Tampa Bay Rays announcer is one of MLB's best-Dewayne Staats! INTERVIEW

Today's Guest: Dewayne Staats, Tampa Bay Rays play-by-play announcer and author of “Position To Win” (with Dave Scheiber). 

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."
Key interview moments:

• 8:15 Despite his overwhelming interest in sports while in high school, Dewayne Staats' teacher encouraged him to explore philosophy and literature because "the unexamined life is not worth living;

• 20:55 Harry Caray knew what he was doing -- he was promoting Harry Caray;

• 41:45 Joe Madden was probably an even better manager of the Tampa Bay Rays than even is fans knew at the time.

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