Alex Cora back to the sox

[patrickgpe]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/11/red-sox-to-hire-alex-cora-as-manager.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

 

it just looks terrible. I am kind of shocked that Hinch and Cora are back with managerial gigs just one year removed and just after their suspension ended. I would think they would have had to atleast serve as a bench coach for a bit.

[TURBO]

I'm not surprised at all.

 

Not many moral codes left in professional sports.

[MadThinker88]

At least Hinch is with a different organization..

Cora back in Boston is poor optics...

[MrTPlush]

Lol....wooooooow.

 

That’s kinda pathetic honestly.

[patrickgpe]

the finalists they brought in were so week, i think this was set up from the beginning.

[JosephC]

LOL, the bad look of this does not hold a candle to who the owners just approved as the newest owner.

 

I didn't watch any MLB this season, really just due to the shortened messed up nature of the season. I haven't watched any NFL this year as I have just lost interest in the on-the-field product. Have to admit to not really missing either one. The Steve Cohen factor probably just ended my days of being an MLB customer. Had been looking at buying some new t-shirts and a jacket, it definitely will not be Brewer products now.

 

And for the record, Attanasio approved the Mets sale. I would hope that someone in the local media will bring up Cohen's past and reputation in general and really grill Attanasio about it, but since the sports media is pretty much crap it's unlikely that will happen.

[owbc]

And Manfred was shocked when he was loudly booed in Texas. LOL.

[TURBO]

 

I didn't watch any MLB this season, really just due to the shortened messed up nature of the season. I haven't watched any NFL this year as I have just lost interest in the on-the-field product. Have to admit to not really missing either one. The Steve Cohen factor probably just ended my days of being an MLB customer. Had been looking at buying some new t-shirts and a jacket, it definitely will not be Brewer products now.

 

 

Interesting that you spend any time on this site if you are now anti-brewers.

[JosephC]

 

I didn't watch any MLB this season, really just due to the shortened messed up nature of the season. I haven't watched any NFL this year as I have just lost interest in the on-the-field product. Have to admit to not really missing either one. The Steve Cohen factor probably just ended my days of being an MLB customer. Had been looking at buying some new t-shirts and a jacket, it definitely will not be Brewer products now.

 

 

Interesting that you spend any time on this site if you are now anti-brewers.

 

I wouldn't use the term anti-Brewer. If I were a Dodgers fan, I wouldn't be buying Dodger products. If I were a Marlins fan, I wouldn't be buying Marlins products. A better description would be anti-MLB after the events of the past couple of days. I just don't like hypocrites, and it's very hard to swallow that MLB gets on their platform about doing the right thing and have no problem firing no-names for saying the wrong thing and grandstanding about it, but at the same time welcomes someone like Steve Cohen in their ranks.

 

I never, ever thought I would side with Jerry Reinsdorf on anything, but he's one of the few who got it right here (probably for all the wrong reasons, but he still got it right). The Diamondbacks, Angels and Reds were the other 3 teams that were a no vote on Cohen.

[Jopal78]

 

I didn't watch any MLB this season, really just due to the shortened messed up nature of the season. I haven't watched any NFL this year as I have just lost interest in the on-the-field product. Have to admit to not really missing either one. The Steve Cohen factor probably just ended my days of being an MLB customer. Had been looking at buying some new t-shirts and a jacket, it definitely will not be Brewer products now.

 

 

Interesting that you spend any time on this site if you are now anti-brewers.

 

I wouldn't use the term anti-Brewer. If I were a Dodgers fan, I wouldn't be buying Dodger products. If I were a Marlins fan, I wouldn't be buying Marlins products. A better description would be anti-MLB after the events of the past couple of days. I just don't like hypocrites, and it's very hard to swallow that MLB gets on their platform about doing the right thing and have no problem firing no-names for saying the wrong thing and grandstanding about it, but at the same time welcomes someone like Steve Cohen in their ranks.

 

I never, ever thought I would side with Jerry Reinsdorf on anything, but he's one of the few who got it right here (probably for all the wrong reasons, but he still got it right). The Diamondbacks, Angels and Reds were the other 3 teams that were a no vote on Cohen.

 

Seriously? Aren't most of the team's owned by either Hedge Fund guys: Attanasio, Ricketts, Bill DeWitt, John Henry, Jim Crane, Stuart Sternberg (TB), Greg Johnson (SFG), Bruce Sherman (MIA) or 1%er industrialists: Dick Manfort (Col), John Stanton (Sea), John Fischer (Oak), Bob Simpson (TEX), John Middleton (PHI) Liberty Group (Atl), John Sherman (KC)?

 

You should know sports teams owners, and especially this group aren't going to look down on a guy like Cohen. In fact, they probably see him as "one of the gang" and probably as a victim of overzealous prosecution as opposed to a criminal. Not to mention, with 2.6 billion dollars at stake, the owners can't really stand in the way of who the Wilpons want to sell their team to, unless they want to throw millions away in attorneys fees and costs in litigation over the sale.

[sveumrules]

I'm more or less of the mind that no one gets billions, or even hundreds of millions dollars, by behaving on the up & up. Ultimately that wealth was amassed at the expense of countless individuals one way or another.

 

Sure, there are degrees to everything, & maybe Cohen is depraved even by billionaire standards, but being a sports fan is essentially like cheering for competing factions of an organized crime syndicate, & I guess I'm okay with that.

[pacopete4]

Yet Pete Rose still banned from baseball.

[GenoSeligPrieb]

So...you don't approve of the Mets owner....therefore, a boycott of Brewer merch. AND, after thousands of posts here, you didn't watch much baseball. OK, that adds up!

[DuWayne Steurer]

I mean all that aside since this is a thread about Alex Cora, it is kind of bad optics on the red Sox I think. He was suspended a year he served his year. It was 60 games, the red Sox decided he's their guy whether or not he's a cheater ( he is).

 

They've decided they are okay with the optics of that. They know fans aren't going to like it. They don't care. It is what it is. They know their fans are going to side with him and pretend like it either didn't happen or that he didn't know what was going on (he did).

 

Sportball fans don't cheer for the managers. look how many times the Patriots have been caught cheating and their fans don't care. do you think the Patriots.... do you think Bill belichick cares that the rest of America hates them? No. The red Sox hired Cora because he's their guy.

[GenoSeligPrieb]

I figure there will be plenty of Red Sox fans who will support Alex Cora with their nose plugged by their thumb and forefinger. It's the same as I did when the Brewers got Jim Edmonds, and when my Raiders added Bill Romanowski.

 

You cheer for the team even if there is some collateral damage to your soul in the process.

[Axman59]

I don't get why this surprises people, or bothers them. Cora is by nearly all accounts an excellent manager. He served his suspension and is eligible to manage again. Are people surprised when a player comes off suspension and resumes his career?

[xisxisxis]

Not surprising at all about Cora. Not surprised by the Cohen approval. This is a league that re-upped Luria after he ran the Expos into the Ground. In the world of high finance, MLB owners are pretty much high priced prostitutes who haven't had a good day since Jeffrey Epstein passed.

 

What really irritates the crap out of me is that we are how many years from the last substantive discussions on how to level the playing field so that the Brewers have some chance to compete with the $200M+ payrolls of the LA, NY, CHI, PHIL, oh heck every other friggin market. Seems like Attanasio is fine with the "we can't afford it" approach to ownership so maybe I'll just sink all my baseball related disposable income into lottery tickets. Somehow that seems like a better bet.