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Saturday, May 16, 2020

The Mea Culpa Column, An Occasional Series

Shank needs to get some stuff off his chest:
Regrets? I’ve had a few. And not too few to mention.

There was that prediction last winter that there was “zero chance” the Patriots could lose to the Texans (Texans 28, Patriots 22). It was the same with Super Bowl LII in frosty Minneapolis in 2018 when I told you that there was no bloody way Nick Foles and Doug bleepin’ Pederson could dethrone Tom Brady and Bill Belichick (Eagles 41, Patriots 33).

Wrong and wrong. When you write approximately 5,000 sports columns over 32 years, you are going to make some wrong calls. I can, for example, affirm that on the front page of the Oct. 17, 2004, Boston Globe (hours after the Red Sox lost to the Yankees, 19-8, in Game 3 of the ALCS), I stated, "So there. For the 86th consecutive autumn, the Red Sox are not going to win the World Series.''
An enjoyable column, if for nothing else chuckling at all these great calls!

3 comments:

  1. It only Jose Offerman dying for Dan to apologize. 20 years too late you fraud

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  2. Papi is a useless bag of you know what is the gold standard.

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  3. Or calling the 04 Red Sox a pack of frauds then making money off them acting he knew all along what warriors they were with that book Reverse the curse that he made a mountain of money from

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