Having announced the Connie Mack and Willie Mays awards, given to the top manager and top rookie in each league, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) now reveals the 2013 winners of the Goose Gossage Award. The Goose Gossage Award honors the best relief pitchers in Major League Baseball. The award is the only award given [...]

The Boston Red Sox continue to celebrate their World Championship after defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in six games. As the offseason begins to heat up, attention will now turn to awards and reflections on 2013 as well as rumors and projections toward the 2014 season. The Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) recently held its 5th [...]

There are about 457,000 thoughts running around in my head this morning with regard to last night’s win, and the fact that the Red Sox have won their 3rd World Series in 10 years, AND their first at Fenway Park since 1918. But since I am horribly sleep deprived, AND it’s Halloween (I am dressed [...]

Holy…Buckets! What are the chances that the Sox would take 2 of 3 in a NL League Park, against some of the best pitchers in baseball, with no DH, and a starting pitcher who looked like his arm was going to fall off at any moment? I have no fracking clue–but it HAPPENED… And then [...]

I don’t even know where to begin. The last 2 games in a row have been decided/ended by completely crazy random crap that can only happen because its baseball and baseball is where all the crazy “you can’t make this sh*t up” stuff happens… Saturday night was the completely bizarro obstruction call that sent everyone [...]

Holy Buckets! WHAT a great game last night! Then Sox not only had a BRILLIANT outing from Jon Lester, but they had timely hitting, and were able to take advantage of all the opportunities given to them, including an ineffective Adam Wainwright. It was one of those rare nights in baseball where everything seemed to [...]