Time again for you Gabber's to give some thought to who it is that's deserving to be the TOTW. Leave your nomination below for consideration!

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When a lot of us were growing up and playing in organized and high school sports many of us started out by playing pick-up games in our driveways, for me it was hockey and like my friends we wore the jerseys of our heroes and emulated what they did on the ice. I think it’s safe to say that any pro athlete probably at one time or another had a ball in their grasp and ran in out of defenders while narrating to themselves that it was 3^rd down with the game tied and the clock winding down with just  a few seconds on the clock and their target was an end zone to win the Super Bowl, or at bat there were 2 outs, bases loaded and their team down by 3 in the ninth. Having relived this scenario over and over a select few found themselves in this situation only now with a professional team.

Billy Cundiff and Kyle Williams I’m sure had visions of winning the big one, just waiting when their number was called and suddenly it was time to live that scenario in real life. For Billy Cundiff, a place kicker for the Baltimore Ravens was asked to do something that for most from 32 yards was something he clearly exceeded during pre-game warm-ups but coach Harbaugh didn’t want to take the chance of putting Cundiff in a long FG situation so Joe Flacco moved the ball down field putting Cundiff in a virtual gimme FG from 32 yards away to send the game into OT. What did Cundiff do, he missed wide right, and when I say WIDE I mean he wasn’t even remotely close, he missed it miserably. Some blame Lee Evans for no catching that pass in the end zone while in coverage to simply end the game, but the video clearly showed the ball was stripped no sooner than it went into his grasp and he did not get his second foot down. So Cudiff, vying for the tie wasn’t able to deliver by doing the one job he was paid to do and paid handsomely to boot (no pun intended).  

As I’ve said in previous comments this week, watching HBO Hard Knocks over the last few seasons the place kickers are only considered second class citizens, not required to study play books, they spend a minimum time in the weight room and during games they wait and wait for the chance to kick an extra point or a FG from as much as 50 yards. At 32 yards this was a no brainer or as so the entire planet had thought. He later claimed of chaos on the sidelines when the scoreboard had shown it was third down and when going into kick the FG he said the chaos was still making them hurry. If this was his only excuse it’s not really an excuse being he only had to call a timeout, Belichick saw this chaos and like most great coaches who ice kickers he felt that this very chaos was best left for the Ravens to deal with and they stood pat. The snap was good, the ball threads were rotated and the next thing you know it was so wide left it became a sideline souvenir!

Kyle Williams, who most feel deserves the tag team nod for this week’s Gold Plunger, I hear you and for his inability to carry a football on a professional level to keep it from being yanked away in the same fashion a homeless person would yank away a loaf of day old French bread, I have no problem whatsoever to give him the honorable mention here. But in the grand scheme of things Cundiff blew the low percentage boot, Williams was stripped by his inability to remember the basic fundamentals on tucking the ball to his chest, not juggling it from hand to hand as he tried to avoid the defense from bringing him down and trying to get the ball out o his hands late in the game.

Both of these guys cost their teams big, and in the locker room the politically correct statements were flying around on how it was a team loss, but the facial expressions on the sidelines for both the Ravens and the 49ers not to mention their fandom were worth a 1,000 words…What they said in front of a microphone I'm sure was not was said when they spoke to each other in small groups...with the game close to being in the bag for the 49ers I find it tough to believe they're all fine with carrying around the label of a team loss.

The Gab is sending Stickum to Williams to aid him in keeping the ball in his hands and Cundiff wll be getting a GPS used on measuring the distance for drives and shots on the golf course, this just might help with him lining up shots from here on out when he finds himself in the CFL kicking FG’s and kickoffs for the Toronto Argonauts or one of those other Canadian teams that tend to fill their rosters with the NFL’s has-beens!

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Okay, TOTW nomination time Gabber's...but honestly I'm really going through the motions here. I smell another  Dynamic Duo split! Whaddaya think?

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I don’t think there’s much argument who the TOTW is this week, not when this particular Tool forgot the very first rule of captaining a boat and that is, the captain goes down with the ship…or as Bill Maher said Friday night, “I’m not saying the guy should have gone down with the ship, but he at least should have gotten wet”!!! Yeah Bill, you’re right. Instead he tripped and fell into a life boat…how convenient.

There are a lot of things wrong with this story, like what the hell Captain Francesco Schettino was thinking  when he moved the 1,000 foot ship so close to the coast of the island of Giglio, Italy? The story we’ve heard was he was bringing it in closer for crew member’s to wave to friends and family…that makes it right, let’s risk over 4,200 lives because we want to show off. And he also claims that the rocks that tore a tennis court size hole in the hull of the ship weren’t on his charts. That comment is coming back to bite him in the ass, because not only have they been shown on charts, CNN put up a satellite photo that clearly showed these same rocks. I’m no expert but if you can see rocks from space I’m willing to bet you can see them from the bridge of a cruise ship.

It’s not going to matter what defense Schettino uses, his actions of leaving the bridge and having to be ordered back to the crippled vessel by a coast guard official where Schettino’s ire was drawn because he wasn’t being called CAPTAIN, demonstrate just how much this guy should probably never have been at the helm of this ship to begin with. He broke virtually every rule of seamanship and these actions are going to bring numerous lawsuits on Carnival and undoubtedly a long jail sentence for our newly crowned TOOL OF THE WEEK!

The Tag Team partner for our TOTW is my former roommate who just so happens to be trying to push my buttons. He thinks he’s a really creative smart ass too, like by signing up for the Gab twice in less than 45 minutes under 2 different accounts and placing comments in a few blogs. What made it easy to know it was him was we’re able to tell where it is people signup from, we see IP addresses and that IP address is now locked from joining. Let me tell you a few things about this loser, I think you all are probably going to think most of this is untrue but it is balls-on accurate.

One night we’re drinking a couple of beers and he says, I’d probably need to drink at least another six pack before I’d normally tell anyone this, but I haven’t been laid in a really long time. Let me make one thing clear, I NEVER ASKED, he just tossed that out there. It turns out that a really long time is over 10 years and this includes paying for it. This guy is such a loser he actually went into Barnes and Noble and purchased those “How to Pick Up Women” books, he has 3-4 in plain view in the living room. Imagine the looks that got him at the checkout line. His nephew who used to live with him and is about 15 years his junior was one of three friends he had including me and this other tool from NY, but in less than two months all three of us stopped having any association with him whatsoever. His nephew wants nothing to do with him, and the other guy reported him to the Dallas Ga. PD for sending him text messages stating he was going to shoot the black neighbor if he even so much as stepped in his yard – that was over a barking dog originally…that made its way around his neighborhood in record time.  

When he isn’t sleeping for 18 hours straight he’s up playing with his 3 birds. He has birds because they’re the only living thing that can tolerate this social moron’s existence. He paid about a grand each for two in about a month’s time but they both came to quick demises. He flicked the head of one because he said it nipped him, it fell to the bottom of the cage and seized out and died, he cried like a bitch over it, then he replaced that one and kept it in his bed when he slept, yeah he slept with the bird. Bird shit on the pillows, on his clothes, his sheets…really nice eh? This lasted a week or so until he tells me he rolled over on top if and squished it. I was so stunned, we all know birds to be like other household pets that normally sleep on the foot of the bed, right? Idiot!

This is the kind of guy that if you went to a party and there were 50 people there and you found yourself talking to him you’d be looking for a way to get to the other side of the room in a hurry and dodging him the rest of the night. To say he has the personality of a lima bean would be understating this.

Now to my favorite story; I came back to the house on Halloween night, he’s standing there with a bandana on his head and a bird on his shoulder trying to appear pirate-like while one of the pharmacy techs and her husband are sitting on the couch, I go upstairs to catch the hockey game. A short time later they leave and he comes upstairs and says “had a nice time hanging with Marie and her husband”…I say that’s fine and try to pay attention to the game and I had my back towards him and then he starts in with this – “so Marie asks me if I keep the bird on my shoulder the whole time I’m home and I told her sure, I walk around with him, watch TV with him, I even keep him on my shoulder while I’m on the computer”! He keeps rambling on and then he tells me that in front of her husband he said “ I even let him sit there while I jerk off” (he’s the only person I know of that has actually purchased access to porn sites on the web, he even had his credit card frozen when he joined one after I moved in)…now he’s got my attention. I turned around, looked him right in the face and asked “DID YOU REALLY SAY THAT IN FRONT OF HER HUSBAND”? His response was “sure, what’s the big deal”? (this guy wonders why he hasn’t been laid in over 10 years, Jesus) I say “Geez dude, there’s so many things wrong with that, but here’s just a couple; you work with this gal, she’s a woman, there’s about 6 women that work in the pharmacy with her and woman talk, he tells me she won’t say anything. BWAHAHAHAHA…this gem must have been from his vast experience with woman, ya think? I followed that with, “ and just because everyone does it, doesn’t mean you should be going around broadcasting it to everyone, especially people you work with, or saying it to a woman with her husband right there, I don't think he appreciated that too much”. Embarrassing for them? How would he know, the guy is a fucking mental moron.

Now I ask all of you since he seemed to think that I made more of a deal out of this than was necessary, who was right here? Was I right to point out that this would have probably been a little more information than anyone needed to know, particularly a woman who he works with, or do you think it was more than okay for her and her husband to made privy into his world where he and his left hand are intimate? I’m just asking. Keep in mind this guy fills prescriptions in a pharmacy that’s in a large retail store. Like I said, the guy is a social moron.

So there you have a glimpse into the life of one lonely, friendless, womanless douche bag. For any of you that saw my recent Facebook status this isn’t my response to my buttons being pushed, that response is one he’s never going to forget. Maybe if he had taken my advice to back off he wouldn’t find himself in the world of shit he’s in and he also wouldn’t be sharing Tool of the Week with the skipper of the Minnow!

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It's time again to nominate a TOTW...who makes the short list?

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This Tool of the Year is unlike anything I’ve ever written prior, hardly a year that I’ve done this where there wasn’t a standout for whatever reason, Clemens and the steroid allegations comes to mind and he was a two time winner of the TOTY Award, but this isn’t about sport, this is about using a position in sports for the most disgusting, illicit and heinous motives that is imaginable. The story of Jerry Sandusky that took over the airwaves 24/7 and brought one of the most respected college football programs to its knees overnight and in less than a week, there were arrests, resignations and then the firing of the then beloved and now somewhat ostracized  Joe Paterno. The campus wasted no time in removing the caricature of Sandusky seated on the left side in what is now an empty chair, this university just couldn’t distant itself from this guy quick enough. But let’s face facts, the horrors that turned up in the 15 page grand jury indictment will linger for a long time to come, and for the victims this coward will not take a plea deal and his attorney who seems to be as much of a joke as Clemens mouth piece Rusty Hardin, will demean these victims under cross examination and when the evidence is done being presented and this sleaze is found guilty he’ll stand there in denial acting like a scapegoat or victim never having the balls to admit what he did to these young boys under the ruse of a charity for underprivileged kids.

We're hearing more and more about this type of behavior among coaches, along with Sandusky is Bernie Fine an assistant coach at Syracuse, but there's another coach who had his way with kids long before these two tools surfaced, Graham James who was convicted of the same despicable acts in Canada having abused pro hockey player Sheldon Kennedy (there are rumors Joe Sakic was a victim but he never confirmed it) while playing in the junior leagues. James too manipulated their careers as he moved from team to team to keep them close. In junior hockey it’s not uncommon for teenage players to live in other parts of the country with host families while they’re developing for supplemental drafts. James served prison time but was recently pardoned April 4, 2010. To say there was outrage is an understatement, and prior to his release Theo Fleury another former NHL player penned an autobiography about his years of abuse at the hands of James and his tough upbringing, this lead to nine charges in Winnipeg and when James flew to Toronto October 25, 2010 he was arrested at the airport. In December of 2011 James plead guilty to these new charges and will be sentenced again to prison in February. When these scum bags are done with the abuse they leave these poor souls broken, they have substance abuse issues, they have difficult times with relationships and they live with a terrible secret that eventually breaks them. To me Sheldon Kennedy is a hero, a former Boston Bruin with a bright future who finally couldn’t take it anymore and went public, his hockey career ended shortly afterward but he has dedicated his life to publicly speaking on abuse, the signs to watch for, to encourage kids to step up right away and report the abuse.

What Sandusky has done and I say done because I read that indictment, these kids, all listed as victims number 1, 2 etc all had the same things to say when referring to how Sandusky approached them, the things he said, the buzz words, like “horse play”, or “bear hugs”, yeah normal words you’d use when showering and sexually assaulting a 10 year old. He was even confronted years prior by a mother who had complained when her son came home with wet hair and he explained he had to shower in the Penn state locker room after “working out” with this pedophile. He says in a recording he wished he was dead, but years later forgets this ever taking place…yeah right. We all know there’s no punishment good enough for a pedophile, especially one who used kids that had already come from tough times and this piece of shit used their lack of a father figure to satisfy his sick whims. All we can hope for is that his sentence is so long he rots in prison until they wheel him out to drop him in the hole. Personally I’d like to place a live wire up his ass and leave the switch turned on until he’s well done! 

Since I can’t personally carry out the sentence I’ll do the next best thing with his Tool of the year award. Sandusky will be getting the Golden Plunger by Binford,  but he’s getting a custom designed version, a one of kind Plunger with gold barbed wire wrapped around the handle and the person who will present this to him is going to be his new cell mate once he’s sentenced. It will be sent overnight to the prison facility, I’ll pay off a guard or two to be sure it gets in and then his new “roomie” will proceed to clean his plumbing (no pun intended) with the Tool of the Year Award! Hopefully we’ll get some pictures of his facial expression, no doubt these will be pleasing to the eye and quite satisfying to all of us here at the Gab!

On a side note, to show much this guy is in denial and how bad a liar he is you’ve got to watch this video from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, not only did Bob Costas do a fantastic job with less than 30 minutes notice that he’d get the interview when it was offered by his original guest, Sandusky’s lawyer Joe Amendola, but Stewart picks apart just like we all probably did when we watched it live, of course Stewart’s description is hilarious to boot!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-15-2011/jerry-sandusky-phone-interview

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First I want to apologize for not getting TOTW out last week. The last few weeks in Sully's world have been rather crazy and in some cases near violent. I'm still waiting for FlyerFanatic to grow a pair and take me up on the offer I gave him...I can come to your place and whip your ass or you can find me waiting on the front steps just say the word and I'll gladly refry your beans no extra charge!. The closest I came was seeing him run into Wally World when I was behind him in the parking lot, he even runs like a bitch. I'll tell you what Hotch, if you lose that bet send me the money, I'll email him I've got it, all he needs to do is come to my place and take it from me. I suspect you'll win that bet or at the very least I'll be giving it back via PayPal. 

Even though I could write a TOTW on this guy I wouldn't waste Gab space on this douche bag. But that still leaves us in need for a candidate for Tool of the Year (he qualifies for this as well), I think we're going through the motions here with nominees because I think we're all thinking along the same lines as for who is the front runner here, or one of the two front runner, co-defendants as it were. But I've still got to give you the chance to chime in so you know what it is you've got to do, but I know where I'm putting my money!

Happy New Year to you all!

Sully

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The YGS Fantasy Football league has now ended and we'd like to congratulate B.O.B.'s Mustangs for winning the whole enchilada!  The regular season may be over but we still have got more football to play. I've sent out invites to about 50 of you who I believe would be interested in participating in the Playoff version at NFL.com. There are no divisions in this format so there is no limit to the amount of people that want to play.

If you didn't receive an invite let me know by putting a message below, I'll send you an invite from the league. Keep in mind that the invites are generated via NFL.com and I use the email you signed up to the Gab with so if your email has changed since then please send your new email to yougabsports@live.com to ensure you receive the invite.

Sully

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Hey Gabbers...

If any of you receive an email from me with only a link in it "Do Not Open It" I didn't send it. My email was apparently hacked and I'm taking the necessary steps to correct it. Please let me know if you get any and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. 

Sully

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Last week I passed off the TOTW duties to Beeze being he’s more qualified to speak on college football than I am, I live in SEC country and couldn’t give two shits about it and from the reaction he got over his post it appears all of you feel the same way I do about the BCS and their decisions. At any rate it’s a new week and that means a new Tool or in this case two Tools.  B.O.B. tossed out what I’d been thinking were good candidates in James Harrison and Sidney Crosby, it’s only by coincidence that both of these Tools are on Pittsburgh teams, two teams which are near the top of my most hated list. Let’s start with Harrison…

Everyone knows by now about Harrison cleaning Colt McCoy’s clock last Thursday, this, just another hit in a long line of head shots Harrison has delivered over the last couple of seasons. To date Harrison has accumulated over $100k in fines from the league’s front office but this time he earned himself a suspension. I honestly thought he’d lose the rest of the season and some cash, not just one game, and here’s why: Harrison had more than enough time to go for a body shot and McCoy was clearly in the process of throwing the ball when he was moving out of the pocket, but instead of just grabbing him around the waste for the takedown Harrison put his head down and delivered a blow to McCoy’s chin sending the Brown’s QB to La La Land.

There’s been chatter by some that players need to be taught again how to deliver tackles to fall into line with the new rules implemented by the NFL, I have a hard time with that. Grown men playing a game and being handed amended rules shouldn’t need schooling in the delivery of a tackle, that just sounds ridiculous. You can’t tell me Harrison doesn’t know what he’s doing, in the last two seasons he’s had the chance to clean up what he does but he hasn’t’ demonstrated to the league that’s the case. What’s the next line of punishment for Harrison, 3 games, or 5, maybe 10? The league probably never thought it would end up having to dole out this many fines to one man but now that they’re in that position where do they go from here? Hitting this tool in the wallet hasn’t worked, maybe losing a whole season is what the doctor ordered, it’ll give him the time needed to rethink how he’ll go about stopping the opposition in the future, but in the meantime he gets to split the Golden Plunger with another Tool from Pittsburgh.

Now onto Crosby…this is the guy I hate the most in hockey, Malkin and the Pens as a whole are a close second. I guess what really burned my ass was last season when Crosby got his concussion and Mario Lemieux came out crying about how his little darling was targeted, I had to laugh as Lemieux went on and on about cheap shot artists when at the time he had the biggest villain in Matt Cooke. You see, they talk a good game in Pittsburgh but they sure can’t take what they dish out. Crosby has more than on one occasion earned the hits he has received, same with Cooke who has gone after plenty of guys and  possibly has ended the career of Marc Savard who has only played about 35 games in the last two seasons, he’s currently out for season. I’ll give you a few examples on how Crosby and the rest of his mates play the game; you tell me if Lemieux has any argument.

                                                               This was just 3 weeks ago, Crosby elbowing Nick Foligno.

                                                                                              Crosby slewfooting Ryan Callahan.

Don Cherry showing numerous cheap shots by Matt Cooke. It’s funny that we never heard Mario complaining publicly about his own guys hurting other players.

Have no sympathy for Sidney Crosby, what he is starting to get is a taste of his own medicine, same as Cooke. If you remember Hotch’s post a few weeks back where he highlighted Evander Kane then of the Atlanta Thrasher’s knocking Cooke out following a previous game where Cooke threw a cheap shot on Kane, that my friend was a thing of beauty! In situations like that you don’t forget who it was, you just wait for your opportunity to dish out the deserved retaliation. For guys like Crosby, the prima donna superstars and there really is only a select few, they expect teammates to come to their rescue regardless if they instigate the trouble or not. Most times an opponent will take all comer’s but in Crosby’s case he’s finally reaping what he’s sewn and that’s a reputation for throwing elbows, diving to get calls, slewfooting and whatever else he can do when he thinks a referee isn’t looking. There are a lot of players that seem to have had enough of the shit coming out of Pittsburgh, I know the Bruins are tired of their act and they’ve demonstrated in the last 4 or 5 meetings they won’t take any shit from Crosby, Cooke or Malkin any longer, and if they choose to go after a goalie or cheap shot a guy from behind you can expect a special delivery from Shawn Thornton or Adam McQuaid!.

Until that time comes the best I’ve got to give Ms. Sindy, Cooke and Malkin is a share of the Golden Plunger right in the chicklets!

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