The cannon wasn’t fully silenced, but we’ll take it.
Home-and-homes are truly such weird scheduling quirks. “Hey, we know you two just played each other in this city. Well, now you’re going to both fly out to the next city and play each other again. Have fun.”
The other thing about home-and-homes is that when your team loses first, you just dread the next matchup. After all, you just lost. What is there to feel optimistic about going into the next game?