Waiting Games

Valpo’s reward for being for being a Cinderella upstart is getting to play #4 seed Michigan in the first round of the NCAA playoffs.  It’s always been my sense that you don’t particularly want to play Michigan in any college sport, if you can avoid it.  Were the underdog to win this game, it would be the lead story on all the ESPN stations, probably for the rest of the year.

Anyhow, Clare is crazy with excitement waiting for Friday to roll around.  She called to tell me she’d been cc’d on an email with Carol Hutchins, the Michigan coach who is closing in on 1500 career wins.  With luck, some of those 32 years of coaching experience will rub off on my daughter so someday a graduate assistant will be telling her dad she was cc’d with Coach Bukowski!

I’m anxious, too, though not about the upcoming Wolverines-Crusaders tilt.  No, the White Sox are going to start playing a lot of games in their division, where in years past they’ve been more than generous—and more than feeble, if that’s possible—with the Indians and Royals.  Short of cloning Chris Sale, people are going to have put up, or you can forget about talk of a Crosstown World Series.