Back and Forth

I grew up in a remote-free household. You turned on the TV and watched a particular channel. Change channels too fast or too often, and you incurred the wrath of Edwin. The joys of a remote had to wait for love and marriage, though before Clare in the baby carriage. So, I spent last night switching between the World Series and the Bulls’ game. Funny how games have gotten longer in the postseason. Game one in Texas took 4:02 to play 10-2/3 innings. Yawn, though it was nice to see Adolis Garcia kind of run out of the box after hitting what proved to be a walk-off, opposite-field homerun in a Rangers’ 6-5 win over the Diamondbacks. I imagine Jerry Reinsdorf is rooting for Arizona, less for Alek Thomas being on the team than for matters of payroll. Reinsdorf’s other rooting interest, the Bulls, did considerably better, making up a seventeen-point deficit late in the fourth quarter to beat the Raptors 104-103 in overtime. Toronto’s Chris Boucher put his team up by four on a lay-up with a little over thirty-nine seconds left in overtime and then did something really dumb—trotting downcourt, Boucher turned around to give a little bye-bye wave to the opposition. Alex Caruso’s three pointer with 2.7 seconds left made for a nice wave back. There are too many problems—Patrick Williams, Zach Lavine, Nikola Vucevich—with this Bulls’ team to get into now. Better to just enjoy the win. The Bulls play again tonight in Detroit. So, it looks like I’ll be doing more channel surfing, provided my father doesn’t materialize in the living room to snatch the remote.