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A preseason predictions mea culpa

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  • Jayson Stark, Senior Writer, ESPN.com Close
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In my ever-supportive household, my family has a popular expression for my annual preseason predictions:

The kiss of death.

Or, to use a word one of my old editors used to drop regularly when those predictions would arrive on his desk .