Michael Phelps has definitely earned all the accolades he’s received. Sure, you can say he’s the best swimmer of all time and I’ll even hear arguments that he’s the best Olympian, but the best athlete? Hells no. Look, if I’m not mistaken, Phelps is from Baltimore, which means dude probably isn’t even the best athlete in his own area code. First off, I will admit, homey is sittin on more gold than Chad Johnson’s dentist.

And he certainly eats like the best ever. But let’s not trick ourselves. The reason why Phelps has gold medals in his pockets like so many nickles and dimes is because 1. they have so many swimming events to begin with and 2. a very small sample size of the world’s athletes actually get a chance to compete in organized swimming to begin with.
It’s not quite the same as in track and field where you just know there aren’t that many cats who can step into the blocks and run a sub 10 second 100 meters. No, when those dudes step up, we KNOW they’re the world’s best because everybody has been racing since they were 6 years old on a playground.

So when Jesse Owens or Carl Lewis win 4 gold medals in a single games, that’s real. When Phelps does it, if you’re like me, you just sit back and wonder what these events would be like if Deion Sanders, Randy Moss, Michael Vick or Allen Iverson knew how to swim.

I mean, come on, does ANYBODY actually think that Phelps is a better athlete than A-Rod, Jordan or Kobe? Come on now. If you gave Randy Moss 24 months, a West Virginia inspired above ground pool (keep it classy), some more weave (sad) and a Bally’s Total Health & Fitness membership, he’d turn half of Phelps gold medals into Bronze. Best ever? Right. And next you’ll be saying Lance Armstrong is the best ever. Oh, I forgot, fools ALREADY say that. AHNT. Pleaz.

By the way, is it just me or is something not quite right with my man’s mouth piece? Anyway, Phelps is good, but compared to Jesse Owens, Jim Thorpe, and hell, I don’t know, Vince Young, Phelps aint shit.

I said it! So until they start having the following list of Basketball derivative Olympic events:
1. Olympic 5 on 5 Men’s Basketball
2. Olympic Street Basketball
3. Olympic Horse
4. Olympic Freestyle Slam Dunk Medley
5. Olympic 1 on 1 Come Git Some Especial-lay
6. Olympic Two Handed Dribbling
7. Olympic Three- Point Shooting
8. Olympic 3 v 3 Ass-tappitties Floor Exercise, and
9. Olymypic Synchronized, ball in hand jumping
I don’t want to hear about how Miguelito Phelps is a better athlete than LeBronze James.

– Lake