think that was our biggest concern. Did anyone think before the trading deadline: "damn, I hope they pick up a lefty BP guy so we can put Morales in the rotation"? I don't think anyone had that on their mind. People are just rationalizing the move now so we can feel good about it. Don't get me wrong, Breslow is a nice BP pitcher, but exchanging Albers for him was not a burning need.

poor us if we have to trot out Cook to the mound every 5th day.

We should be bashing the crap out of Porcello.

It's one of the things that I don't like about these 2 wild cards. At the end of the season, it is going to be hard to figure out who we want to win the other games if we are still chasing multiple teams.

Like I said it was a nothing trade. They could have moved Morales to the rotation any time they wanted. They have a lefty in the pen with Miller.

I think we would be better off if the Yankees help us by beating the teams in front of us.

It was a nothing trade. They exchanged one middle bull pen piece for another. It was as nothing a trading deadline as they could have had.

If the FO had the belief in this team that they profess to have, they would have reinforced it at the trading deadline. They can make all the excuses bit there was a load of trading activity by a load of teams. They have no faith in the team, and now the players in the locker room know it. Everyone knew they needed starting pitching. None was obtained. Message sent. Message received, except by those in denial.