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00:00Cora just got handed a big, giant, fat extension.
00:03I don't think he's going anywhere, Keefe,
00:04but I am looking at him for the team's underachievement.
00:08On some level, that's on the manager.
00:10Why are you pitching to Vlad?
00:11Why are you sticking with Giolito into a sixth inning?
00:14Why do you keep going back to Slayton?
00:15Why are you sticking with Whitlock for multiple innings?
00:17At some point, the manager has to push the right buttons.
00:20We give him credit when he pushes the right ones.
00:22At some point, when you're pushing the wrong ones,
00:24we've got to call it out.
00:25So I don't think he's in any jeopardy of losing his job.
00:27I don't think it's a hot seat issue,
00:29but I do look at him for their underachievement at 18-18
00:33and go, he's right in the middle of it.
00:35He's a big factor.
00:35Do you know what their record is in one-run games?
00:38I don't know the record.
00:39I believe they've blown the most one-run games in baseball,
00:42eight or nine, but I don't know what their record is.
00:43They're four or nine.
00:44Yeah, so nine is the answer.
00:46Right, so you're a 500 team.
00:48That swings the other way.
00:50That's pretty dramatically different.
00:51He had that answer last week, which I didn't love,
00:53about pitching to Vlad Guerrero.
00:56It basically boils down to, well,
00:58No, this came out after our show.
01:00You're right.
01:00After our show, he's like, well,
01:01basically, if the game mattered,
01:03I would have walked him.
01:05If it was the ALCS.
01:06ALCS.
01:07Yeah, just say you screwed it up.
01:08You screwed that one up.
01:09Don't say, oh, we're just trying.
01:11I forget.
01:11Trust our pitchers or whatever.
01:13That's exactly what it was.
01:14Oh, it's early in the year.
01:15I'm just trying to put trust in my pitchers.
01:16No, no, no.
01:17Vlad Guerrero.
01:18It's not like you're walking some scrub.
01:19You're walking Vlad Guerrero.
01:20You still have to get Santander out.
01:21So why do you think he answered it that way?
01:24To find a way to deflect all blame?
01:27See, that's what I think.
01:28I think he's just shirking blame.
01:29Deflecting blame is a good word for it.
01:31And yeah, I just think right now,
01:34maybe you're feeling it a little bit.
01:35He knows he's not managing great,
01:36so he doesn't want to put any more on his plate
01:38or any more blame on himself, rather.
01:40So I thought that was a dissatisfactory answer as well.
01:44No, they need to be a lot better
01:46because Cora's been here with one of the best teams
01:49in Red Sox history,
01:50and they ran all the way to a World Series title.
01:53He's been with some not-so-good teams,
01:55and they've come in last place.
01:57You know, he had the one kind of surprise year in 2021
01:59where they did get to the ALCS.
02:01Yep.
02:01But then he's had a bunch of games where,
02:03I'll give him all the excuses in the world.
02:05You didn't have a great roster,
02:06but you were in it at the trade deadline,
02:08and then you just fell apart afterwards.
02:11So, like, is he a great manager,
02:14or, like, how much credit does he deserve
02:15if this team does well?
02:17Right now, you do have the expectations.