The San Francisco Giants kicked off what became their worst season in franchise history on March 25, 2026. What a total gut punch that must have been for their fans. Just hours before that horrific journey started, one writer dropped 26 predictions for their season, and man, if you ever needed proof that sometimes you just gotta laugh at yourself, this is it.
You Really Shouldn’t Listen to Me, Apparently
Fast forward more than six months later, and the writer himself is admitting he was dead wrong on most of his calls. He’s even saying, and I quote, “you should not listen to a damn word that comes out of my mouth.” Talk about self-awareness! He usually avoids publicly revisiting his predictions because, let’s be real, 90% of the time it just means admitting you were bad at your job. But after a season where bad news just kept pouring down from every single level of the organization, it seems only fair he joined in on the action.
Funnily enough, the smartest thing he said in his massive 5,000-word piece wasn’t even a prediction. It was in the intro, a simple rhetorical question: “Because if you’re a Giants fan who doesn’t have optimism on March 25, when will you have it?” He dropped that gem right before predicting things that went completely sideways. He really stumbled into something profound there, didn’t he?
That Postseason Dream? Yeah, Not So Much.
Among those 26 preseason guesses, one stands out as the “most wrong,” so wrong it defies explanation, according to the writer. He boldly predicted the Giants would finish second in the NL West and make the postseason. Let that sink in. For a team having its *worst season in franchise history*, expecting a second-place finish and a ticket to October ball is just wild. It’s the kind of prediction that makes you wonder if he let his sister, who once mistook a ridiculous football rule joke for actual advice, moonlight as his co-writer. Nope, she didn’t, but the prediction was that far off the mark.
The writer totally gets it, saying we can all audibly guffaw at his mistake. But don’t expect him to learn from it, apparently. You gotta respect the honesty, even if the predictions were a total whiff.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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