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This Weekend is a HUGE Deal! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning everybody.
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  It's a big day because we are going to park our truck and
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  trailers inside the Dome for the Big Dome Racing weekend.
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  People from all over the world, they'll be here because there's
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  never been anything like it. 7-8 years ago, they said you're
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  going to do what? We're going to race inside the
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  Dome where the Rams used to play football.
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  What is it seven years later, It's the biggest success in
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  racing, hearing rumblings that they're going to have to open up
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  the second ring of grandstands up top.
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  That means we're going to start getting into the 2030 thousand
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  range of people. The lower ring, you hear maybe
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  15,000 people, whatever it is. But when you go up to the second
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  ring, you know you have to open the second story of the Dome.
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  Usually they have plastic all over the seats.
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  That means it's big time. So the reason this race is such
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  a success is because it's wild. It's it's it's the damnedest
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  thing you've ever seen. It is.
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  It's going to be on flow, the app, which is big.
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  They have a record view. So we do know that.
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  Like El Dora, you know, you know Kings Royal, you know, go to
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  Knoxville, Volusia, We know that there are crown jewels in racing
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  and the Dome is never a crown jewel because it's it's a
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  theatrical race. You know, if you'll win it, it's
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  a big deal. If you don't know.
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  The joke going around is if I wreck my car, we're going to
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  load it up and drink beer. But let me say this, I believe
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  that the Dome is the biggest viewed race in America on flow
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  for the year. I'm thinking respond right here
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  if you agree, don't agree. And here's why.
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  It's December. There's nothing to do.
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  It's not going to get weathered out because it's in the Dome.
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  Another thing that's pretty wild, 100, 100 and something I
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  think 150 super late models entered and they only start 20
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  or 18 so. So think about it but what's the
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  percentage, what's the chance you even have of going to the A
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  main. So although the A main is
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  spectacular, it's it's really just the ending, right?
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  Because it's it's all about the show.
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  You know, you're qualifying your heat race, you're whatever.
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  So once again, this event is something like no other.
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  There's an old saying, we used to say it at Bristol for the
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  NASCAR Cup race. Racing dirt inside the Dome is
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  like flying fighter jets inside a gymnasium.
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  It's insane. It's off the charts.
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  So big weekend here in Saint Louis.
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  Like anything, it's going to go by like that.
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  So I'm going to try to soak it all in.
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  We park today, on Wednesday, just get parked inside the
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  Convention Center. Then when we go race, we take
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  our race cars, we start them up, we go outside onto the city
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  streets in Saint Louis, go down the city street that feels so
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  weird. And then we drive into the Dome.
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  So the Dome and the Convention Center are connected all right.
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  One other piece of business. Pause.
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  Went to the Saint Louis Blues game last night, Had a real good
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  time with Gordy Gundaker, Nick Hoffman and a couple of Nick
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  Hoffman's new crew members. I just got to know him.
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  We had a really good time. The Blues lost six to four.
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  But like one hour after the game, one hour after the game,
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  they fire fire the legendary coach of the Blues, Barubi.
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  They call him the Chief because he's a he's a tough looking man.
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  The chief, he's the man. He brought our Blues their only
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  Stanley Cup trophy. So therefore, he'll he'll always
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  go down in Saint Louis history as the man.
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  I'm going to skip to the good part.
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  Like the song says, let's skip to the good part.
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  Why they firing capital? WHY?
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  Why did they fire Coach Barubi after being such a legend?
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  Right, The only coach ever, you know, to win the Stanley Cup.
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  And what a couple, three years later they fire him because you
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  kind of take out the COVID years, right?
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  There were two years there with the COVID stuff, just so really
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  only like 2 years, 2-3 years removed and they fire the coach
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  of the Saint Louis Blues. Let me go with this.
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  I don't know what happened, but I I already know what happened
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  because of my age. I'm 60 and I've seen the movie.
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  I've seen the movie. It it's not about.
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  It's not about losing and winning.
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  You can. You can be a smart ass and all.
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  It's all about losing and winning.
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  No, it ain't. All it took was for coach to get
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  in some type of debate with Doug Armstrong, who runs the team,
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  not the owner, but runs it. And all it takes was Baru Baruvi
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  to say I'm out of here. If you don't agree with the way
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  I'm coaching this team, take it. And then.
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  And then Armstrong probably said, well, that all right and
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  hot heads. Hot heads, most likely an
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  argument. Now what?
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  These things never come out until years later.
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  That's like when the Saint Louis Cardinals fired Schilt.
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  It really never comes out. But the media ends up finding
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  out, you know, it's like they said Schilt got fired.
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  He was having success. We were doing good with the
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  Cardinals, but they said he became hard to work with that he
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  wanted things his way. Well, no kidding.
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  You ever worked? Have you ever worked around
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  Rusty Wallace? It was simple with Rusty.
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  You just did what he said and you went to Victor Lane.
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  So sometimes when people are good, they have a clear vision.
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  Unfortunately out. Unfortunately, nowadays people
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  want to know everything. What are we doing?
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  You know, they want to be included in everything.
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  Sometimes leaders like a like a bill bill check or a you know
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  the the coach down there at you know Nick Saban down there at
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  Alabama. You know when when you get
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  coaches that are winners, you just go with them, you just go
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  with them and you're going to win.
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  But nowadays in this world where you know why, how come, why are
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  you breathing? Well because you know.
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  So I'm I'm sure that Barubi got fired because Armstrong and him
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  came to some type of disagreement right after the
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  game. It was it was a tough loss but
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  it was a hell of a game. I believe we we pulled our
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  goalie a little early, but that's just, that's just bench
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  racing. That's just quarterback talk.
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  Easy to say you know. So I'm going to clear it all up.
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  I believe Chief was fired because he got into a pissing
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  match right after the game with Armstrong over difference in the
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  way to coach the team. However, I do not believe he was
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  politely fired. Coach, we're going to relieve
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  you of your duties. Thank you for your service.
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  No. Anyone happened?
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  There was a pissing match involved.
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  Too abrupt. Too quick.
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  An hour after. Again, now, they announced it
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  one hour after the game, so it probably happened like minutes
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  after the game. I respond right here.
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  Tell me if you're going to the Dome and tell me why you think
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  the Doug Armstrong fired our only Stanley Cup coach ever in
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  the history of the Blues, All right?