As award season begins around baseball, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance unveils the first award for the 2012 season. The Connie Mack Award is given annually by the alliance to the top managers in each league. This year’s vote was a landslide in the National League and the closest of all the award votes in the [...]

We normally don’t do the guest post thing here at Boston Red Thoughts, but fellow BBA-er Kurt Smith shared his Fenway/Wrigley comparison with me, and since Wrigley is my 2nd favorite park after the Holy Land, (I always said that if I ever had twins, I would have named them Fenway and Wrigley…) I couldn’t [...]

Yeah, I guess it was WAY too much to expect that Bobby Valentine would take his money and slink off into the night. The Smartest Man In The Room HAS to still spout out about stuff, still gotta comment on crap that DOESN’T EVEN MATTER ANYMORE… Appearing on his buddy Bob Costas’ show on the [...]

Well, despite interviewing 4 very qualified candidates for skipper of the Boston Red Sox, for the first time in a very long while, the Sox have made an actual good move–going after and signing John Farrell to be their new Manager, and with a three-year deal to boot. So, like the pointless and badly acted [...]

In less than 24 hours, at 9:00am tomorrow, Saturday, October 20th,  Adams Field in Quincy MA, will once again host The 100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular, with the contest continuing until every last inning is played…which is usually about 33 hours later… In its 9th year, The 100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular began in 2004 [...]

For a hundred years she’s stood here, Heard cheering, seen our tears. Through all the good times and the bad Fenway perseveres.   She’s baseball’s great crown jewel, A treasure — this is why. Look out there on her field, you’ll see The ghosts of games gone by. And so begins Disc #1 of the [...]