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, January 11, 2010

Shaq was robbed!


I finally watch the last two episodes of Shaq Vs. and enjoyed the episodes. The fourth episode was against Oscar de la Hoya and the fifth was against the St. Louis Cardinals' slugger Albert Pujols. Like I said, despite the handicaps, I have to admire Shaq for his athleticism and guts. The entire five episode season was enjoyable. Of the five round fight with de la Hoya, I thought he won it clearly and that the judges gave it to the Golden Boy in a unanimous highway robbery only because it looks bad for him to lose it to a basketball player. Nevertheless, I have to hand it to the athletes as well Michael Phelps, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh, Ben Roethlisberger, and Pujols and Golden Boy for taking part. It was entertaining to say the least.

I'm a person who always stays to watch the credits (that's why I know among others that Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello played a terrorist in Iron Man) and I noticed that in the third episode, there was suddenly a "Steve Nash" credited as "executive producer" alongside Shaq. It turned out that the idea for this was first broached by the Phoenix Sun guard and Shaq ran away with it. Now I wonder if this is one cause why the Diesel is now in Cleveland. Hahaha. I'm kidding.

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