When you get punctured and open a wound, you have to stop the bleeding. Like a boxer, you have to dig in and keep coming forward. You can't get on your heels.

President Fox left bleeding from his wound,

We kept battling, but we could never stop the bleeding. It wasn't that we played that badly, but when you don't get the pitching, you won't look good no matter what you do.

This is going to stop additional bleeding (of cash).

If you were in a skid, Pedro would come in and stop the bleeding at times. He can give you a boost when he goes out there because you know he wants the ball every time. Every fifth day he's asking for that ball, and he's such a competitor, and you play so well behind him because he just breeds that when he steps on the mound.

The way the season has gone, at some point you want to stop the bleeding. Now we can get away from the game. And I know coach [Andy] Reid and the scouting department are going to do a great job of getting guys in here to make the team better.