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I tried to be conventional this year. I prompted the Microsoft Co-Pilot to give me 10 predictions for 2025 of high relevance to Baby Boomer men. The predictions were predictable: go on a cruise, learn how to cook, blah blah. The only one that fizzed my football cup was dialing up my noctourism activities which I didn’t know were things. Ever Gaze at a star – that’s noctourism. Go hiking at night? Noctourism.
The only hiking at night that appeals to me is walking to the Starboard in Dewey Beach, DE from my car. I could gaze at stars in 2025 but no one needs to know about it. I like to look at stars in private. Personal quirk, like eyes that twitch.
Mostly at night I’m going to be hitting the hay early in 2025 after writing blogs about my sports glory days in boyhood against Rudy. Also at night I’ll fantasize about sneaking out of the house to get a Baconator and large Frosty at Wendy’s. Who is Wendy? The one in the Beach Boys song? Both are lovable.
So this research didn’t yield much of substance. Which means I will have to make predictions myself. We all win when that happens.
Prediction One
AI agents will become the Story of 2025. Think of an AI agent this way: You want to know all the places you can read Sammy Sportface blogs but you don’t want to
research and compile the data. You can go to Microsoft Copilot and prompt it with these words: “Go research all the places where I can access Sammy Sportface content. I want an exhaustive list: podcasts, TV shows, newspapers, magazines, Twitter feeds, Instagram, Snapface, PowerPoint slides, Excel, Teams – everything. Compile all those sources in an email and rank them by level of importance. As a sub-task within this task, send a survey to every member of the Baby Boomer Brotherhood and ask them which are the easiest and most cumbersome ways to deal with Sammy Sportface content. Encapsulate all those comments in an Excel spreadsheet. Send the entire body of research to me by 10 am tomorrow. And do all of this automatically. No people are allowed to help you. And don’t ask me any questions; just do what I told you.”
Tasks like this one are going to be launched all over the world in 2025 in greater volumes and with higher levels of sophistication than anything in human history. All of us one day will have agents or we won’t be a part of the human race.
Prediction Two
Sammy Sportface will ask Microsoft Copilot to research, write and post a blog every 6 hours on the
Baby Boomer Brotherhood Facebook page. This will be an automated system and no one – not even AI – will be able to block or delete the content. Sportface will be working in the background on strategic planning, critical thinking skills, and AI-powered branding initiatives.
Prediction Three
Nikola Jokic will snatch his four NBA MVP in five years. Sportface will declare him the greatest basketball player who has ever laced up sneakers. Some will debate this. He’ll be called
an exaggerator. But deep down, all the haters will know he’s right and they won’t be happy to admit this to themselves because they will have lost an argument to Sammy Sportface. Never uplifting to get out-predicted by a fictitious character.
Prediction Four
Pat Dosh will start contacting the Hartley brothers asking them if they’re aware of Sammy Sportface and wondering if they’ve disassociated themselves from this character who is their little brother, Charles Hartley. “I don’t get this guy Sportface,” Dosh will say. “Somehow I got signed up to the Baby Boomer Brotherhood and the blogs have started blasting into my living room like leaves from a leaf blower. I can’t get away from them.”
Prediction Five
The college football transfer portal will get reconfigured. College presidents won’t agree to pay players unless the presidents’ salaries get bumped up 35 percent. A college professor union will be formed and they will demand 45 percent raises justifying the higher jump because they’re smarter than the presidents. On campuses across America presidents, provosts, chancellors, and professors will hold protests as the coaches and players continue to negotiate for more pay themselves. The end result of all this is that Pat McAfee will be assigned to sort out this mess and he’ll bring along Nick Saban as his assistant and they will joke around about the whole thing and not make any progress changing a broken system that isn’t fixable. College GameDay will focus more on the campus protests and new rules and less time on the games because the games will become less entertaining as the players realize that once they’re paid they don’t need to play well on Saturdays. A year from now the only post-game worth tuning into will be the Pop Tart Bowl where everyone will want to watch the giant Pop Tart get heated in the giant toaster on the field and, once ready, devoured by the winning team.
Prediction Six
Sportface will text his daily blogs to ten times as many people in 2025 than he did in 2024. There will be an outcry. Complaints will fly across the world. Searches for block buttons will skyrocket. The text world will screech to a halt. Sportface will get blamed and he’ll blog about it and blast the blog out to everybody via text.
Prediction Seven
Sportface will call Spars and say he wants to catch up. Spars will say he’s too busy and can only text. Sportface will text Spars every blog he posts in 2025 – twice.
Prediction Eight
Sportface will contemplate starting a second podcast (the first one failed after two episodes). He’ll get inundated with requests from Baby Boomer Brothers wanting to co-host with him, but he will shoo them all away.
“Sportface struts solo,” he will announce on email via BCC (blind carbon copy). “The only way I’ll even consider you as a co-host is if you swear to me you think Crash Adams is a hot new band.”
Prediction Nine
At some point during 2025 some large company will announce a massive restructuring (downsizing). The will have decided to use generative AI to massively automate the business from supply chain to operations to blog posting to investor relations. Sportface will post a blog that day taking his victory lap for his spot on prediction. No one will “Like” the post.
Prediction Ten
Caitlin Clark Kent will lead the Indiana Fever to the WNBA championship and she will be the Finals MVP. She will also win the regular season MVP. While all this is going on, the WNBA tunnel pre-game fashion show will take its game to New York City and Los Angeles and Paris and London and Australia to attract larger audiences.
As a result of all this, the NBA will start plans to reconfigure its product that fewer and fewer people will be watching. The larger message will be the cultural story of the year. Women’s pro hoops is more entertaining than men’s pro hoops.
One hundred years from now, historians will point to 2025 as the Malcolm Gladwell tipping point when women became more powerful and influential in sports than men and, by extension, in every other aspect of life.
Dismayed, LeBron James will retire and hardly anyone will tune in for his going away ceremony.
As all this unfolds, Sammy Sportface will catch a plane to Indiana. He will first visit the Larry Bird Hotel to French Lick, Indiana, take a ruminating shower with Larry Bird soap, and then travel to Indianapolis where he will interview Caitlin Clark for the first time.
“So you’re Sammy Sportface,” she will say. “I’ve written everything you’ve written about me and everything you’ve written about your boyhood glory days.”
“I was great, Caitlin,” Sportface will say. “The way you play reminds me of myself. Our skills were remarkably similar except I was a better rebounder than you and hit a shot over Adrian Branch to beat DeMatha at the buzzer.”
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