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Baseball at Bristol & Local Tracks Are Charging Big Money For Pit Passes | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning everybody.
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  Well, let's get right to it real quick before I miss it.
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  Look here, NASCAR. Bristol Motor Speedway is
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  hosting a baseball game inside the Bristol Motor Speedway.
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  Look at there. It's Cincinnati Reds versus the
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  Atlanta Braves at the Bristol. Look there.
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  Look that ballpark right inside the racetrack.
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  Ain't that awesome? OK, I feel like when you go to
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  Busch Stadium right here to watch the Cardinals, hell here
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  lately half the time they got a concert going on.
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  Look at there World's fastest half mile.
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  Hey, anything that helps our sport, I call it cross
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  promotion, cross marketing. Now that that baseball field,
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  there we go. 5:00 today, coverage begins 5:00 first
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  pitch, Speedway classic. OK, let's talk about it.
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  OK, I'm going to give you all types of ideas.
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  Hell, last night, last night, Tri-City Speedway, Granite City,
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  IL. Let me turn TV down now.
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  All right, That was my promo. That was my promo.
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  Tri-City Speedway, Granite City, IL last night.
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  I run second. It was a it was a great run.
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  Rick Canorder won. He's been tough to beat, but
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  listen, Michael Long, who's a who's a last year's national
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  champ and he run 4th. But that's that's the way it
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  goes. When you when you when you race
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  against tough guys like I do, you don't win them all.
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  This is not one of these deals where old little Herman run that
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  old dirt car. These guys I race, they're
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  Speedy Gonzales, they're they're good.
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  So I was happy with second last night.
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  Tonight is Highland Speedway, Highland, IL OK, let me give you
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  some examples of this cross promotion.
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  You know, it's kind of like why are they putting a Major League
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  Baseball field inside Bristol Motor Speedway?
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  Why are they doing that? Well, first of all, why not,
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  right? Because over here, Tri-City
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  Speedway last week or what was it a couple weeks ago, we didn't
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  race because they had what they called a mud run.
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  They, they took off, they said no racing because we're going to
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  have like 400 girls or thousands of girls.
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  And they, they use this course and they run through the dirt
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  track and over these hills. And so all these ladies and it's
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  some type of what they call a mud run, Hell them, they'll make
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  more money off all those hundreds of girls running.
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  They pay a fee and they set up a big course.
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  And also, it's like those girls might have never seen the
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  racetrack. So it's an opportunity to go,
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  hey, look, there's a racetrack here.
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  Same thing, though. Let's take a drink of coffee.
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  Let's talk about other ways that this Major League Baseball game
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  inside the Bristol Motor Speedway.
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  Why? It's good.
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  OK, Busch Stadium or the Saint Louis Cardinals play the amount
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  of big concerts that they they hold there.
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  Can you imagine if you weren't really a baseball fan and all of
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  a sudden you go, man, let's, let's go see, you know, Kid
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  Rock, he's going to be a Busch Stadium.
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  You know, he, he's not going to be at a Dome because it's
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  summertime and summer concerts. They called that the summer
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  classic at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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  So you you go to the baseball stadium and you might have never
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  gone there. And plus they're making some
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  money. So I'm assuming that's what
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  Marcus Smith is doing here. Like, you know who's the one
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  that came up with this idea? You look at the last thing that
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  they did at Bristol Motor Speedway, which was now I always
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  get it wrong and you all are always here to correct me.
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  But you look at what was it Tennessee versus Virginia,
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  something like that or or West Virginia, don't I know you
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  Virginia people get very sensitive.
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  I'm separating y'all. But you know, they said it a
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  college football attendance record at Bristol Motor Speedway
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  put in got 100 and 3500 and whatever it was like more people
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  attended that college football game at Bristol Motor Speedway
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  then in history of college football.
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  It worked. Now it's not up to us to count
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  Marcus Smith's money, but here he is again now.
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  And I think he I think he would like to set a baseball record.
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  I mean, what is the baseball record?
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  Google it. Respond right here.
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  What's the most people at a baseball game respond right
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  here. I don't know.
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  So listen, it's today, it's it's called the Speedway Classic.
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  It's Cincinnati versus Atlanta. And I kind of wished I was
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  going, but I'm going to race Highland Speedway tonight.
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  Highland, IL Little bit of follow up, Dale Junior texted me
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  and then he gave me a little voice message.
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  You know, you can do that on your phone.
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  You can record your voice and send it.
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  And Dale Junior liked my he liked Coffee with Kenny from
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  yesterday. So shout out and A and a really
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  nice. Just thought I'd share that I
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  appreciate everybody watching Coffee with Kenny.
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  It's a lot of fun. OK, I thought about this one.
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  Let me take a drink of coffee. Something's happening in dirt
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  race and I got my eye on it. I don't know what to think about
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  it. So you you respond right here.
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  The highest price pit pit pass that's a that's a a tongue
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  twister. The highest price pit pass that
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  I've ever seen in dirt racing is $50.
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  And it's every year of Volusia. Now you, you, we justify it by
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  going, OK, it's Volusia. It's the middle of the winter.
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  We're all excited. We're coming down here to
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  Florida and it's fine. It's $50.
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  It's it's a big event. You know, it's like, hey, big
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  events, you pay big pit passes. But local racing, local racing,
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  it was like yesterday our pit passes were $30, and somehow
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  they just skipped right over that at $5 mark.
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  They used to go $20 pit pass, $25 pit pass 30, and boom, we're
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  at 40. We're the $40 pit pass.
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  Now, listen, I got the money. I don't mind paying it.
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  I'm just waiting. I'm just waiting for you all to
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  start squeaking. Who will be the first local
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  racetrack for a local show? Now?
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  This is important here. Who will be the first local
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  local show to have balls enough to go over the $50 mark?
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  Who's going to have a $55 local pit pass?
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  Holy, that's all. That's all there is to it.
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  I I'm just saying I can pay it, but I don't know about everybody
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  else. You got a fan in the grandstand
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  and they're like, hey, I'd like to go in the pits tonight.
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  It's at 40 right now and it won't be long.
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  Respond right here. What local racetrack has a $55
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  pit pass? One of them is going to have
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  balls enough to do it. I want to know which track it
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  is. Who's going to have a $55 pit
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  pass? Because I haven't seen one yet,
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  and whoever does it got balls as big as a moose.
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  All right, see you at Highland, IL tonight.
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  Have a great Saturday, everybody.