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The Zulewski report
By Tom Zulewski July 29, 2009 |
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Mark Martin at age 50 is racing like a spring chicken, you had to admire the duel between Martin and Jimmie Johnson last Sunday in Indianapolis and it would have never been possible if Juan Pablo Montoya had just not done the speeding thing. If there was ever a case if a race was in world domination mode Juan Pablo Montoya was it. He was leading 116 of 124 laps and then he came in for a pit stop with 25 which was going to be the last one of the day and he got caught off a four or five second lead and was forced back to 12th place. That was what Martin needed to get going and then got going and then provided one heck of a finish. When your demoted to 12th place it's a long way to come back and he didn't go lap down that's normally 11th place and it's somewhat something to celebrate, it's consistent, it's a good points day but this was a race win and you need race wins to get into the chase and when Montoya is trying to hang on for dear life that has to hurt absolutely as bad. He went from a sure certainty of a victory down to 11th place. Vick to come back? Michael Vick in any attempt to come back to play in the NFL again is beyond the rusty stage and has not even touched a football and in two years has not been involved in any game type situation but now he's free to try it again it not just going to be like getting on a bike and doing it all over again. He's got to relearn the game, he's got to learn to read the defenses again, he got to relearn the offensive situations, the audibles again and more stuff and when you have that going on and the team public relations hit, it's a challenge, it's going to take awhile for him to find somebody to latch onto. For Vick to return there's going to be a lot of opposition that's why there are a number of teams who are not interested in picking him up and not the protesters outside of the stadium but enough people to take notice especially on the road for whatever team he ends up with. Is the UFL viable? Maybe for awhile but the USFL, XFL, and WFL, none of them worked so for the UFL to be a viable league as a football game they have to start showing something. The fact that the UFL is going to have some grief aside with the NFL is not a good thing and not going to help one bit. Will Vick latch on there? That maybe Vick's and the UFL's only choice to choose each other if it doesn't happen in the NFL. The bizarre firing of Mets GM Tony Bernazard: This story has more to it than that and it involves a reporter of the New York Daily News a gentleman named Adam Rubin. During a press conference on Tuesday Bernazard had to gall to say that Rubin had been lobbying for a job in baseball in the last several years as a player development agent. Bernazard was implying though not saying it directly that Rubin had a role in getting Bernazard fired which is bizarre to me absolutely utterly bizarre and it exposes the mess as a whole not just the Bernazard flap but as the Mets as a whole for the issues that exist in that organization and there are many. Bernazard is now going to be persona non grata where ever he goes if he tries for a job now in MLB he won't get one. One of the biggest mistakes that Bernazard could have made was calling a reporter out for things that were not of his doing, that's wrong, that’s ridiculous and Rubin should not be ashamed of himself for doing this because that guy has to keep his head up and keep going because even though the relationships are now effected in that clubhouse he's got to find someone else to work and if your editor at that paper and the paper is smart they'll move him somewhere where he can function and not have to worry about that garbage that went on at the Mets which is a shame that's a sad fact but it's true and this is not of his own making. The Zulewski report is filed each week on Sportstalk Radio |
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