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It's beyond the bucks for me right now, Doc:  It's the indecision. Or perhaps it's the unwillingness to decide to get guys that may well make this team better....right when we need to get better and take advantage of a collapsing bunch of wild card suitors.   Or it's the inability to actually decide that more Smoak or Ackley or Endy is the same bad bet with good money.  Well, Endy was essentially free.  No good money was expended.  But I'm convinced that we're stuck on the "cost" of Smoak/Ackley (in the players we lost or didn't get) and we're determined to make that "cost" pay off.  
Remember the movie Tin Cup?  That's what we're doing:  We're splasing ball after ball into the late because we're convinced the shot will eventually carry the water (Ackley and Smoak will become the players we thought they were when we acquired them).   Oodles and oodles of contrary evidence be damned, we've got two superstars in there somewhere. 
I may be a bit harsh on the Smoak callup, but only a bit.  Well, actually I"m not.  With Saunders gimped we had to make a callup.  But exchanging an lumbering 1B with warning track pop for an athletic RF is a weird kind of call, especially when the results of that are more and more and more Endy/Ackley.  
Expanding the salary limit will concern me over the winter, probably.  But unless we're talking Price or Kemp it isn't the biggest issue right now.  Moving on is.
Marlon Byrd isn't Frank Robinson, assuredly.  But he has more than 5000 MLB PA's and has strung together his career best two-year streak.  And you have to evaluate him?  Hey, I'm not a big fan.  There are lots of better guys we can get....but surely he makes us better this year.  
We didn't just get into a playoff race on Tuesday.  We've been there for a while. Our weaknesses were identified even longer ago.  Hart was essentially a free roll of the dice to address those weaknesses.  That roll crapped out, but it was still essentially free.   
C'mon M's.  Make up your mind to roll those bones again.  
To quote another movie:  "C'mon Dover! Move your bloomin' arse!"