Gresh & Fauria: The Alex Cora situation is a lose-lose for the Red Sox
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00:00Alex Cora
00:01No pressure on him and in so many ways if the team was
00:0678 and 80 whatever 78 and 84 when it was all said and done
00:11You'd still look at Cora and go. Wow. Well that team that's pretty good if they overachieve
00:16It's automatic that Alex Cora is going to get praise. So in some ways
00:22Alex Cora is kind of if we were to go every great story has the baby face and the heel the good guy and the
00:28Bad guy he is adding to the good guy image of himself
00:34By also saying well it was a window now
00:36it looks like it's a door because Cora is saying what a lot of Red Sox fans who care at this point and
00:44Folks are still kind of joining the party
00:47That that it's yes
00:48Hey Cora's right out of the and then if it's all on Breslau that he leaves when in reality
00:54It might just be Alex Cora saying yeah, it's time for me to unplug
00:58I'm gonna go get eight million a year somewhere else. Thanks a bunch
01:01That blood's gonna be all over Breslau's hands. Oh, and that's and that's the other thing and that's why
01:08Just quickly to take the heat off of him for eventually Cora leaving potentially would be to make a move
01:14and
01:15Then you're kind of shifting things back because if Breslau can can then turn around at the deadline and say hey
01:23They let me do something to look at what I did. It would take some pressure off of him
01:28Because it sure as hell looks like Cora is leaving the organization at the end of the year. Okay. Yeah, I I feel like that
01:35The Red Sox are gonna either when it comes to Cora. Yeah, you say he's gonna leave
01:41It feels that way right? Well, I know here's what's gonna happen. They're gonna in order to keep them to save face
01:47They're gonna have to massively overpay for him or he's gonna break a record when it comes to a manager salary
01:53Or throw an offer that is very close to Craig counsel like if we hear that it was in typical Red Sox instead of
02:00Five four forty eight million a year. It was like five four thirty five, you know, we were right there
02:05Yeah, he'll break that
02:06I kind of think more than that the Yankees are gonna pay out score a ton of money to be their manager next year
02:11Or they're gonna lose them
02:13That's it. You're gonna either
02:15Massively overpay for him because Cora's play this perfectly he'd bet on himself and he's winning right now. He has a high ground
02:21Or you're gonna lose him now what I mean think about that think about like and then it would say well
02:28Who are you gonna replace him with? Oh, don't worry. We'll get somebody better. Okay
02:32Line them up. Let me know. Let me know who it is. John Farrell's available
02:36yeah, I mean it just feels like they they have an opportunity to salvage their reputation and
02:44Breslau needs that needs to play this game like a game like the Game of Thrones
02:49He needs to act and assume that he's just a mark and they're just out there
02:55There's gonna parade him out there and he's gonna take every shot and every bit of criticism and all the blame
03:01because ownership that says
03:03Hey, I told him to do whatever he needs to do. Hey, it's not my decision
03:06I hired him to do the job and you know us we don't butt in
03:09We don't but it yeah, you don't but it but you also make it almost impossible for him to do his job. Well