Everyone picked the White Sox to finish down in the pack in the AL Central. Jim Leyland, whose Tigers just dropped two of three to Chicago, doesn’t have a very high opinion of the experts. Chuck Garfien of CSNChicago.com was at U.S. Cellular Field yesterday, and witnessed what he calls “a classic rant” from the Tigers’ skipper:
“The people who made those picks don’t know anything about baseball. Trust me ... If they think the Chicago White Sox aren’t going to be in the thick of this, they’re crazy. They don’t know anything about baseball, people making picks like that. They know nothing about baseball. Nothing. Since 2006 when I got here, this has been one of the best teams in the league every year, and they’ll be right there ... They picked us fourth last year. We won 95 games, so don’t pay attention to those people. They just make a pick and they talk, but they don’t know what they’re talking about.”
Leyland had better hope he’s wrong about that. Because the closest thing there was to a unanimous pick in baseball this spring was the Tigers winning the division.
