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.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Good luck exploring the infinite abyss!

There that line from that cool movie Garden State where Andrew Largeman tells Albert: "Good luck exploring the infinite abyss!" And with the New Jersey Nets mired in a 1-19 ride to nowheresville (read: NBA infamy and lotterypickville) they need to right the ship and explore their options. Watching the Nets before, me and my friends would buy the cheap tickets and the ushers would allow us to go down at the half because it didn't look too well for the Nets to be seen on TV with no one watching. That is until it was announced they were relocating to Brooklyn. J-Kidd led the Nets to two consecutive Finals appearances but they were undermatched against the Los Angeles Lakers and then the San Antonio Spurs. And since Bruce Ratner meddled and played chicken feed with his players he now has a mediocre squad. These aren't your Nets of the Kenny Anderson-Derrick Coleman or even the J-Kidd to KMart era, kids. Good luck in exploring the infinite abyss!

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