I'd tell Theo nothing. If this team can't pull itself up by its own bootstraps one player isn't going to make ANY difference. I've seen too many Sox teams mortgage their future to get one overpriced hack that did nothing except cripple the future. Deal with a season where they won't make the playoffs. In the offseason many of the overpaid, overaged bench-warmers will be history. Use this offseason as a way to re-build around the foundation (Pedroia, Ellsbury, Youkilis, Lester, Buchholz...) that you've already got and plan for 2011 and beyond. NO EFFING KNEEJERK TRADES THAT COST US A FUTURE!!!! NO EFFING MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I watched those kinds of Red Sox teams for 30 years and that's 30 years too many.
One year of not making the playoffs isn't going to hurt anyone. Your dicks won't shrink, your hair won't fall out and chicks won't dig you any less (than they do now).