Not only was I wrong when I said hell would freeze over and turn Dodger Blue before Manny Ramirez was traded to L.A. (OK, that’s not what I said, but mine as well have been), but forget what I wrote recently about Carolina wide receiver Steve Smith, too.
That’s why predictions are a risky move in a bookmarkable blogalaxy that can come back to haunt you (see Jayson Stark and Buster Olney’s preseason AL West predictions).
You remember those top 20 fantasy football picks, when I ranked Smith 15th overall and noted not to “sleep on Smith, who won’t implode like Moss or T.O. always could?”
Well, that “boom” you heard Saturday was an implosion in Charlotte, where Smith was suspended two regular-season games for a training camp fight with cornerback Ken Lucas.
The move probably drops Smith out of my top 20 completely, but we’ll revisit that later once all the preseason fights, injuries, trades and holdouts have wrapped up, and it’s a proper time to start making projections.
Until then, I retire.
