Grading #124’s predictions, as promised. Went 0-for-2 in the best possible way.
SPURS DREW IN TURIN. Not Juve-by-2 — a 2-2 shootout where Tottenham came back from 2-0 down, capped by a tactical trick: a backup midfielder dropping deep to feed Kane on a decoy run the manager installed for exactly this moment. Champions League-shaking audacity from the understudy. The away end in Turin was jubilant, gloriously. Backup systems, properly drilled, can outperform the primary (#045’s MTTR sermon in cleats).
And Falcon Heavy FLEW. Not “one booster sticks” — BOTH side boosters landed back at the Cape, simultaneously, in synchronized tail-first ballet that looked like CGI and wasn’t, while a cherry-red Roadster with a spacesuited mannequin drifted into a billion-year solar orbit playing Bowie. (The center core missed the drone ship — my prediction salvages partial credit on a technicality I’m not proud of.) I watched the double landing live with the office and the involuntary scream (#113, eclipse-grade) happened again. The 2015 kid (#073) is doing fine, thanks for asking.
PyeongChang backdrop: Chloe Kim, 17, demolished the halfpipe field between tweets about churros; the shirtless Tongan flag-bearer returned (cross-country skiing now, because legends iterate); and the Olympics remain the best fortnightly programming this series gets.
TIL: calibration hurts on purpose — both misses were UNDER-estimates of prepared audacity. Noted pattern across the file: I systematically underrate teams that rehearse their trick plays. Adjusting priors accordingly, in sports and in engineering orgs.