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Coffee With Kenny | Here's Why Kyle Larson is OUT of the NASCAR Playoffs & My Championship Picks! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  I'm in the pool house 'cause it's a rainy, rainy day here in
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  Saint Louis. We have flash flood warnings
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  everywhere. I I think we are national news.
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  My buddy Les Hannah up there in Michigan, he said are y'all
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  floating away down there? So if he knows that from
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  Michigan, well, we must be national news.
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  And yes, it has been raining unbelievably all night.
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  All right, you all want Kyle Larson installed into the
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  championship for you all want a fifth person put in the
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  championship. It is Tuesday morning and you
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  all are still out of breath. You cannot believe, you just
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  cannot get over Kyle Larson, who won double the amount of races.
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  He won six this year. The second closest person was
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  three. Kyle Larson dominated with laps
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  LED. So I don't know what to tell
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  you. Everybody except Kyle Larson is
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  great and I'm with you. But I lose you because I think a
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  lot of you are forgetting we are in the playoffs.
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  We are in the playoffs. And even Kyle Larson after the
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  race at Martinsville, he said we just did not perform this month.
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  So I'm going to urge you to think about what you're, what
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  you're thinking about you. You want Kyle Larson to go to
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  the Championship 4 in Phoenix, but we are in the playoffs.
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  We're in the playoffs now we're going to the championship round.
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  So I can't go with you on this one to say, hey, Kyle Arson won
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  the most races this year and and he led the most labs.
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  How can he not be in the championship four?
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  Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's it's very simple.
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  Kyle Larson himself said it after the race at Martinsville.
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  He said we just got did not perform it and you know, listen,
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  his crew chief left him out there with with 20 lap bolt
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  tires. Same thing with Christopher
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  Bell. So that that strategy at
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  Martinsville did not work. Now, I like Kyle Larson more
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  than you 'cause we're dirt racing friends and we
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  interviewed Kyle Larson right here on Kenny conversation.
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  We interviewed Caitlin Larson right here on Kenny
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  Conversation. All right, I like him too.
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  And I know you're hurt, but we are in the playoffs for the
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  third time. I'm going to say it.
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  We are in the playoffs. And he petered out.
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  He fell out. All right, Hopefully I put that
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  to bed. I think all of you forgot these
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  are the playoffs. I think you've I think you think
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  this is still the regular season and that for some reason, you
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  know, some people should be able to run for the championship in
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  the very last race of the year. And it just don't work that way
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  in any sports. All sports have playoffs and
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  then somebody goes to the Super Bowl or the World Series.
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  OK, all right, let's have a little fun, everybody.
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  Quiet, little pause for a minute until we move to the next one.
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  I am going to put my ass on the line.
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  I'm going to give you my championship picks.
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  Drum roll, please, ladies and gentlemen, to win the NASCAR Cup
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  champion. He will go back-to-back from
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  Ohio. His diddy's from Ohio, but he's
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  born down there in North Carolina.
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  Ryan Blaney, Ryan Blaney's doing the same thing he did last year.
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  He handled really good at Martinsville, just like he did
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  last year. I I'm going to say something
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  though, before I move on to the Xfinity Series.
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  I'm going to make my call right here.
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  And I don't care if I'm wrong because the herminator don't
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  don't care if he's right or wrong on predicting because it
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  can come down to a pit stop. But here's what I'm going to
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  say. Our four drivers that are in the
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  championship chase, not a one of them win the race at mark at
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  Phoenix. So I said it, say what you mean
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  and mean what you say. Last year nobody in the in the
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  full, the top 4 championship won Phoenix.
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  If you remember, Ross Chastain won the race at Phoenix last
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  year and he was not in the championship chase.
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  So I'm going to say we're going to do the same thing this year
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  back-to-back and here's why. We have a lot of good cars left
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  out. I say Kyle Larson can win the
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  race, Denny Hamlin can win the race.
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  You see what I'm saying? Brad Kevilslowski, he's rolling.
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  He could win the race. So we got good cars.
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  We got great cars that did not perform and did not get into the
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  championship. So I'm going to say Ryan Blaney
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  wins the championship and somebody out of the championship
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  wins the race, just like last year.
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  All right, everybody, Now we're going to move on to the NASCAR
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  Xfinity Series. The NASCAR Xfinity Series.
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  It's going to be it's going to be back-to-back again for Cole
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  Custer. Cole Custer is going to win
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  Phoenix. He's going to win the
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  championship and wow, what a prediction.
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  You got the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series with back-to-back
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  champions. All right, you all respond right
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  here. I will go to the Truck Series.
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  All right, let's do it again. We got Kenny Wallace has Ryan
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  Blaney winning the championship back-to-back.
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  He's going to win it and the race is going to be win by
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  somebody not in the championship.
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  In the Xfinity Series, it's going to be Cole Custer.
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  He's going to win it all. He's going to win the race and
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  the championship. All right, in the Truck Series.
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  I know he hasn't done much in a while, but I'm going to go with
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  with Heim, Corey Heim. I just feel like he's got a lot
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  of speed at times. I don't feel like, you know, I
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  just know he runs good there. Now, I can't help but if these
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  things come down to a pit stop. So leave me out of that.
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  I've told everybody, they say Herman, who's going to win the
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  championship. I've said it's going to come
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  down to a last pit stop like it does all the time.
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  So I'm going to say Corey Heim wins in the NASCAR Truck Series.
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  Wow. All right everybody, I told you
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  why you all are wrong. I don't mean to be mean, I'm
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  just saying I'm reminding you to remember we are in the playoffs.
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  But you guys are lit. I will.
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  I opened up X on this Tuesday morning and you all are still
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  raging. Raging that NASCAR did not get
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  this right. He should be in the playoffs,
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  the championships. I'm like, we are in the
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  playoffs. He didn't do it.
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  He didn't do it everybody. So respond right here.
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  Keep pleading your case. All right?
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  We got 15 seconds left. I want to let you all know that
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  I I recognize that today's a big day.
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  It's Election Day. No matter what happens, do what
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  I'm going to do. Breathe deep, everybody.
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  We live in the greatest land of all.
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  We're going to be all right.