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Yes, there is NASCAR news to get to, but legion baseball is first on the agenda.
Rutherford County Post 423 ended a the season in the first round of the legion playoffs this past week.
They lost after game four in a best of five series. In game one, Post 423 fell 10-3 on the road, then came back home and played maybe the best ball they had all season with a 5-3 victory. In game three, it was a cat and mouse type game, but Mint Hill prevailed 13-12 and the series ended the next night with a 13-9 loss. Post 423 (7-11), never really had a chance to gel this season after being forced to take a break by a new implemented rule of American Legion at the start of the campaign and inconsistent/young pitching took its toll as well.
Rutherford County Post 423 junior legion also fell in a best of three playoff series this past week. They fell 5-4 and 8-5 to Monroe as the sixth seed.
On the NASCAR front, driver A. J. Allmendinger was suspended just prior to Saturday night’s Nextel Cup race in Daytona for failing a drug test. Sounds like another Jeremy Mayfield all over again?
As we remember, Mayfield had the same issue happen to him a few years back, but most feel Mayfield was guilty. If he wasn’t on drugs somebody did a heck of a job setting him up.
However, Allmendinger’s case is more shocking since he is with a top level organization in Penske Racing. Allmendinger was charged with a DUI in 2009, but seemed to have moved past that and grown up from those actions.
In NASCAR, they take two samples, A and B. Test A came back positive, which gives Allmendinger a chance to ask for them to test B. Allmendinger already did that on Monday and should have the test results by the end of the week.
Penske teammate, Brad Keselowski has three wins already, while Allmendinger has three tops tens this season and sat 23rd in points. At this time last year, Allmendinger had five finishes of 11th or better with Richard Petty Motorsports and ranked 15th in points.
Still, NASCAR didn’t say what Allmendinger tested positive for in general, but the test are fairly accurate. I am not saying that there could have been no way that a flaw or a mistake occurred, because we don’t really know how B is going to test.
It all comes back to Matt Kenseth though.
Lets just say, Keselowski, who has Miller Lite as a sponsor and factually Kenseth is from Wisconsin. Miller Lite’s home office, you guessed it…Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, Allmendinger has just a one year deal with Penske. Many still think Kenseth will go to Joe Gibbs Racing, but you have to throw that scenario out there.
