Red Sox manager Alex Cora is among those who won't be visiting the White House, and observers are taking attendance. The racial divide in the team's visit to Trump is impossible to ignore.
Red Sox Manager Alex Cora talks to reporters before Monday's game in Baltimore. By Dave Sheinin Dave Sheinin National baseball writer Email Bio Follow May 7 at 11:26 AM BALTIMORE — Boston Red Sox Manager Alex Cora recently discovered the “mute” function on Twitter, which has come in handy in the aftermath of his decision, first revealed over the weekend by a newspaper in his native Puerto Rico, to skip the defending World Series champions’ scheduled visit to the White House on Thursday.
The manager or coach of a championship team rarely, if ever, skips the traditional White House visit the following season . As such, Cora became the highest-profile member of the Red Sox to announce his intentions to skip the visit with President Trump, whose stance toward aid for Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017 remains a flash point for residents and natives of the island territory.But Cora is not the only uniformed Red Sox personnel to opt out of the trip.
Price previously had explained his decision to opt out of the White House visit, during an interview with MLB Network, by saying, “It’s baseball season.” Most players have been equally bland in their reasoning for skipping the event, although Velazquez, who is from Mexico, told reporters he was opting out because Trump “has said a lot of stuff about Mexico” and he did not want to offend anyone in his native country.
But Cora has been clear about his reasons for skipping the White House ceremony, tying the decision to the lingering resentment in Puerto Rico to the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria, which killed more than 3,000 residents in September 2017. On Sunday, he pointed out Puerto Ricans are “still struggling, still fighting” while lacking “basic necessities” almost a year and a half since Maria.
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