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.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Two minutes with the Ultimate Harbour Master

I had a short conversation with Harbour Centre's wunderkind Jason Castro yesterday, Friday, at Robinson's Galleria.

Rick: Jason, congrats sa MVP Award at sa championship.
Jason: Ah. (smiles). Salamat. Salamat talaga.

Rick: Nung down kayo after yung game one na talo, ano pinagusapan niyo as a team? Alam niyo ba na kaya naman habulin yung Hapee?
Jason: Hindi pa tapos yung laban. Yan ang pinagusapan namin ng team. Nangyari na 'to dati last conference kaya hindi kami kinabahan. Swerte rin kami na marami nag-step up. Yung pressure din kasi nasa Hapee kasi kami alam na namin kung ano ang kaya namin gawin.

Rick: Lahat na yata sa amateur napanalunan mo na. So Singapore Slingers na?
Jason: Ibang challenge yun. Sana naman maganda ipakita ko. Kasi hindi lang para sa akin 'to pati na sa lahat ng Pilipinong basketbolista.

Rick: Kelan ba alis mo?
Jason: July. Kaya relax muna ako.

Rick: Thanks, Jason and good luck.
Jason: Salamat. O... blowout naman dyan.

We both laugh.

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