Grand Salami Time!

Grand Salami Time!
A painting of a man hitting a home run with comic speech bubbles in background
Studio album by
the Baseball Project
ReleasedJune 30, 2023 (2023-06-30)
Recorded2022
StudioFidelitorium Recordings, Kernersville, North Carolina, US
Genre
Length53:47
LabelOmnivore
Producer
The Baseball Project chronology
3rd
(2014) 		Grand Salami Time!
(2023)

I always want to work with Mitch Easter whenever possible. He can work with any style of music, but he's great with rock and roll and pop music, and that's one of the things that we like to do as individuals and as a band. And we love Mitch as a person, as a collaborator, as a producer. He's excellent for all those things, and he's great to be around. So it's a no brainer. If Mitch has time and we can coordinate our schedules, then there's no reason not to work with Mitch.

—Mike Mills on reconnecting with Mitch Easter for Grand Salami Time![3]

I wrote the song "That's Living" the day after the sad death of José Fernández, who pitched for the Marlins. I just was so emotionally beat up about it when I heard the news about the guy. It could be just a story about a pitcher who died in a boating accident and had a great future. But the point of the song is that we all take chances, that's what life is all about, and we also tend to want to find some way to say, terribly, well, he had it coming, it couldn't have happened to me because I don't do that sort of thing. These are all things I'm putting in a song on a record where we're cracking jokes about screwballs and curveballs and things like that. Somehow, we have the freedom in this band to do that.

—Steve Wynn on songwriting for this album[4]

Grand Salami Time! is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock supergroup the Baseball Project, released by Omnivore Recordings on June 30, 2023.[5] The album was produced by Mitch Easter, who began working with R.E.M. at the beginning of their careers; the Baseball Project features two of their former members.[6] It also marks their first album under Omnivore, as they had previously been signed to Yep Roc.

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