The Jim Leyland Hate.

Leyland has had only ONE losing season with the Tigers....I'm sick of the "collapse"" talk. I bet NOBODY knew that stat. He's been to 3 playoffs with the lowly Pirates at the time. He took a Florida team that never been to the World Series, and a Tigers team that was laughing stock for a decade. But nevertheless, HOW MANY TIMES has the team he coached, blown a September lead? ONCE?  If you asked any pessimistic Tigers fans, he does it EVERY YEAR.

Nevertheless, blowing leads in September is based on injuries and player fatigue, NOT the coach. How can you blame a coach for players sucking it up for the last 30 games of the season? They should be READY by then. They should be warmed up and IN THE ZONE.

Fatigue can be fix by RESTING players more, yet haters CONSISTENTLY rip on that too.  Have you ever thought to yourself....."Hey, Leyland is resting guys more to avoid PLAYER FATIGUE, which causes LATE SEASON COLLAPSE, which causes some of the Radio Show announcers and lazyboy coach-fans to call LEYLAND out during EVERY loss, because he had ONE late (September) season collapse. ONE.

The fact that anyone blames "collapse" on Leyland is moronic.  How come he never gets called a GREAT STARTER?  Or a great MID SEASON coach.  It doesn't matter WHEN you win the games.  Yes, the Tigers blew a 3 game lead with 4 to go in 2009, IT SUCKS.  It's not on the coach though.  Crap happens.  Was it Leyland's fault that Huff NOR Washburn couldn't put up their regular numbers?  Was it Leyland's fault that Miggy got shitfaced at the end of the season?  Winning over 80 games a season, almost each year is A LOT better than what we are used to are Tigers fans are used to.

Some of you are WAY too harsh on Leyland. Be Optimistic.  If the Tigers go to the playoffs, they'll have went twice since 2006.  How many teams can ACTUALLY say that?  How many coaches can they they've done that?