BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

And it's only spring training


The New York Yankees's first baseman Shelley Ducan slid hard into Tampa Bay Devil Rays' second baseman Akinori Iwamura that precipitated a near brawl and ejections.

This was obviously escalating the bad blood between the two teams when the Rays' Elliot Johnson took out Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli several days ago. Cervelli will be out for a while with a broken wrist.

The Yanks pitcher Heath Phillips got the revenge party started right in the first inning when he drilled Evan Longoria in the mid-section with a fastball. The ump threw out Phillips. And in the second inning, the Yanks clearly showed that they were still pissed what with Duncan seeking to crush future generations of Iwamuras.

Okay. As much as I'm all for free-for-alls from time to time, this should end now. But does anyone think so?


In the meantime, Billy Crystal, the Yankees' new DH -- Designated Hebrew -- will be bringing in a urine sample prior to tomorrow's game with the Pittsburgh Pirates. "I might test positive for Maalox," he quipped.

Crystal said that he has something for the Pirates. "A little Mazeroski payback," he said in reference to the Pittsburgh catcher's Game 7 bottom-of-the-ninth inning series clinching home run versus New York.

Hopefully, Billy will get a hit.

Let's Go Yankees!

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