DETROIT (AP) - The 0-11 Detroit Tigers, off to the fifth-worst start in baseball history, aren't just drawing the ire of local fans. They're also becoming the butt of Jay Leno's jokes.

Months after ridiculing the Detroit Lions for their 0-12 start, Leno has gotten some laughs at the Tigers' expense on "The Tonight Show."

"Kmart announced today that they will no longer sponsor signs at the stadium where the Detroit Tigers play," Leno said in a recent monologue. "Oh man, how embarrassing is that - Kmart thinks you're a loser!"

It's difficult for a baseball team to grab national attention in the first two weeks of the season - for any reason - but the Tigers have done it by being in select company that they want no part of.

Only four baseball teams have ever started worse: The 1920 Tigers and the 1904 Washington Senators started 0-13, the 1997 Chicago Cubs lost their first 14 games, and the 1988 Baltimore Orioles set the major league record with an 0-21 start.

In that season, the Orioles fired Cal Ripken Sr. after just six games, which was the quickest firing of a manager since 1900. This year, the Tigers matched that mark by firing manager Phil Garner after Detroit's 0-6 start.

Now, after five more games, manager Luis Pujols has the same number of wins that Garner earned this season: Zero.

The Tigers have wide-ranging problems, off and on the field.

Off of it, their fans are either apathetic or angry.

On a mild night last week against the Chicago White Sox, there were just 11,833 tickets sold for the game - and even fewer fans showed up - making it the smallest crowd in the two-plus seasons since the Tigers moved to Comerica Park.

On the field, pick any facet of the game - pitching, hitting, defense - and the Tigers have struggled with it while being outscored 79-32 and dropping more than 10 games behind the Central Division-leading Cleveland Indians.

Pitcher Jeff Weaver was one of about 15 players who showed up yesterday for an optional workout at Comerica Park.

Like the others in the clubhouse, Weaver was somber and tired of answering questions about the Tigers' awful start.

"It's as unbelievable to us as it is to everybody else" Weaver said. "It might be it as difficult to lose your first 11 games as it is to win your first 11. We feel just as bad as anyone does about this, but we're here, and we have to do something about it."

The man in charge of doing something about it, president and general manager Dave Dombrowski, is faced with the tough task of helping a franchise be successful that hasn't had a winning season - or a winning April - since 1993.

The Tigers hope that their unwanted attention goes away soon with at least one win over Tampa Bay on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at home.

Until then, the Tigers will continue to provide fodder for Leno's joke writers - even if they're not listening to the punch lines.

"I don't care what Jay Leno has to say," outfielder Wendell Magee said. "I don't even watch him, because David Letterman is better."