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Griping about Jim Leyland has been easier than finding his replacement
posted by Pat Caputo at
6:43 PM
Monday, October 21, 2013
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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:
Pat, I hope they pick a manager that believes in good fundamental baseball. No high risk guys so they don't do risking moves during the game. Tigers are a very good team so that don't need to gamble and take risk. You want to lose games because other team beat you, you don't want the manager lose you games on high risk moves or fundamentals. I would love to see Tram back but that ship I would say has sailed. It would be a righteous move though. Fans would probably give Tram a standing ovation.
Fans have been griping about baseball managers since the end of the American Civil war, and the subtle nuances of a managers decisions and action on his team are deeper and more impactful than any other sport.
I for one am a Jim Leyland fan and I am very sorry to see him go.
As for his replacement - the only name that even remotely comes close to re-engaging my enthusiasm after such a dissapointing ALCS is Tony Larusa - as all markers look like they were thinking this last year with Him being at Spring training and getting to know this team - so I hope that if he would actually entertain the thought, then the search should be over.
Or else we start going back to the old days.
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