Is the fascination with the prospect of talking about him exclusively in the past tense.

Then gimme someone 10 years younger who will make $400,000.

what penalties to you incur as an organization? the frowning disapproval of bud selig? would omar rather be one of bud’s “guys” to the detriment of the team?

its beyond a joke, its irresponsible. maybe its wilpon’s decision, i dont know, but the number one responsibility of the entire front office is to put together a team of players with the best possible chance to win a WS. they are failing in this aspect by under paying in the draft and letting higher talent players fall to teams that are willing to pay. its not about risk and money. if it was you wouldnt be handing out contracts like pedro’s and castillo’s.

how the owners are failing to grasp this simple concepts of market efficiencies is beyond me, considering they started as rich businessmen and THEN became baseball owners. but whatever, at least its not dan snyder in charge.

Alex Cora teaches younger players how to play Guitar Hero, like this song. Rookies feel relaxed and then don’t feel the pressure of playing in NY. Downside is, they don’t sleep as much and perform poorly the next game.
Alex Cora teaches younger players how to pick up women, how to recognize the ones only interested in your money and which ones should you marry. He also drafts pre-nups.
Alex Cora teaches younger players how to avoid the IRS, buy used cars and make omelette.
Alex Cora teaches younger players how to join the most exclusive parties, night clubs, restricted poker games or La Table Elitaire.
Alex Cora teaches younger players how to discover the secrets of the spiritual life, of the afterlife and of the 37 endings of Chrono Trigger.

For baseball related advice, Alex Cora tell younger players to ask David Wright.

Alex Cora factored into our equations a lot more last season than anyone would have guessed. He didn’t suck up the place, per se, but he is a back-up replacement player, after all. He hurt his thumbs, but continued to play for a while, lest we turn to a replacement back-up player. So, I respect him for all that. That said, that was last year, and next year is going to be next year. Re-signing him is relatively cheap, but when you want to pinch pennies, $2 million dollars +/- is a lot to be spent on a back-up bench player. For a fraction of the cost, we could have Anderson Hernandez out there as a back-up second base/short stop infielder, or Wilson Valdez- options that might not necessarily be “as good” as Cora, but, at the end of the day, they are all back-up bench players.

I watched “Mets Weekly,” or whatever the program is called, and started laughing when whoever the host started pressing Cora about what a great influence Cora was on the clubhouse and Cora just said, “I’m not here to make friends. I’m here to contribute on the field.” or something similar. He also talked about how much Pedroia hated him in Boston at first.