Greetings from the proverbial climes of Yakutsk, Siberia, where even Saturday’s forecast high temperature of nine degrees is hotter than our picks. About the only thing we correctly predicted last week was that our picks were bound to cool considerably, writing in part:
we’d like to take this opportunity to bask in the glory of our faux awesomeness before it all comes crashing down
So bask we did, and man it was nice. But much like that Friday night college bender quickly morphed into a Sunday afternoon exam cramming session, reality hit us squarely in the face, as we had our worst weekend to date in 2021.