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Is NASCAR Going Back To A 10-Race Chase? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  NASCAR yesterday, on Wednesday, came out with their starting
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  times and what network everything is going to be on.
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  I got to tell you, I saw a schedule and something drew my
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  attention, made my head turn. The last 10 races of the year
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  were in bold print. Something tells me that they're
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  getting closer on a decision about how we're going to crown a
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  champion. What do I think?
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  I think it's it's going to have, it's going to be something to do
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  with the last 10 races. You know, something that Mark
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  Martin said that he wouldn't have a problem with is 10 race,
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  you know, to crown a champion like we used to do.
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  If you remember, go back now, go back.
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  You know, we ran 36 races. We crowned a champion.
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  What was that first one called? Was it called the Chase?
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  Something like that? Kurt Busch was crowned a
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  champion. Nobody said anything about that.
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  It was very exciting. If you remember, it came down to
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  Kurt Busch, you know, had a bad vibration.
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  He come off at turn 4. The wheel was a loose and you
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  remember the wheel went down the front straightaway and that
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  threw a caution flag and he stayed on pit Rd. got the got
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  the tire wheel put back on and he won the championship just by
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  a little bit. I think he had to finish 10th.
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  But I believe Mark Martin said he wouldn't mind something like
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  that. But if you remember, Mark said
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  I'm not going to agree to any 443, something like that.
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  He didn't want to go whittling down.
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  So we will see. I don't know.
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  I did read an article that NASCAR said, look, we're still
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  working on it, which is surprising to me.
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  I think NASCAR's wanting to get everybody's thought and run it
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  through the ringer. But as of right now, I'm
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  thinking now. Respond right here.
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  I know nobody wants a playoff anymore.
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  You've made that clear. We've spent over 7 days talking
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  to Mark Martin and I clearly said to Mark, Mark, how did you
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  see what I did not see? And Mark explained it to me and
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  I and I told everybody, I said I I have never liked A1 race
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  determining champion. And I've always been consistent
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  that I don't like one race determine a champion because
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  I've always said from the beginning, I don't like somebody
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  breaking a Jack on a final pit stop.
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  And because you're Jack broke, you're not the champion.
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  So I'll go with you all. You've changed my mind as far as
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  the playoffs. I wanted to see a three race
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  playoff. I said, I love the playoffs, but
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  I want a three. I want to see three races, Mark
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  Martin said. I'll go with 10 races, that's
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  fine, but I'm not going 4434 kicks them out, four kicks them
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  out, something like that. So it's looking more and more
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  like NASCAR's going to do something at the last 10.
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  That's all I can say. I can't, can't I?
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  It's hard for me to read between the lines right now.
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  I don't know. But if I were to go back in
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  history and go, hey, nobody, nobody, they did not mind the
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  last 10 races. So in other words, you go 26
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  races and at the end of 26 races, these guys are going for
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  the championship. You know who, whatever it is,
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  and then the last 10 races determine your champion.
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  So respond right here. Mark Martin said he wouldn't
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  mind that. Mark Martin said he would not
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  mind, you know, go 26 races and say the last 10 guys, you know,
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  are in, you know, the championship.
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  I think what he called it was it called the Chase for the
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  championship. I think that's what it was.
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  I think that's what I just remembered.
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  Respond right here. Help me out.
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  OK, Now that's what I see on this schedule.
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  Now I want to dress. I see a lot of people out there.
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  You know, I got to be honest with you, I got direct TVI got,
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  you know, I got DIRECTV. And I don't know what I spend a
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  month on my TV, maybe $200 a month, which is a lot of money
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  and I know that. But my wife's here and her
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  mother lives here and they want to watch what they want to
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  watch. And I work hard and I pay the
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  bill. That's my job there.
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  There's an old saying. There's an old saying that made
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  me laugh. Filbert Martasi, my old car
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  owner with red dog. He said, Herman, what kind of
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  man are you if you cannot keep your wife in the mall?
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  I said to myself, Filbert, I got one for you.
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  What kind of man are you if you cannot keep your wife in the
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  casino? I work hard.
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  I work hard and I pay for the TVI pay for everything around
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  here. That's my job.
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  So I just, I'm not into saving money on TV.
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  It's, it's important to my wife and her mother to watch what
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  they want to watch. And I realize not everybody has
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  the money to watch what they want to watch.
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  So NASCAR is going to start the year out on on Antenna TV, Free
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  TV, which we all know none of it's free anymore.
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  Because to just get to just get antenna TV, you, you got to have
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  YouTube and you got to pay for the Wi-Fi to get to YouTube.
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  So you going to pay for Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi is going to be 60
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  to $80.00 a month. So as far as free Tvi realize I
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  just call it that. I just call it Free TV.
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  It's not free because people say I got YouTube.
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  I'm like, you got to get Wi-Fi to get to YouTube, whether it's
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  on your phone or on your TV. But I am with you all.
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  It does drive me nuts chasing these TV channels all over the
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  place. But I got to tell you,
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  everybody, you know, we can only complain so much because if you
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  watch the NFL, they're doing the same damn thing.
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  All sports, all sports are doing this.
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  I've seen some NFL games on Apple TV and these people, they
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  just trying to get your money. So so you come over here this to
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  this app and that Hulu and Prime and this and that.
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  But but for the most part this year I see it on Prime.
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  I think that's about it. Prime.
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  But most everybody, you know, I'd say one thing about Prime,
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  everybody's got Prime because everybody's got Amazon.
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  So if you got Amazon, you know, and you're buying off Amazon and
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  you're a Prime member, you got Prime.
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  I think it's already paid. Check it out.
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  You've already paid for it because you're, you're a Prime
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  member with Amazon. So when your wife's ordering all
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  your stuff, you already get it free.
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  But as far as the TV channels, all I can tell you guys is every
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  sport in America is doing it. It's it's not all NASCAR, it's
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  NFL, it's Major League Baseball. It's NHL.
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  It's the day of the times. Everybody.
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  All right, listen, this one went a little long, but we had a lot
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  to talk about. Have a great Thursday.