TV guys (and girls) you love (and hate)

Based on the 254 of you out there who felt compelled to vote in our Daily News online poll of the best and worst TV sports anchors/reporters/personalities/talkers, a spin-off of Friday's column, FSN's Patrick O'Neal garnered the most attention -- 92 votes, 36 percent -- to win the "best" category by a landslide over FSN's Petros Papadakis (41 votes, 16 percent) and our favorite, FSN's Bill Macdonald (30 votes, 12 percent).

In the least-favorite polling, Papadakis surprisingly gathered 24 percent of the 168 votes to lead the way over KCBS' Steve Hartman and Eric Dickerson (both with 21 votes, 13 percent). O'Neal even came in fourth place with 16 votes (10 percent).

The polling will go on. How long? Who knows. We've simply declared a winner based on projections that even Wolf Blitzer could decipher.

Now, what do we infer from the data?

Papadakis, who won the online vote last week for best sports-talk show host, draws attention, positive and negative. Which is about as good as it gets -- he's on the majority of everyone's radar. It's far better than not being mentioned at all. You don't even have to get his name spelled right in print.

O'Neal supporters, and detractors (which doesn't make much sense) also got the vote out. Maybe it's based O'Neal's his sceen-stealing performance in "Wild Hogs" or his book that recently went into paperback, "The Worst Call Ever!" By the way, that's the son of Ryan O'Neal (or "Rye Bread" as Artie used to call him on the "Larry Sanders Show") with his former spouse, Rebecca DeMornay, at a 2001 movie premiere. Not for "Wild Hogs." And definitely not for "Risky Business."

As for Petros, just order a rack of lamb down at his father's Papadakis Taverna in the next few months because, as we read, the place is about to go out of business and be replaced by a Marie Callendars. Pretty random.