Upon the Red Sox axing Alex Cora , a former player summarized the situation with a bizarre analogy.

“It’s like s–ting your pants and changing your shirt,” the former Red Sox player anonymously told sports reporter Rob Bradford.

The remark immediately went viral after Bradford posted it to X on Sunday, and the source of the comment has now been revealed.

Josh Beckett of the Boston Red Sox reacts after getting out of trouble in the fourth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park on September 16, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Getty Images

Former Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett made the wild comment, with Bradford revealing the news while hosting the righty on his “Baseball Isn’t Boring” podcast on Friday.

“It was me, it was me,” Beckett said while laughing on the show .…