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My Thoughts On Bubba Wallace Winning The Brickyard 400 & "Nobody" In The Stands At Indy | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. We have exciting news reported
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  by the Channel 2 weather this morning.
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  They say that this Thursday, the humidity and the steamer, the
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  steamer in Saint Louis is going to come to an end.
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  Praise the Lord, man. It's a it's been a summer to
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  remember. It has been 100° and the
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  humidity has been 110%. I'm excited about that.
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  All right. What a day.
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  Yesterday at Indy. You talk about a lot of
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  storylines. I love it.
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  So let let's get right to it, OK?
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  My brother, Bubba Wallace. Yes, we're related.
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  It's so funny. People for years have, you know,
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  they trying to get me, you know? Hey, Wallace, you related to
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  Bubba? I said, oh, yeah, we're both
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  Wallace's. OK, I'm going to give you my
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  opinion on Bubba, and then we're going to talk about the empty
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  grandstands again. But there's more to those empty
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  grandstands. OK, Bubba Wallace, I've told you
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  all this before, but it's, you know, been years ago.
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  I met Bubba years ago in Concord, NC, at the Cracker
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  Barrel, right by the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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  His mom and dad and Bubba, they were so nice.
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  Gosh, I'm guessing maybe 20 years ago now, maybe not that
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  long, but boy, it's, it's been a while.
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  Let's let's say at least 1215 years ago I met Bubba Wallace
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  when I met him, the nicest, nicest family you'd ever want to
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  meet in your life. I know a little bit more than
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  you all know. You know it.
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  It's like when it's like when I had brother Rusty and Angie
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  Skinner on Kenny conversation, Rusty said something that I
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  really liked. He's got Rusty's got good stuff.
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  He's smart. He says you know when you just
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  know more than people know, when you know information, you can
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  make it a better judgement, right?
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  When when you know more than other people know, it's like
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  they don't know that. So with that being said, let me
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  say this about Bubble. I know that he's a lightning rod
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  and I know that he's controversial.
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  I know that he gets a lot of boos.
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  But I got to be honest with you. There's a reason Ryan Blaney and
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  Bubba Wallace have been best friends and they've been playing
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  music together. You see all the videos out
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  there. There's a reason Denny Hamlin,
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  you know, and Bubba hit it off there.
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  There's so many drivers that like Bubba.
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  Bubba got thrown to the wolves with that whole that whole
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  situation. OK.
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  What I mean by that is that wasn't his deal.
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  That was not his deal. All of a sudden, it just got
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  plopped right on his doorstep. So I don't even pay attention to
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  that whole situation that happened at Talladega.
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  I don't is I La, La La. It's like, man, he's the he's a
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  one and only. You know, Bubba's the one and
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  only. And all of a sudden the whole
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  world turned on him and and hated him.
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  I definitely did not like that. I did not like the angry mob
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  coming at one man. Just imagine for a minute you
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  being one person in life and an angry mob just coming at you
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  when you're like, well, what the hell happened here?
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  You know, you know, at the time everything went down at Teleday.
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  He wasn't even at the racetrack. So that's all I'm going to say
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  about that. So I met him at Cracker Barrel,
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  thought he was a wonderful man. We we laughed, gave each other a
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  hug over having the same last name.
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  You know, I learned he was the real deal.
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  And I think that's why Ryan Blaney and Danny and all them,
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  you know, that it's like Rusty says, they got information that
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  you all aren't Privy to. Bubba Wallace, a good race car
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  driver and everybody always knew it.
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  I knew that right away when he won a super late model race at
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  Bristol. Hell, he won a truck race at
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  Bristol. You can't win Bristol and not be
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  a good driver. So Bubba Wallace has always been
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  a good driver. Now I got to tell you his
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  interview yesterday was incredible.
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  How many days has it been since my last win?
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  And boy, he he caught the whole damn TV people.
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  They they were like, and he said zero.
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  He them right there. He got them.
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  How many days has it been since my last win?
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  And they're like 010 Bitch, it was great.
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  It was great. And now he's a multiple time
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  NASCAR Cup winner at the highest level.
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  And it's very clear that Michael Jordan has him mentally strong
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  because, you know, you could tell that they were ready to
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  interview him. They they asked him some good
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  questions. And boy, he came out straight
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  A's. If if that interview was going
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  to be, you know, like going to school, he knocked it out of the
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  ballpark. Well, what's his feel like?
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  You know, does this, you know, does this make you forget all
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  the hard times he goes? I've been winning the life man
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  because I'm, you know, he's married, got that beautiful
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  baby. That was a master class.
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  What Bubba Wallace did yesterday.
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  That was a master class in you do not control me.
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  You do not get me. I win at life.
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  So that's what I got to say about Bubba.
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  Now, you can continue to hate on him, but I'm afraid to say he's
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  part of that Michael Jordan, Denny Hanlon deal.
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  The more you hate on him, the better he's going to do.
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  He's learned to take that negative energy and use it as
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  fuel, just like my Big Brother Rusty Wallace.
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  Like I've told you in the past, as soon as you start talking
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  about Rusty, you done up because now he's going to do better.
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  One last thing about this with with social media, there's so
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  much negative energy that the greats like me, we, we learn to
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  use it for fuel with us and we will win because we know that it
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  gets to you when we know it gets to you.
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  See, they win. So when you pick on people,
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  they're like, OK, I will you up now.
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  That's the way it works nowadays, because this whole
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  negative aura in life, everybody knows what I'm talking about
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  that old negative aura in life. When you start booing people,
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  they going to they going, they're going to get you and
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  it's going to be one way or another.
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  And Bubba, Bubba 1, he, he straight up 1 so harshly means
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  he won. So good, so bad.
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  Listen, when you line up side by side with what's considered the
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  greatest racer of all time, multiple times, multiple
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  restarts, OK, you might have got Kyle Larson this time.
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  Let's see you do it again. Does it again and again.
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  And I know you all were waiting for me to talk about Bubba this
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  morning. So that's all I got for you.
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  Congratulations, Bubba Wallace. I never want to be in your spot,
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  buddy. You're a strong man.
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  OK, It happened again yesterday, but boy, did I learn a lot.
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  I was at the Saint Louis Cardinal baseball game with Doug
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  and Missy Schoenfeld and my wife Kim had a wonderful time.
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  Of course, you know, had my phone right there and that check
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  up on the race because getting ready to do Herman Schrader here
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  in a little bit and I wanted to know what was up.
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  The game was over and I made a nice little post thanking Doug
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  and Missy Schoenfeld. They gave us the tickets, said
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  thank you to my childhood friend Doug Schoenfeld.
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  And somebody responded, oh you had good a good time at the
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  Cardinal Ball game with all 10 people.
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  So it dawned on me, people even judge crowds at baseball games
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  yesterday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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  Now listen, I know what I'm getting ready to say.
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  What I'm going to say is a really smart ass comment, but
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  you're just going to have to eat it because it's the truth.
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  And I and not being mean, I'm just saying it.
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  The longer you continue to go, oh, look, there's no people at
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  the grandstands while you're not there, that that teaches you
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  that NASCAR does not need you there.
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  Now I see other comments section.
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  I see it people get in arguments with other people and they're
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  like, well, as Kenny Wallace says, they don't need us there.
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  That's right. Now I say a little bit
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  sarcastic, but because you keep trying to judge sports by people
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  in the grandstands, I'm going to say something very provocative.
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  Right now. We are in a new society.
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  Sports is geared for TV because people don't enjoy and they
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  don't have to go to the events anymore.
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  So you ask yourself, if there's nobody in Indy, why do they keep
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  going back? I know the answer because they
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  don't need you at the grandstands.
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  And I know you hate hearing that.
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  You hate it because you think if, if there's no people in the
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  grandstands, you're going to get a prize.
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  Look, there's nobody in the grandstands.
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  Well, number one, you're not there, but you're watching it on
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  TV. Think about it.
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  If you're saying, look, there's nobody in the grandstands, that
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  means you're watching it on TV. So you paid and NASCAR got your
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  money and you think they didn't, but you did.
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  You paid to watch that TV. I was born in 1963.
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  If we'd had ATV like that, we'd have stayed home too.
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  Watched it right there. So I'm going to repeat myself.
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  Sports nowadays is geared up for you to sit your ass at home and
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  watch on TV. And I know I'm going to say it
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  again because I know you're going to keep trying to get me.
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  Sports is now geared up for you to watch it on TV.
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  That's why NASCAR can keep going back to Indianapolis with only
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  40,000 people in the grandstands.
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  There's your answer guys. I don't know what else to tell
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  you there, there. There will be a day where you
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  quit going. Look, there's nobody in the
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  grandstands. You will be learned.
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  They will learn you and you will learn a lesson that we are in a
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  new societal shift. Sports is now meant for big
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  screen TV's. That's a damn 72 inch string.
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  Look here, here's the ball game. There was, there was maybe
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  20,000 people at the ball game yesterday and somebody said look
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  nobody at nobody in the grandstands at Busch Stadium.
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  I thought to myself, they say the same about all sports
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  nowadays. So think about it.
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  Think about it. How do they keep on going?
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  TV money is big. Have a great, great money
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  everybody.