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We Caught A Baseball
We Caught A Baseball, also known as  We CAB  for short, is an American comedy group that started in the late 1990's by a group of young friends who continue to produce material, including:


 * Two studio albums -  Power wagon, Sno-Commander, Super Jungle Escamator.  (released Nov, 11th, 2001) & We Caught A baseball ...Who threw it?!? . (Released June 24th 2004.)
 * A Third album in the works - (no information given)
 * Video games - The Matrix Man series, and other various titles. (under the brand name  Semi-soft interactive , from 1998-2003).
 * A two volume collection of rare, previously unreleased songs. - ( We Caught A Baseball ...And got lost!. Vol 1&2.  Remastered and released 2008.)
 * WeCAB Tv. - Season 1, 1998-2005. Season 2, 2006-2015. Season 3, 2016- still in production!
 * The Rusty Rafters Podcast - currently 7 episodes. still in production! (Originally released on Soundcloud only, but will soon migrate to youtube)
 * Soundtrack collection - a collection of all music used in WeCAB Tv. (untitled and unreleased as of now).
 * Demo collection -  96 Astronauts agree!!  Volume 1 soon to be released as a Youtube Exclusive playlist!

Members
The core Members ; Dan Auer, Zac Ciancarelli, George Daniello, James Daniello, and Mike Scanlon, who collaborate on song writing, sketch writing, short films video games, and podcasts.

With George Daniello and Dan Auer acting as primary directors; the team however, does not have any single leader and they work collaboratively when choosing, writing and creating projects.

Other original core members ; include Jerermy Blumenauer (who appears on the 1st album) and Sean Scanlon (who appears on the first 2 albums and season one of WeCAB TV.) left due to personal reasons and life choices.

Satellite members ; who include Raymond Calvosa, Max Ciancarelli, Brett DeCosmo, Ed Peirno, and Ryan Welsch, also take part in the writing, guest appearing, producing and editing of We CAB material.

Special guests ; which include English Anthony, KC, Marianne Daniello (listed as Marianne Stewart on the credits of the 2nd album), Michael D, Ronnie De Nardo, Jessie Goodenough, Author Reed, Rob Stoer, Nicholas Ink, and Pete Tennyson, make cameos or guest appearances on the albums and or on We CAB Tv.

The core group has slightly changed, with 2 members leaving for personal reasons and a few joining throughout the years.

Hystory - (Chronological order)
The Daniello's - Beginning at ages 13 and 14, the Daniello Brothers (James the older one and George the younger one) began making extremely offbeat and comedic video games, under the brand name Semi-Soft interactive, with james Daniello doing the programming and George Daniello taking the duty of art direction, working on and creating The Matrix Man Series, along with a few other games.

They worked on all ideas collaboratively, making all their friends come over, test the games they made, and also take part in the creative process, watching everyone who played burst out in laughter.

Apart from making video games, they also began to take up instruments, James took up the Keyboards and George Took up Bass guitar, spending hours of free time playing together and with the Scanlon's who they met in elementary school.

The Scanlon's - Having gone to the same elementary school as the Daniello's, and being closely the same age, their paths would soon meet and they would find themselves becoming good friends with each other.

Michael Scanlon, (the older one) and Sean Scanlon (the younger one), played instruments and received music lessons from a young age and would soon invite the Daniello's over to the studio, that father John Scanlon, owned and would often play keyboards.

They have produced 2 studio albums, 2 seasons of We CAB Tv with a third in the works, 4 video games and began a series of podcasts.

Using their random and offbeat humor, they soon gained a cult following after the release of their first album Power wagon, Sno-Commander, Super Jungle Escamator. in the fall of 2001.

in the late 90's they produced a series of video games under the brand name Semi-Soft Entertainment video game company, created by the Daniello Brothers sometime in 1998.