I love sports...only slightly more than I love trying to predict what will happen in sports. When I correctly predict an outcome in sports, it makes me feel like I've reached a higher plane of knowledge, where the world is logical and makes sense in a way that only I can see. It's like being John Travolta in Phenomenon. When I blow a prediction, especially if it's one I've unwisely put money behind, I feel as idiotic as John Travolta when he signed up for the Look Who's Talking trilogy (yes, there were three of them).
Aside from a few noteworthy good calls and a hell of a lot more memorable bad beats, it becomes hard for the alcohol-riddled brain to keep track of predictions and projections. And that's where the blogs I'm creating come in. They will be my record of everything that I predict or project in sports, with hopefully a few sensible reasons thrown in to explain. First up is the sport that lends itself best to the numbers game: baseball. I'll have some detailed projections for team win totals based on a computer simulator that I've co-created, and then some out-of-my-ass player projections down the road.
For anyone who stumbles onto this blog, hopefully reading it will be as entertaining as watching John Travolta overacting in Face/Off. And I promise...that'll be it for the Travolta references. For today.
