Gilbert Calls Out Tom Knott, George Bush
Gilbert's new target. (Reuters)
After promising he was done blogging this season, Gilbert struck again last night, lobbing another grenade at Tom Knott and also setting his sights on George W. Bush. Like the Wiz don't have enough trouble attracting fans in D.C. Plus, Gil revealed that he was nearly fined/suspended for wearing his customized shoes. In sum:
On the President and the Cavs: "We got to be Bush. We got to be Bush-league. We're having everybody talking about the war, when we just want to get the oil. We're Bushing it. That's all we're doing. We're trying distract LeBron over here while we try to get some wins over there. That's all we're doing."
On Ramon Sessions having another great game: "Hey, whoever on Chicago he did that on, I feel sorry for you, because Tom Knott is going to kill you. For him to hit the game winner on me and cause Knott to call me every name in the book, I feel sorry for what Knott is going to do to the player on the Bulls who let a D-Leaguer go off for 20 points and 24 assists. Tom Knott's favorite player, Steve Nash, didn't have those numbers this year and he has Shaq and Amare! You know? So, to my D-League friend, welcome to the NBA, Mr. Sessions. It don't matter where you start, Tommmm. It's where you finish, Knotttt."
On his shoe battles with Stu Jackson: "Stu hit me with the word that I didn't want to hear: suspension. I thought about playing a little reverse psychology on him. I was going to wear a new non-team colors GilIIZeros shoe after the phone call in my next game. Then he was going to call me back and be like, "You're going to be suspended for the next game" when the thing is that I was going to sit out the next game anyway. You see? You feel me? But, I would end up getting fined too. And I didn't want to get the fine and the suspension. He just told me to wear the team color shoes from now on. I wore the chrome and silver ones, the Undrcrwn version, so I hit him with, "Come on, Stu ... chrome is the new white!" But I don't think he was falling for that. "
When Gil announced he was no longer blogging, I had planned to make up fake Gilbert blogs throughout the playoffs, but I have to confess I never thought of the "bushing it" line. He's gotta be on a watch list after that one.
By Dan Steinberg |
April 16, 2008; 10:01 AM ET
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Posted by: StetSports.com | April 16, 2008 10:44 AM
You gotta love Gilbert's opinions and what not. He has a great basketball career ahead of him, but truthfully speaking... aren't we all just waiting for this guy to turn into the Terry Bradshaw of sports broadcasting ten years from now...?
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Posted by: Uzo Ometu | April 16, 2008 10:55 AM
i thought Terry Bradshaw was the Terry Bradshaw of Sports Broadcasting. and, uh, no more of that please - one is more than enough. better that Gil become some sort of Barkley hybrid, though i would worry that he would wind up closer to Deion territory.
Posted by: jamie | April 16, 2008 11:59 AM
"aren't we all just waiting for this guy to turn into the Terry Bradshaw of sports broadcasting ten years from now...?"
No. Absolutely not.
Posted by: Unsilent Majority | April 16, 2008 12:14 PM
"Condoleeza looks into Gil's financial records in 5...4...3...2..."
You're a bright one, aren't you? What the hell would the head of the State Department have to do with looking into a private citizen's financial records? Stick to sports.
As for Gilbert's remarks on "bushing it":
I can't blame him for that, because he's just regurgitating the same crap that the leftists have been spoon-feeding us since 2002 in the lead-up to the war. If this war was for oil, if that's what we wanted, we would have it. Make no mistake about it, we would NOT be paying close to $4/gal for gasoline. And to preempt any response about cronyism and Halliburton, I'll just commend to you that Cheney left Halliburton on bad terms (so he has no incentive to help them), and, besides that, Halliburton has lost money (and employees' lives) since going into Iraq to help rebuild. So how can they be "profiteering" without any profit?
Posted by: Mike | April 16, 2008 2:43 PM
I believe I read that Halliburton is now a non-profit.
If you believe Halliburton has lost money on its work in Iraq, you probably believe that Tom Knott has won a Pulitzer.
Posted by: | April 16, 2008 3:32 PM
In response to the appropriately name '[blank],' and his/her assertion that, "If you believe Halliburton has lost money on its work in Iraq, you probably believe that Tom Knott has won a Pulitzer.":
Well, Tom Knott, who is he? Don't really care. But I have to say that I find myself utterly dumbfounded by your unshakable logic. Bravo/Brava, sir/madam. In the interest of full disclosure, I've done a little bit of research to confirm the report I had heard some time ago. While they may not be losing money (according to one of the only financial reports I was able to find), they are operating at a profit margin of about 2%. On $13 billion, that turns out to be a little over $2.5 billion. Certainly not anything to cough at, but in contrast to their other global contracts, the margin is laughable and they could make much more money by taking a different contract somewhere else. So, I stand corrected, they are making money, albeit at a loss for the money they could be making elsewhere.
But the underlying issue with Halliburton is the perception that they are the puppet-masters behind the Bush-Cheney administration. Let me make something perfectly clear, Halliburton was the CLINTON administration's favorite no-bid contractor throughout their tenure. They have a history of working out contracts with the U.S. government that far predates the Bush administration. But nobody cared about the no-bid contracts before January 20, 2001. I mean, why let facts get in the way of partisan sensationalism and purveyors of conspiracy theories?
But this is supposed to be about Gilbert and his blogging forays. My apologies for the hi-jacking of the comments area.
Posted by: Mike | April 16, 2008 4:56 PM
OMG, next time Mike tries to post on here, I want to hear Charley Steiner's booming voice say "BANNED from the Dan Steinberg Show."
Get a grip.
Posted by: Markus V. | April 18, 2008 11:32 AM
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Condoleeza looks into Gil's financial records in 5...4...3...2...