97.1 The Ticket

[One Shot]

A complete waste??????? WTF? Did they make fun of you or something and your venting?
I like Mike Valenti & Terry Foster. Pat can be annoying at times but don't stop me from listening. The hang up & listen I feel comes from Pat's show when he cuts you off and answers/responds to you never letting you answer back. So I think they say that just to be like "up yours" if and when they pull that.

[Johnnny5]

I listened quite a bit before the switch to sports. Now it's not even on my presets.

[Ravine]

I am not proud of the amount of time I have The Ticket on my radio, but I'm not ashamed, either; it's a Guilty Pleasure, I suppose.

Jerrytimes, I don't miss you. A couple of people, here, dislike Stoney, but he's OK with me, and I like him a lot better than I liked you. Bill & Sara[[h?) don't need you or your adolescent sexual preoccupations.

I disagree with Zimm. I think Caputo does know his baseball. I don't always agree with him, but I appreciate the fact that, probably more than any other local sports-talk guys, he loves baseball, keeps up with it, and gives it some air-time. I don't want to constantly hear about football.
However, he truly does come off as being a total dope. I have to assume that he has some education, but his verbal "skills" are shamefully poor [[a fact about which he actually seems to be sort of proud.)
Another thing, about him, that irritates me is that he, like a fair amount of guys I've come across, gives me the feeling that he just couldn't wait to turn into his own dad. For instance: I get the strong intuition that he mis-pronounces, or otherwise "gets wrong," a lot of the pop-culture references he makes. The give-away is in how, after doing so, he pointedly pokes fun at himself for it, like he wants us to know that he is far too mature, and has his mind on too many other "grown-up" things, to keep track of certain aspects of pop-culture... even though it is painfully apparent that he keeps up with it plenty.
Think about it: When a person genuinely makes a mistake, of that kind, how often are they going to call attention to it?

Heh. Since I'm so fully thrusting myself into the persona of on-line curmudgeon, here, I may as well add that I grind my teeth when I hear him [[or anyone else) pronounce "something" as "sometheeng."

I know, I know; I must be paying way too much attention.
But, I guess that I just notice funny little stuff like that.
Check him out, sometime, with my persnicketty little comment in mind. Betcha that you hear what I mean.

Now, Jeff Riger, he's material for a whole 'nother post...

[dtowncitylover]

It's a hell of a lot better than AM 1130.

[Zimm]

I disagree with Zimm. I think Caputo does know his baseball. I don't always agree with him, but I appreciate the fact that, probably more than any other local sports-talk guys, he loves baseball, keeps up with it, and gives it some air-time.

caputo knew about baseball in 1980, but has absolutely no idea about the game today. don't think you have to go any farther than his work for baseball america's top 10 tiger prospect lists that he used to do to see just how little he knows about the game, and how poorly connected he was within the organization.

there are probably a dozen tiger-centric bloggers that can break down the game and talent better on their worst day than caputo can do on his best. and these guys don't even get payed for that know-how! i also know a couple of people who get paid to write about the tigers for a living and the difference between the info that they pass on and the info he passes on tells me all that i need to know about caputo's inside knowledge of the tigers-he has none! no one in that organization gives him any tips or info or inside goodies that you can't get from reading the local papers every day or listening in on a press conference.

so essentially, if you read the sports pages everyday [[but ignore MLBTR or Rotoworld) you know about as much about the goings-on of the tigers as caputo. and if you used to know the game 30 years ago, you can probably relate to him because he wouldn't know an advanced metric from dinosaur stats like batting average.

[Blarf]

The station would be alright if they didn't have so many damn commercials. I have never heard a station that comes back from a 5 minute commercial break, and than takes another 5 minute commercial break after 5 minutes of show.