The Tigers' remarkable turnaround—from a near-record 119 losses in 2003 to a still-terrible 91 losses last year to this season's World Series—wasn't easy to predict. In fact, Gelf could find only two people who can claim prescience. The first one, Sparky Anderson, managed Detroit to its last World Series championship, in 1984. The second savvy prognosticator is God Himself.

Anderson only revealed his pick ex post facto in an article in the Hartford Courant. He claims he told some guy at his golf club how the chips would fall. "I said, 'The St. Louis Cardinals and the Detroit Tigers, those two clubs will be in the World Series.' That's honest, one of the only honest things I've said in a long time."

God, though, was gracious enough to lay out His plan before the season started. In a December 2005 interview with GQ, the Big Man told the magazine exactly what will happen.

GQ: Tell us something cool that's going to happen next year.

God: Terrell Owens is going to piss you off.

GQ: We could have predicted that! Tell us something amazing.

God: Okay. How does "world champion Detroit Tigers" sound to you.

GQ: Jesus.

God: No, Jeremy Bonderman. He's a righteous dude.