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 the law enforcement is starting to treat athletes and celebrities, more like normal people, when in fact they are. These people are no better then you and I and the laws still apply to them.

These guys have the God given talent to be able to make millions of dollars to play baseball, a dream that most young boys, including myself, have at at one time in their life. Maybe I just have a different mindset than these guys? If I was playing baseball professionally, I’d hold myself in the most professional manner possible. Young kids as well as high school baseball players look up to these guys as role models. How does it look to them that one of their favorite players is arrested and charge with DUI during spring training?

Now I don’t have a problem with people drinking alcohol, as long as they are the legal age, and they do it in a responsible manner. I’ve never understood, why some people think it’s alcohol is required to have a good time. It’s not something for me to do as alcoholism does run in my family, but when people make the bad decision to overdue it, and then try to drive when they are in no condition of driving, it’s bad character on their part.