Arbogast loses again
After a long and arduous process, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association has announced that the Dodgers' Vin Scully is the recipient of its California Sportscaster of the Year for the fourth year in a row and a record 28th time since they began voting on such things in 1959.
Scully, about to start his 58th season with the Dodgers, won the organization's national award three times (the last in 1982) and went into its Hall of Fame in 1991.
“I am humbled to be recognized once again by an esteemed organization like the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association,” said Scully in a statement through the Dodgers. "To be honored in this fashion is truly something special.”
So let's check the scoreboard for 2007: Scully has won the lifetime achievement award by the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California, which annually gives out the Golden Mikes, and was voted best radio play-by-play and best TV play-by-play by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association.
No reaction from Pete Arbogast? Didn't think so.
CBS Sports’ Verne Lundquist has been elected for induction into the NSSA Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Salisbury, N.C. on April 30.
Comments
Well deserved!
Posted by: Ned Fargo | February 13, 2007 03:56 PM
Ahhhh, nice to know everything is back to normal b/t you and pete. sniping at its best
Posted by: Matt | February 13, 2007 04:08 PM
I believe Paul McDonald, Arbo's color man, won the best analyst award for like the fourth time at the same event and you just ranked him dead last (except for honorable mention Jack Hayley) in your analyst ranking column. I recently had dinner with Pete at a restaurant in Dana Point and he spent a half hour talking SC sports with a USC fan who just came over to say "hi". He is a great guy. Couldn't you have written "Jarrin loses again" or "Markus loses again" as well. Scully is the grestest sportscaster of all time. It would be like you losing to Jim Murray or Grantland Rice again and again. Although, not exactly, since I doubt your name would come up in that company.
Posted by: Billy Baroo | February 19, 2007 10:44 AM