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I hate discussing the 2017 Houston Astros. The team blatantly robbed Major League Baseball and faced no real consequences. The championship wasn’t erased from history. Jose Altuve still has an MVP he didn’t deserve. And everyone involved still makes millions playing and coaching baseball as if they didn’t cheat the game.
But I have to bring this team up again after reading an excerpt from Evan Drellich’s new book, “Winning Fixes Everything,” in which Drellich details the cockiness of Alex Cora.
When Cora arrived in Boston to manage the Red Sox in 2018, he would “occasionally talk about the Astros’ sign-stealing from 2017, even brag, sometimes in a late-night setting,” Drellich wrote.
“Especially when they started drinking,” a member of the Red Sox reportedly said.
“We stole that (expletive) World Series,” Cora allegedly said.
While many teams were accused of illegally stealing signs during those years, Cora’s acts were seen as particularly egregious.
“We knew the Astros did [steal signs],” another member of the Red Sox told Drellich, “because Alex Cora told us. He said that when they played the Dodgers, ‘We already knew what everybody was throwing before we even got on base. We didn’t have to get on base.’ And everybody was like, ‘What the hell does that mean?’ “
Fuck Alex Cora, that chatty little drunk dweeb who saw teams were stealing signs and decided to take it to the most extreme end where every single Astros hitter would walk into the batter’s box and knew the exact pitch that was coming thus removing any sense of fair play from the sport.
Alex Cora was suspended one season before he was allowed to return to the Boston Red Sox sideline as if he wasn’t instrumental in his role in the sign-stealing bullshit in Houston. The man has one Michelob Ultra, snickers about stealing all of Ervin Santana’s pitches and then goes back to running a baseball team. There’s something wrong here.
Alex Cora cheating should have led to a lifetime ban
It’s insane how serious baseball and their writers treat HGH usage as if guys putting substances in their body to help them recover from injuries quicker is a black eye on the game but knowing every single pitch that’s coming your way is just a little whoopsie and a slap on the wrist. Barry Bonds is treated like he has cooties and no one can go near him but Cora gets to just keep coaching like nothing even happened.
If I’m the opening day starter for whatever team is playing against the Boston Red Sox this year, I am throwing my first pitch directly into the dugout where Cora is standing. For the first time, Alex Cora wouldn’t know what pitch was coming.
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