The Dalai Kapler
Fan favorite (and all-around good guy) Gabe Kapler has announced that he only has about a week of rehab left until he plays “real baseball” for the first time since tearing his Achilles’ tendon last September. He talked about his experience coming back from the injury with the Boston Globe: 
“There have been times I think I’ve handled this very well, and times I think I haven’t,” he explains. “It’s been a constant evaluation and reevaluation. I believe everything that happens in life has an element of education to it. And this experience has been enormously educational.”
He has taken, he says, a “spiritual path.”
“It’s not so much religious,” he notes, “but in the sense that life has its twists and turns, and not to sound excessively corny, that life has a series of choices. So, how do we develop? How do we mature? How do we teach?”
What? Did you say something? I’m sorry, I, uh…just zoned out for a second. And I, uh…yeah. Oh! I have to go, I just remembered an urgent abdominals. Appointment! I meant to say appointment. Yes, a very pectoral engagement. Pressing engagement that is! I’m already very lats. Late! I’m very late. And I should just go. Uh. yeah.
June 3rd, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Jack Morris???
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June 3rd, 2006 at 10:49 pm
I’ll guess Whitey Ford.
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June 4th, 2006 at 12:55 am
I think it’s Jim Palmer 60’s, 70’s, 80’s
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June 4th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Jim Palmer is correct. Way to go Lance!
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June 4th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Lance stop showing off.
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June 5th, 2006 at 12:25 am
I can only try
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December 23rd, 2006 at 12:32 pm
[...] Gabe Kapler retired earlier this offseason, and Nick and I were discussing the many reasons why this might be. Nick was puzzled because Kapler is young and in reasonably good health. I said, Hey, he’s a smart guy. He’s deep, even. The Sox have made him the manager for their Single-A team, the Greenville (SC) Drive. He doesn’t want to warm the bench forever. He doesn’t want to get bounced from team to team (or back to Japan, for heaven’s sake). And he probably wants to spend a lot more time with these cute, cute baseball babies: [...]
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