We’re not listed because we received Honorable Honorable Mention … or, maybe not

December 27th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanE

SI.com columnist Richard Deitsch has released, to great howling and gnashing of teeth, his 2006 Media Awards. Most of the selections are completely agreeable. For example, Chris Fowler and James Brown took home Person(s) of the Year, Troy Aikman won best football analyst, Dan Shulman won best play-by-play, John Harkes best newcomer, and so on and so forth. A totally reasonable batch of names, if you ask me.

Unfortunately, Deitsch takes all of this reasoned argument, all this accurate observation, and tosses it out the window by including one name:

BEST ANALYST: Troy Aikman, Fox Sports…

Honorable mention: Jaworksi (ESPN), Tim McCarver (Fox)

Yes, the italics are mine. Tim McCarver!? Really? Let’s let FireJoeMorgan handle that one, huh?

Hey, speaking of FireJoeMorgan, guess who won the award for best noncorporate web site? That’s right; those sardonic, hilarious, intelligent gents tore it up this year, much of their ire directed toward their namesake, Mike Celizic of MSNBC.com, and … Tim McCarver. The fact that they were honored by a sportswriter … in a subjective column … alongside TIM MCCARVER has to be absolutely eating them up. Anyway, congratulations are due. Bastards.

(Also, congrats are due to our buddies over at The Big Lead for an honorable mention. Those guys seduced sportswriter after sportswriter into insightful interview after insightful interview, including Jason Whitlock, and, well, you all know how that went.)

We’re, um, nowhere near this list, we assume. Which is OK, because R and I can continue to use the us-against-the-world angle to motivate us to really hit the keyboards hard in the coming year. 2007 awards - here we come!