CSNNE's Michael Holley: "No, [Maddon] is not a great manager."

by Aaron Giddens

Thursday night on Comcast SportsNet Northeast's show "Uno Sports Tonight", host Michael Felger along with co-host Michael Holley and Boston Herald's Red Sox beat writer Michael Silverman were discussing the last two games of the 2013 ALDS between the Red Sox and the Rays, specifically whether Farrell was a big concern after he supposedly "blew" game 3 when this happened.

BRaysball Talk and Rays Baseball Talk team up

by Aaron Giddens

I am please to announce that BRaysball Talk and Rays Baseball Talk have teamed up to bring you a new Community Forums initiative.

For the past two years, BRaysball Talk has had Forums available for Rays fans but they have never been active. WE hope by bringing in Rays Baseball Talk that we can help each other out and form the best Rays based forums on the internet.

The new partnership is effective immediately.

You can access the forums at http://forums.braysballtalk.com/.

Welcome to the BRaysball Talk family, Rays Baseball Talk!

PETA sends open letter to Rays after Lobaton HR

by Aaron Giddens

So for the second time this year and third time ever, a home run landed in the Rays Touch Tank. This time it was Lobaton's walk-off homerun that forced game 4 of this years ALDS, which you can see here.

In response to that homerun, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), one of the largest animal rights groups in the world, is again furious and calls for the touch tank to be shut down and removed and the rays returned to the ocean.

In an letter emailed to BRaysball Talk, Delcianna Winders, Esq., Director of Captive Animal Law Enforcement at PETA, called the touch tank a "little animal prison and potential death trap". I will now share with you the full email, unedited and unformated. Exactly how BRaysball Talk received it.

2013 Moment of the Year announcement

by Aaron Giddens

With the 2013 season now over for our Rays (prematurely, sadly), we can now discuss how our BRaysball Talk's Annual Moment of the Year vote will work this year. For the past two years I have selected videos and you have voted on them, well this year it's gonna be completely up to you - the fans.

So here's this year's process: