Warm Thoughts for a Cold Winter: El Gran Combo

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Pitchers and catchers are a mere five weeks away, and it can't come soon enough for me (even after last night's hideous Carlos Beltran news). I am done with winter this year, at a record pace, and I'm normally a cold-weather guy. Or at least more of a cold-weather guy than a hot-weather guy. The sun is not my friend.

grancombo.JPGSo from now until players report, I will have a daily bit of baseball-iana to get you through the rest of the winter. The inaugural submission comes to me courtesy of WFMU's Beware of the Blog, via Give the Drummer Some. Yesterday, he put up his weekly post of mp3s, and it included a beisbol-centric jam by Puerto Rican musical legends El Gran Combo.

They've been around for almost 50 years and are probably the most famous salsa group in the world. This tune, entitled "El Caballero Pelotero", is about exactly what its title states: a horse who plays baseball.

My Spanish isn't good enough to translate all the lyrics to this song. Or even most of them. In fact, all I can really catch are the lines "jugaba a beisbol" and "los Yanquis". But apparently, this horse was quite the hitter.

Still, it puts me in the baseballing mood, and I hope it does the same for you. In addition to the original audio below, you can also see/hear El Gran Combo playing the song with another salsa legend, Hector Lavoe, on YouTube (which I would have included here, except the sound is sub-bootleg quality).


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