Detroit radio host adds to Tigers' misery with wild meltdown over Jason Benetti

It hasn't been an easy July for the Detroit Tigers, losers of six straight games and only notching one victory over their last 10 games. Once the unquestioned best team in baseball, the Tigers suddenly find themselves 3.5 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays for the top spot in the American League, and fans are having a miserable time watching games lately. So much so that Tigers' play-by-play announcer Jason Benetti caught a stray from popular Detroit radio host Pat Caputo.

During a cross-talk segment on 97.1 The Ticket earlier this week, Caputo didn't hold back his punches when it came to Benetti and the Tigers' broadcast that often includes a cameo from actor J.K. Simmons.

“There is a way to be humorous and to be clever. It’s another thing to just whatever the hell that is. And the team is getting flamed right now! The ratings aren’t up because of the comedy act. The ratings are up because the team is the best team in baseball. They want the team to win, I get it. And Jason Benetti is obviously talented, and Andy Dirks is really good at what he’s doing, but he’s getting sucked down this rabbit hole…Andy Dirks is a former baseball player! He’s not Norm Macdonald, okay? He’s not Norm friggin’ Macdonald! He’s not Carrot Top!”

Tigers' misery gets worse as radio host calls out Jason Benetti, Andy Dirks

To be fair to Benetti and his partner Andy Dirks, there are only so many ways they can say that the Tigers have been bad. Once a team loses more than five games in a row, you run out of ways to explain the incompetent baseball that is being played on the field.

Along those lines, turning bad baseball games into entertainment is what led Benetti to ascend toward being one of the best broadcasters in baseball during his time with the Chicago White Sox. Ironically, though, White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, like Caputo, didn't find Benetti's brand entertaining.

As was the case with Reinsdorf, Caputo's casting of anger toward Benetti is just misguided projection over how badly things have been on the field for the Tigers in recent weeks. Winning cures all, and if the Tigers break out of this lull, Benetti's style will go back to being universally praised — unless you're the ruler of all things boring (cough cough, looking at you, Jerry).

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