Mound Visits: Gabe Kapler will have a medium rare steak, an old fashioned, and a paper so he can read about Woodrow Wilson’s latest speech

Welcome to Mound Visits, your weekly recap of the best things you might have missed in baseball every week. This week brings us Gabe Kapler un-ironically wearing a fedora, Matt Harvey once again not giving a single fuck, and a popcorn-glove-wearing hero child.

The Phillies had an off day on Monday, and Philadelphia manager Gabe Kapler spent his evening going to watching the team’s Double A team in Reading, Pennsylvania and scout some of the young talent in the system. That’s a totally normal managerial thing to do, and to Phillies fans it was probably a good sign that Kapler is very committed to the team and its growth and now it’s time for everyone to take a nice big sip of coffee and look at pictures of his outing ...

... oh. He went to the game wearing a fedora? In a serious manner? And he actually looked good in it? Well, that’s certainly a development. It takes a lot of skill to look good in a fedora while also being alive after 1952 so full respect to Kapler for committing to the look.

He also reportedly ordered a steak from a local place and he likes it medium rare. That’s an even better development. If you order steak medium rare you’re inherently trustworthy in my book.

Marwin Gonzalez hit a single that brought Alex Bregman home against the Angels this week, which is good.

He then tried to turn it into a double but was forced back towards first when second base was no longer open, which is bad.

He avoided the first TOOTBLAN, somehow, and headed back towards first base. For a minute it looked like he would make it because of a dropped ball, which is good.

Then he got tagged out at the last minute anyway which is ... expected but bad.

You cannot avoid TOOTBLAN. The TOOTBLAN gods will have their sacrifice. There is no escaping their thirst for TOOTBLAN blood.

Let’s check in on how Harvey is feeling after his demotion from the Mets’ starting rotation this week.

OK, glad that’s settled. Moving on!

The Red Sox used their off day to cheer the Bruins on in their Game 6 matchup against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and some fun things came out of the group photos that were posted. The best development from the team trip was by far Chris Sale wolfing down a slice of pizza as if he wasn’t visible on national television.

The Coors Light in front of him really adds it an impressive “we now go live to lifelong Bruins fan Chris, watching the game in his Somerville living room” vibe.

A kid straight up caught a bouncing foul ball without breaking a sweat, while also having a surprising amount of popcorn in his glove. Well, any amount of popcorn in a baseball glove is probably surprising but this was a lot. The Yankees should keep an eye on this kid for future roster openings.

Ronald Acuña Jr. got called up to the Braves this week and he’s already making an impact. Just how they drew it up. You know what else the Braves drew up? A graphic celebrating his first career major league hit, and it probably didn’t come across as they intended it to. Unless someone in their graphics department has a dirty sense of humor.

So far, Acuña is the shit though. So they weren’t that far off base. Everyone had a good laugh at their expense and now we can move on to watching him hit the shit out of baseballs for the next 10 or 15 seasons. And when he retires and we go to look back on the fun beginning of his career, hopefully Twitter will be dead and gone and all of the olds who actually remember it will have a nice chuckle.

The Dodgers have a brilliant new idea to ferry fans from Union Station to Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine: an aerial tram. The kind you see on fancy ski mountains or at world-renowned tourist spots with amazing views.

The idea is to alleviate congestion and help fans avoid some of the notorious traffic that happens to and from Dodger Stadium. The tram wouldn’t be in action until at least 2022, so think of this as a prospect with a lot of upside but also some serious downside depending on luck and circumstance.

A good thing is that yes, less traffic to Dodger Stadium would be amazing for Angelenos. The bad news would be ... well, let the United States Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Explain:

Each year the southern California area has about 10,000 earthquakes. Most of them are so small that they are not felt. Only several hundred are greater than magnitude 3.0, and only about 15-20 are greater than magnitude 4.0. If there is a large earthquake, however, the aftershock sequence will produce many more earthquakes of all magnitudes for many months.

Would every one of those earthquakes pose a threat to this tram? No. Would the tram be built specifically to hold up in earthquake conditions? Probably yeah! But it still seems like a sitcom plot point that a city where “periodic earthquakes” is a sound worry would go with “tram cars that move on wires in the air” as their best traffic relief option.

LA mayor Eric Garcetti even called it “not actually crazy”, which is usually a sign that your plan is at least a liiiiitle bit crazy.

“Building better subways” is RIGHT THERE as an option, Los Angeles.

After having a rough first couple of months as part owner of the Marlins, Derek Jeter has been mostly laying low the past couple of weeks. Smart, since it seems that every time he opened his mouth in public something went wrong — whether he intended it to or not.

This week HBO aired a Real Sports interview with Jeter and the state of the Marlins came up. A pre-taped sit down seems like the perfect opportunity for Jeter to nail down his talking points and put his best foot forward.

AND YET!

The interview involved Jeter calling Bryant Gumbel “mentally weak” and it ended with Gumbel calling Jeter delusional if he actually believed this Marlins team could contend, to which Jeter replied “Well, call me delusional.”

Welp, we’re back at square one with Jeter’s PR skills it seems. “Call me delusional” could be the defining quote of his early ownership tenure if this keeps up. Back to the talking points drawing board, apparently.

The worst burns are the ones where there are no good comebacks for because they’re true. The Brewers got a little bit of revenge on them later in the night.

An always-chippy rivalry continues apace!

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