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Are The Savannah Bananas Better Than Real Sports? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. The humidity is through the roof
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  in Saint Louis. My wife Kim surprised me
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  yesterday and went to the races with me.
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  Every week I say, honey, go to the races with me and she'd say,
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  no, I'm going down to the casino.
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  That's her office and I go dirt racing, but last night she went
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  racing with me and all the way home I said, you know, fire
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  suits are a great invention, but when you stay in them for like 6
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  hours, you know, you show up at the racetrack, you put them on
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  about 5/30, 6:00 and then you get out of them around midnight
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  at night. That concept of wrapping
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  yourself basically in a wool suit.
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  Hey, Legend. He wants a little bit of action
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  up here. But anyway, you know, fire suits
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  are a great invention. Bill Simpson, we miss Bill
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  Simpson. Boy, he was a great innovator.
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  But anyway, you put that fire suit on it about 5/30, 6:00 and
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  then you take it off at about midnight and you wrap yourself
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  in a wool suit and buddy, I'm going to tell you what boy, do
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  you sweat? I gained a little bit of I
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  gained a little bit of weight in the winter time because you
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  don't sweat. But boy, oh boy.
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  Anyway, it was a barn burner last night all the way around
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  Our racetrack had character. I started 10th, challenging for
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  the lead, got body slammed. That was OK because I'm a badass
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  and finished third, finished third wild.
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  Last race I think 9 cars finished.
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  Had had like 31 cars and it was wild.
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  It was wild. The Savannah bananas, the Harlem
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  Globetrotters of our day. So for you kids out there, back
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  in my day, I keep hearing Larry Mack Reynolds, back in my day,
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  we had the Harlem Globetrotters and they were a basketball team
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  and they were funny and they could do some tricks and they'd
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  dance and they always played like a Washington Nationals team
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  or something like that. They'd always win.
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  And boy were they funny. And we loved it.
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  And for some reason, the Harlem Globetrotters, they kind of
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  petered out. They they weren't that famous.
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  Now out of nowhere, the Savannah Bananas.
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  Now, you know, Savannah, GA, the Savannah Bananas, they are the
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  they're the big hit. And somebody's saying that.
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  Respond right here. Auggie Nash, if you're watching
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  this, he's kind of a Saint Louis Cardinal baseball historian.
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  I'm here and I'm reading. Could be fake news.
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  Whether it is or not, the crowd looked incredible.
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  Sold out Busch Stadium, Busch Stadium where the Cardinals
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  play, sold it out two nights in a row.
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  So when you sell something out two nights in a row, you're
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  like, what the Hell's going on over there?
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  The Savannah Bananas, they go, they start out these little
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  bitty old farm teams, you know, where maybe fit 23000 people in
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  and now they're selling sold out stadiums and you got to be in a
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  lottery. You just can't buy tickets.
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  That's how big it is. So they sold out two nights in a
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  row and they are funny. They dance and then the umpire
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  dances and then they got something's really cool.
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  They bring in one of the legendary pitchers from that
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  area. Like they brought in Adam
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  Wainwright, our World Series pitcher crowd goes bat crazy.
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  Then they brought in the second night, they brought in Lance
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  Lynn. So the question is this, we
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  can't. We can't get anybody in the in
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  Busch Stadium right now to watch our eleven time world champion
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  Saint Louis Cardinals. Now there's a lot of reasons why
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  the people are rebelling because management won't get the right
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  players. Listen, I know more about the
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  Cardinals than anybody just because I don't talk about it.
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  I know everything, OK? I like doing that.
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  That's just funny. I get that for Big Brother
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  Rusty. I'm the greatest.
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  Everybody else sucks. I win everything.
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  It's kind of a comedy, so just have fun with me.
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  I know everything about the Cardinals.
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  But anyway, the moral story is we haven't seen a crowd like
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  that at Bush Stadium in years, since the playoffs.
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  What is it? Everybody respond right here.
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  I think it's an odd time in life.
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  Everybody's miserable. We asked for these damn cell
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  phones and now they're covering everything.
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  I think everybody's miserable. I see it out there.
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  Not me though. I'm happy as a mother fucker I
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  am. I really am happy.
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  But it's it's an odd time and I think people are looking for
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  some happiness. And I applaud everybody for
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  finding happiness. Go wherever you got to go to
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  find happiness. And the Savannah bananas,
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  they're awesome. I love them.
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  I think it's great. Anytime anybody can bring
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  happiness, make people laugh. My old crew chief, Billy, the
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  kid Smith, he was sending me videos and I like Billy.
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  I'm at the racetrack. I just got out.
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  I just run my heat. I'm working on my car.
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  My phone's Ding, Ding, Ding. Billy loves me and he kept
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  sending me videos. He was in.
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  He was up a Nosebleed section and they was all watching the
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  big screen. Now that's another subject right
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  there. Go to the stadium, you're
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  sitting so far away you you can't see what's happening in
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  real time. So everybody is watching the big
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  screen, but they're there. They can't see what's happening
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  because they're in the Nosebleed section.
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  Thank God for the big screen. So let's wrap that up.
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  Respond right here. Do people value entertainment
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  more nowadays? People, it seems like people
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  don't like serious competition anymore.
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  That's key. People don't like serious
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  competition anymore. They like fun and I agree.
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  I get it. I get it because it's a it's a
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  bad crazy time in life. OK, switching subjects, how
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  about this Connor Zilich? Connor Zilich four wins in the
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  Xfinity Series on the year and I believe ten straight top 10s.
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  Is it is it? Is it 8 or 10 straight top 10s?
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  No top fives. Top fives respond right here.
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  Help me out. We found our new Jeff Gordon.
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  I think, I think he's going to run good right when he goes to
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  the Cup Series. Connor Zilla.
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  So congratulations, Connor. The Xfinity race got cut short
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  66 laps. He was he was the winner anyway,
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  so Anthony Mackery switching subjects, everybody.
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  Anthony Mackery wins $200,000 at the Kings Royal at Eldora.
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  Congratulations, Anthony second was Rico Ebru, third Kyle Larson
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  and from the back was David gravel all that drama hey it was
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  a good show up there at Eldora. It was a good show listen, I'm
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  thinking about Brad sweet my my friend love Brad sweet Brad Brad
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  will call me out of nowhere the great Brad sweet yes he will
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  he'll just call me up so I feel so I texted him he's in the
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  hospital. I think man, he, he got in that
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  wall and he was OK, but boy, the last car came hit him right in
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  the damn driver's door. So my thoughts are with Brad
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  Sweep the whole family, everybody.
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  I love you all and I hope, hope Brad recovers very well.
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  I hear that all X-rays are negative, but I've had my bell
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  rung. I've had my bell rung.
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  I've had a positional Vertigo. I've been beat this man.
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  I've hit that wall up there loud.
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  New Hampshire. I know what it's like to get
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  your bell rung and it is not fun.
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  I think that's it. I think I think that's it.
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  Everybody. I think that I think we're going
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  to tag this one. Is entertainment more serious?
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  No. Is entertainment not as fun?
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  No. Is competition not as fun as
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  entertainment? Right.
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  Have fun with the Savannah Bananas.
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  I think it's a time where we all need a little bit of happiness.
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  Oh, and by the way, shout out to Richard Marshall.
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  Richard Marshall made me a great video last night.
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  He goes, Herman, all racing is not dead.
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  Sprint cars are kicking ass. I agree, Richard, and I'm happy
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  you got your ex account back because if you watch my videos
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  closely, I said the big events are still doing good.
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  The big events are still doing good, correct?
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  You know, Kings, Royal, Knoxville, Nationals, that
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  stuff's still doing good. And spring car racing is
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  exciting. I can tell you that.
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  Those cars are so damn fast. All right, have a great Sunday,
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  everybody. We're supposed to run Quincy,
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  but man, it gets there's so much rain up there.
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  We'll see what happens. We supposed to run Quincy, IL
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  tonight. It's been raining up there 40
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  days and 40 nights, so we'll see.
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  As my wife says, we'll see. Have a great Sunday.