When friend and former Sports Illustrated teammate Jonathan Jones decided to abdicate the “predict all 256 games” throne back in 2018, I eagerly raised my hand. Jones, in an act of true camaraderie, warned me that this was a bad idea. He was stopping for a reason.
Some of us get blinded by love. Some of us by money. At the time, an ignorant 31-year-old Orr was blinded by potential pageviews and quote tweets. At the time, I couldn’t see the inevitably frustrating downside. The complications with my Excel spreadsheet. The first version where I had several teams going 16-0.