Word: pre-season
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Making baseball predictions is one of America's favorite pastimes. This probably hiuges on the fact that 162 games after you've made your forecast, nobody remembers or cares what you said. In any case, never does a pre-season pass in which the average baseball buff doesn't find a preview which thoroughly angers him (or her) and prompts speculation as to the prognosticator's mental capacities. So sharpen your claws...
...captain-elect is worried about that the pre-season prognosticaters will expect of his squad next season. "This year they said we weren't going to do too well," Roth commented, "and look at what we did. Next year they'll expect a lot more from...
...ball park glory came, finally, during the last homestand I could attend, a 16-game August-September series. The Phillies, in an unexpected late-season awakening, were near the top of their division. Philadelphia fans dropped all pre-season Eagles discussions and stampeded to the park. Under these jam-packed conditions, with 90 degree heat, my coke business thrived. I broke two records on consecutive nights, first with a sale of 1200 cokes, then with one sale of 240 cokes to a Lions Club leader who shared his order with 500 parched Cub Scouts...
...Pre-season talk about the Buffalo Bills' O.J. Simpson breaking Jim Brown's single-year rushing record of 1,863 yds. sounded like a fantasy floated by the publicity department. All last fall the Bills had managed to win only four games, and though Simpson had made 1,251 yds., the prospect of his gaining more than a mile behind a set of inexperienced blockers seemed as likely as the Dolphins finishing in the cellar...
...Irish were rated third in the country in pre-season collegiate hockey polls but early season injuries have been a major factor in the team's current dismal record...