Pat Caputo is Having a Really, Really, Really Bad Day

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By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
December 19, 2013

Pat Caputo is an imbecile. Based on his work for the Oakland Press and his various radio gigs over the years, Detroiters have known this for decades now.

He is a laughingstock in this town; nobody really takes the guy seriously anymore, as his resume includes the defense of Randy Smith’s tenure as Tigers GM until the day Dave Dombrowski escorted him out of town and an on-air tirade the morning the Tigers acquired Doug Fister.  You might remember Caputo lambasting the deal on 97.1 airwaves because Fister had a record of 3-12 in Seattle that season — even though every advanced metric contradicted the lanky righty’s W/L record.

Anwyay, this doofus has basically flown under the national radar because NOBODY even reads the Oakland Press LOCALLY and because he appears on the radio when most adults with a job are sleeping.

Hell, there wasn’t even a national shitstorm when the dolt wrote THIS article last year about his Hall of Fame ballot.   In that column, Caputo explained that he left Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio off of his ballot essentially because they were known associates of Ken Caminiti, Roger Clemens and Andy Pettite.

Not that Bagwell and Biggio had ever been suspended or connected to the steroid controversy, but that they were TEAMMATES with guys who either admitted to steroid use or were implicated in the scandal.

Guilt by association.  It would be like the Townsend Hotel not letting Rick Porcello check into a luxury suite because Miguel Cabrera once bullied a fat kid in their lobby.

It’s bad enough that Caputo is playing judge, jurist and hangman for known PED users, but not voting for a small-in-stature Biggio because of his TEAMMATES’ actions is about as deplorable as it gets.

I guess in Caputo’s world, every member of the Buffalo Bills is a potential double-murderer.

Anyway, Caputo didn’t escape media scrutiny this morning when his latest HOF column was published — a piece lamenting the fact that Jack Morris hasn’t, as of yet, made the Hall.

This year’s HOF edition featured Caputo:

  • Claiming there is a sabermetric cabal keeping Morris, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell out of Cooperstown.
  • Stating that the “Steroid Era” occurred during Morris’ career — which is the equivalent of writing that Doc Gooden pitched when African-Americans weren’t allowed in MLB because he had a Negro-League-sounding nickname.
  • Claiming that Hall of Fame voters hate Detroit.
  • Claiming that sabermetrics aren’t good for comparing eras when that is pretty much why THEY FUCKING EXIST.

I could go and on about this dunce, but for once, I don’t have to do it . Fortunately, Caputo drew the ire of just about everyone in baseball with this nonsense.

I implore you to read every single national article depantsing Caputo (sorry about that imagery).

Here is Joe Posnanski taking Caputo to the the Penn State locker room showers.

And this link is Rob Neyer’s evisceration of Caputo (which makes up for his defense of Damon Bruce).

And last, but not least, Deadspin has checked in as well.

Here are some random Anti-Caputo Tweets to get you through your day as well …..

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will update you further when events warrant, as I am sure this public flogging is far from over.