"You're a Tigers fan, and as spring training nears, you're feeling a tad cocky. The Tigers could be scary good and freakishly dangerous. They're loaded with such star power, you expect them to win their division by, oh, 20 games or so, right?

Slow down, Tiger. As fearsome as the Tigers look, they're also capable of making you nervous. I'm here to raise the real fears and squash the imaginary ones. You might find this exercise mildly annoying, but trust me, you need to hear it.

First fear: The Tigers will revisit their 2008 stacked-lineup flop.

Real or imagined? It's completely imagined, an easy connection that has no merit."