Rays play-by-play man Dewayne Staats writes to win! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob An

Today's Guest: Tampa Bay Rays play-by-play announcer Dewayne Staats, author with Dave Scheiber of Position To Win: A Look at Baseball and Life From the Best Seat in the House.

INTERVIEW Dewayne Staats, play-by-play... by andelman 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Dewayne Staats by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of second-rate ballplayers who, whenever they get to third base, have visions of Meat Loaf in their heads, keep swearing on their mothers’ graves and screaming, “I’ll love you to the end of time!”… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

There are some genuinely, truly nice people in the world. You might not know this if your only friends are Facebook friends, but it’s true.

I suspect Dewayne Staats is one of the good guys.

For one thing, I’ve read his just published memoir of life in a baseball broadcast booth and Staats hasn’t an unkind word to share about anyone.
DEWAYNE STAATS podcast excerpt: "Harry Caray was perfect on the personality side. I learned from him that it's important to be a human being and to have fun with this and be personable. Harry once told me that, when he was a kid in St. Louis, he would listen to the games in the early years of radio and then he would sneak his way into the ballpark. He said it was always so much more fun at the ballpark than when he listened at home. He tried to convey the actual experience of being at the ballpark in his personality and, at the same time, it didn't hurt because it served his own purposes. Harry knew what he was doing; he was promoting Harry Caray."
You can LISTEN to this interview with Tampa Bayv Rays play-by-play announcer DEWAYNE STAATS, author of POSITION TO WIN, by clicking the audio player above!

That may just be good manners, of course, but his co-author on Position to Win: A Look at Baseball and Life from the Best Seat in the House, i