When you think of Michael Phelps what do you think of?  One of the most decorated Olympians of all time and one of the greatest athletes of our generation, or some guy that got caught ripping a bong at a house party at the University of South Carolina?

     I think of how well he did in the Olympics this summer, winning gold in every event that he entered.  I don’t think of how he smoked pot and played a few games of beer pong at some college party.

    Phelps was suspended for three months by USA Swimming for the photo of him smoking out of a bong.  Marijuana is not even on the banned substance list for swimmers to take during the off season. The fact is that just because he is Michael Phelps, and he is the face of swimming, he was given a punishment that no other swimmer would have been given for smoking weed.

    If you watched Michael Phelps race in the Olympics over summer you saw the piece that they did on him showing how much he ate, which is a ridiculous 12,000 calories a day. His breakfast consists of three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise, two cups of coffee, one five-egg omelet, one bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar, and to top it off three chocolate-chip pancakes.

     How and the heck can someone, other than the Japanese hot dog eater Kobayashi, eat all of that food with out having a serious case of the munchies? Once I saw that piece on Phelps’ diet I knew that he must have been an occasional pot smoker. I am astonished at how a world class athlete can smoke weed and still completely dominate his competition. More power to him if you ask me.

    With all of the problems that MLB is going through with performing enhancing drugs, Michael Phelps is over here taking bong hits and winning every race he enters. Maybe if baseball players would change their performing enhancing drugs to marijuana there would not be as much of a problem. Sure the players would need an occasional hot dog from the vendor during the 7^th inning stretch, but at least they wouldn’t be hitting more home runs because of anabolic steroids.  I’m kidding of course, the last thing that MLB needs is for some of its players to get caught smoking weed.

    All I am saying is that we need to cut Mike some slack.  He made our country proud in Beijing this summer and he made a youthful decision to get high with some of his friends at a party. At least he wasn’t busted for injecting a horse steroid in him to make him swim like a dolphin. If marijuana had any effect on Phelps’ performance this summer it would have made him slower. Imagine how much more he would have won by if he wasn’t wake ‘n baking every morning?  We can only wonder…