our author tonight is eric ms. palm, he is a former suppors editor and he has appeared in esp met unto magazine, sports illustrated, also the daily review and the best american writing anthology. eric was born and raised in l.a., he has spent many hours attending games at the stadium and sitting in traffic for most of those games as many of us have. they are here tonight to present eric's book stealing home, i would like to now turn over to them and before we get to the q&a session later, we will let you know and please enjoy this. janice, eric, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> hey janice how is it going? >> your muted. >> i just want to say congratulations on the book i can't imagine what it feels li like. >> is a really good feeling i remember when the first knock came to the door and opening up and see the actual book in hardcover, it was surreal. >> i cannot imagine. >> there are some quick intros that i want to say little bit more about life and how they came together for you to write the book. >> sure, this boo