2013 DSR RAGGIES — Worst Media Related Restaurant Disaster

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By DSR Staff
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
January 7, 2014

[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.]

Worst Media Related Restaurant Disaster

Terry Foster — Foster’s Smokehouse

It is shocking in itself this is an actual category. Compound it with the fact that the two finalists for this award come from the same radio show …. well …. it’s AMAZING.

We aren’t going to spend a lot of time rehashing the abject failure that was Foster’s Smokehouse in Fraser.

Suffice it to say, Foster spent the first few months of 2013 blabbering about his new culinary endeavor on his blog and on Twitter — spamming the imbeciles who follow this dolt for sports takes — only to refuse to address the fact on his blog that the awful joint went out of business after only 124 days.

Here is the Foster’s Smokehouse obituary the DSR published, as the New York Times didn’t deem the death of a dining establishment named after an illiterate “journalist” to be newsworthy.

Meanwhile, as late as this past Sunday, Foster was still lying about the future of this disaster of a business idea ….

That’s the latest fib “The Truth” has told a Twitter follower about the Closedhouse™ (Justin Spiro). Foster had the audacity to tell another follower that he made money. On a restaurant. That went out of business after 124 days. Because someone “bought” him out.

What a fucking pathological lunatic.

You’d think that Mike Valenti getting his face lit on fire by a waiter squirting a bottle of liqueur on a dead cow tableside would win this Raggie during a normal year, but Valenti’s “Flaming Tomahawk” wasn’t even the winner on his OWN RADIO SHOW.

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We can only imagine what Foster’s next Ralph Kramden-esque business venture will be. Just know that a Raggie will probably await that failure in 12 months.

Honorable Mention: Mike Valenti’s Flaming Tomahawk

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