Acceptance.

Another game, another loss. What did you expect?

During the off-season the talk was that the starting pitching was going to be better because they'd get Clay back and they couldn't run Lackey out there every five days.  But then Jon Lester and Josh Beckett turned into pumpkins and Clay is a nutcase (whose new mechanics may relieve stress on his back but do not prove conducive to throwing anything other than batting practice) who throws royal tantrums because the mean umpires are mean to him.  

But what do you do? You can't continue to carry five awful starting pitchers but who do you replace them with? Clay shouldn't go again (I'll predict 8 runs in three innings from him tomorrow. Won't be his fault though. The umpires will be making him throw meatballs.) I suppose that you could go with Matsuzaka, he couldn't be any worse.

Theo certainly left a mess before high-tailing it to Chicago.