Who said: "[He is] a fat, puffy toad."?
About whom?
What were the circumstances for the criticism?

This week's (August 27, 2002) 'Around the Horn' in the New York Times
Sports section has their baseball writers discussing that quote. 
You'll need Flash software to hear it:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/index.html

Jack Curry describes it as one of his favorite quotations.  After
pitcher Hideki Irabu failed to cover 1st base in the final game of
1999 Spring Training, NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner called
Irabu a "fat, pussy toad."

As Curry notes in last night's audio, editors were perplexed by how to
put Steinbrenners comments in print.  The middle word was often
excised, as you can see in this description of the game and events
from CNN-SI:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/1999/04/02/boss_irabu/

As a side note, this Google researcher asked the question in the Aug.
27 NY Times 'Around the Horn' program.