Phil Rizzuto called him "Little Joey Cora," an honorific from one small guy who could bunt to another.
Oddly, Rizzuto also married a woman named Cora, but we are not here to psychoanalyze Ceasar, we are here to bury that other Cora.
Alex Cora looks like a weasel and, at the very least in 2017, acted like one. The Asstros stole the year from the Yankees. Everyone says so and you can bet your third imaginary assassination attempt it's true.
After that heinous, trashcan-banging year, the Red Sox hired him twice. TWICE. With only a brief pause to let the worst of the press coverage die away.
This tells you everything you need to know about the Red Sox organization. About their fans. About their charming, whiny, third-tier city, which unfortunately was not buried during the Big Dig, wasting a once-in-forever golden opportunity.
Alex Cora will no doubt swim around in the wading pool for a while, but some other amoral, godless organization will probably hire him down the road a piece. Off the top of my head, that would mean LA, but they don't need a weasel, they have an inexhaustible barrel of Hollywood stage money.
FOX always needs a new weasel, so there's that possibility. ESPN has a fine track record in that regard, also.
Let's see where the perpetually unshaven shifty bastard ends up.
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I like Boston, even if it's not the city I knew growing up. But good piece, JM—and that cheating Cora deserves every excoriation he gets.
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