clandestino playlist 4/4...PLAY BALL!!!!!!!!!!

Baseball season is here and I mark my cold and warm seasons here in New England by it. I had fun doing a baseball show. If you are above sports, that's your fucking problem. The outcome of the game is far less predictable than any art house film.
Enough about that. here's the playlist.

Rico Petrocelli & John Kiley (Red Sox organist)..."The Impossible Dream"...45...(boot)
Red Sox shortstop plays some funky drums here.

The Intruders..."Love is Like a Baseball Game"...Cowboys To Girls...(Gamble)

audio excerpt from High & Outside trailer, movie about Bill "Spaceman" Lee



Jimmy Bee..."Vida Blue"...v/a-Golden State Funk...(BGP)
Albert Jones..."Vida Blue"...45...(Tri-City)
Two funky tunes about old Bay Area pitcher.

audio excerpt from High & Outside trailer, movie about Bill "Spaceman" Lee

Sam & Dave with The Dixie Flyers..."Knock it Out of the Park"...45...(Atlantic)

Bill "Spaceman" Lee..."we work harder..."

SF Seals..."Dock Ellis"...Baseball Trilogy 45...(Matador)
Dock Ellis talking about pitching a no-hitter on LSD
Robin Williams monologue about Dock Ellis






Phil Rizzutto, Tommy Henrich, Ralph Branca & Roy Campanella..."The Umpire"...45...(Golden)

Un Tributo Musical to Roberto Clemente..."Orgullo de Borinquen"...Un Tributo Musical to Roberto Clemente...(Ryko Latino)



El Gran Combo..."El Caballo Pelotero"...El Caballo Pelotero...(GEMA)

Pedro Cerrano..."Jesus no help me with curveball" from Major League



The Treniers..."Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)...v/a-Ken Burns Baseball...(PBS)

Bill "Spaceman" Lee..."my best pitch is a strike..."

Nina Simone..."Baseball Boogie"...A Single Woman...(Warner Jazz)

Un Tributo Musical to Roberto Clemente..."Roberto Clemente"...Un Tributo Musical to Roberto Clemente...(Ryko Latino)

Ball Players..."Universal Language"...45...(PPP)
A couple of ex Big League players make a pretty funky record.



Sugar Chile Robinson..."The Bases Were Loaded"...Go, Boy, Go!...(Rev-Ola)



SF Seals..."Ballad of Denny McLain"...Baseball Trilogy 45...(Matador)

Bill "Spaceman" Lee..."I played the game the right way..."

Warren Zevon..."Bill Lee"...Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School...(Asylum)

Bob Euker...outro from Major League...

And now back to our regular scheduled programming....
Afrosound..."Dog, Cat"...v/a-The Afrosound of Colombia...(Vampi Soul)
Wganda Kenya..."Tifit Hayad"...Fruko-Rebelión Tropical...(Nascente)
A couple of fine Colombia compilations put together by my homeboy DJ Bongohead.



Shark Move..."Evil War"...v/a-Those Shocking, Shaking Days...(Now Again)



Nação Zumbi..."Nebulosa"...Futura...(Trama)



Charanjit Singh..."Raga: Bairagi"...Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat...(Bombay Connection)



Andre Tanker..."River Come Down"...45...(Soundway)

Lord Shorty..."Sweet Music" (Sofrito edit)...12"...(Strut)

The Crystalites..."Earthly Sounds"...45...(Song Bird)

Nomo with Shawn Lee..."Upside Down"...45...(Ubiquity)

Menahan Street Band..."Make The Road By Walking"...Menahan Street Band...(Dunham)



Red Earth Collective with Soothsayers Horns..."Benin City Dub"...Red Earth Dub...(Red Earth)

Leslie Nielsen..."nice beaver"

El Rego..."E Nan Mian Nuku"...45...(Daptone)

Celia Cruz..."Madre Rumba"...Cuba's Queen of Song...(Nascente)
Another Bongohead project.



Thanks for listening. Catch Radio Clandestino every Monday 230-430pm (ET) at WMUA.org.

The hand that ripped out the hearts of every African...

Heavy feelings...

Yankee Domination

Opening Day!!!!!

Yes, I am a fan of baseball. Sorry to all you artists who think they are too good for this shit, but I just love the game. If you can't handle it then go back to your little collage cubicle or whatever. Not that I'm knocking the arts but I'm sick of artsy people looking down on the world of athletics. I play sports, I watch sports, I love sports, and I get together with my friends to talk sports. What do you do think about that?

Let's enjoy the sights and sounds of the warm season...baseball season!

Opening day, April 4th.

The Cuban Invasion

Leslie Anderson, photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images.

Here's an excellent article by Morgan Campbell of the Toronto Star on the recent wave of Cuban baseball players hitting the open (US) market and how it may affect the game on the island. Note that I appreciate the writer's journalistic manner, covering the situation without the usual unecessary posturing that many US news outlets display.

Click this link:
http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/article/766002--cuba-facing-big-league-baseball-crisis

Here's to the continued excellence of the Cuban baseball program!

This is reason enough why Blyleven should be in the Hall of Fame

Yes, Bert Blyleven was five votes short this year. And I hear there were five writers who left their ballots blank. WTF!

A nod to comedian/TV & movie producer Paul Sullivan for this photo. Check his blog Sully Baseball.

And congrats to the Hawk, Andre Dawson, for being the only player elected this year. Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar will have to wait till next year.

Dock Ellis & the LSD No-Hitter

One of my all time favorite players, Dock Ellis, has been gone almost a year now. But his no-hitter he pitched while tripping on acid will always be remembered.




Video by James Blagden & No Mas TV. Listen to Rufus Thomas' "Push & Pull" in the background.

Check Ellis' autobiography, Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball. Also check Barbara Manning's tribute to him on her SF Seals Baseball Trilogy 7" on Matador.

Shawn Smith: Liking Miami's Chances!

Author: Shawn L. Smith
shawnsmith22003@yahoo.com



12/27/08

Who would have thought that the Miami Dolphins who struggled to win just one game last season would be a game away from winning the AFC east this season? Not even myself, a die hard (aren't any dolphins fans "die hard" at this point?) fins fan living in the middle of Patriots land, didn't think much more than a .500 season was realistic. This was just going to be yet another rebuilding year just like the past several have been. This season was different though. It doesn't hurt when famed QB Tom Brady of the dominant New England Patriots goes down in week one. It also doesn't hurt when you hire former coach Bill Parcels to be in the front office. Parcells also brought in new head coach Tony Sparano who was assistant head coach in Dallas. Sparano called plays for Bill Parcells in 2006 for the Cowboys.
The Fins also looked forward to the dual running back option with the re-reinstatement of Ricky Williams who endured suspensions and scrutiny from the world of football due to positive marijuana test results and a couple condescending interviews on 60 minutes as well as a seemingly fall out of interest in being a team member. Williams just seemed to be focusing on things other than the NFL. Was that such a crime? He was meditating and smoking pot, certainly not even close to the worst things any man, let alone an NFL player could be caught doing. All of the time "away" seems to have paid off with Williams contributing to the diverse scheme of plays in the Dolphins arsenal this season. While his stats are shadowed by star running back Ronnie Brown, Williams has managed to contribute 4 rushing TDs and one receiving. However the key to his presence has been seen in the perfecting of the "wildcat" offense that Miami has been catching teams off guard with. The Dolphins started the wildcat trend in the NFL lining up either running back Ronnie Brown (in most cases) or Ricky Williams in the shotgun formation with the option of handing off, running, or throwing. Teams just never know who or where the ball is going to go. In week 3 against the Patriots, the wildcat was even used with Ronnie Brown as QB and Chad Pennington lined up as receiver. Ronnie Brown then threw a TD pass to tight end Anthony Fasano.What did the Patriots have to say about the 38-13 loss in Gillette ? “Brutal,” is what New England defensive end Ty Warren labeled it for reporters afterward.
The wildcat has averaged over seven yards per play for the Dolphins.
We are now upon the final week of the regular season with Dolphins QB Chad Pennington returning to the Medowlands his former home field to play the New York Jets for a spot in the playoffs and an AFC East divisional win. It seems fitting that Pennington gets his chance at payback to the team that cut him and left him in order to bring in veteran quarterback Brett Favre who stayed in the focus of all that was football while he went back and forth about whether or not he was going to play this season and where. Chad must be feeling more loved and primed in south Florida than in Jersey though. Pennington has thrown for 3,453 yards, more than Brett Favre this year. Miami also has a 4 game winning streak going and until last weeks game against Kansas City went 3 games without allowing a single touchdown. Not only Pennington but the entire Dolphins team seems primed at just the right time of the year and just before the most important game of the year thus far, a chance for redemption and a run in the playoffs.