Great.  Just great.

Carl Crawford just signed with the Red Sox.

This means that the Angels have a big bag of cash and limited players to spend it on.  Namely, Beltre.

So what does this mean for the A's?  Does this mean we sign Hideki Matsui and a few upper-level relievers (Scott Downs, anyone?) to use up the money that came off the book this offseason?  Billy, please tell me you've got something up your sleeve.

The post-Cust headache gets worse...