Tigers manager Jim Leyland, on the All-Star selection process:
It’s not a good system, if you want to know the truth. But you get run out of baseball when you say that. I’ll be getting booed everywhere I go. In reality, they’re making a big deal about the game meaning something now and that the starters should play at least five or six innings. Well, I managed a couple All-Star games where guys I had sitting on the bench were better than the guy that started. So, to me they can throw that theory totally out the window.
As usual, the elderly chain-smoking gentleman in Detroit’s dugout speaks the truth.
