Merry Christmas!

My gift to you is a new post reviewing the results of my twelve (one for every month) Sports Predictions for 2015. Yes, I know, just what you always wanted.  I’m also out to prove sport is unpredictable which is what makes it so fantastic.  Let’s review how I did, shall we?

On New Year’s Day 2015, I predicted:

• January:  The Oregon Ducks would win the inaugural College Football Playoffs over the Alabama Crimson Tide.  Wrong!
• February:  The Seattle Seahawks would become the first back to back National (American) Football League champions since the 2005 New England Patriots.  Wrong!
• March:  South Africa would win their 1st Cricket World Cup.  Wrong!
• April:  Tiger Woods would win the Masters for his 15th Major.  Wrong!
• May:  Circassian would win the Kentucky Derby.  Wrong!
• June:  Germany would win the Women’s World Cup.  Wrong!
• July:  The United States would win the most Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals at the 17th Pan American Games.  Correct!  Finally, one right.
• August:  Australia would win their 12th World Championship of Netball.  Correct!  I’m on a roll now.  That’s two in a row.
• September:  Yana Kudryavtseva would dominate at the World Rythmic Gymnastic Championships.  Boom!  Three in a row!
• October:  The St. Louis Cardinals would win the World Series of Major League Baseball.  The streak is over.  Wrong!
• November:  I would win the 94 – 105 kg Snatch, Clean & Jerk and Total at the World Weightlifting Championships.  Wrong!  I didn’t even get invited.  Bastards!
• December:  Canada’s Rosannagh Maclennan would win the World Trampoline Championships.  Wrong!

I only got 3 out 12 correct?  What kind of sportsman am I?  Honestly, I’m a helluva sports guy just a lousy predictor of who is going to win or lose.  Which goes to show you how unpredictable sports is.  I challenge anyone of you to do what I just did.  Oh, sure, some of my picks were tongue in cheek but for the most part I picked the favorites in each sport.  You just never know.  This is why they play the game.  You can study statistics all day long but in the end it is the team or individual or horse who wants it the most and who is the luckiest who comes out on top.

I chuckle when I watch sports commentators on television or on the radio or on the web who make a living predicting who is going to win and who is going to lose.  Even these so called experts don’t really have a clue.  Predicting sporting event outcomes is like predicting the weather only a helluva lot more fun and potentially financially rewarding if you guess correctly.  I’m sorry, no one, not even your Charlie Baker is a perfect guesser.

Have a glorious Holiday Season and thanks for reading my musings about sport, life and loves.

Peace.  Goodwill toward Men, Women, Kids, and Dogs.