A Song and a Sabbatical

Hi all, a quick note: I (Eric, if you didn't read the byline atop this post) will be outside the country as of tomorrow and until mid-August. That means there will be no baseball and hence no baseball blogging in my life. But P&P is far larger than me.

Ted will hold things down this summer (he always does, really) with some fine guest contributors helping him out. Principle among those is Patrick DuBuque, the talented writer of The Playful Utopia, who you may know from his two previous posts here, or his new-ish role at Fangraphs' NotGraphs blog.

Now that that's over with: a song. During 90s 1B Week, Corban Goble wrote about the theme song to Major League Baseball Featuring Ken Grffey Jr on Nintendo 64. I played that game a lot, mostly at my cousins' house. One of those cousins, Travis, is an awesome musician. He sampled the theme song in creating this:

[podcast]http://pitchersandpoets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/baseball1.mp3[/podcast]