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For you anti NY media snobs here is an article on point from a Massachustts media outlet which basically says what I have been saying. By Chris Cotillo | ccotillo@MassLive.com Asked Wednesday night if Alex Cora deserved a second chance at managing in the majors, Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy gave the same answer he did at the press conference announcing the club was parting ways with Cora in January. “I do. That’s my personal feeling," Kennedy said. “He does need to go through a rehabilitation process. What he did was wrong. He acknowledged that to us and apologized to us for that. I’m a big believer in second chances.”For those who believe Ron Roenicke is simply keeping Cora’s seat warm until 2021, the question is whether or not Chaim Bloom and the team’s owners will be willing to welcome Cora back just a year after he left the team in disgrace. The better question might be whether Cora himself wants to come back. Yes, Cora loved his time in Boston and even referred to his two-year managerial tenure as the “best years of his life” when he was let go in January. But after everything that has happened in the last six months, it’s fair to wonder if a fresh start might be best for the former infielder as he looks to launch Phase 2 of his post-playing career. It’s unfair to assume Cora will simply emerge from a year in timeout, show up on Jersey Street and to bow to the Red Sox behemoth, ready to reassume his old post like nothing happened.Cora has worn many hats since retiring in 2011, working as an ESPN analyst and serving as Puerto Rico’s GM for the World Baseball Classic before finding his way back into the majors as the Astros bench coach in 2017 and eventually the Red Sox manager a year later. But he’s still young (he doesn’t turn 45 until October) and, assuming teams are willing to accept his apology for his role in Houston’s scandal, looks to have a long career ahead of him in baseball. The restart for that career might not take place in the Red Sox’ dugout-- or any dugout at all. Cora has long expressed a desire to work in a front office and is known to have ambitions to one day become a team’s general manager.The path to GM, at least in the short-term, might be easier than the path back to a managerial gig. Cora has close friends working for teams throughout the league and teams will likely find hiring him much more palatable if his work happens far away from the in-game action that led to his temporary downfall. A return to TV -- where he thrived from 2013 to 2016 -- is a possible gateway for a comeback as well and would allow for a smoother transition than hiding for a year and popping right back into a forward-facing role with a club. Late in his Red Sox tenure, Cora often talked about the grind of the job and how difficult it was to go through the 162-game grind with twin babies at home. Now, Cora’s twins are two years old and it’s possible Cora will want a job that will make it easier to watch them grow up. Both Kennedy and Bloom said Wednesday’s exoneration didn’t change anything in regards to the team’s relationship with Cora, whose ouster had everything to do with his actions in Houston and nothing to do with what he may have done in Boston. The factors that led to the decision in January, Bloom said, still apply. And Roenicke, who had his interim tag removed earlier Wednesday, is the manager now and until someone says otherwise. Considering Roenicke’s contract only runs through 2020, that “otherwise” might come sooner rather than later. But it won’t be as simple as Bloom calling Cora up, inviting him back and immediately getting a yes. Cora is, as Bloom said Wednesday, a complex person, and he’ll likely consider a wide range of factors as he plans what the rest of his career will look like. Cora began the process of owning up to his misdeeds by releasing a statement Wednesday night. It’s important not to forget the end of that process will be completely up to him, too.

Bloom isn't DD. Cora really was never in a position to have a relationship with him. I understand the wishful thinking of everyone who wants Cora to return but that is all it is wishful thinking. Moreover neither side has made any statement that indicates that either wishes such a reunion.

Alex Trabek mentions the 3 p's of buying life insurance on the commercials well the same is true in baseball, pitching, pitching and pitching.

That makes sense but from the Red Sox point of view but I feel Cora will be in no hurry to return to Boston. Cora had a good rapport with DD. Bloom is a different personality entirely. If I am Cora I am thinking that my services are going to be in demand elsewhere. Furthermore Cora knows the Red Sox situation as well as anyone. I suspect he feels he can hatch on to a team with better prospects in the near term than Boston without the pressure of the Boston market. I will be very surprised if Cora returns to Boston after his suspension. If he returns to managing, it will be someplace else first.

Just read newspaper article in New York Post quoting both Bloom and Cora which makes it appear highly unlikely that Cora will be returning to Boston.

- No spitting, using smokeless tobacco or sunflower seeds in restricted areas. Spitting is prohibited. No spitting in baseball. OMG I will believe it when I see it.

Cora reportedly said recently that he may not wish to return to managing after his suspension but would rather wish to try other things. While this could be a negotiating ploy, my intuition tells me Cora is certainly in no hurry to return to the Red Sox.

My hunch is that he will sign with another team. I suspect both he and Boston will want to move on, too much baggage. Moreover I suspect that he will go to the highest bidder and that won't be Boston.

As they say in Arkansas never get into the mud and wrestle a razorback. You will both get dirty only the razorback will enjoy it.

I am sorry you feel insulted. It is not my intention to do so. But the tendency of young people today to discount the threat from communism in its various forms is one I find very disturbing. Might I suggest you read or re-read George Orwell. I am rereading various works about the Spanish Civil War. It was Orwell's experiences as a member of the international brigades fighting for the republic against the fascists that formed the basis for his insights that led to 1984 and Animal Farm. Orwell himself is a very interesting personality. The reasons why the Spanish republic lost to Franco are really quite illuminating.

I am not the one who made the first political comment. I merely am responding. Just like I am responding to you. BTW how many baseball posts have there been virtually none. If folks weren't commenting on what I am posting no one would be posting anything. If people wanted to talk baseball then talk baseball. I am not stopping anyone. The problem.is no one has anything about baseball to say.

You are trying my patience. I make allowances for your youth inexperience and naivete. It isn't as if anyone has any baseball to discuss because they don't.

To him not you at al

You are so niave , my final word!

You are still young. You will learn how insidious the Marxist ideology is. I hope and pray your generation doesn't have to learn the hard way. From what I see with the current fascination with certain progressives I am not optimistic that the younger generation is as prepared to defend freedom as those who have gone before them.

That is because you never had to fight them or deal with them. Having lived in Latin America and having served there for a number of years I have seen their evil up close. Several of my professional contacts were assisnated by the FMLN including the teen age niece of someone I worked with. One of my colleagues and his wife were trapped in their bathroom during an FMLN attack. They were specifically targeted. The only reason they survived was a satchel charger thrown on top of the roof of the house failed to explode. So excuse me if I am a little overbearing on this subject.

Depending on where you are and which direction you travel you have to cross the Volga River to get here. So that wouldn't work.

Jad's rhetoric was classic Marxism. All he had to do was specifically deny that he is a Marxist.. He never did. Moreover that line that social services are profit based is total nonsense. BTW who is keeping the discussion political. I am now responding to your posts. If you keep commenting along this line. I will keep responding.

Then talk baseball and don't bring Marxist rhetoric to the discussion. Don't get your panties in a knot with me.

I didn't start this by making a Marxist comment about the current state of negotiation between the players and the owners. I merely pointed out the rhetoric was right out of a 1930's edition of Pravada.

You have a right to your opinion just as I to mine. Unfortunately only those opinions acceptable to the PC crowd are allowed even if they are as absurd as implying that social services in this country are profit based, an erroneous statement one usually expects from only avowed Marxists.

Let me set the record straight on social services. Like I said until 2014, I was Director of one of Maryland's Depts of Social Services and member of the Secretary's leadership team. I also served as President of the County's Local Management Board which coordinated virtually all of the State and Federal Government's Community Action Program funds in our County. I also served as President of the Boy's and Girl's club as well as a member of the board of directors for the County's United Way. So from 1997 until I retired in 2014, I was not aware of a single social service that was profit based. Here is list of some of the specific social service programs under my purview during that time : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) / Food Supplement Program (FSP) Burial Assistance. Temporary Cash Assistance. Energy Assistance. Office for Refugees and Asylees (MORA) - DHR. Homelessness Prevention Program. Kinship Care. Women, Infants and Children Program (WIC) Project Home Adult Protective Services In-Home Aides Services Social Services to Adults Respite Care Program Adult Public Guardianship Project SAFE (Stop Adult Financial Exploitation) Child Protective Services Medical Assistance Office of Home Energy Programs Public Assistance to Adults (PPA) Temporary Cash Assistance Temporary Disability Assistance Transportation Assistance Program MCHIPS Children's Medical Assistance. Please enlighten me which of these programs is profit based? Now I admit we compared to some other jurisdictions were not the largest with a budget of less than 100 million dollars. But for the life of me I can't figure out what you mean by profit based social services

I didn't go nutty but merely pointed out that lines like "When the workers come in conflict with the massa's, the American public almost inevitably sides with the bosses." is typical of the rhetoric used by the communists since the earliest days of Marx, and Bakunin in the first International. If you think it isn't then your knowledge of world history is surely lacking. Moreover I didn't threaten to ban him. Threatening to ban free speech is something "progressives" and snowflakes do.

This is typical of the hypocritical logic I have come to expect from types like you. You ban what you can not refute.

I care for truth. I know communist propaganda when I see it and can smell it.