{"id":767500,"date":"2026-05-02T05:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767500\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:21:24","slug":"josh-beckett-behind-viral-s-ting-your-pants-insult-after-red-soxs-alex-cora-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/767500\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Beckett behind viral ‘s–ting’ your pants insult after Red Sox’s Alex Cora firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upon the Red Sox axing Alex Cora<\/a>, a former player summarized the situation with a bizarre analogy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like s\u2013ting your pants and changing your shirt,\u201d the former Red Sox player anonymously told sports reporter Rob Bradford.<\/p>\n

The remark immediately went viral after Bradford posted it to X<\/a> on Sunday, and the source of the comment has now been revealed.<\/p>\n

\"JoshJosh Beckett of the Boston Red Sox reacts after getting out of trouble in the fourth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park on September 16, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Former Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett made the wild comment, with Bradford revealing the news while hosting the righty on his \u201cBaseball Isn\u2019t Boring\u201d podcast on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was me, it was me,\u201d Beckett said while laughing on the show<\/a>. \u201cIt was so good, and I just felt like it fit.<\/p>\n

Beckett spent seven seasons with Boston and was on their 2007 World Series championship team, along with being a teammate of Cora\u2019s for two years.<\/p>\n

He added that he believes that Cora was the perfect coach to continue leading the Red Sox.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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\u2019s 162 one-game seasons, and you can\u2019t have a guy running that ship who can\u2019t understand that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BostonBoston Red Sox manager Alex Cora walks back to the dugout after a mound visit during a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Monday, April 20, 2026, in Boston. AP<\/p>\n

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\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

Shortly before Boston\u2019s game against the Astros on Friday, a small plane circled around Fenway Park with a banner reading \u201cFIRE CRAIG! SELL THE TEAM!\u201d<\/p>\n

The banner was targeted for the Red Sox\u2019s chief baseball officer, Craig Breslow, and their principal owner, John Henry.<\/p>\n

Breslow fired Cora on April 25 following a 17-1 road win over the Orioles, with Chad Tracy taking over as the interim manager.<\/p>\n

Cora, however, has made it clear that he will not be managing another club at least for this season, telling The Post\u2019s Jon Heyman<\/a> that he wants to spend more time with his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI accepted to be a full-time dad,\u201d Cora texted The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upon the Red Sox axing Alex Cora, a former player summarized the situation with a bizarre analogy. \u201cIt\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":767501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2729,1281,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-767500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116503308222245004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}