The Red Sox sound about as hopeless as any team in baseball right now as the locker room begins to turn on each other. After trying to put a positive spin on things and firing their stud manager, Alex Cora , Boston looked lost this past weekend against the Houston Astros, mustering just seven runs in a three-game set against a team ranked dead last in most major pitching categories. Veteran first baseman Willson Contreras had some interesting comments regarding life without their former manager and the bevy of young players on the roster. Marcelo Mayer called, blaming the young guys an excuse on Sunday. AP “It’s different with Alex not here,” Contreras said, according to MassLive. “But after Cora got fired, the guys got loose a little more because I feel like the tension was gone…That’s what I felt. That’s my own opinion. When Alex wasn’t in the dugout (anymore), the team was kinda like loose. But that doesn’t matter. We have to play better. We have to find consistency.…