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, January 9, 2010

Why Gilbert Arenas brought guns to the locker room


1. - He is listed as a “shooting guard.” Can’t be one in name without them firearms.

2. - He idolized Pistol Pete Maravich when he was growing up. It’s his way of paying tribute.

3. - He wanted to be ready when his team flies to Detroit for their next road game in case he comes across another Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to blow Northwest 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.

4. - He feels that Washington has no identity. Is David Copperfield from Washington? Nope, he’s from Metuchen, New Jersey. Arenas feels “Bullets” suits this NBA franchise better than “Wizards.”

5. - In Washington’s rivalry with Cleveland, he was probably thinking that LeBron James was “Jesse James.” So he wanted a shootout at the OK Corral (which is wrong since that was the Earps versus the McLaurys).

6. - He works undercover for Homeland Security Washington Branch. He isn't "Agent Zero" for nothing.

7. - He was thinking of using the guns as a bargaining chip for contract negotiations (although he did re-sign one last year).

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