CALL ME SNAKE

The Celts and troublesome Bulls met tonight (last night?) at what is still officially called the Fleet Center, though not for long. Here is a full, unedited account of the game–or at least the few minutes I saw. When I tuned in, after helping my wife get our little ones ready for bed and then tackling a daunting array of dirty dishes, just a few minutes remained in the second quarter. When the buzzer sounded, the Celts were ahead by a few points, perhaps as many as five, though it might have been just a couple. Antoine Walker played marvelously during this interval, scoring at will from the post, and fully deserving of my mention (since recanted, which I now regret) of Peter May’s mention of a potential MVP bid. I planned on watching the second half, so that my comprehensive report would have been more complete, but my wife came downstairs, intent on watching the Bridget Jones sequel, recently out on video. The movie was uneven–like a basketball game in which the Celtics put in a weak third quarter–but I’ll save the rest of my comments for the review you’ll undoubtedly see here soon. “The Edge of Reason” ran about an hour and 48 minutes, and by the time Bridget ended up with Mark Darcy for the second (or was it the third?) time, the basketball game was long finished. I don’t know whether the Celts won or lost, or whether my record-breaking “wrong” streak persists. The way things now look–test patterns on sports channel FSNE–we may never know.