I'm Not Panicking

I AM wicked frustrated though. And it's not just that I'm pissed the Sox sank 3-0 in the series to the Rangers - they're a good team and it's hard to take it away from that - but I'm pissed because I'm right. I called it in the off-season that our primary focus needed to be catcher, SS, and pitching, pitching, pitching. How happy am I that we bagged Crawford and AGon? Happier than a fat kid drowning in cake. But those acquisitions are for positions that were already semi-solid to begin with. We have a plethora of OFers and I loved BelTRE. You may argue that he'll never see another offensive power year like 2010, but I'd rather put my money on medium production from him than hope to God that Dice-K finally turns it around this year.
Which brings me back to my original point - our pitching is teh suck. And wtf are Theo & Gang doing about it? Getting star talent isn't going to solve the problem. In fact, it would make us look even worse and make the team feel like more of a collective failure because we have all this great power and pop but no pitching for them to get behind. All this expectation and anticipation is for naught if we keep having high scoring games and losing. If 2010 teaches us anything, it's that decent hitters will find their stride eventually and almost everyone gets hot at some point. We fielded a team of reject toys and they still did pretty damn awesome.
But you can't fool pitching. Even great pitchers will have off days, but bad pitchers will never be able to overcome decent hitting. Especially when we have technology to teach us how to work the count, watch for patterns, etc.
I love love love Beckett and I hope to God he's healthy enough to be productive this year, but ST did not give me much confidence. I really don't get why people like Lackey so much. From what I've seen of him, he really has not lived up to my expectations. And yet, he's our second starter. Lester is a beast but I'm not entirely comfortable with him being our ace. He's too quiet and not enough of a motivator (apart from the whole beating the crap out of cancer thing...). Buccles is still a kid, and Dice-K...well, Dice-K should be a $150 million batboy. All I'm saying is that you look at the Phillies and their nasty pitching rotation. It doesn't matter that practically all their power hitters are on the DL, those guys will still make it to the WS. And if we don't get our act together, we might not even make it there and we definitely will not be able to beat a pitching team like the Phillies.
So dear Theo, GET US SOME GD PITCHING STAT!!!