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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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2 Comments:
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Yeah, it was a sad day for baseball, as the scapegoats were lead to their podiums or wrote their press releases explaining how sorry they were and asking forgiveness.
But I was waiting to hear at least one of them say "base-a-ball bean berry berry good ... to me".
That would have made it more palatable.
Power corrupts and when there are no checks or balances in place, then change only can come from the top of power ... when it benefited them.
The media ... the press ... usually the ones who empower the wrath of checks and balances in a free / free market society ... got as caught up in the McGuire - Sosa thriller as the public ate it up. If the public doesn't care - then the powerful are free to make their marionette characters dance however the strings they pull allow.
I like Scherzer's solution - void the contracts of players found guilty ... except that keeps the power at the top.
But I really don't think the public cares.
Freak-shows were around long before baseball.
Don't tell me about Bud Selig, he buried his head in the sand as those guys were bombing home runs and increasing the interest in baseball. What a shame. Now we don't know who to vote into the Hall of Fame or Shame. What a terrible turn for MLB. Selig should be run out of baseball .. he should never be voted into anything. You're exactly right, too little, too late.
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