The question, such as it was — intended to break an awkward silence and get things rolling — probably won’t earn me a congratulatory phone call from Bob Woodward:
“Alex, just how you feel, obviously your pitchers took a beating these last couple of days.”
That awkwardly phrased volley from me to Alex Cora, then the Red Sox manager, occurred last June 30 at London Stadium. Cora’s response — specifically his shout-out to his good pal and, it turns out, 2017 Astros co-conspirator Carlos Beltran, then a Yankees adviser — is getting far more attention right now than it did back then.