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Why Do We Make Sports Predictions?

 
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From Erik Wander, your About Sports Editor
 
 
The so called experts—and here we’re not, of course, including About.com’s actual Experts—almost never get them right, especially when they’re made before or really early in the season or before a postseason even gets underway when lots of teams are still in the chase. But that doesn’t stop them from trying or we, as fans, from discussing and debating those very precarious prognostications. Short answer? It’s fun.
 
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