Ex Cathedra » sports http://blog.crispen.org That which does not kill us has made its last mistake Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:47:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Raising an Olympian http://blog.crispen.org/raising-an-olympian/ http://blog.crispen.org/raising-an-olympian/#comments Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:16:28 +0000 Rev. Bob http://blog.crispen.org/?p=1157 Here’s an article in Beacon Press’s blog about Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’s mom

When my son Robert was 8 or so, I saw him do a one-handed pull-up on some
bars by the pool and took a look at his lats and said “Backstroker” or maybe
“Chimpanzee.” I never was really sure.

He made pretty good progress through swimming lessons at the Y and did
pretty well on swim team. But he never had the superstar talent or
fanatical love of swimming it’s supposed to take to become a superstar.
If I had dreams of making my fame and fortune off of him, there’s still
time. Maybe he can become a porn star.

I got what I wanted. If he fell into he water, chances are he won’t drown,
and he enjoys swimming and water skiing.

And he became a good man. A man with the clearest sense of right and wrong
I’ve ever seen.

My other son Patrick is also a good man, a kind man, who married way above his station, and if he keeps working, he’ll be my son the doctah (EdD).

I think I did pretty well. So did Debbie Phelps.

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But at long last we have positive proof. Dungy said in a previously unpublished interview, “Jesus really fucked us over . It’s probably the curse he placed on the Irsay family for leaving Baltimore.”

Ah, if only.
But nobody minds that Jesus gets the thanks but never the blame  because Jesus isn’t real and everybody knows it.

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