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2012 Winter Caravan: Pictures Of Detroit Tigers Not Playing Baseball

Found January 22, 2012 on Detroit4lyfe: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Jose Valverde,  Justin Verlander,  Doug Fister,  Daniel Schlereth,  Brandon Inge
TEAMS: Detroit Tigers

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The Detroit Tigers winter caravan rolled through various locations in Metro Detroit and beyond at the end of last week to get fans all jacked up about the upcoming season. I don't need to see Jose Valverde and Paws bagging groceries to get excited for baseball season, but that doesn't mean I don't like to see it. It's entertaining and fans get to meet and see some of their favorite ball players doing things you could never imagine them doing until you actually see it (as strange as it always will be to see Justin Verlander, in a Tigers jacket, handling heavy artillery) Some of my favorite pictures from the Tigers' two-day journey are after the jump: Getchyo popcorn ready, OH JACKSON!: Tigers pitchers robbing a bank? Doug Fister was fake-shot or fell down or I don't have a clue: Scherzer hacking the files at Delta to put his fastball on the no fly list: Dave Dombrowski "loookatchyouuuu":Daniel Schlereth can't eat another tub of ice cream, ca...
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