There is plenty of blame to go around for this team. When you have 2 starters in your rotation for the entire season with well over 5.00 eras it is a miracle we are in this spot. Theo gets blown all the time for 2004 and some of his signings. He deserves a lot of the blame here. For some god for saken reason we have a bench consisting of guys like D. McDonald, Jason Varitek, and Aviles. We are strapped because of horrible signings ( Crawford, JD Drew, Lackey ). We have s*** in the bullpen besides Aceves, Bard (who has been downright pathetic for the past month), and Paps. Despite all of our injuries this year, at the deadline he goes out and gets oft injured Erik Bedard.
Players need to earn their paychecks, this year only a few of them have (Ortiz, Agone, Ells, Pedroia, Beckett). They need to be held responsible, the manager needs to be held responsible for his part in terms of dumb in game moves (we know Francona has made a butt load of them this year). And we need to look at the top, if it wasn't for so many horrendous contracts and moves, we would have a stronger roster suited for the long haul.