Alex Cora coached his son’s Little League staff this offseason.
That makes him the proper supervisor for the 2024 Red Sox.
The Red Sox must go “full throttle” again to the fundamentals. Forget analytics.
The staff must work on complicated points like:
“Hitting the cut-off man.”
“Covering first base.”
“Moving the runner from first to third.”
It ought to make for compelling drama.
The “Bad News Sox” can have their very own present on Netflix in 2024.
The Super Bowl produced a file TV viewers of 123.4 million. The “Bad News Sox” could crush that quantity with regards to hate watching.
The Red Sox pitchers and catchers maintain their first formal exercise of the spring at Fenway South in Lee County, Fla. in the present day.
Lee County is called for a similar Robert E. Lee who led the Confederacy.
If solely Boston might secede from the Red Sox.
Netflix’s hottest present is a science-fiction, supernatural, teen, horror-drama referred to as “Stranger Things.”
The present is ready within the Eighties.
That’s again when the Red Sox have been the No. 1 staff on the town every time Larry Bird wasn’t enjoying.
The Red Sox might have some “Stranger Things” supernatural juice in the event that they hope to cowl the over on 80.5 wins, keep away from final place, or be related after Labor Day.
Cora met the media Tuesday.
On at the present time earlier than Valentine’s Day, he spoke concerning the 2024 Red Sox with all the fervour of a DMV clerk.
Cora was a bit extra animated when discussing Cora.
The Red Sox supervisor confessed that final season wore on him greater than most.
“It’s not easy, man. Dealing with the media, dealing with players, the front office, the pressure of winning is not easy. It should be fun, and sometimes it’s not,” he advised the assembled scribes and cameras.
Cora spent the offseason working himself again into form. A leaner-if-not-meaner Cora can be managing the staff this 12 months.
“This morning I got up, I ran four (miles). That’s where I’m at. All joking aside, I felt awful, physically, last year. I felt awful health-wise, energy-wise. It was bad. I cannot let a game dictate who I am as a person, or what I have to do. I feel really good,” he stated.
Cora stated he’s on the clock, whether or not or not it’s only one extra 12 months or longer.
“I don’t see myself managing in 10 years,” Cora stated, after citing the likes of Terry Francona and Tony LaRussa. “There’s more to life than baseball.”
In 2024, that features the rebuild of the Patriots; probably soul-crushing playoff flops by the Celtics and Bruins; and Superfan Episodes of “The Office.”
Cora and GM Craig Breslow on Tuesday handed on questions regarding the supervisor’s future with the staff past 2024.
How will that have an effect on plans for a “Bad New Sox” sequel?
Think of this present as “Hard Knocks” meets “No Knocks.”
The Red Sox have been tenth within the AL in residence runs final 12 months. Their No. 3 residence run hitter signed with the Blue Jays. Their No. 4 residence run hitter remains to be a free agent. And their No. 5 residence run hitter, Masa Yoshida, has been anointed as the brand new full-time DH.
Yoshida hit 15 bombs final season.
Those are 1975 Bernie Carbo numbers minus the World Series heroics.
The lack of energy on this lineup mirrors the dearth of ardour all through Red Sox Nation.
On this Valentine’s Day, it’s clear Cupid’s arrow missed the 2024 Red Sox by a mile.
This total offseason was like kissing your sister.
The Red Sox and their followers watched as Fenway Sports Group unfold its love far and huge, from Saudi Arabia to Ponte Vedra Beach.
Meanwhile, followers in New England got the chilly shoulder.
John W. Henry, Linda Pizzuti Henry, and Tom Werner have gone all in on attempting to save lots of … the PGA Tour. The PGA Tour is now golf’s model of the Red Sox + Tiger Woods as soon as a month.
Henry’s latest subsidiary has fallen up to now that unhealthy climate and a bunch of no-names pushed the Waste Management Open right into a playoff Sunday. The event ended throughout the second quarter of the Super Bowl.
To the shock of nobody, the TV numbers for that one have been down 35% over final 12 months.
Tiger can be enjoying this weekend at his personal event in Los Angeles.
Hopefully, he’ll be utilizing UberX to get to and from the course.
The 2024 “Bad News Sox” don’t have any Tigers, lions, or bears.
But possession continues to play the staff’s followers for a flock of sheep.
We’ve been ready to see if/when the Red Sox fan base would observe possession’s lead and easily stroll away from the franchise.
That Red Sox tickets will be had at Costco as a part of a package deal deal that features hats and scorching canine is an encouraging signal that you may solely idiot most people lengthy sufficient.
Henry’s newspaper/web site is doing its greatest to persuade readers that all the things is solely peachy by way of the general economic system. The shrinking financial institution accounts and inflated bank card balances of the plenty inform one other story.
Visiting followers once more will fill loads of seats on the venerable ballyard on Jersey Street this spring and summer time. When it involves these digital funds on MLB.com or on the Fenway concession stands, it doesn’t matter if the bank card proprietor has a Massachusetts or Missouri zip code.
The 2024 Red Sox are in an enviable place provided that they can not fall any additional within the standings, if not the standing of the general public.
Just like they have been final 12 months.
Bill Speros (@RealOBF and @BillSperos on X) will be reached at [email protected]
Source: www.bostonherald.com