One in a million? Good. One in a hundred? Better.

Today, the industry publication CableFAX named its 100 movers and shakers of 2007. High atop the list was John Malone, the billionaire who buys and sells cable systems like he's in a fantasy league. Down towards the bottom were CableFAX's three favorite people who cover cable: the New York Post's Adam Buckman, Ted Hearn of Multichannel News and ... me!

So I came to New York for the awards ceremony, the first time they've had one in the several years they've been doing the CableFAX 100. Here's the moment when my, or should I say our, picture was flashed on the screen. (It's this picture.)

My editors agreed to send me, on the condition I come back with a strike story — and tomorrow the forecast calls for snow and sleet and temps right around freezing. Poifect!

Oh — and I was on Hardball today. Oddly enough, the producer in D.C. had no idea when he called that at that very moment, I was stepping on an airplane for New York. But I must say, it made my Hardball debut much easier sitting in the MSNBC studios not having to deal with a satellite delay.