Four hours can be incredible, if you catch it just right.
When there are multiple games on that I want to watch, I go to my favorite sports bar and ask the bartenders to put them all on adjacent TVs. I do drop a few bucks there during the playoff seasons, so they usually accommodate my requests.
Last night, the Bruins were in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Celtics in the NBA playoffs and Red Sox were trying to hold off the Yankees in the first five weeks of the baseball season.
Disclaimer here, I don’t know much about hockey and only watch it when the team with the big round B on their jerseys is going for the Cup. Hockey is amazing during the playoffs – the amped-up speed and skill of these athletes on ice, the combination of grace and aggression. The Bruins lost game two of the Eastern Conference semifinals to Tampa Bay after routing the Lightning in game one, but the action was so much fun to watch.
My head was on a swivel between the other two sports, with the surprising Celtics beating the emerging Sixers in the first game of the Eastern Conference semis. Even without injured Kyrie Irving, the game featured ACC stars from Philly’s J.J. Redick, who is still sensational at 34, to Boston’s Jayson Tatum and former Louisville star Terry Rozier – who had 29 points subbing for Irving.
These are great teams right now and the future of the league, at least in the East. We’ll be watching the Sixers’ Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons for years, and the Celtics hope they can keep coach Brad Stevens for that long. No matter who is on the court for the current descendants of Red Auerbach, Stevens has them playing spectacular, unselfish basketball.
Baseball’s far slower pace than hockey and hoops allowed me to watch every pitch and sneak a peek at the other two screens in between. If you are a baseball fan, you will be paying attention to the American League East, where the Sox and Yankees are already pulling away from the rest of the division.
The Red Sox opened the season by winning 17 of their first 19, and the Yankees had won eight straight to close the gap before losing the first game of their series against the defending World Champion Astros.
Two of my teams won, and the team I root against the most lost. All that, and I was able to catch all the action of multiple games at my favorite sports bar. Oh, what a night.
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