{"id":111017,"date":"2014-10-01T08:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=111017"},"modified":"2014-10-01T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:14:36","slug":"michael-phelps-the-boy-behind-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/michael-phelps-the-boy-behind-the-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Phelps: The Boy Behind The Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Commentary by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/capandgoggles.com\/2014\/09\/30\/the-boy-behind-the-wheel\/\">Casey Barrett<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a second DUI arrest, a hard look at Michael Phelps on dry land\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This time it\u2019s different. It\u2019s already being lumped in with his past two public transgressions, but those two past offenses belong in a separate category. A dumb decision at 19-years-old, getting behind the wheel after a few too many? Not okay, but not the end of the world either. You and a million other dumb-ass teens have done the same thing, and you hope it\u2019s lesson learned. You hope you recognize how lucky you were that no one got hurt. Transgression number two: getting caught smoking from a bong at age 23. It\u2019s hard even to dignify this with an ounce of judgement. If you have a problem with a kid in his early twenties smoking weed at a party, well then, less power to you.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, for Michael Phelps, it\u2019s a different story. He didn\u2019t get caught making a teenager\u2019s mistake, and he didn\u2019t get caught puffing on something that\u2019s soon to be legal in every state any way. This time, Michael Phelps did something deserving of judgement and the harshest of words. He got S@#T-faced, climbed into his Land Rover, and sped almost 40 miles per hour over the speed limit, charging through the Fort McHenry Tunnel, going 84mph in a 45mph zone, swerving over the double lines as he did it. Then, when stopped, the officer immediately noticed Phelps was plastered. A sobriety test proved it: it\u2019s been reported that his blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit.<\/p>\n<p>Then he was arrested, charged, released, and sent sulking home in shame and fear, as Michael Phelps, Inc. spun into Code Red.<\/p>\n<p>Before making clear why this time it\u2019s so different, a note to the moralizing masses: I don\u2019t think Michael Phelps has a drinking problem. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s off the rails or out of control in any get-this-kid-to-rehab sense. I don\u2019t judge him for getting a DUI at 19, nor for unwinding with a bit of weed. And I certainly don\u2019t judge him for enjoying a few drinks. Lord knows I enjoy bending an elbow too. I\u2019ll be as permissive as you like when it comes to recreational drug use, as well. You can judge me for that, I\u2019ll accept my choices, and others\u2019 too. But here\u2019s where unflinching judgement is due:<\/p>\n<p>When you get into your car, blitzed, and blaze down the highway going so far over the speed limit that it qualifies as reckless endangerment. What does that term mean? Well, according to Maryland state law, \u201cthis behavior is seen as reckless because it unnecessarily endangers not only your life and the lives of your passengers, but also the lives of other innocent people on the road around you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Basically, you\u2019re not just risking your own life due to your own reckless choices, but you\u2019re risking the lives of everyone around you. This is something that they tend to you remind you of a lot after one\u2019s first DUI arrest, when you get the old slap on the wrist, with probation and plenty of scared-straight classes.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of scared straight, back in high school, when I was swimming for NBAC at Meadowbrook just like Phelps, I lost a friend in a drunk driving accident. The kid was 17. He left a party plenty drunk, and flipped his car over a bridge. I\u2019ll never forget talking to his devastated father at the wake, as he made the rounds through a bunch of dazed teary teenagers, doing his best to keep it together. You probably have a similar story. Sadly, most of us do. Did that keep us from drinking when we got to college? Hell no. But did we think twice before we hopped behind a wheel and sped off into the night with a head full of booze? Damn right.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say we always made the right choices. No one does. But when you\u2019ve already been busted and shamed once, and then reminded in excruciating detail how bad those decisions can turn out, then one starts to lose sympathy for your mistakes in a hurry. Going 39mph over the speed limit when you\u2019re hammered does not make you an alcoholic or an evil person. It makes you a selfish little (Explitive Deleted) without regard for the lives around you.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why this time is different. Phelps is well aware of the stakes. He\u2019s made high stakes his career. But outside of the pool, he\u2019s proven, in public transgressions and private ones, that he\u2019s not very good at handling himself on dry land.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201crole model\u201d is always tossed around when star athletes screw up. Like you, I tend to roll my eyes when I hear it. It\u2019s a joke, to label the athletically gifted as role models. Because Michael Phelps is the greatest who ever lived at swimming across a swimming pool does not make him a role model in any sense of the word. In fact, on dry land, he\u2019s done a pretty good job at proving he\u2019s not worthy of the label. Do you remember that great \u201cI Am Not a Role Model\u201d Charles Barkley commercial from back in the 90s? Barkley, like Phelps, has been arrested for a DUI. It didn\u2019t make him a worse athlete, or a less colorful commentator. It just proved that he made a selfish, dumb-ass choice, and he should face the consequences like anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Before this script is hijacked by Michael \u201cneeding help\u201d or \u201crecovering\u201d as he tries to sorry and spin away this event, let\u2019s put it in the wider context of the superstar and his circle. These are men, man-childs, really, who are used to controlling their environments. They impose their prodigious will, and they get the results they want. They do not hear the word \u2018no\u2019 very often, and the ones who dare to utter any criticism are soon excommunicated from the flock. They would never believe the phrase \u201cyou can\u2019t.\u201d Their response, the one that makes them so damn good on the field of play, is: I\u2019ll show you.<\/p>\n<p>A lovely quality when you\u2019re a master of your environment, the best ever, with a will and a talent that has inspired billions. But it\u2019s a very ugly quality indeed when you step away from the play, get hammered, hop in your fancy car, and charge down the highway putting every life in your wake at risk.<\/p>\n<p><em>Visit Casey Barrett&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/capandgoggles.com\/2014\/09\/30\/the-boy-behind-the-wheel\/\">Caps and Goggles<\/a> blog to read more of his insights on swimming.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Casey Barrett After a second DUI arrest, a hard look at Michael Phelps on dry land\u2026 This time it\u2019s different. 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