EMERGENCY PODCAST: Giants fire manager Gabe Kapler after disappointing 2023 MLB season

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants

4.7 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Two years after Gabe Kapler was named the National League Manager of the Year, the Giants decided to part ways with him Friday. “Giants Talk” hosts Alex Pavlovic and Cole Kuiper share their immediate reactions and look ahead at how this could impact the clubhouse next season. (0:00) Kapler relieved of his duties as Giants manager (1:52) Pavlovic’s main overarching thoughts on Kapler's firing (7:46) Future managerial candidates the Giants might consider (13:45) Will this news impact Brandon Crawford’s potential final home game?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.
0:09.4	Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kiper.
0:12.9	I know those guys.
0:17.2	What's up, Giants fans?
0:19.1	We've got an emergency podcast for you, and the season's not even over.
0:23.2	Welcome to Giants Talk.
0:24.1	I'm Cole Kuiper here with Giants Insider.
0:25.8	Alex Pavlovich, if you haven't heard the news, Giants manager, Gabe Kapler, has been relieved of duties.
0:33.3	Let's talk about what that means, Alex.
0:35.0	But first, Giant Stock is presented by Mancini Sleep World.
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0:42.2	Plus, Giantest Talk is presented by Honda.
0:44.3	Take the Giants on the go this season and stream the games on the NBC Sports app.
0:47.7	Brought to you by your NorCal Honda dealers.
0:50.9	All right, Alex, this seems like it went from Gabe and Farhan will be here in
0:57.8	2024 to all of a sudden a very wild couple of days of grumbling, stories, rumors, and then it
1:06.4	all happened in ways with the skipper. I will say as of wednesday night and you know we've been
1:14.7	watching everything we've been talking about all this as of wednesday night i checked with some
1:19.4	people i really trust and they still felt both of them would be back next year and thursday farhung
1:25.6	goes on kn br all of a sudden backtracks a little bit from what we heard.
1:30.3	And I think it was going to be too much this weekend to try to, you know, I started to hear this morning that this is probably something that's going to happen over the next few days.
1:42.8	And I think it was just going to be too much to get through.
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