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This has always been the biggest reason I've loved to follow Doc's writings.  Anybody can look backwards.  Looking forward is where the fun is.  I can still remember on the STATS boards in 1996 people telling us that we shouldn't annoint the Big Unit a HOF pitcher until he "proves it over time".  Where's the fun in that?
No one gets accolades for pointing the bleachers after they hit the home run.
Let the sportwriters be "objective".  I like being about the possibilities.
I like calling the Bedard trade a good trade and seeing it pan out.
I like telling anyone who would listen that Felix would almost help us forget the Big Unit (in a grieve-ending sort of way) when he was 17.  I didn't need him to win a Cy Young before calling that shot.  It makes watching the growth happen in front of you more spectactular.
I like telling people that Paul Spoljaric was going to be good.  Yeah, I (we) were wrong about that one (and a number of others), but so what?
I thought Mickey Brantley would be their first ever great center fielder.  Oops.
It took one game to know that Alvin Davis would have a dramatic impact.
This is a blog.  If I was a contributing writer or the main writer to it, if anywhere is a good place to be bold, this is it.  Otherwise it's just another Starbucks - they all look the same.
 
Cheers.