Did Tom Freston really lose in 2006?

Market Watch's Shawn Langlois runs down his picks of the year's Winners and Losers. Though we do agree with his picks for winners, we kinda disagree with Tom Freston being placed on the loser's list. Yeah he got canned for losing out on the Myspace deal but we still believe Viacom Grandpa Sumner Redstone had something to do with the company missing that bus. Freston in our eyes is a winner. Come on, the guy walked away with a shit load of cash. If you ask us he is one of the biggest winners in 2006. Why? Like we said he got a sack of cash, and he no longer has to put up with Sumner's insecure ways. Piles of cash and pop culture éclat made 2006 a pretty good year for Borat and the YouTube guys. Hewlett-Packard's former chairwoman and the guy we know best as Kramer, however, would clearly love to take a mulligan. Winners & losers [MarketWatch]