Before fulfilling the assignment of making predictions for the 2020 Boston sports year, it’s best to look back to see how 2019’s prognostications panned out. Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned there, some instructive takeaway that helps one become more clairvoyant in the future.
In this case, there indeed was a lesson for me: I’m very, very bad at predictions and should not be making them, even tongue-half-in-cheek, for any respectable publication, blog, or MySpace page.
As if that’s going to stop me.
For veracity’s sake, a brief acknowledgement of my erroneous and erratic predictions for 2019: The Red Sox would repeat as MLB champions (they couldn’t even repeat as a playoff team); the Celtics would lose to the Warriors in the NBA Finals (like you knew Kawhi would reign in Canada); Rob Gronkowski would sign with the Texans (he signed with Fox and seems content in his post-football life); and fans would blame Tuukka Rask after a tough Bruins playoff defeat (some predictions are easy).