"The only sure thing in baseball is that there really isn't one.

And surely the Tigers, who remained the talk of Major League Baseball on Wednesday after the stunning, free-agent signing of slugger Prince Fielder, don't need to be reminded of that.

Just last week, in fact, Justin Verlander, the American League's reigning MVP, was reminding us — not the other way around — about the pitfalls of overconfidence.

"I look back to 2008 when everybody said we were going to be the best team on the planet," the Tigers ace said, "and it didn't pan out that way.""