BecKKKKKKKKett in Beantown till 2014. Thank you sir may I have another.

BOSTON -- Injury can alter the best-laid plans, but the Red Sox have gone a long way toward cementing their starting rotation for the foreseeable future after signing Josh Beckett to a four-year contract extension worth $68 million.

"When you have that pitching, you don't want to let it go away,'' Epstein said. "It's hard to acquire in free agency, it's hard to acquire in trade, and it's hard to draft and develop this kind of starting pitching. Knowing that we have Josh and Jon Lester and John Lackey and Clay Buchholz all signed through 2014 means … There's no guarantee in baseball, but it should mean we have outstanding starting pitching for that period.''

Beckett did not insist on a fifth year in negotiations with the Red Sox. "A lot of people look at what you could lose or what you lost,'' he said. "I look at four years of more stability. The season gets long when you're losing 90 games. ... I know we have a chance to win here every year. I look at it more as what I gained than what I potentially lost.''

Lock it up kid. Beckett, Lester, Lackey and Buchholz through 2014? Ummm where do I sign? Plus you know Wake will still pumping out the ol' knuckler, and we'll finally be rid of that good for nothing wretch Dice-K (can anyone confirm that? Wait what? No one reads this besides you Sean?). Theo, there is such thing as a guarantee in baseball. It's called good fucking pitching and we have it for 5 years.

Anyway, color me excited about the next 5 seasons. I don't care what kind of lineup you trot out there, with a core like that you're gonna win some fuckin baseball games. Shit throw me out there every 5th day and I'm pretty sure the Sox still win the wild card 9 times out of 10. Couple all this with the fact that Pedroia and Youk won't be going anywhere if Theo has his head screwed on even partially right, and I'm pretty sure bright skies are ahead. Plus I'm going to be the GM sooner or later if my fantasy career keeps progressing at the pace it has been for the past 5 years ish, soooooo I think I can safely tell you that the Red Sox are in good hands in the foreseeable future.

You gotta love Beckett here. No bullshit with this guy. Oh AJ Burnett signed a 5 year deal? Well guess what I'm a million times better than that guy so let's not even consider him. Dude is just a winner, plain and simple. Would rather take a year less guaranteed money than have to wallow somewhere like Houston or Toronto where you're going to lose around 7000 games a year. That's the difference between people like AJ Burnett (shitty players taking advantage of a ridiculous market) and Josh Beckett (gamers who think the money is nice but really just wanna go out and throw some balls fast).