Upon the Red Sox axing Alex Cora, a former player summarized the situation with a bizarre analogy.
“It’s like s–ting your pants and changing your shirt,” the former Red Sox player anonymously told sports reporter Rob Bradford.
The remark immediately went viral after Bradford posted it to X on Sunday, and the source of the comment has now been revealed.
Former Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett made the wild comment, with Bradford revealing the news while hosting the righty on his “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast on Friday.
“It was me, it was me,” Beckett said while laughing on the show. “It was so good, and I just felt like it fit.
Beckett spent seven seasons with Boston and was on their 2007 World Series championship team, along with being a teammate of Cora’s for two years.
He added that he believes that Cora was the perfect coach to continue leading the Red Sox.
“I know A.C. [Alex Cora] really well and I thought he was the perfect guy to be there, and he kinda [stabilized] that ship. As we know in Boston, it’s 162 one-game seasons, and you can’t have a guy running that ship who can’t understand that.
“I know A.C. was perfect was that. Who they get next, they could be perfect for that as well. But I felt that saying kind of fit for this year.”
The Red Sox sit at the bottom of the AL East with a 12-19 record, and fans are pointing to ownership for the team’s problems.
Shortly before Boston’s game against the Astros on Friday, a small plane circled around Fenway Park with a banner reading “FIRE CRAIG! SELL THE TEAM!”
The banner was targeted for the Red Sox’s chief baseball officer, Craig Breslow, and their principal owner, John Henry.
Breslow fired Cora on April 25 following a 17-1 road win over the Orioles, with Chad Tracy taking over as the interim manager.
Cora, however, has made it clear that he will not be managing another club at least for this season, telling The Post’s Jon Heyman that he wants to spend more time with his family.
“I accepted to be a full-time dad,” Cora texted The Post.
