By DSR Staff
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
December 28, 2013
[Editor’s Note: After a one-year hiatus, the DSR has revived our year-end awards given out to the Detroit Media. Instead of one long article presenting all of the recipients at once, we will be rolling these out over the next few days. And yes, the Raggie Trophy is a Detroit snow globe, a “Made in Detroit” coffee cozy and one of Moss’s wife’s unused tampons.]
Best Local Media Twitter Account
Tony Paul — The Detroit News
Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) didn’t win the Best Local Media Twitter Account Raggie because he has constantly hammered the Tigers this fall and winter regarding their awful offseason moves.
Paul didn’t clinch this honor because he is the ONLY baseball writer in Detroit who has constantly Tweeted out the obvious …. That the Tigers are making moves to reduce their payroll.
Paul isn’t getting this trophy because he is the only Detroit scribe who will openly admit on Twitter that it is embarrassing that the Tigers media members continually are beaten to breaking news by radio producers and zit-faced high school kids.
Tony Paul isn’t getting this accolade because almost everyone else in Detroit is HOLOCAUST-LEVEL awful on the Twat Box.
Tony didn’t edge out his News co-worker John Niyo because Moss discovered on Sunday that Niyo has stopped following Moss on Twitter. (The decision had been
rendered before the committee made that extremely upsetting discovery, and Niyo just doesn’t Tweet enough to really earn this Raggie.)
Paul didn’t even earn this prestigious prize due to this recent exchange with Not the Sharpest Drew:
@drewsharp That’s absurd.
— Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) December 23, 2013
Although, that was pretty great. We aren’t sure if Paul went to the Harvey and Bob Weinstein School of Winning Awards At All Costs, but this epic blast aimed at DSR Public Enemy #1 Ryan Ermanni was worthy of just as much hardware as was garnered by “Shakespeare in Love.”
@RyanErmanniFox2 with the worst name-drop of all-time today. Said he texted Shane Morris, who responded, “Thanks.” Wow.
— Tony Paul (@TonyPaul1984) December 26, 2013
The DSR Raggie Committee would like to collectively give Tweetalingus to that dagger.
Paul is this year’s recipient of the Best Local Media Twitter account because he isn’t afraid to tell the truth — even when it isn’t convenient — and he is willing to call out his brethren for their own bullshit.
If you aren’t following him, you should be.
Honorable Mention: John Niyo and Lynn Henning (For Henning’s Political Tweets ONLY).
Best Sports Talk Radio Show — “The Discussion” with Matt Dery
Worst Sports Talk Radio Show — “The Drew Lane Show”
Best Local TV Anchor — Lindsey Hayes — Fox Sports Detroit
Best Media Twitter Account — Tony Paul — @TonyPaul1984
Worst Media Twitter Account — TIE (@TerryFoster971 and @VGoodwill)
Worst Article/Column of the Year — Pat Caputo — Oakland Press
Best Article/Column of the Year — John Niyo — Detroit News
Best TV Broadcast Team – George Blaha and Greg Kelser — Fox Sports Detroit
Worst TV Broadcast Team – Mario Impemba and Rod Allen — Fox Sports Detroit
Best Radio Broadcast Team – Dan Miller and Jim Brandstatter — 97.1
Worst Radio Broadcast Team – Dan Dickerson and Jim Price — 97.1 Best Beat Writer – David Mayo — MLive.com
Worst Beat Writer – John Lowe — Detroit Free Press
Worst Columnist – Jeff Seidel — Detroit Free Press
Worst Media-Related Restaurant Disaster – Coming Soon
The Jamie Samuelsen Award – Jamie Samuelsen — 97.1 and Detroit Free Press
Craig Monroe Memorial Award — Bill Shea — Crain’s Detroit
Best Columnist – John Niyo — Detroit News