This week I had the chance of choosing between a few folks. Jose Capellan part of the Milwaukee Brewers organization didn’t show up to his Minor League assignment because “he thought he was going to get traded, of which he hasn’t. Also Willy Aybar of the Atlanta Braves, has been MIA for the last few days. He hasn’t reported to team meetings, or meetings with MLB Officals. He’s been indefinately suspended with out pay for the time being.

From what I’ve read, it sounds like that Aybar has had some substance abuse problems in the past. From the sounds of it his own mother and good friend Vlad Guerrero can’t get a hold of him nor find him. He started the season off on the Disabled List with some hand problems. All of this started when he failed to report to two rehab sessions. Because of these actions, or lack there of, he was suspended for three games by the team. Next, he failed to report to a meeting with manager Bobby Cox. He was the suspended indefinately following this. Finally he failed to report to meeting with the Major League Officials.

Given his past history with a substance abuse problem,…

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I was having a good time deciding between Manny Ramirez and Tony LaRussa for this past week’s Tool of the Week. I did a little bit more research into both stories. It turns out that Manny Rameriz’s “grill” actually wasn’t his, and he was doing a neighbor a favor. Naturally, there were tons of bogus bids and EBay closed out the auction because “it couldn’t authenicate if it was actually Manny Rameriz’s grill or not”. It’s not like Manny needs the extra money anyway. He’s probably one of the most overpaid players in the league. I was reading or heard something about Manny being the worst left fielder in the league.

On the flipside of things, this time the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals was arrested for DUI while he was asleep in his vehicle, while it was running. I’m not sure what’s worse, the fact he was arrested for DUI, or he was passed out in his vehicle. If it hadn’t been running he they probably wouldn’t had cared so much, but just because it was started, he was Driving Under the Influence. Naturally this mugshot showed up on TheSmokingGun.com. I think this is what won it…

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Don’t forget to nominate your Tool of the Week to me by the end of the week (Saturday Night). The Tool of the Week entry will be every Morning for the prior week.

This Current Nominations:
Manny Ramirez and the whole “Manny Grill” EBay Fiasco.
Tony La Russa was just arrested while asleep at the wheel, and DUI.

The more nominations the better!

It’s time to start my “Tool of the Week” entries again. The offseason we a pretty uneventful one in regards to players acting like idiots. Manny had his usual controversy at the beginning of spring training, but as I was concentrating at getting the website back-end up dated, I didn’t have time to write an entry about it. D-Train had a pretty stupid incident during the offseason as well. But from here on out I’ll try to make as my Tool of the Week entries, as people in the baseball industry allow me to do. Heck, I’ll make co-Tools of the Week if I need to!

With out further ado, the first Tool of the Week to open the 2007 season is 4th year pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, Gustavo Chacin. He was arrested early Friday morning, March 16th. He blew blood-alcohol content of .150 and .152 with the legal limit is .08, nearly two times the legal limit.

“It’s a serious mistake and we all make mistakes,” manager John Gibbons said. No Kidding? There’s the best manager statement of the century. Is it just me that professional athletes are making more of these “mistakes” these days. Maybe it’s the fact…

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Striking your wife on a public street near a ballpark, then getting arrested and then your wife posts your bail. To you Brett Myers I say, “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!?!”. I mean seriously, have NO respect at all for wife beaters, none at all. I don’t care if it was an accident, she provoked him, or got into the heat of the moment.

I do slightly admire the guy for basically suspending himself. The Phillies were going to nothing to him at all. NOTHING! The Phillies GM said last Friday, “the team would not take disciplinary action against Myers until the case is resolved and did not feel what happened was an embarrassment to the team.” To me, that is wrong. Basically the team is turning their head as if nothing happened. I’m not sure if it has to deal with Myers being their best pitcher on the team or what. Myers took a leave of absence as his “own form of a suspension”, I think. Since it was voleentary, the Phillies were able to demote him to AAA, and bring up another starting pitcher. Yet another semi-sheepish move on their part. It just bugs me…

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