Sure, they are chewing up this young pitching staff. What is going to happen is these young kids are going to be shell shocked and will never get up into their grove. They we will trade them off and they will become great pitchers for another club.

We never seem to get a workable balance between having a good healthy line up and a good healthy pitching staff.

It is not hard to see what George will do, as in the past George's ego will have them going out and overpaying for some quick fix. The real problem is that what once got you a great pitcher now only get you some Avg. Joe. The pitching shortage is a league problem. You just can't get some young talent to pop in here and face these kind of lineups. It just isn't that easy any more.

You then go out and overpay for some pitcher who is on his tail end of his game and is not again not a long term fix.

Even with one of the best lineups in baseball, with A-rod hitting them out left and right, we are still losing. The bullpen is toasted and we have a long way to go before a break. Oh, and Boston is once again in our sights starting Friday.

A whole new season with the same old problems.