Time to Get Bold

What are we driving at here? It's mid-April we have playoffs in two sports leagues, the beginning of the season for another league, and a lockout looming in another. With all this happening, and we still have yet to make some bold predictions. That's just utterly unacceptable. Why make some bold predictions you ask. Because fortune favors the bold, so get at me:

NFL Prediction: A.J. Green, wide receiver from Georgia, turns out to be the best player in this year's draft class, and the NFL has a season but it will be shortened due to time constraints.

MLB Prediction: The Red Sox find their mojo, only to be upended in the World Series by the young and trendy Colorado Rockies.

NHL Prediction: Alex Ovechkin leads the Capitals to a Stanley Cup championship in a hard fought, gritty seven game series against the Sedin brothers and the Canucks.

NBA Prediction: The Lakers play a seven game series in the first, second, and third round, a la the Boston Celtics in 2008 on their championship run, and meet the Celtics in the finals. Kobe wills his team to victory and Phil Jackson closes the page on a historic career.

That is what I'm driving at. Always go hard in the paint.