This week was a slow sports week in terms of TOTW nominees. As Jeff02 had said, he was kind of surprised that K-Rod didn’t get the nod for pounding on his girlfriends father. Then I had chimed back about the Corey Pavin-Jim Gray story that seemed to take over the PGA Championship. I have no reason to believe that Corey Pavin would have any reason to lie about the fact that Tiger Woods would probably be a top choice for the Ryder Cup team, but Gray’s contention that Pavin had told him he’d make Wood’s a wild card pick even before the Woods played out the event seems to be a bit out of character for Pavin. Meanwhile, during a heated exchange where Gray apparently poked his finger in Pavin’s chest stating he was “going down” Lisa Pavin waved her cell phone at Gray and told him it’s all right here, meaning she recorded the entire exchange. Gray has a lot of credibility issues. I’m still having a lot of trouble with this douche bag even having a press pass after the 60 minute “LeBron Infomercial”, which he was reportedly paid 6 figures to read from a script. Better known for calling out Pete Rose in the All-Star game over cheating, Gray has had always seemed to find a way to become the story rather than report it. Gray gets an honorable mention from me this week, he’s fucking tool, has been and always will be. Hey Jim, shut the fuck up!!!

Now it may be slow, but that also doesn’t mean we aren’t surrounded by Tools, we’ve had our fair share of fans recently that have walked away with the Plunger right between the yes and this week will be no different. Bo Wyble (that name is more than fitting isn’t it?) and his girlfriend Sara Saco-Vertiz attended the Astro’s – Braves game in Houston this week and took seats along the left field corner wall, it turns out these weren’t even their seats they moved up to them. Once seated Sara tells Bo - “baby, we’re going to get hit”! Bo replies in typical male bravado, “I’ll catch it if it comes this way”. I think it’s safe to say this is the answer most guys would give, I mean let’s face it, you don’t want to let your gal think you have no sac right? Well sure enough a foul ball comes directly to towards Bo and Sara and this is where Bo can flex his muscle and impress the hell out of the little blonde cutie, but what does he do? He sure as hell doesn’t make the gallant effort we’ve seen 60 year old women make at the ball game, he darts out of the way leaving Sara all alone and the ball plunks her right in the arm. You can even see where she tells this dolt, “I told you we were going to get hit! Poor Bo…Bo knows humiliation, he also has a new moniker, “The Bailer”!

You’d think things couldn’t get much worse for Bo but you’d be wrong! The pair ended up on the Early Show with Harry Smith two days later and Bo sits there and gets ripped a new one by good ole Harry! Asked if he had a brain aneurysm at the moment when he could have been a hero, Bo just kind of sits there, sure now he stays put. At the conclusion of the interview Smith asks how they’re doing, if they’re still together, and after a few umms, and an uncomfortable glare at Bo, Sara states they’re no longer together, but it didn’t have anything to do with this event. Sure, I’ll buy that when I grow hair on my palms. It certainly didn’t help his cause any that he looked like a candy ass, you’d think from watching the video that he was in Iraq and someone had just shouted “INCOMING”!!! I’m sure that Sara was not only a little embarrassed by the event, but gave some serious thought to how much he must have cared about her being he saved his own ass and left her to fend for herself, and I can see that. As for his reaction to the foul ball, I’ve never been to a ball game or watched it on TV where fouls balls are avoided, the normal move is to go towards the ball and get the souvenir. Bo doesn’t know much about baseball either I guess.

So he lost a souvenir, he lost a chance to impress his girlfriend by catching the ball that would have basically landed in his lap and in the end he lost the girl too! But don’t fret Bo, we here at the Gab have a special place in our heart for guys with no balls whatsoever, it’s called the Tool of the Week! Here, catch!

Well shit, looks like I'll be going through the motions with this post, but it still needs to be done! It's time for you to sift through the past week's headlines and come up with a nominee for Tool of the Week. Gee I wonder who it will be? Mel Gibson comes to mind, but maybe you can do better (I'm baiting you obviously)?

Get them in and check back here on Saturday for another edition of the YGS Tool of the Week!

This could very well have been one those situations where I over-rule the nomination process and give the TOTW nod to someone I felt was more deserving, but it turns out that we all are on the same page. This was too easy, in fact I could have written this prior to Jim Gray using the script in his hand and watching the extremely poor acting job by James. What a farce this whole thing was. LeBron James is a lot of things, a money hungry scumbag and a quitter easily come to mind, but now he’s a proven liar too. For him to sit in the Boy’s and Girl’s Club where sportsmanship and life lessons are taught, he used it as backdrop to utter what was the biggest lie of lies…that he woke up that morning and it was at that time he decided it was best he go to Miami. Is this guy full of himself or what? He’s so caught up in his own hype he overlooked one thing, the nonstop coverage his own media machine had put out on the airwaves. Or the fact that the summit held in Miami a few weeks back included the very guys he’s going to play with, or the fact there was no way in hell he was going back to Cleveland, regardless what fans there thought. Yeah Lebron, I was completely shocked by your decision to go to Miami, I really felt for weeks’ now you were staying in Cleveland. The only people thinking he was going back to Cleveland were the season ticket holders who now are holding tickets to 41 games they have no desire to use now nor could they give them away.

As I said to Beeze last night, the icing on the cake wasn’t the live decision that he wasn’t going back to the Cavs, if he was staying there he would’ve done his press conference at half court of the Quicken Loans Arena, not a neutral site where they don’t even have pro basketball, or a pro team of any nature to begin with. However, it is a stone’s throw away from Bristol, HQ of ESPiN who has been a non-stop, 24 hour ad agency that most companies have to pay through the ass to get. What does a Super Bowl 30 second spot run for now? Think about how much time they spent on James and it’ll tell you how much he saved, or rather duped out of that organization. And what’s with an hour special prior to the announcement? Is there that little going on in the world of sports that it warranted giving James virtually an entire evening of coverage on their flagship station? All this network did was feed this beast’s ego more, if that was even possible. Just when we thought we’ve seen it all with the likes of Brett Favre and his never ending waffling and holding team’s hostage, James has taken it to a whole new level and now the possibilities are endless when the next egomaniac has to reach some sort of decision on his or her future.

As this soap opera, “As the Stomach Turns” progressed, the Cavaliers weren’t going to sit idly by and let James keep the spotlight without getting in their parting shot. I’ll give Dan Gilbert an A for effort and another for having the berries to say what most have danced around. Although I think he’s overly optimistic guaranteeing Cleveland fans they’ll win a championship there before James does in Miami. What does he know that we don’t? But that letter buried James in every sense of the word, even more so since it wasn’t written by someone in the media but his former boss. I’ve read it about 5 times because of the ire you can feel by Gilbert while penning it, and rest assured, no staffer typed that up, that was spoken from the heart of a man who gave a teen everything only to have it thrown back in his face. The hometown boy has gone bad, become more than greedy,  now he’s also put himself in a situation where he has no room for error. He may be basking in the glow of the spotlight now, but if Miami  doesn’t win a championship next year all the critics, including his ass-kisser’s at ESPiN will have no choice but to ask what went wrong, this was supposed to be a lock, then again it was supposed to be a lock this season too. Will it be a locker room tiff, will one ego get in the way of another? Will Dwayne Wade get sick of playing second fiddle to the newcomer’s? There’s potential for disaster when you put this many ego’s together in one place, especially on a basketball team. Until James wins a championship he’s going to be dogged by this move. Unlike Dan Marino and Jim Kelly, both who never won championships and still hear about it to this day, both remain class acts who went down with their ships from the start of their career’s to the day they retired. James won’t have that if he wins it in Miami, he’ll be dogged for going to where his chances improved, something Kobe didn’t have to do nor Michael Jordan. That’s why I believe it’s not the championship, it’s the money for James that’s enticing. What will happen to his relationship with the Heat if he wins in the next year or two, what will be left, he’ll have nothing left to ask for but even more money, and of course more TV time!

Without further ado I give you the YGS Tool of the Week - LeBron James!

Sorry I'm late getting this posted folks, it's been a little crazy around here the last few days. It's time once again for you to nominate your candidate for TOTW! I have a feeling this week's nominee could be the first of it's kind - UNANIMOUS! But then again you've all surprised me before so what's to stop you from doing it again right?

I'll let the nominating go until 6 pm tomorrow and post the winner for TOTW some time in the even Saturday since I normally would have posted this two days in advance.

Have a great weekend everyone! Now I'll get back to watching the quarter size hail bounce off of my neighbor's cars....the idiots all have two car garages but instead they leave their BMW's and Escalade's in the driveway! Brilliant!!!!

It’s become almost customary to open up a newspaper and read a headline of an NFL player being arrested for some sort of mishap, usually brought on by poor judgment and their upbringing. We all know that you can take the kid out of the hood but you can’t take the hood out of the kid. Alan Iverson for one, he had his troubles in Hampton Virginia and did jail time after being found guilty of assault on a woman with a chair in a bowling alley. We’ve seen Ray Carruth sentenced to life in prison for the hit placed on his wife and unborn child because he didn’t want to pay alimony. I could go on and put up a 5,000 word essay just on arrest and convictions of NFL players but you get the picture.

Michael Vick is probably the most notorious of the current NFL class. His conviction on federal racketeering and dog fighting charges got him time in the federal pokey and when he emerged from behind bars told us all he was a changed man, that he had made many bad choices and he’s now seen the error of his ways and he told us he’d find a way to make amends by his actions so he could garner the trust of the fans. Well he’s been out of prison now about a year, and once again he has made his way into the headlines, and it’s apparent his initial statements are now under some scrutiny. Instead of having been away from the night club where his birthday party was going on prior to a shooting, it turns out from video that he may have lied, and done so while on probation. I don’t know the exact terms of this probation, but I do know that it generally includes no contact with police or known felons, and, it usually says that you are not to go into establishments where alcohol is served. Now, could you tell me that this night club was free of ex-cons or parolees and booze? Didn’t think so!

When he was released from prison I wrote that it wouldn’t be long before we heard Vick was involved in some off-field skirmish, and so I take great pride in being right…as if it was a stretch to get that prediction correct. What we’ll obvious see from the Commissioner Goodell, the king of multiple chances, the prince of forgiveness, the master of looking out for the owners and the bottom line is absolutely nothing. What’s the most Vick would get if he was to be found having lied to the police, a 3 game suspension and some counseling followed by another heartfelt press conference stating how he’s seen the light and the error of his ways, AGAIN? That’s been the trend hasn’t it? It makes it all better and why shouldn’t it? The fans never seem to tire of it, the NFL continuously gives passes to these scumbags and the stadiums where they play still fill-up and they are cheered when they run on the field. How quickly they forget.

Well I’m here to tell you that those who are members of the Gab are not a very forgiving bunch, we’re sick of the bullshit, we’re tired of over-paid crybabies who will do whatever they can to increase their bottom line while going through life thinking the rules don’t apply to them. Vick, who had plenty of time to pump iron and of course find his Lord and Savior, has again found himself in hot water, and maybe he likes it, it’s possible like many of his brethren he’s institutionalized, perhaps he found out Robert Braddy from Dimesports occupies the cell he used to have and wants to go back and talk about the old days when they gambled and bilked people out of their money.

 So until his probation officer files for a violation and returns him back to where he belongs in the first place I’ve got my job to do, and that’s to speak for those who nominated him in the first place…so without much further ado I present Michael Vick this week’s Gold Plunger by Binford as our Tool of the Week! No, don’t come up to the podium Michael, we’ll mail it to you, my dog is here and even though I can’t stand the little bastard I’m the only one who can hit the remote to zap him with his electric collar. So don’t even think about it, and good luck in prison!

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