If Bill Kristol can get a job at Time Magazine, so should a bad golf prognosticator

At the start of every year, I like to make a self-evaluation. I take a hard look at myself as a writer and person and try and work on my faults. I must admit, I have few, but there is one glaring issue I struggle with:

I cannot make a prediction to save my ass.

Seriously, I recently made some predictions for the Bowl Championship Series, and couldn’t have been more wrong, especially in the BCS Championship game, where I picked Ohio State to cruise over Florida. I did pick LSU over Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, but that was sort of a gimme.

Last year, I picked Tiger Woods to win the 2006 Masters. I picked England to win the World Cup. I even tried convincing people that Steve Flesch would win the PGA Championship.

Basically, it appears that outside of Notre Dame losses, I am horrifying at predicting things. Which is why I believe Time Magazine should hire me immediately.

Having recently hired William Kristol as a “star columnist,” I believe that Time is making a concerted effort to have terrifyingly incorrect prediction in their magazine. Because Kristol has been wrong just about every time he’s opened his mouth since 1997 or so.

Kristol on April 4, 2003:

“There’s been a certain amount of pop sociology in America … that the Shia can’t get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There’s almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq’s always been very secular.”

Kristol on April 28, 2003:

The United States committed itself to defeating terror around the world. We committed ourselves to reshaping the Middle East, so the region would no longer be a hotbed of terrorism, extremism, anti-Americanism, and weapons of mass destruction. The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq have been won decisively and honorably.

Kristol on Sept. 18, 2002:

A war with Iraq “could have terrifically good effects throughout the Middle East.”

I believe that now is the moment for Time Magazine to make their offer. If they want a war expert columnist who has never been anywhere near a war to make war predictions for them, then I believe they are ready for a golf writer who has never been anywhere near the PGA Tour to make golf predictions.

By hiring Bill Kristol, Time Magazine has shown it has no concern, nor interest in being correct. I believe by hiring me to make sports predictions, they can continue on that path.

–WKW