VIN SCULLY: Dodgers TV, Prime Ticket, Channel 9, 790-AM radio

Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski started a 4,065-word profile last September by noting when Scully first came to L.A. as a 30-year-old to broadcast Dodgers baseball in 1958, "he worried because he could not find the essence of the city." Posnanski finished the piece with this: "His greatness does not come from the legendary calls, the ones everyone remembers. No, they come from summer nights like tonight, under a dimming sky, when he kindly calls another baseball game. It is 9:46. p.m. in the City of Angels, Los Angeles, California, and traffic is stuck, and tourists mill around, and deals are being made, and deals are falling apart, and people are sleeping, and people are suffering, and actors are waiting tables, and, yes, after all this time Vin Scully did find the essence, the center, the heart of the city, even if he would never say it. The heart of Los Angeles is his voice."

BOB MILLER: Kings TV, FSN West

A much-deserving honor to be enshrined into the California Sports Hall of Fame later this month.

JAIME JARRIN: Dodgers Spanish-language radio, 930-AM

Nothing lost in translation here: He's (italic)simplemente el mejor.(end italic)
THE TOP 10

1. SPERO DEDES: Lakers radio, 570-AM

When his contract comes up in a couple of months, the Lakers should do the right thing: Invest in the city's future by making him the permanent TV voice, with the stipulation that he moves to radio when a network takes custody of a game in the regular season and throughout the playoffs.

2. NICK NICKSON: Kings radio, 1150-AM

Thirty seasons with the team covering more than 2,500 broadcasts, the broadcast booth named after him ... when does he move into that Hall of Fame wing?

3. RALPH LAWLER: Clippers TV, Prime Ticket

At last, "Oh me, oh my!" has some context with Blake Griffin. We'll even consider fastening our seat belt.

4. BILL MACDONALD: College basketball and football TV, FSN West/Prime Ticket

Why wouldn't the Lakers consider him a regular radio play-by-play man if Dedes goes to TV?

5. VICTOR ROJAS: Angels TV, FSW/KCOP

We get the feeling Rory Markas would approve. As do we.

6. JEFF LASKY: Lancaster JetHawks radio

Good things will come for those whose career currently is a loop between Bozeman, Montana and the Antelope Valley Freeway.

7. CHRIS FISHER: USC basketball radio, 710-AM

USC director of broadcast operations Ann Beebe agrees Fisher "runs a nicely paced broadcast, with excellent and sometimes humorous exchanges with colorman Jim Hefner, and pushes through adversity" as he did during the recent road trip to Arizona because of illness.

8. JIM WATSON: Galaxy TV, FSW/Prime Ticket

It's either perseverance or having too much fun. Watty went to five junior colleges, the University of Hawaii and finally graduated nine years later from USC.

9. CHARLEY STEINER: Dodgers radio. 790-AM

Keep us engaged in the conversation, and we'll laugh right along with you.

10. PAUL SUNDERLAND: College basketball TV, Prime Ticket/FSW

Continues to add class and a comfortable voice to any assignment he's given.

Honorable mention: David Caldwell, CSUN basketball and baseball; Allen Hopkins and Patrick O'Neal, college basketball TV; Brian Seimen, Clippers radio; Larry Burnett, Sparks TV; Randy Rosenbloom, high school sports TV; Chris Roberts, UCLA football and basketball radio; Chris McGee, high school football, Prime Ticket; Tom Kelly, high school football Internet; Al Epstein, Pepperdine sports; Steve Carroll and John Ahlers, Ducks radio and TV.
THE BOTTOM 5

1. THE USUAL SUSPECTS

In the spirit of eliminating divisive rhetoric, and having already critiqued their shortcomings to the fullest extents of the laws of nature, hoping they may change for the better but finally giving up any hope of that, our solution now would be to put Meyers, Smith and Collins aboard one of the free mattresses Arbogast hopefully got in an endorsement deal and watch them have one giant pillow fight over superiority in this category. They can eachtake turns doing the play-by-play.