Bradfo continues to speak with Arcand on another lack to pull the trigger for a team that has earned upgrades. Seeing prices for Merrill Kelly and other starters should make fans angrier they couldn't (or wouldn't) match it.

Then, a look around the rest of majors and figuring out if there were any teams that had a worse deadline than the Sox.

And, the pain of this trade deadline has to be in part of the expectations that were given from the Sox front office.