1. Ticket scalpers will flood local colleges taking classes in Japanese and Japanese culture.  They will use their new found knowledge to try to bilk ever possible dollar from Japanese tourists trying to get tickets to watch Matsuzaka pitch. Matsuzaka will go 19-7.

2. The Sopranos will end with Tony dieing of a heart attack.

3. Barrack Obama will use his media darling status to emerge as the Democratic front runner in 08; that is until Hillary Clinton’s camp starts to encourage her friends in the press to blast Obama starting in the fall of 07. 

4. Fidel Castro will die. Shortly there after, both the Red Sox and Yankees will send military squadron into the country to try to take control of the nation and its abundance of baseball talent.

5. The Following things will occur in Book 7 Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Neville will become a professor of Herbology. Ron and Hermione will finally hook up at Fleur and Bill’s wedding. R.A.B is Regulus Black. Kreacher knows where one of the Horcuxes is. Nagini aka Voldemort’s Snake is a Horcrux and Nagini will kill Arthur Weasley, but Nagini will be killed by Fawkes. (Fawkes will be inherited by Harry) Snape will help Harry destroy a Horcrux. Both Harry and Voldemort will die in the final battle, but Harry will join Dumbledore, His Parents, Sirius Black and other great Wizards who helped Wizard kind in the Deathly Hallows. It will be reveled that Ginny is carrying Harry’s baby at the end of the book.  Focus on the Family and other conservative groups will protest the book because they believe the Ginny/Harry baby angle will be promoting unprotected premarital sex.

6 Britney Spears will look to marry a Jewish guy following the lead of Christina Aguilera who stabilized her image after marrying Jordan Bratman. Unfortunately for Britney the only Jewish guy near by will be her new producer the fugly Scott Storch. Spears will marry Storch after getting knocked up by him. Unfortunately, just like Scott Storch’s beats, Storch’s child’s DNA will mostly be composed of rehashed DNA from Timberland and Dr. Dre.

7.  The Boston Herald will continually bash everything that Deval Patrick does and the Boston Globe will continually support him. The only time the situation will be flipped is when the Herald will support Patrick in allowing Casinos in Massachusetts and the Globe will oppose him.

8. I will buy new albums from the following artists: Kay Hanley, Shirley Manson (solo album) Bright Eyes, Saigon, Papoose, Lupe Fiasco, Eisley, Megan Slankard, Endway, Timberland, Kanye West, Shut Up Stella, Rilo Kiley, and Guns & Roses. Ya, you read that right. Guns and Fucking Roses. I don’t know why, but I believe Axl’s crazy ass this time.

9. Continuing with the Harry Potter angle, it will be revealed that every copy of the new Microsoft Vista is actually an electronic Horcrux for Bill Gates.

10. Lebron James and Sidney Crosby will both win their first of many MVP awards in their respective leagues.

11. Wedding website theknot.com is going to be the next website to blow up, get a lot of main stream media attention, make a ton of cash, and eventually be bought out by a bigger company like Yahoo or Google (At least I hope it is because I am planning buying its stock)

12.  Marilyn Petitto Devaney will lose her at large seat on the Watertown Town Council. In addition, Pam Piantedosi will run for Watertown Town Council President and unseat Clyde Younger again.

13. Al a cart cable (paying for only the cable channels you want on an individual basis) will gain a lot of steam this year with a bill being passed forcing cable companies to offer it to consumers.

14. Transformers The Movie will make the most money at the box office this year fueled by both nostalgic people in their 20s and 30s and the newer transformer fan base of kids ages 3-12.

15. Tom Menino will insist that both the new 1000 foot sky scraper near Winthrop Square and the City Hall in South Boston are built with a giant bronze statue of Menino at the top of both buildings. 

16. The new Charlie Card system will actually work pretty well after a month of initial confusion and commuter crises.

17. Bush will increase troop levels in Iraq as Democrats will act like a bunch of pussies and refuse to push to bring the troops home. Little will change in Iraq which will continue to be in a state of low grade civil war. With the void of leadership in Washington, a surprise independent candidate will announce a run for president at the end of 07. That candidate will be Colin Powell.

18. The Boston Bruins will actually win a playoff round; maybe even two.

19. Saigon will be the rapper who finally brings NYC hip hop back commercially and critically.

20. Dominic Hasek will be investigated for using performance enhancing drugs. The dude is like 50 and still the has the best G.A.A. average in the NHL. In addition, it will be discovered that there is mass steroid use among NFL referees. Half of those guys look like wrestlers in the WWF and they nearly all wear shirts 2 sizes to small which makes me have other suspicions about some of them.

21. Every Single Rap CD in released in 2007 will have at least one reference to the T.V. show The Wire.

22. Some stupid team in the NFL (most likely the Raiders or Redskins) is going to see that Asante Samuel had 10 interceptions this year and give him an exorbitant contract in the off-season.

23. Martin Scorsese will win his first Best Director Oscar for The Departed.

24. In the end of the 05 season, Flutie got to kick a drop kick field goal. In the end of the 06 season, Testaverde got to throw a touch down for the 20th straight year. At the end of the 07 season, Bill Belichick will call up a retired Drew Bledsoe and have him start the last game of the season for the Patriots.

25. Ford will declare bankruptcy.

26. Tom Brady will start dating Jessica Biel.

27. During the 07 Baseball season, Manny Ramirez will do the following: Go into left field without his glove, demand a trade, veto a trade and say he does not remember demanding a trade, let his son Manny Jr. play for him in the All-star game, Manny Wife Juliana will post a bulletin on her myspace page criticizing Shonda Schilling’s hair due and a subsequent scandal will ensue (http://www.myspace.com/monterio_ramirez ) Manny will ask a random Japanese reporter if he is Dan Shaughnessy, Manny will repeatedly call JD Drew Trot, He will hit 38 home runs, have 134 RBI, bat .320, and have a OBP of .433.