I've Been Nominated for Yet Another Huge Award

Once again, I've been nominated for yet another huge award.

I leave for Nashville tomorrow morning, where I'll be whisked from the airport aboard a Gray Line bus to some hotel.  And on Sunday, there will be a big lunch thing, and at that lunch thing, they will announce the Echo Awards "Radio Personality of the Year".

This latest honor would follow a string of awards:

1)  "Mr. Hustle" -- Assumption, Illinois Little League, 1982

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So it's kind of embarrassing, but it's like every time I turn around it's, "Oh, here's another award."

"Mr. Hustle", and now, 26 years later, wham! -- another one.  As before noted, I played eight years of baseball, and batted .000 for my entire career.  Eight years.  Let me tell you, it's not easy to "hustle" when you don't actually leave the batter's box.  You have a very confined area in which to "hustle".  I suppose I did deserve an award, for hustling within a 3 x 7 foot box.

I don't expect to win.  I'm one of five nominees in my category, and the whole thing is kind of mysterious.  I know only this:  Whoever nominates hasn't actually heard me on the radio.

I'll let you know how it goes.  These award things are silly, really!  They just are.  Silliness!  And I don't think our medium should be about "competing" when we should be all about the Kingdom, so, just, you know, keep me in mind this weekend, that's all, and pray that my opponents will be humbled, brought to their knees, awestruck by my acceptance speech, paralyzed with crippling jealousy, and that everyone just has a good time of fellowship.

 

Comments

[Shaun Groves]

Is mocking yourself continuously not just another form of pride? I mean, I don't know. Don't listen to me. I'm an idiot.

Carry on.

[Jen]

will do.

[Texas in Africa]

You should go have lunch at Puckett's Grocery in downtown Franklin. It's yummy, and I bet the wait staff would help you with your acceptance speech. They're pretty nice.

[Jon]

"I want to thank God..."

[kim]

ok, I have to stop reading your blog in settings where laughing out loud is inappropriate.

[Brant]

CLARIFICATION: Just a note about the last paragraph. I don't want to give anyone the wrong idea about my competitors.

All I meant to say was that I hope for the best for them, I'm sure they're "great people", and God bless them, and may their children, and their children's children, and may all the generations following them cry out in utter humiliation; may those who follow them live lives of smoldering desolation; may my Victory be so complete, so total, that a thousand generations -- the very fruit of my competitors' loins! -- cry out, vainly pleading, awash in timeless regret, unrelenting as the very turning of this terrestrial ball, as they ceaselessly remember this very day, this day that the award was giv'n.

Just wanted to clear that up.

[TomTom]

I don't know, it doesn't sound like you really want this. I guess all the successes of the past have jaded you.

[Dwain]

Brant - your last comment just made me think:

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

So now all you need to do is prance around on stage in a furry leather loincloth. You'd have it locked up right there at your intro.

Oh wait, this is for RADIO, right... So there's probably some reason you work in radio. So, um, strike that last thought, please.

[amy]

what "category" is it again?

[Steve Oberg]

They must have really liked your totally a'capella Casting Crowns ad. That's what pushed them over the edge and made them think you were Echo-worthy.

[Kato]

Don't you think you could throw your opponents a bone, in the spirit of brotherhood? Would it kill you to remind them that *even Moses* was a terrible speaker?

[jimbo]

You drink their milkshake!
You drink it up!!

Sorry. Low-hanging fruit, I know, but someone had to throw that out there.

[Bob Sacamento]

Dwain, for what it's worth, I was thinking about putting in the same Conan quote. But I was afraid Brant's head was getting plenty big enough already. Antway, it's shocking to realize there's actually someone else out there who would remember the same quote in the same context. I thought maybe you would be shocked too.

[Grub]

Thanks for the laugh, Brant...I mean '3X7'...that's better than cable TV. Seriously, though, you made beer shoot out my nose.

[Da Bears Fan]

Gee Em Ah......

If they gave one to Jayar, they will give one to anyone I guess. Seriously, having listened since day one, you are one of the best. When you get home I'll buy your award at Starbucks!

[Steve_11]

Brant, I notice that despite your spite towards Casting Crowns, you and yours "presented" them in concert in downtown Nashville. I hope they did not kick you off the stage, to the curb, so to speak.

Did you get a chance to sit in on the "Air Talent" seminar, you know, just for fun?

If you get a chance, wander the Gaylord Hotel - it is an awesome human endeavor.

And who, by the way, won the Major Market Station of the Year Award (again)??

The award Brant so eagerly seeks to validate his being and self-worth is "GMA 2008 RADIO ECHO AWARD", the catagory is "Air Personality of the Year – Markets 26-100". Up against the formidable "Wake Up with Joe & Shannon" out in Visalia, CA.

Your former airmate Donna is up agains my favorites Mike and Susan for the Markets 1-25, otherwise known as the big boys market.

Good luck my friend.

[From Brant: Thanks. I won. I feel...awkward...after the smack-talk now. I just didn't think I had a chance.

I'll send you an email about the other stuff you mentioned there. Irony abounds.]

[Steve_11]

Brant....Winner....
Those two words blend together so seamlessly.

Mucho congratos.

So now we know they give awards for "blah blah", but the important question is: Do they give any awards for blogging?

I LOVE irony, or at least the paradoxical incongruities of satirical sarcasm. Is there an acronym for that?