- In all but a few cases. There was one place where I solicited comments via e-mail, before the site had comments enabled.

A suggestion, though it won't do me any good. It would be great if you could do a book signing at a local bookstore so the regulars on the site could say hello. I live too far away for that to do me any good, but if I lived in So Cal (even as far away as Mr. Bud Black) I would make a point to go to a book signing.

Stan from Tacoma

I'll send anyone one of the files for free if they can tell me how to add photos that I scanned in to my computer into iPhoto 4.0.3 though.

I wouldn't be asking the question if that approach hadn't worked yet.

There were 23 photos I scanned. And 15 of them were imported in. 8 weren't. And they seem just like the other 15.

If anyone has any tips contact me at btimmermann AT gmail.com

Stan from Tacoma

Some of us think of a different song with the line "Don't it always it seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone."

See Mitchell, Joni, "Big Yellow Taxi".

Stan from Tacoma

I'd also like to add that Dan Shulman is the most underrated announcer in sports.

does simon cowell's job depend on any kind of likeability principle?

Then Ross Porter came aboard in 1977 and I thought he used too many statistics. I got tired of him and thought, "You know, Jerry's pretty good." Don Drysdale was a Dodger great but not the greatest broadcaster, and Rick Monday was less of a great and just not that good a play-by-play man. That's when I figured out Ross was good.

I don't think I'm mature, but I've grown up enough to figure out this: we always think whoever works with Vin isn't the greatest because Vin was and is the greatest. Jerry was and Ross is an excellent broadcaster, and I should have recognized that from the outset. Steiner has his merits, but he does not compare with either of them as a play-by-play man. Nor is it fair to compare him. But do we ever miss Ross ... especially when Steve Lyons is on doing color or Rick Monday is doing play-by-play.

If the McCourts had had any brains, if they wanted to shake up the broadcasts, they would have had Ross do play-by-play and Rick do color. I think it would have worked very well. But the McCourts would prefer to blow up the place, so ....

Stan from Tacoma

I am mistified what anyone sees in Steiner. His interviews are all over the place as are his play by play calls. Much of the time I have no idea what he driving at in his commentary.

Stan from Tacoma

I don't know or what "bejeezus" is, but it's been scared out of me.

Lulu.com leaves a lot to be desired however. It seemed that every time my screen was updated either the quantity ordered would change or the shipping method would change to a more expensive one. I had to be very careful that I got exactly what I wanted ordered. Maybe it had something to do with my using Firefox, but I'd be curious if anyone else noticed that kind of thing.

Marty, I'm sorry about the problems you've been having.

Steiner is the Charlie Rose of baseball broadcasters. Smart, talented, but way too much in love with the sound of his own voice, and way too convinced we give two $&!+s about what he thinks.

Stan from Tacoma

Stan from Tacoma

Good luck with the venture Jon. I hope some of your colleagues give you a good shout out for this, as I know you would for them.

Maybe the book should be available elsewhere for the computer challenged. You could call the non internet version the Ned Colletti edition.

Stan from Tacoma

Call me a something, but I am surprised that the paper would use the word butt in a headline w/o real neeed.

Let alone that they concluded this was a piece they needed to pick up off the wire.

http://tinyurl.com/cyqm8

I wonder what malmsey tasted like (without George, of course).

I did notice, while I was testing out the site this morning, that each time I clicked on the "Buy Now" link, it was increasing the quanity in my shopping cart - which makes sense although it wasn't what I intended. So something similar to that might have been going on with a couple of you.

Anyway, I'll try to get some answers. Thanks for your patience.

I can't believe Tracy had (Insert name here) bunt!

over and over and over and over.

But I thought it would have too much of a "Shining" feel to it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2240207

I have read for over 2 years but hardly comment -- this deserves a comment!

Congratulations on this great achievement, you are a terrific writer to read and an inspiration to not only Dodger fans but also to those who aspire to write as well. Great job on the book and hope the road to DTII grows even wider as the days go by.