Predicting baseball isn't easy, and I don't claim to always be correct, but here are some doozies ...
Lawrence Rocca's pre-season predictions:
"The Blue Jays look like a 100-win team."
"The Royals will show the Yankees that good decision-making is more important than spending a lot of money."
Boston fans talk smack to Yankee fans on April 26.
Gordon Edes pre-season predictions:
"B.K. Kim will have a bigger impact than Kevin Brown, Curt Schilling, Andy Pettitte, or Roger Clemens."
Frank Deford predicts the AL East:
"I'll bet you this: that either Toronto or Baltimore will finish in first or second place in the American League East. It won't be a Boston/New York quinella. Deford's First Law of Sports is that as soon as everybody starts expecting something, that something won't happen ... especially when that something counts on the Red Sox winning."
Mike Lupica on May 25:
"[The Mets] are 3 1/2 games worse than the Yankees ... you look up at the standings in the NL East, and the Mets are almost as close to first place as the Yankees are in the AL East. It seems like that should be some kind of typo, and is not."
Even Bill Simmons got fooled in May.
2 comments:
Um.... you know the rule. I'm supportive of just about anything except talking trash about Bill Simmons. I thought i've been pretty clear about this the past coupld of years....
The "even" qualifier suggests the proper respect. Bill Simmons is the bionic version of me -- stronger, funnier, smarter, more arcane knowledge about the Fish That Saved Pittsburgh.
He just got fooled by the Yankees in May. Happens to the best of them. I said the Mariners would catch the Rangers.
Darren
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