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Was Steve Phelps Just NASCAR's Scapegoat? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning everybody.
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  worldofoutlaws.com. All right, everybody, I've been
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  seeing something out there that I need to respond about.
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  I see there are people out there.
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  There are reporters. I think Jordan Bianchi wrote a
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  article today on this Wednesday that Steve Phelps, even though
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  he's gone, that he's the scapegoat, that there's more
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  problems with NASCAR than Steve Phelps.
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  So in other words, Steve Phelps was the scapegoat.
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  He should have not been let go. Fair.
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  That's fair. So let's talk about it.
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  Why is Steve Phelps, why is he gone from NASCAR?
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  OK, now my response. OK, my response is this, NASCAR
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  has a huge image issue right now.
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  NASCAR is in the repair the damage process.
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  Right now NASCAR does not look good, so they have to repair
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  their image. OK, so right now what's on
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  everybody's mind that is part of NASCAR?
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  Well, the president, the man that owns Bass Pro Shops, Johnny
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  Morse or Johnny Morse, he wrote basically a two page letter
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  condemning Steve Phelps, the commissioner.
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  Once again, I don't know what the hell this commissioner
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  verbiage is that. Start up somewhere.
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  Respond right here if you know about this verbiage,
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  Commissioner. I thought that was only a
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  baseball thing. I was told I was read about
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  Steve Phelps, that Steve Phelps, when he was replaced by Steve
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  O'Donnell as the president. So Steve Phelps was the
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  president like for 20 years. And then last year they moved
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  Steve Phelps into a position that they made-up for
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  international affairs. It it's like, hey, Steve Phelps,
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  go over here and and start working on NASCAR going
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  international. The articles that I read are
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  just everyday articles by everybody.
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  That's my source, articles by everybody that they created a
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  job for Steve Phelps to, you know, work on international
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  affairs. So they created a job and I
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  guess they created this new name called Commissioner.
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  That's the best I can come up with as of yesterday.
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  And they put in Steve O'Donnell as the new president.
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  OK, Now we are still addressing was Steve Phelps, was he a
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  scapegoat? In other words, is, is there
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  other issues? But hey, we're going to let
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  Steve Phelps go because we got an image issue.
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  All right, now that we've talked about what Steve Phelps is up to
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  and where this name commissioner come from, seems to be a lot of
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  hearsay out there. That's an old term that this is
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  true. That's not true, that's hearsay.
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  You say that, but that ain't right.
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  Well, so I just said, you know, I'd be bullshitted it the best I
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  could. So they created a position for
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  him. You know, like I said, dot it
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  up. All right, today, why is Steve
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  Phelps gone? Because the president, the man
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  that created Bass Pro Shops, the company, the company guy's worth
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  a lot of money. A lot of money.
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  Maybe billions. Hell, I don't know.
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  Google it. How much is Johnny Morse worth?
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  The owner of Bass Pro Shops? Respond right here.
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  So Johnny writes this long letter.
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  Now, Johnny's 3 1/2 hours up the road up here in Springfield, MO
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  Bass pros all over America. There's Bass pros everywhere.
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  They're huge and they spend a lot of money in NASCAR.
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  Johnny is good friends with Richard Childress.
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  OK, you start putting the dots together.
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  I'm explaining to you why Steve Phelps is gone.
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  And there are some people today saying that Steve Phelps should
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  have not been let go. There's more problems.
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  And Steve Phelps was a scapegoat.
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  So Johnny Morse writes this letter, and we've all read it.
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  And basically it reads that Richard Shielders is a legend.
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  He's done more for this sport than anybody ever will.
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  And, you know, Richard's 70 plus years old.
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  Steve Phelps is a young man. How dare Steve Phelps come in
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  here and talk so badly about Richard Childress.
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  Now you say to yourself, well, that was just, you know, an
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  e-mail, a text. Well, let's go back to hearsay.
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  Perry Mason. Perry Mason, that was a, that
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  was an old, you know, 30 minute, one hour weekly TV show.
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  Perry Mason. He was the prosecutor and back
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  in the day they'd yell out he that's hearsay.
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  Hearsay means that's not true. We don't know that's hearsay.
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  Well, nowadays we got, here's what, here's what we got
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  nowadays here. Here it is.
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  You said it. So you see what I'm saying?
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  Nowadays it's like here it is, you said it.
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  It's not hearsay. So I understand what the word
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  scapegoat means. It means everybody talks like
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  that. He, he just got caught, right,
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  Right. Going back to NASCAR's image
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  issue. So Steve Phelps said it and, and
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  and it's it's kind of like monopoly.
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  We all start with a lot of money and it's up to you to you know,
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  everybody gets the same amount of money, Monopoly and it and if
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  you make the wrong business decisions, you lose at the game
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  of Monopoly. So I've had no issues with Steve
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  Phelps. And if you notice, I don't
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  condemn Steve Phelps. I don't talk bad about him.
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  I'm giving you I'm giving you my opinion.
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  Steve Phelps is gone because people in the in the in the
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  industry, powerful people forget about you, forget about you.
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  Although all the fans wanted Steve Phelps gone, when you get
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  when you get letters from the sponsors of NASCAR that
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  basically are the billionaires. Think about Johnny Morse in that
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  letter he wrote from bass pro So NASCAR has an image issue.
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  I don't think Steve Phelps could have walked around the pit area.
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  And everybody, could you imagine Steve Phelps just the first week
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  at Daytona? How could he have walked around
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  the garage area? Now, once again, Steve Phelps
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  has always been good to me. But we have an image issue here
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  at NASCAR and it's got to be corrected.
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  So whether Steve Phelps was a scapegoat or not, hey, there's
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  an old joke out there that I'd love to tell and I'll say it,
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  but I'll clean it up big time. A man builds 10 bridges.
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  You know where I'm going with this?
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  And he does one bad thing. All of a sudden those ten
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  bridges he built, it don't mean nothing because he did one bad
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  thing. You know the joke, you can fill
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  it in. So let's just say let let's give
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  Steve helps, let's give him credit.
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  Steve Phelps did 20 years at NASCAR of all good.
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  He done 1 bad thing and all of a sudden that bad thing is who he
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  is. Now listen, we're all big boys.
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  Hell, I you know, we're, we're all big boys.
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  He will recover. Steve Phelps will recover.
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  He'll move on. But the bottom line is, for the
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  4th time, NASCAR has an image issue, and this is where it
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  starts. All right, everybody have a
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  great Wednesday.