{"id":77132,"date":"2015-07-27T19:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.web.rcn.net\/rcntv\/?p=77132"},"modified":"2023-04-25T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:26:31","slug":"sportstalk-shop-mid-year-predictionsevaluations-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astound.com\/atvn\/sportstalk-shop-mid-year-predictionsevaluations-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The SportsTalk Shop: Mid-Year Predictions\/Evaluations – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sure, anyone can do predictions at the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n

Making bold predictions is a natural column\/blog post\/show host monologue for media members to produce at the end of December and the beginning of January.\u00a0 Coming on the heels of all the \u201cyear-in-review\u201d stuff, it makes a natural segue to predicting things for the upcoming year.\u00a0 (BTW, a neat trick among radio hosts is to make several earth-shattering predictions at this time, then bring them up if they come true.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t, how many people have remembered what you falsely predicted months before??)<\/p>\n

But it takes a true prognosticator \u2014or at least a very good imposter\u2014to re-examine those predictions made in January, and then, in the interest of full disclosure, follow up on how those predictions are fairing.<\/p>\n

So before we make predictions for the rest of the year (which will come in next week\u2019s blog entry), here is a listing of predictions\/observations I made this past winter on \u201cSportsTalk,\u201d and the truthful, and sometimes painful, realities of each one.<\/p>\n