Busch's three wins are no big deal

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Yeah, this is kinda the way I feel about it...

Busch's three wins are no big deal
by Dean McNulty, Toronto Sun

I must admit that for a split second on Saturday night I got sucked into that vortex of hyperbole that was the reaction to Kyle Busch’s NASCAR triple at Bristol Motor Speedway.

For those who didn’t wait up or chose to watch exciting live Saturday night stock car racing at their local short track oval, Busch capped a weekend in the hills of the Tenessee/Virginia border region in which he won the NASCAR Sprint Cup Irwin Tools 500 after winning the Food City 250 Nationwide Series race on Friday and the O’Reilly Auto Parts 200 Camping World Truck Series race the previous Wednesday.

It was a feat that had never been done before.

But wait just a minute. Would the professional sports world give two hoots if a Phil Mickleson went out and won a seniors golf tournament on Wednesday, a Nationwide tournament on Friday and a PGA event in Sunday?

The answer is a resounding no.

In fact, guaranteed, there would have been widespread condemnation in the stick-and-ball sports media that Mickleson was hustling the elderly and the kids for the sake of a record.

But those same standards apparently don’t apply to NASCAR.

And for those media organizations — hello ESPN, hello ABC, hello Sports Illustrated, hello Associated Press — to paint Busch’s three wins as an extraordinarily special sporting moment is simply embarrassing.

Yes, he won a NASCAR Truck race against a bunch of old guys and Nationwide race against a gaggle of not-ready-for-prime-time drivers.

But really, shouldn’t the focus be on why NASCAR allows its top pros to drop down one and two levels of competence just to pad their win stats?

Look at the results this season in the Nationwide and Truck series.

The very few times a regular in the Truck or Nationwide series has won this season — in fact it’s happened only once in Nationwide — it’s usually because the Cup drivers stayed in their motorhomes.
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I agree big deal. Years down the road what will people remember? A weekend sweep or a Cup championship?
 
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if Phil Mickelson won 3 PGA sponsored events in one week, it would trump anything Brett Favre could do during the offseason/preseason. It would be huge. To win all three is an amazing feat. He's hated by everyone that isn't a passionate Kyle fan, but you can't take away the fact that he won 3 marquee races in 3 days. That's insane and will be remembered.
 
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There's maybe 7 trucks that could win. The Nationwide series is a little more competitive, but the Gibbs cars are by far the best. There is no comparison to Mickelson. Winning 3 races is nothing to be criticized for, but it's not really that impressive considering the competition for 2 of the races.
 
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Kyle is very upset that the crowd with 3 tattoos doesnt like him.

Hell, personally, I am not a fan of either of the Brothers Busch, but hearing the bumpkins boo after they succeed is making me a fan, as they do so well taking it in stride.
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JTrainDavis said:
Kyle is very upset that the crowd with 3 tattoos doesnt like him.

Hell, personally, I am not a fan of either of the Brothers Busch, but hearing the bumpkins boo after they succeed is making me a fan, as they do so well taking it in stride.
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Anyone other that an Earnhardt that wins too often will get booed.
 
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volfanbill said:
if Phil Mickelson won 3 PGA sponsored events in one week, it would trump anything Brett Favre could do during the offseason/preseason. It would be huge. To win all three is an amazing feat. He's hated by everyone that isn't a passionate Kyle fan, but you can't take away the fact that he won 3 marquee races in 3 days. That's insane and will be remembered.
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I wouldn't consider the Camping World Truck Series or Nationwide Series races as marquee events though. Essentially, he has to beat a small handful of guys to accomplish this feat.

It would be more like Phil Mickelson winning a senior event while making 3/4ths of his golf competitors use MacGregor golf clubs from K-Mart.
 
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It sure does take the shine off of just winning a race in all three series at some point throughout your career. If I was Kyle, anytime someone came off with the list of guys who have won a race in all three series, I'd say, "Oh yeah? Did that in three days, *****es."
 
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volfanbill said:
if Phil Mickelson won 3 PGA sponsored events in one week, it would trump anything Brett Favre could do during the offseason/preseason. It would be huge. To win all three is an amazing feat. He's hated by everyone that isn't a passionate Kyle fan, but you can't take away the fact that he won 3 marquee races in 3 days. That's insane and will be remembered.
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not really. people won't care in 2 years. Trucks are irrelevant these days.
 
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tidwell said:
It sure does take the shine off of just winning a race in all three series at some point throughout your career. If I was Kyle, anytime someone came off with the list of guys who have won a race in all three series, I'd say, "Oh yeah? Did that in three days, *****es."
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And with his ever growing ego, I could totally hear him saying that.
 
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I remember watching it with my dad. It ranks up with the fall Talladega race in 2000 as the most memorable I remember watching.
 
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Earnhardt got booed for dumping Terry but I don't recall him getting booed like Gordon, Johnson or Busch simply for winning too often.
 
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615 Vol said:
Earnhardt got booed for dumping Terry but I don't recall him getting booed like Gordon, Johnson or Busch simply for winning too often.
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I can only speak for myself, I booed him for winning too much, and I wasn't alone.
 
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It was to Earnhardt's advantage he lived the same lifestyle or similar to what a majority of Nascar's fanbase was back then.
 
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It's pretty big because it's never been done, and because it happened at Bristol where anything can happen. The bigger deal as far as I'm concerned is that he's all but locked in the chase now.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
It's pretty big because it's never been done, and because it happened at Bristol where anything can happen. The bigger deal as far as I'm concerned is that he's all but locked in the chase now.
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I'm glad to see that their is another Kyle Busch fan on here besides me. Lol.
 
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They better find something to be a big deal cause the racing has just some how went to crap,empty grandstands and lower TV ratings are down.
 
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volintears said:
They better find something to be a big deal cause the racing has just some how went to crap,empty grandstands and lower TV ratings are down.
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There's a silver lining to the attendance problems however, at least IMO. And this isn't just in NASCAR, I think it will apply across the board for concerts and sporting events. To get people back to these events, the prices are going to have to come back down. Tickets prices at Talladega seem to go up every other year, so I'm hoping they will be forced to bring the prices back down closer to the demand.

The Bristol night race used to have a long waiting list for tickets, but last week there were lots of empty seats.
 
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615 Vol said:
Anyone other that an Earnhardt that wins too often will get booed.
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Thats because the majority of people in the stands are Earnhardt fans. I have been to Daytona, Atlanta, and Talledega this year and the majority of fans at each race pulled for Earnhardt Jr.

Kyle gets booed more because of what he says and his antics (crying eyes, taking a bow, etc.) and I think its great!
 
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