Apathy means never having to say you're sorry.

Predictions are stupid in the first place. I was right about the Astros, wrong about the Blue Jays. Who cares? So I was wrong about the Blue Jays.

Dan Graziano predicted the Yankees would not come back and make the playoffs.

Now it's time to eat humble pie, eat crow, and various other cliches.

When you think about it, though, these apologies are arrogant and self-serving gestures:

"Actually, I expected it to be worse. Maybe you've all just been waiting for the Yankees to officially clinch their playoff spot, and the next few days will bring a barrage of angry, sarcastic, corrective e-mails about that June 29 column that pronounced their season dead. If they do, fair enough."

Dan, there's no outrage because nobody cares about what you have to say in the first place.