Boston: One day after Missing the Victory of the Red Sox on the Mets to attend the graduation of his daughter at Boston College and the events that followed at the ceremonyManager Alex Cora defended his decision, which has been criticized on Talk Radio for the last 24 hours.
“People have their opinions,” Cora said on Tuesday. “I bet these people also have families and, at any given time, they need to make decisions. I also opted that they made decisions for the best of the family. I made the best decision for my daughter. For those who do not understand it, I will not try to convince them.
Cora’s daughter, Camila, graduated from BC on Monday morning, with the ceremony at the alumni stadium scheduled for 10 am in Cora attended with a group of about 20 family members, including her partner, Angelica, ex-Dona, Nilda and the mother, Iris, and then spent the rest of the day celebrating with the family as the Ramón Vázquez coach.
In the local conversation radio circles, some – including popular 98.5 The Sports Hub host Mike FelgeA – He took problems with the decision to jump the game considering that the ceremony was long before the first pitch and the parties were local. The “Felger and Mazz” program on Monday, Felger called Cora’s decision to lose the game “Type of Download”.
“It’s just the tone you’ve set up and the example you set for the team,” Felger said. “It’s not as if they needed it there to change the launch or set -it’s the leadership and optics of everything. It’s a very easy opportunity to say,” Nothing is more important than the game tonight. “
The day later, Cora, who had clearly realized the critic, did not regret.
“I wanted her to be with her,” Cora said. “It was her day, so she was secondary. We are in this world for a purpose and, for me, she is raising her and trying to do the best we can. It was obviously not perfect, but right now she is perfect. Everyone contributed. For her, she was very restless to have the whole family in the city. As we told her, nothing for her could be able to listen to her, as she thought of the whole day, as she thought of the whole day, as she thought of the whole day, as she thought of the whole day, as she could think of it, handle.
“It’s a day, I don’t miss it. All day. There are coaches that take three days for this. So he spent here in Boston, so I took one.”
In the absence of Cora, Vázquez and the Red Sox beat the Mets, 3-1, to improve up to 24-25 this season. From afar, Cora said, seeing the game from home, with integrated comments of his mother, he provided a new perspective.
“It was also interesting to see the game with my mother,” Cora said. “Oh.
“The boys played well. Ramón did a prominent job. He has it. He has it in him. It’s a matter of time. I really think that for him having this experience, he was fantastic. Honestly, he did not call him during the day because he moves because I trust him. He is my bank coach. He understands how we do it. He was good. He was clean.”
Cora is back at Tuesday’s game with the first pitch for 18:45 Camila is in the graduated school at the alma mater of his father, the University of Miami, in the fall.
“It’s a day that we will always remember,” Cora said. Being and listening to everything that happens, speeches and all this. You are like “Wow, that’s really happening.” To enjoy with the whole family … everyone was in the same room celebrating it. It’s amazing. “