Random Thoughts – August 11th
It's All Michael Phelps All The Time

The country is still buzzing about that Michael Phelps Relay victory on Sunday Night against France. It was truly an Olympic event for the ages. The way he swam that first leg, passed it off to himself for the 2nd leg, faded in the 3rd leg, only to make a heroic comeback in the 4th leg was the stuff of legend. Clearly worthy of the 4 Gold Medals he earned for the victory. My only question is who were the 3 other guys who were celebrating with him? What did they do? Don’t tell me that black guy was a swimmer was he? Seriously in all my years of watching sports I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody get more overshadowed than Jason Lezak has. I mean all he did was single handily win that race. Yeah I know that Michael Phelps has a chance to win 8 gold medals and that he is the biggest star in the Olympics, NBA guys notwithstanding, but this was Lezak’s night. He’s the guy everybody should be talking about. But for the past 24-48 hours all I’ve heard about is Phelps. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think Phelps is intentionally trying to hog the spotlight, but that’s exactly what’s happening. So if Lezak sneaky stabs Phelps in his sleep, I don’t think I’d blame him.






