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“As quiet because it’s stored, I get pleasure from watching Pink Sox video games.”
The Pink Sox have a fan in considered one of their former stars.
In an look on the “All of the Smoke” podcast, Mookie Betts admitted that he watches Pink Sox video games. The reasoning for it, although, may be a bit unconventional, sharing why he watches his former crew when he was requested to call 5 gamers informal followers ought to watch.
“As quiet because it’s stored, I get pleasure from watching Pink Sox video games … due to Cora,” Betts mentioned, referring to the Pink Sox’ supervisor. “I really like Alex Cora and I get pleasure from watching Pink Sox video games.”
Betts continued to say that he enjoys watching Pink Sox video games, however he re-litigated the dialogue about his departure from Boston in doing so. The previous Pink Sox star wished to make it clear, although, that he didn’t have any in poor health will towards individuals within the group.
“Individuals assume I hate it. Individuals assume I didn’t wanna be there and that was all a facade,” Betts mentioned. “Like, it’s nonetheless enterprise. Enterprise is enterprise. You have got to have the ability to separate enterprise from private.
“Now, being private and my private relationship with Boston, as I mentioned, I cherished it, completely cherished it. I nonetheless speak to entrance workplace individuals there and to AC (Cora). I cherished it. Don’t get me flawed, I completely love the place I’m at now. I really like David Roberts, being a Dodger, and being a Dodger has most likely been the most effective factor that’s ever occurred to my life.”
After all, the Pink Sox traded Betts to the Dodgers in February 2020, proper as he was getting into the ultimate 12 months of crew management. Betts wound up signing a 12-year, $365 million extension with Los Angeles in July 2020.
“You can not mix the 2,” Betts mentioned of separating his feelings with the enterprise component when requested about his departure from Boston. “You simply can not do it. As dangerous as I wish to, you’ll be able to’t do it. When you attempt to do it, that’s when not the most effective issues occur. Not essentially dangerous issues, however not essentially the most optimum, both. And for the most effective final result for Mookie Betts and his household, I needed to handle enterprise.
On the time of the commerce, it was believed that Betts deliberate to hit free company on the finish of the 2020 season. It was rumored that the Pink Sox had beforehand supplied him a 10-year, $300 million extension to stay in Boston. In 2023, Betts advised The Boston Globe‘s Peter Abraham that such a suggestion wasn’t on the desk.
Extra not too long ago, former Pink Sox government Zack Scott shared that the crew made their closing provide to Betts forward of the 2019 season, claiming the provide was price almost $300 million. As Betts wound up signing an extension with the Dodgers amid future uncertainty as a result of COVID pandemic, Scott believed that Betts would’ve signed an extension had the Pink Sox met the identical value.
No matter how Betts’s time in Boston ended, it’s clear that he nonetheless has a relationship with some notable nonetheless within the Pink Sox’ group. Cora shared forward of Betts’s return journey to Boston in 2023 that the 2 nonetheless talk at the least a number of occasions every month.
“Emotionally, I cherished it, man,” Betts mentioned of his time in Boston.
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