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, September 9, 2008

Short shots

Numancia beat Barcelona 1-0. Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle! Now Sergio Kresic warns Real Madrid that they're next.

Croatia knocked Engalnd out of a place in Euro 2008 and they think they're going places. Do it consistently first then you can begin yakking. And now they take offense at West Ham United for trying to replace Alan Curbishley with Slaven Bilic , their national side's coach. "A dirty English trick," is how CFA President Vlatko Markovic calls the Hammers' interest in Bilic, their former player. Idiot, is how I describe the CFA's accusations.

Any talk of my demise is utterly premature. That's what Roger Federer must be saying now after he dispatched Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 Monday to win his fifth consecutive U.S. Open championship and 13th major title overall.

I may not like what he pulled over at Green Bay but I have to give props to Brett Favre who led the New York Jets to a 20-14 win over Miami (versus the Jets' former QB Chad Pennington).

In the meantime, the NewYork Giants began defense of their title with a 17-6 win over the Washington Redskins (Sorry, Tricia! I promise not to wear Giants Blue when I go to Virginia). And Big Blue is pissed that former teammate Michael Strahan picked the Dallas Cowboys to win this year's Super Bowl. That's all about motivation and psy-war. Get used to it.

Hey, Coach Norman. The Oakland Raiders are playing my Denver Broncos today. But I really like the Raiders' black and silver.

After the UST-UP game last Saturday, my friend Kim Lesaca informed me of Pido Jarencio's tantrum-laced tirade in the Press Room. I thought that was in poor taste (and so does another friend Sid Ventura who is now with inboundpass.com). Incidentally, in the first round game of UST and DLSU, the final shot was supposed to go to either Francis Allera or Dylan Ababou, but Jeric Fortuna took three ill-advised shots that did them in. Some felt that he was trying to show up La Salle for not picking him up (all the more they were justified in choosing LA Revilla). The players expressed a lot of misgivings during the season: not playing as a team in the summer leagues, players injured, the vets and the rooks/newbies not clicking totally, and in the words of one official of the team who will go unnamed, pero mataas pwesto niya... lapses on the coaching staff's part. As I wrote in my case for Rabeh being league MVP, UST has been on the decline since 2006.

What has Ateneo been trying to do? Build a super team so that even if the refs call bum calls, they'll have a deep bench.

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