Gresh & Fauria: Was Alex Cora the big deadline add for the Red Sox?
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00:00I'm just expecting little to nothing, you know, whatever they have.
00:05We joked around last year with the whole Joe Judge line.
00:08No one's coming to save us.
00:10Get your t-shirts made.
00:11I kind of feel like that's the next t-shirt that Alex Cora has to make.
00:15You know, last year it was what, the you, the underdog type thing, right?
00:19This year it should be the, no, no one is coming to save us because it doesn't look
00:25like there's going to be, there might be a piece here or there.
00:29Like there might be a bullpen edition, but it's not going to be the best reliever on
00:34the market.
00:35You know, there's now the talk of, of the white socks and what do they do with Garrett
00:38crochet and he was a reliever and now starter.
00:41And you know, I, I've no delusions of grandeur on that.
00:44And if it comes through, then God bless them.
00:46Then we'll turn around and praise them.
00:47But I'm not, for me, it's not the disaster from the weekend so much as it is.
00:53You're now two and seven out of the break.
00:55And for every reason you gave management to invest in you, you've now given John Henry
01:01every reason to question investing.
01:03You can't go back now.
01:04You can't go back now.
01:05You can't, you cannot press the escape hatch button now.
01:10They're all on record.
01:11But that's why we, we were talking about the day that Cora got signed.
01:16Is this the big move at the deadline?
01:19Does this replace what would be the big move because it satiates Red Sox fans.
01:25It sends an issue of, or it sends a signal of stability that Cora is here.
01:30Even if you aren't completely in love with the team just yet.
01:33And that's good.
01:34I'm now really entrenched more than ever that that's going to be their way out of it.
01:40Their big money spend at the deadline was extending Cora.
01:45Yeah.
01:46But you didn't, I mean, I feel like we have talked about this multiple times that I don't
01:49think you ever thought that they were going to make some big quote unquote splash in free
01:55eight.
01:56And at the trade deadline.
01:57Oh yeah.
01:58Honestly, it's almost more shocking that they got Cora done really with the feeling that
02:02they're not going to do anything big at the deadline, because I think some people jumped
02:06to wild.
02:07If this means this, if Cora is staying here, then they must've promised him something.
02:11No, what they promised him was $21.75 million over three years.
02:16And that's it.
02:17Yeah.
02:18And I think you're foolish.
02:19If you don't think that they, the timing of this is just, just coincidental.
02:22I think it's nuts.
02:23I'm like, they absolutely listen.
02:26We're going to get it done anyways.
02:27Uh, you know, if you want to, you know, I know your, your preference Alex is to wait
02:31till the end of the season, but why what's a couple of months, what's the big deal.
02:35Let's just get it done.
02:36Let's announce it.
02:37Let's move forward.
02:38And then they could bask in that glory and everyone can be happy about that as the, as
02:42no other significant moves happen for the team, the actual players on the team.