Gresh & Fauria: Alex Cora won't manipulate Craig Breslow

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00:00Alex Cora is trying to do his best to whip everyone into a bit of a frenzy or at least

00:09to rally behind him as the guy who is really the only one kind of pushing management right now.

00:16You know, there's no one on the roster. We went through this yesterday, even if Rafi

00:20Devers said it, who bailed out of the all-star game, and I got no issue with that. But even if

00:25Rafi Devers said something, it wouldn't land. The only person right now that is saying anything

00:31connected to the Red Sox that is landing with fans is out of the mouth of Alex Cora.

00:38And if you just go by history, you know, I've been kind of busting balls about the way they

00:43handled the Judon thing last year, and I know we're going to get to that because they're dealing

00:47with it again this year. But if I go by history of kind of what happens in these situations,

00:56the one thing I know is that whenever Xander Bogarts left, fans were restless and pissed,

01:02and it led them to hand out a $330 million contract to Rafi Devers. And if you're Alex Cora,

01:10that's the reference point. The fans got so wound up over one guy leaving,

01:19they gave another guy a contract. And if the people I work for can be moved by the fans,

01:24then by God, I'm Alex Cora. They're going to listen to me. I'm the only one that can move

01:29the needle. Maybe fans will listen and start to scream more that something has to happen.

01:35I have a hard time believing that Breslau is going to allow himself to be manipulated by Cora.

01:43He's a Yale man, isn't he? He's got the number two pencil behind his head, the pocket protector,

01:48the sense of entitlement, all the things that come from going to those schools, right?

01:52That's what you get from going to Yale, Harvard, Princeton. I don't think Breslau is going to allow

02:00himself to be manipulated by Cora. I wish I believed that. I wish I believed that.

02:06Because I don't know to be as, I say this as respectfully as possible.

02:13When it comes to doing the job of the general manager, I don't know if Craig Breslau's got any

02:19balls. Because right now, he's viewed as the guy who took the job, not the guy that people wanted

02:28for the job. And then he came in here and either wasn't completely honest with everybody on the

02:34whole, hey, here's what I have to spend. And remember the, what was the line from,

02:39what was the line from Tom Werner, full throttle? Oh yeah. So yeah. So did he think it was full

02:47throttle or did he know it wasn't full throttle? There is nothing that Craig Breslau has done

02:53or said that makes me think there's any backbone to him whatsoever right now.

03:00Because if the owner wants it, the owner's going to get it. It's that simple.