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[1:02] ..." of failure and humiliation for America's pundit class. Just look at the presidential race first they -- off John McCain then Hillary Clinton was toast before the first primary even took place and subsequently was counted out numerous times before actually lose it. You might well ask what is wrong with these people and I think I can shed some light on this. I stepped in this particular quicksand myself back in 2003. Reading a magazine piece with a long lead time that rode off John Kerry shot at the democratic nomination. Whoops indeed since then when people ask me to predict something that there is really no way"...
[0:00]" Did you know that ESPN allegedly stands for the entertainment and sports programming network that's nice but inaccurate. With the Celtics poised to go up three games to none tonight against the overmatched Lakers. It's clear those letters stand for the extremely stupid prediction network nine out of the ten basketball pundits on espn.com. Picked the Lakers to win this series. Nine of them. Two of these -- predicted Lakers in five games an impossibility after Sunday night's loss. But the extremely stupid prediction network -- yours aren't alone. Hi prediction and lack of basketball knowledge appeared to run deep in the out of town sports analysis fraternities including the likes of stand McNeal of the sporting news who wrote quote the Lakers have Kobe. Team with the best player wins Lakers in five then quote. Whoops back to the soybean futures copy desk for use Stan. This display of futility is just the latest episode in a year of failure and humiliation for America's pundit class. Just look at the presidential race first they -- off John McCain then Hillary Clinton was toast before the first primary even took place and subsequently was counted out numerous times before actually lose it. You might well ask what is wrong with these people and I think I can shed some light on this. I stepped in this particular quicksand myself back in 2003. Reading a magazine piece with a long lead time that rode off John Kerry shot at the democratic nomination. Whoops indeed since then when people ask me to predict something that there is really no way to predict -- I have a new approach I say. Gee I have no idea. I guess this technique disqualifies me from ever working for espn.com but then again if I wanted to work in the -- tile house -- estimated the Franklin Park Zoo although true confession. I slipped the other day and predicted Celtics in seven. Sam didn't. What I'm -- was like thinking"
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