I love America, and I love people that do great things for America. I am fucking sick of Michael Phelps. Swimming is the lamest sport on record. Where is the defense? Where is the Ball? Where is the rear naked choke? Where is the beanbag going through the hole for 3 points?
Golf sucks, but at least there are points. Tennis blows but at least you are playing against someone, one on one. There are balls in tennis too. It’s not Phelps fault his sport sucks. I’ll just be happy when these retarded sports we pretend to care about in the Olympics go away. Then we can go back to arguing over whether Bill Bellicheck is an asshole or a curmudgeon.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I am going to suck on a raddish FTW!
August 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
+1
August 16th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Although i do prefer team sports I also like races. Swimming, 100m dash etc…. Plus its good that we have someone like Phelps if we want to beat China in the medal count. USA!!!
August 16th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Olympics blow. Phelps blows. Let me tell you something about this guy. Working and living in Towson, I have had many employees who went to High School with him. They have reaffirmed what anyone who watches an interview with this clown can figure out on their own… he’s a goddamn retard. Forget his 6 pack, or 8 pack, or whatever you want to call it, he’s got a head like someone with Down Syndrome. He was gifted his High School diploma so he could further his swimming career (true story).
I’d rather watch 5 consecutive hours of competition Arm Wrestling than Olympic Swimming.
And what the FUCK is “+1″ Dustin? Is that because you’re the second comment? Retard.
August 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
See this I dont understand now it comes to the point where we’re calling this guy a retard, (which he might be like the guy above me says I dunno) but still just because hes on tv all the time and the chicks want his hog doesn’t mean people need to start hating on him, ok so swimming sucks, but so do most sports in the olympics just let the guy beat the 8 gold medal record and call it a day, no need to start hating.
August 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Man, someone pissed in Rob’s cornflakes! Geez, why all the hate? I agree, swimming is lame, but it’s just as lame as anything in Track and Field. At least it’s an American winning and not some Euro-Trash.
And Bellicheck is neither an asshole or a curmdgeon, he’s a robot. Albeit a gifted, intelligent, arrogant robot, but a robot nonetheless.
And he’s better than Zorn :-p
August 16th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I think we are all missing the biggest point, right now WJFK is sitting on a future Olympian with Jim the intern. Hes already got the diet of a swimming champion down, now to get him into the pool.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I don’t hate on Michael Phelps; I just think it’s bullshit when people claim he’s the greatest Olympian. It’s not like Dream Team Jordan could rack up 8 medals somehow? Using any type of medal count to judge the greatest Olympic athlete is stupid because you limit the field to swimmer and track and field stars.
August 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Go America, win and then go into obscurity please.
Seriously just don’t come out in 30 years on the latest incarnation of the Intervention show as some one who could not break the eating habits looking like jim the intern + like 40 years.
August 16th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Amen brother.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
the extent of my olympic viewing goes like this. watch the polish mad scientist and d wade serve basketball done proper to some unfortunate bunch of zeroes. smoke a bowl. watch women’s beach volleyball. clean up my leavin’s. and reflect on why i’m stoked that i don’t live in china.
August 17th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Captain America - don’t you think that it is badass that all of the slant eyes have to listen to our anthem every time that guy goes up on the podium? Just another way to assert our dominance. China can eat one.
August 17th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Phelps is the best olympic swimmer. He’s not the greatest athlete ever. Two of his eight races were exciting and that’s saying a lot because normally swimming is boring as shit.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Rob, you sir, are an ignorant fuck. Is it really that hard to google something before you bash it? If you would have taken 2 seconds out of your worthless life you would realize that +1 means that he agrees with the original post. For your comment, you get a -24, which is what i estimate your IQ to be. 24
As for phelps, yeah he seems like a moron but as long as china goes down it could be the unabomber out there kicking ass for all i care.
August 17th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
About a week before the olympics I had no clue who the hell phelps was. About a week after the olympics I wont have a clue who the hell he is. Like most of the olympic sports there is no life after the olympics for these people outside of coaching the sport. I suppose thats a good paying career but as far as being a superstar athlete it’ll never happen for most of them and like some others have said giving the guy all the props for getting 8 medals this year thats only because he’s in a sport that allows it. If it were possible for Jordan to have gotten more than 1 in basketball i’m sure he would have blown that number out of the water. I’m not hatin on Phelps…not by any means i’m just statin a fact.
I am hating on the fact that he can eat all that shit and not gain any weight.
He might have a good career in those hot dog eating contests at Coney Island after the olympics though..lol
August 18th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Not a fan of swimming but this dude is one bad ass m fer. No matter what you do, when you can dominate in such a big way, it’s a big deal. The guy has nearly half of the gold medals that the US has won so far too. It’s also been pretty exciting to watch his races. He won the last one I saw but a .100 of a second!
August 18th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Hello, all. It’s important to note Jimmy Rome gives a lot of respect to Phelps and his accomplishments. It’s not Phelps’ fault if you hate swimming and don’t want to see his face (and muscles) on TV. That’s like saying Tiger Woods should get zero attention because you don’t like golf.
While there may have been better all-around athletes competing in the Olympics - Michael Jordan comes to mind, as does Jim Thorpe - Michael Phelps is clearly the most dominant Olympian of all time. He uses bronze medals as coasters while watching himself on TV.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
If you want one word to describe why Jim Rome shouldn’t be in broadcasting, it’s “breakfastses.”
Let’s put it this way. The guy certainly isn’t underrated. Give yourself some credit, Chad.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I will agree that you can’t call Phelps the greatest athlete of all time. Just like you can’t call Jordan the greatest athlete of all time. I mean look at his baseball career. The same as if you put Tiger Woods on a basketball court. They are all the greatest in their sport period that’s it. Listening to the Junkies compare Phelps to Tiger was a joke. I am pro Phelps and pro swimming so get this Phelps hasn’t lost the 200 meter butterfly in 6 years. If he was as good in golf as he is in swimming he’d have 24 majors by the age of 23. Think about that one. And Chad just so you know I lost 60 pounds just by swimming 3-4 days a week, be easy
August 20th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
jim rome is the biggest tool in all of radio
August 21st, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Dan, I thought you lsot all that weight by shoveling coal.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Sick of Phelps also but 8 gold medals is 8 gold medals.
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
7 out of 8 world records within a couple weeks = dues paid
October 11th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I think that it would be crossing the line, guys, to say the JIM ROME IS AN ENORMOUS FAG WHO SHOULD DO THE WORLD A FAVOR AND WALK IN FRONT OF A BUS, but for the less buoyant among us, swimming does not suck. We may need someday to propel ourselves under our own power to shore, rather than drifting and subsisting on our own excess fat until the currents carry us there.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I’d be more interested in Phelps as a competitive eater than I am in him as a swimmer. Who cares about this guy? He’s a d-bag anyway.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I agree with jason in phx, 10,000 calorie breakfast, if phelps ever gets out of swimming every fours when it matters, he can compete once a year on conney island and beat kobayashi or whoever is the current champ of that, but overall truer words were never said
December 18th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
epic blog Bradlius Fukimmus. I loooove burning the hippie lettuce and checking your fresh posts.
And I will NOT talk about Drab’s sexual orientation. I know everyone thinks its funny that HE’s gaaayyy. LOOOves making out with other dudes. Bro, they need to check themselves
/crumples paper