Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

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