"It's alarming to watch Clay Buchholz get whacked around.

That can't happen if the Red Sox are to get out of this 1-7 malaise to start the 2011 season.

Because John Lackey, Josh Beckett, and Daisuke Matsuzaka have become the proverbial box of chocolates, it's imperative that Jon Lester and Buchholz give the Sox what they gave them last season — 36 wins or thereabouts."