Richard Justice explains the Tigers turnaround came from a well timed chewing out by Jim Leyland. It's something the manager learned to do the right way:

When he was a young whippersnapper, he routinely closed the clubhouse door in Pittsburgh and let his guys have it. Somewhere along the way, he figured out that if a manager screams every night, no one listens.

Leyland eventually got it. He got a lot of other things. No manager is better at unifying a clubhouse and making all 25 players feel part of things.

There's also a time to cuss everyone out. If nothing else, Leyland probably felt a lot better. After Sunday's 11-0 loss to the White Sox, he did just that. Reporters standing outside the clubhouse could hear him.

"I'm not going to get into what I said," he said. "That's nobody's business. There was one thing that sticks out to me right now that's going on, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back with me. And that's why I'm (ticked) off. It's glaring."

He may have been upset that some of his hitters weren't having competitive at-bats. That's the thing scouts following the Tigers have noticed.

There's a balancing point between Larry Bowa and Willie Randolph. It's a lot closer to Willie, and I believe Mets fans would like to see Randolph cross that line once in a while.