00:00Alex Cora spoke for the first time since being fired as a Red Sox manager in an English-speaking interview,
00:06I believe it is, with our guy Rob Bradford on Baseball Isn't Boring, and talked about not hating the Red
00:13Sox, even though he was fired by the Red Sox.
00:16We can hear from former manager Alex Cora.
00:22I got a lot of friends there, and like I said, you know, the decision was a division, the decision.
00:28Breslow made a decision of letting me go and others, but there was a lot of relationships that started in
00:352005, right?
00:37And, yeah, probably acted immature, you know, for a little bit there.
00:42Who knows, you know, when I got fired, you know, made some comments that probably I didn't have to make
00:46or posted that, you know.
00:49I have to regret, like, take that away, man.
00:52Somebody should say, take the phone away from this kid, you know.
00:55But at the end, you really care.
00:57You care about the organization.
01:00You care about those boys getting a ring.
01:02You care about Tommy and Catch and, you know, Colin and the people that grind through the whole process down
01:09there in the clubhouse.
01:11You know, the trainers and the nutritionists and everybody that don't get a standing ovation.
01:17Only when you win the whole series and they have the presentations and we got a long one, you know,
01:21the Red Sox have a long, long presentation up and they, you know, they don't get the love that the
01:27players do.
01:28And you want them to get all the way to the end because it's game changer, man.
01:34Well, Alex Cora said during that interview that he believes he was fired for one reason and one reason only,
01:42and that was that the pitching was not good in April.
01:45I don't know if you agree with that assessment or not, but that was his assessment with Rob Bradford yesterday.
01:50I think he was fired because he had a giant peeing match with the president of baseball operations and Heimblum
01:57or chief baseball officer and Heimblum won.
02:00And also, correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't the pitching like the only thing they had going early in the
02:05year?
02:06Yeah, it was.
02:08Yeah.
02:09I mean, Garrett, when did Garrett Crochet get hurt?
02:12He got fired on Garrett Crochet's final start of the regular season.
02:15They beat the Orioles 16 to one in Crochet's start of that game.
02:19So no excuse there.
02:21Sonny Gray was Sonny Gray.
02:23Yeah, they would, they would, that was the biggest.
02:25I mean, Bayo was having his weird issues at that point.
02:28Suarez.
02:29Weirder than my issues.
02:30Peyton Tolley was fine.
02:32Can we not go back?
02:34Also, did, when he was talking about people that he cared about in the organization, did he mention Chad Tracy?
02:39I didn't, I didn't hear that.
02:41No, he brought up guys.
02:42I didn't even, I don't think so.
02:43Okay.
02:44Todd, like, probably just.
02:45Well, to be fair, he didn't see Chad every day because Chad was down in AAA.
02:49So, you know.
02:50Yeah, you don't see him.
02:51It was probably just the guy because he made it seem like, I don't know who those guys he was
02:55talking about.
02:55Well, he sees them during spring training.
02:57No, no, no.
02:57But I'm saying Tommy, Colin.
03:00Yeah, some of those, like, I don't even, like, I almost seem like those were guys that were there.
03:05They worked for the team in other areas, whether equipment managers, like he brought up the training staff.
03:10Yeah.
03:10I don't think he talked about any players or, you know, coaches.
03:13Well, Curtis looks like the Brewers are going to get it done.
03:16Brew crew.
03:17Hey, by the way, 12.2 million for game one.
03:20Really?
03:21Very good number.
03:22Okay.
03:23Less than last year, but, I mean, much better than I anticipated.
03:27So, let's lock it out.
03:28Red Sox, only team ever to come back being down 3-0 in a seven-game series and did that
03:37no four.
03:37So, this one is done.
03:41Maybe they close it out tonight.
03:42I don't know if they're going to sweep or not.
03:44I think the Rays win tonight.
03:45Gentlemen sweep.
03:46Yeah.
03:47All right.
03:49It was, I mean, it couldn't happen at a better time when it comes to the potential strike and the
03:57potential lockout that a team with a low payroll wins the whole thing.
04:01It is just awesome.
04:02But, honestly, a 12.2 million for that game is really excellent for baseball, considering, you know, I think 13
04:09.3 million last year for the Dodgers.
04:11Who did the Dodgers play last year in the World Series?
04:13Tampa Bay.
04:14I'm not Toronto.
04:15Okay.
