Alex Cora responds to critics after missing 1 game for daughter’s college graduation

Alex Cora missed Monday s series opener with the New York Mets see his only daughter Camila graduate from Boston College and he doesn t care if people disagree with his decision The Red Sox manager was in a good mood before Tuesday evening s encounter at Fenway and seemed genuinely unfazed by the criticism He described Monday as tremendous and a great day Excellent Just the day that we will unfailingly remember Cora stated of the big family event While most of Red Sox fans on social media seemed to backing Cora s decision there were a inadequate loud critics including The Sports Hub s Mike Felger who declared Monday it was preposterous for the manager to miss the p m event when the graduation took place in the morning Unlike players whom Felger reasoned are part of a players union he declared Cora had no excuse to take the night off They were I believe done by noon which means you can have a nice big party in the middle of the day the radio personality commented Just cab down the street and manage the battle It s just the tone you set the example you set for the unit Felger continued It s just the leadership and optics of the whole thing It s a very easy chance for him to say Nothing s more essential than tonight s tournament ' Without directing his response to Felger or anyone else Cora revealed that he took the entire day off at the behest of his daughter He also pointed out that he would ve needed to miss more time if the graduation was out of state saying There s coaches that they take three days for that She needed me to be with her and it was her day so this is secondary Cora explained You know we re in this world for a purpose right and for me it s to raise her try to do the best we can Obviously it wasn t perfect but right now it s perfect Requested if he was bothered by the criticism Cora laughed People have their own opinions the Sox skipper then noted I bet those people they have families too and at one point they had to make decisions too And I bet they made decisions for the best of the family I made the best decision for my daughter and for those who don t understand I m not gonna try to convince them It is what it is I made the best decision for my girl