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, March 23, 2010

The New Jersey Nets ain't got the dubious record just yet but today's loss presents a new low.


The New Jersey Nets lost to the Miami heat today 99-89. Okay, that's hardly news although the record for futility, if the Nets do break it, will be bad news all over should it happen.

But here's even gagging sad stuff -- Miami thrice beat the Nets this season under three different head coaches.

Early in the season, November 14, 2009 to be exact, they lost 81-80 in Miami under Lawrence Frank. Then three months later, on February 17, the Heat beat the Nets on their home floor 87-84 this time under head coach Kiki Vandeweghe. The today, March 22 (US time), the lost under John Loyer, Vandeweghe's assistant who manned the bench with the boss in California to tend to an ailing mom.

The Nets final game of the year is on April 14. Vandeweghe will be back then. But think of this, if the two teams played when Tom Barrise was interim coach and the Nets lost then that's a B-I-N-G with an "O" for zero. What a new low. Maybe they oughta let Rod Thorn coach that game.

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