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.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

This Wednesday morning...

There's this chill that enveloped me throughout the night and continued as I woke up. I'm somewhat thankful about the rains from Helen because it cancels out the heat. I'm hoping it doesn't bring any more calamities to our beaten land.

I wake up and the US Dollar-Peso exchange rate is Php 45.46 = $1.

It's the first and last All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium at it begins at 8am Manila time. There's a refreshing change of talk about the midsummer classic. No steroids. No controversies except a lovefest for the hallowed baseball cathedral.

Ronaldinho is this close.................... to joining the Rossoneri (that's AC Milan for the non-football fans).

My nephew IƱigo Olivares is off to join the Philippine team to the Little League World Series.

The Filipino Premier League will be launched on August 2. There will be regional competition with the national champion representing the Philippines in the Asian Club Championships.

There's good and bad and hopefully, the traffic isn't as bad going to Makati (yeah, the betting it's another grind). Looks like the wrath of God is once more headed to the Philippines.

Carlo, I think that Cristiano Ronaldo has no obligation to play for ManU. Give him a few years and they'll spit him out just as they did to David Beckham and Ruud Van Nistelrooy. The Portuguese winger has been paid well and he has delivered so on that count, he's doing his job. Not every employer has heart. While ManU is one of the better run clubs in the world, they are not without their share of problems. The flipside of this is players can be greedy although this is more true for basketball players than footballers.

As for Crystal, she had academic problems last year. I'm not sure if she's been asked to take a sabbatical to attend to shoring up her grades. I haven't been following other teams other than the men's basketball team. I've been very busy of late and now that I'm not writing for Ateneo any longer frees me of any obligation. Besides, isn't it fun doing stuff for other schools?

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