Artificial Cheese

There was a time when I thought that I was pretty good at predicting results in the world of professional sports. I had a few successful sports predictions in the past that lured me into a false trust of my intuition. But over time I became fairly consistent in my wrongness, with sports and otherwise. Nowadays I don’t even feel the pain of inaccurate predictions…I just push out predictions without looking back at whether they’re right or wrong.

So in an effort to change my ways, I’ve decided to look back at a few public sports predictions that I made on this very blog. Lets start with my entry regarding Bob Clarke and his step down from the general manager role of the flyers, Demise of the Broad Street Bullies. In that article I said that the Flyers were starting a transitional period between the old NHL and the new NHL, and the loss of the last member of the Broad St. Bullies was a strong indication of that fact.

I also predicted that the Sixers would be the surprise of the league after winning their first three games convicingly, including one against the defending champions of the basketball universe.

So…Bob Clarke ended up rejoining the Flyers as the vice-president of something or other, and the Sixers lost 12 of their next 15 games. I guess I was wrong again. At least I have the guts to make predictions, unlike all you people who just read blogs all day and reiterate what other people say. You should be thanking me for even saying anything. You need me.