Gabe Kapler: The Most Interesting Man in Baseball

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

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Picture a baseball manager. Whatever image you’ve conjured in your mind of, say, a slightly out of shape, older man who’s all business - it probably doesn’t match Gabe Kapler, who manages the San Francisco Giants. Kapler is an enigma: an uber-buff fitness geek who only eats red meat. He sports well manicured facial hair and speaks in verse, sounding more like a poet than a baseball player. Tim Keown introduces us to Kapler, and how he’s rewriting baseball’s unwritten rules…and reimagining what it means to be a manager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tim Cune, the most interesting man in baseball, I would argue right now is not a player.
0:09.1	It's the man who has done more than anyone to rewrite baseball's underwritten rules.
0:14.4	It's the man who is redefining our definition of what it is to be a nerd.
0:19.8	It's the man who I think we really actually should probably just describe visually here
0:24.8	to him before we get any further with this because I realized now that there are people
0:29.6	who don't know what Gabe Kapler, the manager of the San Francisco Giants, actually looks like.
0:34.8	This man is 46 years old and any 25 year old would die to look like him.
0:42.2	He is ripped.
0:44.4	He's got these forearms with these veins.
0:47.8	I call them a phlebotomist dream.
0:49.8	I mean his veins are like, they're like ropes.
0:53.0	You know, they're just popping out of his arm.
0:55.0	Everything is just right.
0:57.3	You know, he's facial hair.
0:58.6	He's got this very well-tended beard.
1:02.3	It's so well-manacured.
1:04.8	He only eats red meat.
1:06.2	I mean, that's literally all he eats.
1:09.2	And he recently started adding in berries.
1:14.8	He's got no wrinkles.
1:16.0	46 years old.
1:20.2	You ask somebody to imagine what a baseball manager looks like and it's some sort of variation
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