Jan. 12, 2019 marked 1,000 days since a Detroit pro sports team won a playoff game, the worst such stretch of futility since 1978-84. Detroit Free Press
Earlier this week, the Free Press ran a story ranking Detroit’s four professional sports teams' chances at winning a championship. I didn’t participate because of the word “bump.”
In an email, the editors used that word to motivate us to get our picks in. I thought they were scraping the story — back in my short-order cooking days we used the word "bump" to scrap an order.
I’m old, I guess.