For an extremely interesting perspective on Joe Mays and his mental make-up, please see Brad Zellar, who apparently never thought this day would come. (In fact, for smart insider coverage, terrific writing, and yes, even sass, please go see Brad Zellar just about every day.)

Now, in case you haven't seen it; seems Dmitri Young's pretty sure the Central's a two team race--between Detroit and Cleveland.

From MLB.Com:

Detroit Tigers first baseman Dmitri Young won't see the Twins until Tuesday's series opener at the Metrodome. But after Detroit finished its series with the Indians on Sunday, Young has apparently seen enough to make some predictions about the outcome of AL Central.

"This is our rival right here," Young said of Cleveland. "Forget the other teams. I think it's going to come down to us and them. Just look at the different positions, look at the matchups. The matchups are pretty similar."

The Twins have won the last three division titles and are many experts' pick to take a fourth-straight championship. When a reporter asked him about Minnesota, Young shrugged.

"Us and Cleveland," he said.

As Frightwig so eloquently put it:

Dmitri, in the three seasons since you signed with Detroit in 2002, your team is 15-41 against the team which has won the Central division in each of those years. You might want to learn to crawl before letting your mouth run off like that.

Or, as someone reported in the comments here a few days ago, sure it's a two-team race. For third place.

Or, as Batgirl says right now, shall we just put our Joe Mays where our mouth is and begin the season-long process of proving him wrong?