It has been some time since we last posted. Some of you may mistake this as an admission that Matt Zaffino is occasionally right. You'd be wrong. Just like Matt Zaffino. The truth is that the summer months get a little redundant. Matt Zaffino says there will be no clouds, but there are clouds. Matt Zaffino says it will be overcast, but it's sunny. Matt Zaffino says the high will be 82, but it reached 85. Matt Zaffino says the day will be pleasant, but in the Metro section some guy crashed his car into his fence while high on meth. That doesn't sound very pleasant now does it Matt Zaffino.
To put some science behind it, Molly and I made a graph to show how much Matt Zaffino was wrong. We plotted the difference between what Matt Zaffino forecasted and what the actual temperature was over the course of a month. The results were staggering. When we stepped back and looked at the plot, it spelled out "Matt Zaffino is never right". In cursive. And underlined. Twice. Okay, really we just wrote that out on a piece of graph paper and underlined it. Who has time to do all of that math and graph it out? We're pretty sure that's what it would have told us anyway.
Really the summer months turn into more of a philosophical question. If Matt Zaffino is wrong and no one reads it, is Matt Zaffino still wrong? There's no need to argue about it over a cappuccino in a coffee shop with some dirty hipster. The answer is yes, of course he is. That just saved you the headache you'd get from having to hang out with a hipster. Man, they're annoying.
So fear not. Even in these uncertain times, there are some things you can count on in life. Leaves changing in the fall. Hipsters being annoying. And Matt Zaffino being wrong.
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Your observations are dead-on. I would bet that Mr. Zaffino is well compensated for his prognostications and if he were in the corporate world, would not have a position lasting more than a month for all that he had contributed to the company bottom line.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, Mr. Zaffino is cordially invited to Reno, Nevada where there is 340 days of searing sunshine and his accuracy ratio will improve dramatically.
I am sorry that Mr. Zaffino is not able to support the family and good people of Scappoose as he should. An apology would be the best way to start and then invite Molly to review his projections daily so he has a better chance of being accurate.
Seriously...a blog against Matt Zaffino? Come on, dude. This is a waste of time.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that Matt Zaffino finally read this and made the above post.
ReplyDeleteso awesome, keep it up!! Matt Zaffino is wrong!
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