2012 SJ.com Awards: Voting closed

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

Did you bring your card verifying your inability to fill out a ballot because of a physical handicap?

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

Thank you, Dobby!

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

Couple things...

We've got to figure out a way to hashtag, file or otherwise mark POY candidates throughout the year. Perhaps with a %POY or a ^POY .... because I've spent the last 24 hours off-and-on going thru threads looking for POY. I've read just about everything Azreal and Double Down have posted in the past year, for example. I can't do this anymore! ;D

Secondly, since we are a journalism website, I think we need a Journalism-y category. "Best Pull" or some such. Boom tends to dominate this category, but poindexter "gathered his inner Sara Ganim" (his words) and made a pull so great that I've had to consider it for Post of the Year. I'm referring of course to digging up a freq post which claimed his wife bugged him for sex constantly after he went on Levitra-- followed by another post in which freq claimed the only reason he cheats on his wife is that she won't give him sex. Tip o' the cap to our man poin. He's not just about female teachers having sex with underage boys.

But those are things to consider for future years.

My picks:

All SJ:
Dools
Bubbler
Ace
Double Down
Care Bear

Smartest: It's tough because we have so many smart folk. Gonna go with franticscribe for some exceptional posting in the legal realm.

Funniest: Buck

Master Debater: Norrin

Best Canadian: typefitter

Best Moderator: Moddy

Best Feud: Piotr/shotty

Best Troll: freq

Best Newcomer: Amy

Thread of the Year: Posnanski

Post of the Year: Need to explain. I love Jones. And Boom riles me. However, if Jones will allow himself to be teased a bit, and if we can laugh a bit at ourselves.... This, for me, was the funniest post of the year:

Running joke/meme: "She's a 6."

spnited Award: Starman
SF_Express Award: Dangerously

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

I like this idea. Maybe POY13 for next year.

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

Does laziness count?

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

I feel like I had a Pujols-in-an-Angels-uniform kind of year. Solid, but not up to my usual standards. I was a tough out during the Penn State threads, but ultimate it was just a couple hot months. The media speculated I was really pressing during the Posnanski thread. It lacked the transcendent moments of previous seasons.

/punches self in the face

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

All-SportsJournalists.com First Team: (pick five)
People whose posts I enjoy, and who never leave me shaking my head or wondering what the heck they're babbling about:

imjustagirl
Bubbler
Lugnuts
21
Webster

Smartest Poster: Alma
Funniest Poster: Starman
Master Debater: Dick Whitman
Best Canadian: N/A . . . HC, I guess
Best Moderator: Elliotte Friedman
Best Feud: Penn State defenders vs. Common Sense and decency, Petty vs. 3OctaveFart
Best Troll: zagoshe
Best Newcomer: (registered in 2011 or 2012): Some Sock Puppet or another. Are there really any "newcomers"?
Thread of the Year: (deleted threads are ineligible) THE POLITICS THREAD. Wall-to-wall entertainment.
Post of the Year: (must be a single post, so be specific; deleted posts are ineligible): I'll second the one Lugnuts posted, but my personal favorite is the one in my sig, courtesy of typefitter losing his mind in response to me Piotr Rasputin.
Running Joke/Meme of the Year: No meme will ever match the "Big Lead/bloggers as Muppets" meme. Name the award after it, and retire the award.

And, finally, two lifetime achievement awards, to the posters who best represented the values of the namesakes ...

The Ron "spnited" Drogo Memorial Award: BYH
The Craig "SF_Express" Stanke Memorial Award: Moderator1

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

All-SportsJournalists.com First Team: (pick five)

IJAG
Double Down
Dooley
RickStain
Lugs

Smartest Poster: 21
Funniest Poster: Versatile
Master Debater: Ragu
Best Ginger Canadian: HC
Best Moderator: Moderator1
Best Feud: Dick Whitman vs sentimental holidays (I did love that Valentine's Day thread)
Best Troll: Ryan Sonner
Best Newcomer: (registered in 2011 or 2012): Amy
Thread of the Year: (deleted threads are ineligible): Were all the Penn State threads deleted? Can I just go with one of them?
Post of the Year: (must be a single post, so be specific; deleted posts are ineligible): The best ones got deleted. Fuck. I'll go with "Compuserve."
Running joke/meme: Gotta go with my boy TV and his Kate Upton Weight Watcher's recommendation

And, finally, two lifetime achievement awards, to the posters who best represented the values of the namesakes ...

The Ron "spnited" Drogo Memorial Award: BYH
The Craig "SF_Express" Stanke Memorial Award: Johnny Dangerously

(I obviously would like to nominate YGBFKM for "Husband of the Year." I think he might be Mormon, so there are surely some lucky ladies out there)

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

I'm within one letter of Mormon.

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

Again, if you don't message your vote to this account, it won't count.

 

Re: Your 2012 SportsJournalists.com Awards Ballot/Official Thread

So the only box you're going to be near this holiday season is one you have to UNstuff? Is that right, Versatile?

 

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Bump (please sticky this thread).