SARASOTA, FLORIDA - MARCH 04: Manager Alex Cora of the Boston Red Sox puts his hat back on after the national anthem prior to a spring training game against the Baltimore Orioles on March 04, 2021 at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)
On Friday afternoon, Alex Cora got a standing ovation for returning to scene of the crime.
Well, not the crime crime. The scene of the crime everyone implicitly agrees was also committed following the scandal that rocked MLB, or at the very least the crime of his re-hire after everyone in the Boston Red Sox front office agreed that “time served” of one year was very much enough for the rest of the world to forget what happened.