Boston Red Sox fire Alex Cora because a scapegoat was needed! Are the Mets, Phillies, or Astros next? (Episode 1445 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘patsy’ as in fall guy as in Alex Cora as in Craig Breslow as in Sam Kennedy as in John Henry as in the Boston Red Sox. Cora has been fired. The Red Sox are playing terrible baseball. (26:20) The Phillies and Mets stink. It’s so bad. (37:38) Review: Heel. (40:10) The Astros are in trouble. The theme of today is bad baseball for big payrolls. Is Joe Espada next on the chopping block? (47:46) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.5	2006. And I do not say the word patsy often. There is no more pejorative word to use
1:16.7	to describe a manager in Major League Baseball, no matter how little power they may have at the end of the
1:23.4	day to create lineups or to make roster decisions. But Patsy? Calling Alex Cora a Patsy,
1:31.9	a World Series winning garbage can banging manager? Patsy? That's exactly what he was.
1:42.2	Craig Breslau, former player, long time pitcher,
1:47.1	smarty pants, yes, very smart,
1:50.9	gets hired by the Boston Red Sox and says,
1:53.2	I know what to do.
1:55.2	I'm the chief baseball officer
1:57.9	and I will make the decisions.
2:07.6	John Henry has fallen in love and I mean like flowers, movies, the occasional candlelight dinner and possibly even some tickling. Because what else could explain giving the power to Craig Breslau the way
2:23.6	the Red Sox claim they have done.
2:27.4	The beautiful part about the firing that it wasn't just the manager Alex Cora who got fired.
2:33.6	It was anyone and everyone who did not like the CBW.
2:41.0	And no, it's not the channel you can never find to see if there's any sports rights.
2:45.7	The CBW is the Craig Breslau way.
2:49.1	The Craig Breslau way means the following. We've never done it this
2:54.6	way, but we're going to start doing it that way. And by doing it that way, it'll make all of you
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