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[QUOTE="intlzncster, post: 2895741, member: 56"]
You're not kidding.

Even players' [I]parents [/I]have been thanking him for the relationship he's developed with their sons.  Pretty cool.  Not all that normal either.

[I]Sunday breakfast on the best day of Alex Cora's professional life was about what you'd expect: swanky Los Angeles hotel ballroom, eager servants, exotic proteins. The room was filled with Cora's ballplayers and their families: children, wives, parents, the random cousin, a favored niece or nephew. There was anticipation in the room as well, this being the morning of the day they all expected to end with a win over the Dodgers in Game 5 and a World Series championship for the Red Sox.[B] And one by one, perhaps sensing it was their last chance, the parents approached Cora, the fathers' hands extended, the mothers angling in for a hug. They came bearing some version of the same message: "Thank you for the way you've treated our son."[/B][/I]

[URL="http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/25114303/mlb-boston-red-sox-manager-alex-cora-built-championship-culture"]'He has a way of making you believe': How Alex Cora built a championship culture[/URL]
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