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, May 17, 2010

El Barça, el campeón con más puntos de la historia de la Liga: 99

And once more the La Liga came down to the final playing day with one point separating FC Barcelona from Real Madrid FC 96-95. Los Blancos played first and disappointingly 1-1 with Malaga that narrowly avoided relegation. Their poor performance only netted them a point tying erstwhile idle Barcelona that had yet to play Valladolid that was on the brink of relegation as well. At the very least, Pep Guardiola's men needed only to tie the game to win the title. Even a loss would have still given them the title as they had a superior goal quotient. As it is, Barca smashed the home side 4-0 to win the Primera Liga in style -- a back-to-back title and 20th overall to a rain of confetti.
Bojan Krcic, Pedro, and Lionel Messi celebrate. They might have not duplicated last year's incredible treble and six titles (that overlapped from the 2009-10 season), but it was still special.
And to the Man -- Pep Guardiola. Ole!

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