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Felger & Massarotti

Red Sox Fire Alex Cora on Saturday // Players Reaction to Alex Cora Firing // Mazz Joins the Show from Vacation - 4/27 (Hour 1)

Felger & Massarotti

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.1978 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

  • (0:00) Felger, Murray, and Matt McCarthy open the show discussing the news from the weekend of the Red Sox firing Alex Cora and other coaches on the staff. 
  • (14:02) The callers give their thoughts on the Red Sox firing Alex Cora. 
  • (25:47) Thoughts on how some of the Red Sox players reacted to Alex Cora being fired on Saturday evening. 
  • (37:38) Mazz joins the show from vacation to discuss the Red Sox firing of Cora.


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0:00.0

Oh, right, of course, because I should know who that is.

0:03.8

I don't care what you think.

0:05.3

I'll tell you something that rubbed me right.

0:07.0

Felger and Mass.

0:08.1

On 985, the Sports Hub.

0:10.1

No, I think characterizing the relationship as a power struggle is unfair.

0:15.8

You know, I look at these roles as a partnership, you know, as someone that I can bounce ideas off of, he can

0:22.6

bounce ideas off of. Ultimately, again, this is, this is about needing to do everything we

0:28.7

possibly can to give ourselves to have the best, you know, 135 games from here forward.

0:33.3

I actually think I have a very good working relationship with Alex. Certainly, neither of us was, you know, was satisfied with the start that we got off to, but we continued to bounce ideas off of each other to put all potential solutions on the table. Ultimately, you know, as an organization, as a baseball operation, alongside ownership,

0:55.2

we reached the decision yesterday to make these changes.

0:59.0

That you heard yesterday, that was probably Lion Bullcrap number one.

1:03.6

Craig Breslow categorically won a power struggle at Fenway Park.

1:09.6

And as we will discuss here coming up on the program, absolutely got

1:13.5

out ahead of what was coming his way, just like it was coming the way of Heim Bloom. He was

1:18.7

able to do what Heim Bloom was unable to do, which was to head off the snake and cut the snake off

1:23.7

at the head of the snake and preserve his job. And it cost Alex Corr is his in in the process and that is categorically what happened over the weekend and that's where we will start. On a re-entry Monday, re-entry Monday is here brought you by our friends at Blue Bear. When it comes to plumbing, heating and air, no one compares to Blue Bear. When you call Blue Bear, you can expect expert service from the friendly staff for all your heating and plumbing services. For more information or to book your appointment today, visit Blue Bearplumbing.com. You can call us on whatever you want. Another very busy weekend. Patriots concluded their draft. Mike Rable is somehow back at work today, which is like the most surprising little nugget I've heard in the last 20 minutes. Yeah, I'm with you on that.

2:17.6

Super Speed Therapy. Oh, my God. So Bruins, Celtics, plus, all of it. So it's all on the table. 617779-0-985. But we start with the firing of Alex Cora. Big Jim Murray is in for Mazz, who's off this week. McTakey, Matt McCarthy's in our update studio. Jim, what do your leadoff takes on this? So my main three takeaways from the CORA

2:19.6

and coaching staff firing are this. McTakey, Matt McCarthy's in our update studio. Jim, what do your leadoff takes on this?

2:17.6

So my main three takeaways from the Cora in coaching staff firing are this. I don't feel the least bit bad for Alex Cora. He was clearly checked out, playing favorites, alienating young players like Marcel O'Meyer, getting in the way of their development. And we've seen how many slow starts under this guy since they won in 2018.

2:40.8

And not to mention, it's now clear, based on his social media posts since he got fired, happy, happy, I'm happy.

2:44.4

You don't even want to be here anymore because you were miserable.

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