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When Fans Complain About Races Does That Just Mean They Care? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday, everybody. Hey Wallace, does your arm get
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  tired of holding that Sunoco coffee cup up all the time?
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  Is the way I can tell you've never watched.
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  So welcome to Coffee with Kenny. I can always tell when
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  somebody's brand new and it makes me happy because they all
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  say, hey Wallace, don't your arm get tired holding that coffee
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  cup up The whole time I'm like, I've been holding that thing up
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  like that for over a year. It feels good.
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  All right. Yesterday evening I mother some
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  people because I just got tired of all the bitching and moaning.
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  You know what the response was when we quit complaining?
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  That means we don't care anymore.
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  Oh, reminds me of ODW Darrell Waltrip years ago.
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  He said just because we complain doesn't mean we we hate the
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  sport. So I guess the more you all
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  complain, the more you like the sport.
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  Is that, Is that where we're going with this?
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  Respond right here? I bitch and moan all the time
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  because I love the sport so much.
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  There could be something to that.
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  There could be something to that.
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  Maybe, maybe you all might win me over with your bitching and
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  moaning. 24782 days a day, 82 days a week, 485 days a year.
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  It never ends. My God, my ears hurt.
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  All right, so perception is today's talk.
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  Perception, reality. So we know that our sport is
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  down what, 70% from the glory days.
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  So on the glory days we would 200,000 people and we all know
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  that. But the sport is still thriving.
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  There's more money in the sport right now than there's ever
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  been. By the way, I just thought about
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  this because I saw it. The TV ratings came out just now
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  for the Masters. The Masters is golf's greatest
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  game. It's kind of like our Daytona
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  512,500,000. People watched the Masters, and
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  boy, it was a good one. Rory McIlroy won over Justin
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  Rose. I watched it.
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  You know, they tied after four days of golfing, they tied and
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  Rory, Rory and Justin both had great shots, but Rory's shot
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  come rolling back right to the damn hole.
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  And of course, Rory McIlroy finally won a Masters.
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  My point is this. The great thing about golf is
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  this. Everybody can golf, everybody
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  can golf and one might say, oh, golf is expensive compared to
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  what? From what I hear, hockey is the
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  most expensive sport for any family.
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  If if you got a child and you want to go play hockey, they say
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  renting the rink, buying the equipment is incredibly
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  expensive. The reason golf is such a great
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  game is anybody can golf, you know, it's relatively cheap, you
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  know, to go golfing. You can buy a used set of clubs
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  and or you can borrow your buddy's set of clubs.
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  It's not like you have to have a set of clubs.
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  You can go golfing with somebody and you both can use the same
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  set. You both can, you know, save up
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  and whatever it costs to go to your, you know, golf course,
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  whatever it is, brings me to this.
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  Racing is really expensive. It's a very expensive sport and
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  not everybody can race right. There is a reason why there was
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  12,500,000 people watching the Masters because everybody is a
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  golfer and everybody could have made that putt.
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  You know, when when Justin Rose missed his putt, you know, there
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  were some people going, oh man, I could have made that.
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  You see those people, they love it.
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  And, and I think golf is a wonderful game too.
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  As as Rodger Penske says, you better learn how to golf because
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  that's where all the sponsorship deals are made in racing on the
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  golf course. That's why you see a lot of
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  racers learn how to golf because if you're going to work with
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  corporate America, they love the golf, those CE OS, they love the
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  golf. You go on the golf course,
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  become friends, have a couple drinks and then you golf.
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  All right, perception versus reality.
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  So we know that in golfing, everybody can golf and, and what
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  are you, what are you going to bitch about in golfing?
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  What what can you bitch about? Right?
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  Not much. It's like, what did you know you
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  had you had golf versus live and you know they're going to play
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  over in Abu Dhabi, but that was just politics that had nothing
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  to do with the sport. Like like golfing like so brings
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  me to this too. Had a couple people say Bristol
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  was empty. I'm like, it's seats 155,000
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  people, everybody it's going to be empty.
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  So all the other tracks, they got rid of their seats and you
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  don't hear that much about those tracks.
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  But Bristol cannot get rid of their seats because so many
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  years ago, what was it? Tennessee balls played West
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  Virginia. Respond right here.
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  I, I know you people in Virginia, you get really
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  critical of your Virginia's and your West Virginia's.
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  It's kind of like North Carolina, South Carolina.
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  But you know, North Carolina and South Carolina, you never hear
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  that. I guess there was never a civil
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  war between North and South Carolina.
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  But y'all in Virginia you got you get pissed when it's named
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  wrong. I've learned that.
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  Tell me why that is Respond right here.
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  So anyway, they, they set a baseball or no, excuse me, they
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  set a football record there, you know, 135,000 people.
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  So we talked about this last week, you do not want to get rid
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  of grandstands at Bristol because Bristol is where they're
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  holding world records. So it leads me to this, August
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  2nd, the Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves are going to play
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  there and they want to set an attendance record.
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  However, when you go out to the Phoenix Raceway holds about
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  60,000 people, the crowd looks good, perception, look, the
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  stands are empty, but yet there's record amount of money
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  in the sport and we're averaging about two and a half million
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  people watching every week. I'm going to leave you all with
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  this. You say that and you say that an
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  empty arena looks ugly. You say I'm going to say it
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  again, you say, but but an empty arena looks ugly.
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  When you complain all the time, it looks ugly.
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  So I don't want you guys to keep complaining.
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  It hurts my ears. And plus when you complain again
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  all the time, it grows on you. You become a complainer, see?
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  So that's where I differentiate. When people say just because I
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  complain that that means I care. No, complaining looks ugly.
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  It hurts my ears, and it's all about me.
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  You know, there's going to be somebody new on here going at
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  Wallace's Sarcastic. The moral of the story of the
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  day is yes, you can complain, but I'll probably mute you so I
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  don't have to hear you because I get exhausted.
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  And as far as there being empty seats, that's because the place
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  seats 155,000 people. And as far as the car, the next
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  Gen. car, the next Gen. car is the car.
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  And we had four incredible races.
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  We've had two races where 2 drivers have completely
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  dominated and you're bitching is so loud it hurts my ears.
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  I said it yesterday, Kyle Larson is a thing of beauty.
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  He is complete domination. Years ago Darryl Waltrip won
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  seven races in a row and the stands were packed at Bristol.
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  There was 30,000 people there. Maybe couple front stretch
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  grandstands, couple back stretch grandstands, perception.
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  Darrell Walter won seven in a row and there might have been
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  30,000 people there. Have a great, great Tuesday,
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  everybody.