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Verlander Fires Back At Twitter Troll For Calling Out His Tour Of U.S. Capitol

By Dan Jenkins
@DanTJenkins

Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander is known to speak his mind on social media, mostly responding to critics on Twitter.

Verlander and his new fiancé Kate Upton toured Washington D.C. on Monday with some help from Upton's uncle, Congressman Fred Upton.

 

Twitter user @JonMoses12 didn't think Verlander should have been taking part in trivial, non-baseball things and called him out.

Never silent, Verlander retorted.

Here's a brief history of Verlander's interactions with some of Twitter's greatest minds:

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