If Someone Writes a Blog and No One Reads it, Is it Written at All?

It’s no secret that I’m wrong all the time. It’s getting to the point, Dear Readers, where I don’t even know why I bother to make bold and definitive predictions at all. Still, it usually doesn’t hurt to be as wrong as I was about the World Series. The fact that the Phillies won is bad enough, but doing it in just five games? That hurts. Now when I travel to Philly to see a game next year, I’ll have to deal with those insufferable phans and all their “we’re the world champions” garbage. Great.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this site went to bed last night while the Phillies were still winning 2-1. He is unaware that not only did Tampa Bay tie the game, but that the game was postponed until tonight. We here at Juuuuuust a Bit Outside apologize for any confusion.)

While I’m on the topic of things that really grind my gears, just what is going on with the Miami Dolphins? How are they supposed to ensure the number one overall pick if they keep winning games? Sure, it’s a blast spoiling the records of the Bills and Patriots, but just who are they kidding? They aren’t going to make the playoffs, so they might as well do whatever they can to draft a franchise quarterback. And they have a lot of work ahead of them before they can achieve that goal; the Lions and Bengals are both winless. Now there are two teams that have the right idea…

So David Beckham is being loaned to a different country in order to play for a foreign team during the MLS off-season. Does anyone else find it strange that in soccer you can loan your players? It would be like me loaning my fiancée Kennedy out for the entire month of March so that she wouldn’t bother me during the NCAA tournament. Sorta seems like a silly concept. Just another reason why soccer is the lamest sport ever. Except for hockey. And cricket. Who names a sport after an insect, anyway?

Speaking of hockey, did everyone see that sick hockey clip where the one guy hits the other guy into the boards and the glass breaks and people get covered in shards of glass and it goes in their eyes and stuff? Yeah. Me neither.

I’ll spare you a slew of NBA predictions, but I will offer some random generalizations that I’ll probably backtrack on in the coming months. It is my opinion that the New Orleans Hornets are poised to take control of the Western Conference. It’ll be tough and look for my sleeper team of the year, the Houston Rockets, to be right there with them. You should also expect the Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz, and Portland Trail Blazers all to make serious runs at the Western title as well. The Phoenix Suns, San Antonio Spurs, and Dallas Mavericks, three teams who usually have big expectations, will vanish before our very eyes.

The East is a bit more open this year, but I think it’s a safe bet that the Boston Celtics will once again be great and that the Orlando Magic and Philadelphia 76ers should be pretty okay as well. The Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons will only be interesting by way of their shamefully disappointing records. The Oklahoma City “Sonic” Thunder will be about as bad as most expansion teams are in their first year (eve though they’re not an expansion team) and Larry Brown will continue to stain his coaching career in Charlotte.

Oh… the New York Knicks will be awful.

And the New Jersey Nets will be even worse.