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And so it will be the Detroit Tigers Justin Verlander vs. the Oakland A's destiny
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| Tigers fighting destiny |
posted by Pat Caputo at
3:04 AM
Thursday, October 11, 2012
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- Name: Pat Caputo
- Location: Pontiac, Michigan, United States
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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3 Comments:
Pat, Todd Jones one of the greatest example of there must be a God. How did he saves 319 games with his stats is unbelievable.
Good news the Tigers might be on a roll with 3 RBI hits.
I just wondering, has any team ever had a losing record on the road, and in the post season, and managed to win a World Series. The Tigers are so poor on the road it's hard to imagine them as a championship unit.
Dave
I'm not buying it Pat. The whole destiny package. I am buying the fact that these A's are pumped up (when you see a guy standing on second screaming "yeah" so hard that his whole body shakes - you know they are really adrenalized and they actually DO believe they CAN"T be beat. The Tigers - on the other hand - believe they can be beat. Ask Verlander what he truthfully thought as Benoit came out in the 8th - then Valverde in the 9th.
Our own guys don't believe in our own guys. But good luck getting that sound bite.
Everybody I have talked to today has made the same statement - "for the Tigers to win tonight - Verlander has to pitch a complete game shutout.
That means no guys standing on second screaming so hard that their whiole body shakes.
And we should probably lock Crisp in a meat locker at the local Kroger there just to be certain. Crisp's beating us single-handedly.
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