 Welcome back. The fun stuff, the awards. And Gabe Kapler gets hired by the San Francisco Giants, which I think my quote was last episode, if you don't care about winning the next two years, just fucking hire Gabe Kapler. And honestly, it all adds up. Gabe Kapler comes in, he'll fuck around for two years, while they don't care about winning, and they're trying to shed contracts and get new prospects up and running and shit like that. And then they'll hand the reins back to Bochi. Yeah, I think that's the biggest news. Your Bochi goes away for a year or two and comes back. Theory is fully on with the Gabe Kapler signing. You feel bad for Joe Spada. Joe Spada is a baseball guy who's now entering that territory where he's interviewed for a lot of MLB jobs that he just can't be the sexy candidate anymore. He almost needs to go away from interviewing for MLB jobs for three or four years, and then it'll be like, hey, you know who never got his chance? Who's a really good coach? Joe Spada. Joe Spada actually, I heard a rumor that- Here comes a lie. No, no, this is- I heard this. Okay, you heard this. Yeah. Joe Spada sat down and said, you know, we got a couple things that we were doing in Houston that I'd love to implement here, kind of help the batters anticipate a little better. I'll tell you if you hire me. Yeah. That's what I heard Joe Spada in his interview. That's a- yeah, I know we have to stop talking about Houston, and it's cool that you heard that somehow. Yeah. The only guy that was kind of denying the Houston stuff was Carlos Beltran, and no, it's also convenient. Carlos Beltran is trying to get a managerial job. Has one. Yeah, he got one. So yeah, if I was him, I'd be full cold shoulder and working on the Mets, babe. Anyways, yeah, Gabe Kapler. I don't know. He's a much better fit for the Bay. He's a ripped up- he's kind of a Bay area guy. He's like roped up, yet he's kind of soft-spoken, a little off-beat a little bit. The Bay area might come to like him. And here's the trick. There's going to be one- next year is going to be a bad year for the Giants. They're going to lose. So Gabe Kapler needs to make sure it's not so bad that he gets chopped after one year, and then he's got one year to earn the managerial job before Bruce Bochi comes back. And we still don't think they're going to be good in two years. But if he can show improvement, and if the team can like him, he'll get a third year. But otherwise, yeah, I mean, my quick hitter line that I was going to use on you that I thought you'd like was, this makes the Matheny signing look great. Yeah. Gabe Kapler, why hire him, Jake? Now that Philly's had like some, he didn't have like the best pitching staff or bullpen and Philly. But no one was really sticking up for him inside or outside. No one was like, you know, that guy deserves another shot. He got a bad break here. Like that didn't happen, whatever. It's great for breakdowns. That's the weird part. He like the Giants owner, was it Farzad Zayin? I slaughtered that. I wasn't even close. I thought, I thought like you sounded like when I go to Google translate audio, like that's perfect. Yeah. So the Giants owner, I'll leave it at that. Farzad, they said, they said Kapler was his number one the whole way, which like that's like, okay, that's odd. That's odd. Shouldn't have gone in, shouldn't have gone into it with that idea at all. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Can we dive more into that? What do you mean? He was my number one all the way. What does it mean why? Basically why. Just give us the reason that it would be that. And yeah, I think that was funny though. There was a report that they did do a thorough like they went through Philly. They talked to people in the organization, people on the team and they said they got rave reviews on Kapler. So maybe it's just the Phillies wanting the Giants to lose the next couple years. But yeah, I don't know, man. Good. The Giants got their man. No, it's a it's he's hired to get fired. You got to replace, you got to replace a beloved manager by a franchise that expects to compete every year. And they expect the organization to put the top quality out every year. Because the Giants have been pretty good at that. So I think this is a recipe for disaster because Giants fans are gonna really feel hopelessness for like the first time. Now they've, they've lingered on it last year, though they got some hope they didn't trade they were going to go after that wild car spot. And I think these next two years are going to be like full on no hope rebuild. And we don't have a beloved manager anymore. And Kapler is just going to be such an easy target because he is because of the way he goes about himself. So I'm excited for the breakdowns. And I think he's going to get absolutely roasted. Well, you know, his game plan, it's the the fence is getting moved in six feet for the bullpen. It's just aim over there now. I will say this. Gabe Kapler was the only man in Major League Baseball, but that honestly, didn't know science dealing with cameras was going on. And he is appalled. What in our sport? Because that's how he handled every fight with an umpire. Call the game fair. He hasn't been able to get out of bed. I don't want to be part of this league anymore. Yeah. All right, so good job, Kapler. Congrats on the new job. He's not going to be able to stay tan in San Francisco. Prove us wrong. There's sun. There's sun. Yeah, San Francisco is pretty overcast. Like 11 months of the year. You're not tanning. That's Gable be tan. He'll go to some salons. They spring training. He's got some sprays. They do road trips. Like he's Gabe Kapler is going to be tan. Don't be disappointed by that. Would you think Gabe Kapler has like a very sad shirt tan line because he wears the uniform all time and like hat tan line? I think he spends majority of his off time eliminating tan tan lines. He might have some at home sprays, a booth in his house. If I see a shirtless Gabe Kapler and he's got a farmer's tan, I'll be pretty disappointed in him. Like you got a reputation to uphold here. Yeah, I think again, you kind of got to spin this hipster style. I think that plays in San Francisco like, bro, look, check out Gabe Kapler in those tan lines.