Evans Annotated Re-visited

[Dave Davies]

Ok. The latest stuff

There is a fix for preventing reproduction of the Annotated on disk. However, Jim has no plans to make the disk available to anyone, including the students at his one week and 5 week school. Why? Maybe he will tell me when I see him in a couple of days. Or, he won't.

He also will not make his 800 page printed manual available to anyone in the near future.

Maybe that has something to do with the re-write of OBR in the next year. I don't know.

I have the hard copy of the Annotated and I have it on my hard drive. I would love to re-produce it and give it to you, but I won't. I have too much respect for Jim Evans.

I also have Jaksa/Roder/Brinkman. I asked Evans about it and he said that it was a worthy effort by a couple of Joe's students. But!! There were enough factual errors in that document as to make it unusable. None of the Pro umpires I have talked to even acknowledge that the document even exists.

Personally, I like J/R. It is a giant case book. Go to a pro school, however. You won't hear viable/non-viable, relaxed/non-relaxed, etc., although it makes sense.

A question for Brinkman grads; Do you use J/R to explain your interps?

Now that Evans bought Brinkman out, does Jim own the rights to J/R? Does the copyright belong to Jaksa? Roder? Brinkman? Nobody? Questions I hope to have answered within the next few days. Knowing Jimmy, probably not, though.

Dave