Sports And Fitness
Phelps not Perfect
July 20, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Robbie hellstrom asked:
ichael Phelps may not swim in 2012 games
It’s the latest complication for the 23-year-old Olympic great since a photo surfaced showing him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
He also lost a high-profile sponsor Thursday when Kellogg Co. said it wouldn’t renew its deal with Phelps that expires later this month.
Are you like me and just a little bit fed up with all the holier then thou morality and standards being spread around like contaminated peanut butter. I am so F%&K@*& fed up with all these people (media, talking heads, leaders) who come out and decide that we should all make a bong smoking incident the end of a talented athletes career. For all of us who has ever snuck a toke behind the school gymnasium, past the duchy on the left hand side at a friends party; it all sounds pretty stupid. I’m wondering when, where and how in a world completely polluted by swindling bankers, investment advisors, car and insurance sales people, politicians, and the local MILF who is running her neighbourhood brothel did we get this sense of superiority.
Now before you start up with the he’s an athlete, a World and Olympic champion, he has a responsibility crap..just hold the phone. The kid (yeah he’s a kid 23 years old) who is the modern day aquaman minus the ability to talk to the sea mammals (though perhaps he does). He is simply put, an incredible talent. But that’s it people; he is a man, a human, a person like you and me who on a daily basis makes minor and major mistakes. When did we start to believe that because your talented, and because you achieve world class status that that makes you less human? Less prone to ***** ups? Is it the fact that his accomplishments are unattainable by the average Joe and Jane? Is it because we so desperately want to believe that while surrounded by the clowns I mentioned earlier (i.e. Bankers etc) that there is actually true perfection in our mists.?Is it because as parents we don’t explain to our children that NO ONE is perfect? That everyone makes mistakes so we fall back on that oh so over used, ‘’he was a role model for children, shame on him”, routine. Shame on him? NO SHAME ON US!
On a daily basis we are fed a dichotomy of false stories, exaggerated truths and down right lies (yeah the press had nothing to do with helping make everyone believe that weapons of mass destruction actually existed in Iraq, Sarah Palin was truly qualified to be VP and no we don’t torture people). Common! We eat it all up and we tell ourselves that we understand our world. The sad truth is we occupy this really small space generally less then 6 sq ft and we are insignificant to the greatest of scales. To put it more into context we are as significant as that small quarter inch by half inch sea shell you found on the beach last time you visited your favorite hot spot. I think that is why we feel the need to expand our space through the judgements of others. To try to take up more room by the process of bringing others down…not by lifting them up. How long do you think it will take before people start hoping President Obama fails. Never mind its already begun i think Rush ”where are my pain killers” Bimbaugh (that spelling is intentional) already has it covered.
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It seems every opportunity we get to see someone fall down the greater pleasure we get. Phelps is an extraordinary athlete and a very ordinary individual. We have no business holding him to any standard that we aren’t prepared to hold ourselves too. Here is an example in fact; every person who has ever drank has at some point driven drunk. Most of us just never got caught. So does that make us superior? Sorry to burst your bubble, BUT NO! It just makes us fortunate. (or not depending on how you look at it)
Hence my message to those ”corporate sponsors” currently not renewing or contemplating cancelling Phelps endorsements (the ones who lay people off in the thousands, move jobs to places using child labour, practice corporate greed, apply poor management and practice in illegal dealings) GET A LIFE! You are probably in the worst position to be determining the social worth or morality of someone like Phelps. My message to those on the US Swimming Association and any other Governing body is this. Find a really short cliff and take a really long walk. Your distorted sense of values is hysterical to say the least…your history is littered with contradictory and nonsensical decisions which long ago removed you from a position of credibility. To the police or crown prosecutor who might contemplate legal charges against him i say this. Aren’t there enough killers, ****** and all round really bad people to be concentrating on? Yes i know you had do do some really tough police and legal work to capture a hardened criminal like Phelps (picking up at your local supermarket check-out line a paper with a picture on the front page of him doing the bong) was really hard work, man you guys have it rough.
Here is the true reality. The people (the ones who aren’t so foolish as to judge others) don’t care that he smoked a bong, they don’t care if he likes to put on a tinker bell outfit and prance around his house listening to Liza Mennelli…we just couldn’t care less…we really couldn’t. What we do care about is that he didn’t cheat to win his medals . He didn’t fail any anti-doping tests during the Olympics. He didn’t do things that cost fellow athletes the chance to win. What we do care about is his incredible talent, his ability to make you stop and focus on nothing else for the 100, 200 or 400 meters he was in that pool.. A place where he defies physics, logic and human ability. What we care about is that for a few weeks in a city ( of abused human rights, a Communist bastien, and AGAIN were judging him?), for 8 spectacular times he was better then everyone… EVERYONE! That’s what we care about. We care about his ability to do things no one else could do. That’s what defines him and will continue to define him…not the bong or the pot… not the DUI he got in 2004 because we all know that anyone can take a hit from a bong or drive drunk and probably has at one point or another. So hopefully those he trusts and those that care about him will help him past this minor event…because for a few weeks in London in 2012 I’d sure like to see what aquaman can do for an encore. Maybe he really can talk to the fish!
ichael Phelps may not swim in 2012 games
It’s the latest complication for the 23-year-old Olympic great since a photo surfaced showing him inhaling from a marijuana pipe.
He also lost a high-profile sponsor Thursday when Kellogg Co. said it wouldn’t renew its deal with Phelps that expires later this month.
Are you like me and just a little bit fed up with all the holier then thou morality and standards being spread around like contaminated peanut butter. I am so F%&K@*& fed up with all these people (media, talking heads, leaders) who come out and decide that we should all make a bong smoking incident the end of a talented athletes career. For all of us who has ever snuck a toke behind the school gymnasium, past the duchy on the left hand side at a friends party; it all sounds pretty stupid. I’m wondering when, where and how in a world completely polluted by swindling bankers, investment advisors, car and insurance sales people, politicians, and the local MILF who is running her neighbourhood brothel did we get this sense of superiority.
Now before you start up with the he’s an athlete, a World and Olympic champion, he has a responsibility crap..just hold the phone. The kid (yeah he’s a kid 23 years old) who is the modern day aquaman minus the ability to talk to the sea mammals (though perhaps he does). He is simply put, an incredible talent. But that’s it people; he is a man, a human, a person like you and me who on a daily basis makes minor and major mistakes. When did we start to believe that because your talented, and because you achieve world class status that that makes you less human? Less prone to ***** ups? Is it the fact that his accomplishments are unattainable by the average Joe and Jane? Is it because we so desperately want to believe that while surrounded by the clowns I mentioned earlier (i.e. Bankers etc) that there is actually true perfection in our mists.?Is it because as parents we don’t explain to our children that NO ONE is perfect? That everyone makes mistakes so we fall back on that oh so over used, ‘’he was a role model for children, shame on him”, routine. Shame on him? NO SHAME ON US!
On a daily basis we are fed a dichotomy of false stories, exaggerated truths and down right lies (yeah the press had nothing to do with helping make everyone believe that weapons of mass destruction actually existed in Iraq, Sarah Palin was truly qualified to be VP and no we don’t torture people). Common! We eat it all up and we tell ourselves that we understand our world. The sad truth is we occupy this really small space generally less then 6 sq ft and we are insignificant to the greatest of scales. To put it more into context we are as significant as that small quarter inch by half inch sea shell you found on the beach last time you visited your favorite hot spot. I think that is why we feel the need to expand our space through the judgements of others. To try to take up more room by the process of bringing others down…not by lifting them up. How long do you think it will take before people start hoping President Obama fails. Never mind its already begun i think Rush ”where are my pain killers” Bimbaugh (that spelling is intentional) already has it covered.
.
It seems every opportunity we get to see someone fall down the greater pleasure we get. Phelps is an extraordinary athlete and a very ordinary individual. We have no business holding him to any standard that we aren’t prepared to hold ourselves too. Here is an example in fact; every person who has ever drank has at some point driven drunk. Most of us just never got caught. So does that make us superior? Sorry to burst your bubble, BUT NO! It just makes us fortunate. (or not depending on how you look at it)
Hence my message to those ”corporate sponsors” currently not renewing or contemplating cancelling Phelps endorsements (the ones who lay people off in the thousands, move jobs to places using child labour, practice corporate greed, apply poor management and practice in illegal dealings) GET A LIFE! You are probably in the worst position to be determining the social worth or morality of someone like Phelps. My message to those on the US Swimming Association and any other Governing body is this. Find a really short cliff and take a really long walk. Your distorted sense of values is hysterical to say the least…your history is littered with contradictory and nonsensical decisions which long ago removed you from a position of credibility. To the police or crown prosecutor who might contemplate legal charges against him i say this. Aren’t there enough killers, ****** and all round really bad people to be concentrating on? Yes i know you had do do some really tough police and legal work to capture a hardened criminal like Phelps (picking up at your local supermarket check-out line a paper with a picture on the front page of him doing the bong) was really hard work, man you guys have it rough.
Here is the true reality. The people (the ones who aren’t so foolish as to judge others) don’t care that he smoked a bong, they don’t care if he likes to put on a tinker bell outfit and prance around his house listening to Liza Mennelli…we just couldn’t care less…we really couldn’t. What we do care about is that he didn’t cheat to win his medals . He didn’t fail any anti-doping tests during the Olympics. He didn’t do things that cost fellow athletes the chance to win. What we do care about is his incredible talent, his ability to make you stop and focus on nothing else for the 100, 200 or 400 meters he was in that pool.. A place where he defies physics, logic and human ability. What we care about is that for a few weeks in a city ( of abused human rights, a Communist bastien, and AGAIN were judging him?), for 8 spectacular times he was better then everyone… EVERYONE! That’s what we care about. We care about his ability to do things no one else could do. That’s what defines him and will continue to define him…not the bong or the pot… not the DUI he got in 2004 because we all know that anyone can take a hit from a bong or drive drunk and probably has at one point or another. So hopefully those he trusts and those that care about him will help him past this minor event…because for a few weeks in London in 2012 I’d sure like to see what aquaman can do for an encore. Maybe he really can talk to the fish!
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