Have you ever made an obvious mistake in your job in a public setting?
I certainly have. Dozens of them, in fact. Over the course of the past two dozen years while writing for the Charlotte Observer, I have issued thousands of sports-related predictions and opinions in print and online.
A few of those still haunt me – and also seem to come up whenever I talk to a group of readers, as in “Weren’t you the guy who wrote….”
Yes. Yes, I was. And it only seems fair that since I often skewer others who make big mistakes, I should do the same for myself occasionally.