New book reveals Alex Cora bragged about cheating Dodgers in 2017 in NSFW rant

For a man with a ruinous secret, brash Red Sox manager Alex Cora sure loved blabbing about his misdeeds back in 2017, according to a segment of Evan Drellich's new book about the Houston Astros scandal.

That should come as no surprise, though, as Cora has always managed plainly like a man who couldn't care less about what he'd done and somehow couldn't care even less about your opinion on his actions.

Cora is the star of a newly-released excerpt from Drellich's book Winning Fixes Everything, which details the rise and fall of the corrupt Astros organization.

Of course, the franchise didn't fall; they've made two World Series and won one since their rampant sign-stealing was uncovered following the 2019 season and AJ Hinch, Jeff Luhnow and Cora lost their jobs (both Hinch in Detroit and Cora, back to his old gig in Boston, have returned).

Perhaps Cora knew he was ultimately infallible and would be given second, third, fourth and fifth chances. That explains why he reportedly used to strut around saying, "We stole that f****** World Series," referring to the Dodgers-Astros 2017 clash.

Former Houston Astros bench coach Alex Cora used to brag about cheating Dodgers out of the World Series

Hired away from the Astros after the 2017 season, Cora moved onto the Boston Red Sox and snagged their managerial job, surely bringing none of his sign-stealing secrets across the country, no sir, definitely not at all, he for sure stopped cheating and didn't bring his successful foundation of lies to a new team (that immediately won 108 games and beat the Dodgers in the World Series, too). Feels good that he recruited Kiké Hernández after stealing at least one ring from him and his teammates. Feels really awesome. Really kind to the rest of the 2017 and 2018 Dodgers, too.

"What the hell does that mean?" a Red Sox player wonders in the Drellich excerpt, winning an Oscar for feigning ignorance about Cora's 2017 escapades that he clearly felt comfortable boasting about over and over and over again.

Stealing a World Series is one thing. One despicable, drawn-out, beyond obvious thing. But randomly blurting out, "We stole that f****** World Series" over and over again until someone says, "Hey, that comment has shocked me, please stop saying it" is another thing entirely. It's goofball sociopathy.

Per Drellich, Cora was nearly fired during the 2017 season, which probably would've removed him from consideration for the Sox job after that campaign ended.

After all, who would hire a disgraced bench coach responsible for crafting a cheating scheme who became so mad with power that he got dismissed by the evil team that conjured it -- the Red Sox would, you're right, knew it before I finished my sentence.