Play-by-play reader vote: Arbo wins!
When people tell you Vin Scully is the best play-by-play man in Southern California, you can tell them Pete Arbogast is No. 1, too -- so how do you do! Stick it right there!
If the readers' vote in the best and worst play-by-play man proved anything, it's that a) Scully rules and b) Arbogast ... does too.
He pulled off the most votes in the "worst" list -- 51 of 148 total, for 34 percent, with the Lakers' Joel Meyers a respectable second (28 votes, 19 percent) through Thursday morning.
Arbogast finished third on the "best" list, it can be noted. Scully was first with more than half of the 242 votes (127, 52 percent), and the Kings' Bob Miller was second (26 votes, 11 percent), just squeezing past Arbogast (24 votes, 10 percent).
Since my list came out last week, we've dealt with several pro- and con-Arbo emailings.
Such as this pro-Arbogast reader comment:
Since a whole host of USC alumni consider Pete Arbogast's commentary on college football to be virtually unimpeachable, your castigation on Friday's "Sounding Off" seemed to have the flavor of personal rancor. But since I find your Saturday flood of humorless cryptic epithets consistently confounding, perhaps our point of disagreement is simply a language problem.
We won't reveal the name of the writer because Arbogast will probably want to keep using the psudenym in future emailings.
As for calling someone unimpeachable ... maybe it's a language problem, but wasn't Richard Nixon at one time unimpeachable?
Then there's this not-so-pro Arbogast reader comment:
I was intrigued by your classification of Pete Arrogant (sp?). I came to know him through membership in a local chorus. His initial participation was warmly welcomed due to his nice singing voice, and the fact that he sang on key! Shortly thereafter, he left to become The Voice Of The Bengals (?) and there was a big sigh of relief! You can fill in the blanks; it didn't take long. I offer this background merely to reinforce your representation of him.
So how do YOU do?!?
Again, if you have the chance, read his self-written Wikipedia entry. It's more laughs than a Family Circus cartoon.
Comments
Arbogast is such the loser.
Posted by: USC_89
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March 7, 2008 12:56 PM