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That, and the fact that even when he's shirtless, he clips those colored pens to his chest hair. [...and now I've grossed myself out.]

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I'm sorry, what?

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Isn't Kapler the one who always has colored pens clipped to the front of his jersey, like a grad student?

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What material? His blog? Whats objectionable about his blog? It's a bit faddish but not too much, standard diet/exercise/liefstyle advice wrapped up in a bit of a new agey package, but I think it's charming. It's not preachy or bro-sciency and I never understood why old school media focused on the coconut oil. I can assure you that every single basebll manager has masturbated.

His managerial style? It's the same as Girardi's. The media LOVES Girardi, another analytics-focused fitness obsessive with a mixed record. But Girardi was associated with the Jeter era Yankees, so according to the media he's the epitome of all-American manhood, stalwart and true, with great charater and a baseball mind who you'd love to have a beer with.

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Huh. I didn't think about that but to me it IS different when it's your body. Maybe because I feel like he has a sense of humor about it? And he acknowledges that you have to do things like eat burgers with lettuce or lick an ice cream cone and spit it out? And it's not like he expects his players to do it.

I have a very normal body, so it's not that.

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