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Michael Jordan Said He's Suing NASCAR Because "Somebody Had To" | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  I have some hotel coffee. Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn.
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  OK, let's talk about the NASCAR lawsuit.
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  It really changed tones on Friday.
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  It seemed like everybody became very emotional.
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  Mark Martin put out a social media post.
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  How sad he is about this. Rick Mast did a nice 8 minute,
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  almost a eulogy, almost as if we're, you know, NASCAR was
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  dying and how do we come back from it.
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  But both Mark Martin and Rick Mast, both were very emotional.
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  How do we come back from this now that we know what NASCAR has
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  said about all of us? I don't know what they're going
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  to do. Mark Martin is like Mark Martin
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  was. I don't know if Mark Martin
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  said. I don't know if there's a path
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  to recovery. So very emotional.
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  I think everybody has realized that we bitched and moaned and
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  hated on NASCAR and we realize now it's real and it is very
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  sad. That's all there is to it.
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  You can hate all you want, but that don't matter anymore.
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  The hate don't the hate don't matter anymore because it's it's
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  here. You know what I mean?
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  You know when you hate something, you know you.
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  I want to see that son of a bitch dead and then he dies and
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  you're like, oh, so NASCAR is in trouble almost on its deathbed.
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  I didn't really look at it that way until Mark Martin said he
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  does not see a path for recovery.
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  And then Rick Mass says they can recovery, they can recover any,
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  any kind of setting in a way that it was hard to understand.
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  I understood it basically it in my opinion.
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  Rick said some people need to be fired, recognize what they did
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  wrong, apologize and let's go racing boys.
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  And I agree with that. I think some people need to be
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  fired and I think they need to apologize for the way they
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  talked in those emails and let's go racing boys.
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  We're big boys. Yesterday the the court
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  highlights for me was Heather Gibbs, Joe Gibbs
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  daughter-in-law. She was very emotional.
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  She said she felt like NASCAR put a gun to their head and they
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  did not want to sign Joe Gibbs Racing.
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  Heather Gibbs said they did not want to sign.
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  They weren't going to sign and NASCAR said sign or you're,
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  you're out of of NASCAR. Basically, no charter means
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  you're out. A charter is very valuable, but
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  it wasn't a charter that Joe Gibbs and them wanted to sign.
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  But they felt like their family legacy would be destroyed and
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  they she didn't be want to be the one to destroy it.
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  So that was very sad. Her testimony was then they went
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  to Michael Jordan and Butterman, NASCAR attorney.
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  I think his tragedy, his tragedy was right.
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  Now, a lot of people say Butterman was a fanboy, but I
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  didn't look at it that way. I thought NASCAR don't want to
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  muddy the waters. They don't want to trash the
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  greatest athlete in the world. How would that look on NASCAR if
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  they trashed Michael Jordan? Michael Jordan's the one that's
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  really suing them. Michael Jordan's the one that's
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  got the money. Now, Denny Hanlon's got some
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  money, but nothing like, I mean, I think I read that Michael
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  Jordan is worth $3.8 billion. Yeah, knocking down three 5400
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  million a year. So Michael Jordan's the one
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  that's got all the money. But they took it easy on Michael
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  Jordan. Michael Jordan said, listen, I
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  attended Talladega when I was a kid.
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  And the reason I'm suing you all is somebody had to, none of the
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  other callers could do it because it's what they kind of
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  do for a living. And you know, you look at Rick
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  Hendrick, you look at Penske, it works for them because they they
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  got dealerships. Racing is not what they do for a
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  living. But Michael Jordan said the
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  reason I'm suing you is because somebody had to do this.
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  And and basically now Michael didn't say this, but Michael's
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  the one. He's the only one that could do
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  it. And he said, I'm doing this
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  because I love this sport and I want to make it more like a
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  partnership. When NASCAR does good, the team
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  should do good. So Michael Jordan's, you know
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  what he said Michael Jordan's, I guess what do you call that on
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  the stand? Michael Jordan's, you know what
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  he said was heartfelt. It wasn't bad.
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  I wasn't. I wasn't mad at Michael Jordan.
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  I thought everything he said was heartfelt.
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  He's like, I love NASCAR, but y'all are taking too much and
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  nobody's here to call you out. And then if anybody, now this
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  was key. Michael Jordan said if anybody
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  were to call you out, you would. What term did he use?
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  Browbeat, in other words. In other words, Michael Jordan
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  said if you talked bad about NASCAR, they'd do like this.
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  I guess that's what browbeat means.
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  Browbeat like your eyes like, hey, NASCAR, I want to talk to
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  you about having a better deal. And they'd go, you know, kind of
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  make you look like bad. So Michael Jordan said, I'm the
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  only one that could do this. NASCAR does better.
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  The teams do better. I got to tell you what Michael
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  Jordan said. It was heartfelt and I liked it
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  because he said I respect what NASCAR's done.
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  Butterman did say that. He's like he wanted Michael
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  Jordan to admit that NASCAR's the king.
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  And Michael did. He said, I love, I really
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  respect what the France family has done here.
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  But my God, you got to share a little bit more is what Michael
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  Jordan said. All right, everybody, I see you
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  all down there at the Dome downtown Saint Louis last night.
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  Ricky Thornton came from 9th in the A main in the qualifier.
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  He looked good, he won. I think it's going to be a hell
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  of an A main tonight. I think the A main is going to
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  come down between Brandon Shepherd, B Shep, Ricky
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  Thornton. I think in the A mods, I think
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  Mike Harrison is going to just annihilate the field.
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  I mean, that's just the way I feel.
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  I don't I don't think Ricky Thornton has anything for Mike
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  Harrison tonight in the modifieds.
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  I said Mike Harrison wins by a damn straight away.
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  All right, everybody, sorry I didn't mess my hairs up today
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  for you. This is really the way they
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  look. Can you got anything to say?
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  No, no, Hold on, let's take a look at her.
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  No, she ain't got. Look how pretty a baby is.
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  No. Hi, baby.
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  Good morning. Leave me alone.
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  Are you? Are you happy to finally relax?
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  Yeah, I'm going out there pretty soon.
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  It's nice out there. It's sunny all right, GI Joe
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  over and out. Have a great Saturday.