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.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Truckin' along


The New York Yankees completed a two series homestand against the Los Angeles Angels (Anaheim, California, or LA -- please decide on what your name is) and the Texas Rangers with a 5-1 record. Four straight series wins against the best of the American League. Now they're off on a West Coast swing with the 9-5 Oakland A's who are on top of the AL West.

Andy Pettitte got the win to go 2-0; the same record of CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett. Phil Hughes is 1-0 while Javy Vasquez is at 0-2 with all sorts of mental problems about the game and pitching for the Yankees. The next game is crucial for Javy because he's on the mound at the Alameda County Coliseum in two days' time. Ramiro Peña subbed for DJ and got a hit. Mark Teixeira joined the Yanks' home run parade by blasting his first. Jorge Posada also homered. I remember two years ago when analysts said that Jorge was on the decline. Uh uh.

He and Mo were there for the final pitch as NY won 5-2.

Photo by Chris Trotman of Getty Images.

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