Empty Seats in Cali

Sofa King

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Sep 1, 2008, 11:53:20 AM9/1/08

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Looks like the fruit and nut people decided to stay home and watch the
race on TV ........

TICKETS: $130
PARKING: $20 (don't worry there's plenty of parking.Wal Mart doesn''t
have this many empty spaces)
BEER: $8 a pop
SCANNER CODES: $35

LOTS OF EMPTY SEAT ON AN ESPN BROADCAST: PRICELESS

Chuck Steak

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Sep 1, 2008, 3:39:06 PM9/1/08

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It amazes me that some people find some sort of pleasure
in seeing empty seats...

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Dan

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Best trade I ever made...

Curious

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Sep 2, 2008, 8:47:09 PM9/2/08

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We are just bitter cause Cup racing is a shell of what it used tobe.......
before all these cookie cutter tracks and a million other things.

Remember when Bristol seated 40,000 and you could camp up on the hill?
Those extra seats ruined my good time LOL.

> > It amazes me that some people find some sort of pleasure
> in seeing empty seats...

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Curious

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Sep 2, 2008, 10:19:06 PM9/2/08

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We are just bitter cause Cup racing is a shell of what it used tobe.......
before all these cookie cutter tracks and a million other things.

Remember when Bristol seated 40,000 and you could camp up on the hill?
Those extra seats ruined my good time LOL.

> > It amazes me that some people find some sort of pleasure
> in seeing empty seats...

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Riley77

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Sep 6, 2008, 3:03:11 AM9/6/08

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>
> It amazes me that some people find some sort of pleasure
> in seeing empty seats...
>

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Its a sick pleasure...and I feel part of it, as Labor Day belongs to
Darlington.

And I was born a Yankee, lol.

NO empty seats at Darlington, on Labor Day.

SoCal is a different animal than the rest of the Country.

Yes they have USC/UCLA, but could care less about the N or any "FL". Theyre
front runners when
the Kings light up the ice.

Force feeding folks stuff they don't want at a price the rest of us
eventually pay for is bad business.

John McCoy

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Sep 6, 2008, 5:30:52 PM9/6/08

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"Riley77" <rileyf...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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>>
>> It amazes me that some people find some sort of pleasure
>> in seeing empty seats...
>>
>
> Its a sick pleasure...and I feel part of it, as Labor Day belongs to
> Darlington.

Yes, in general I wouldn't be pleased with empty seats, other than
perhaps as confirmation that my belief that NASCAR is misguided.

But in the specific case of Fontana, I'm tickled to death at the
empty seats, because NASCAR/ISC's justification for taking the
race from Darlington was specifically that Darlington did not
sell enough tickets. The more shame and embarrassment NASCAR
feels from that misguided notion, the happier I am.

Incidently, to add to NASCAR's shame, I gather than while only
60,000 showed up for the race at Fontana, nearly 30,000 showed
up at Darlington to watch some of the old-timers take slow laps.

John

Chuck Steak

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Sep 6, 2008, 8:30:58 PM9/6/08

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In article John McCoy <igo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>60,000 showed up for the race at Fontana, nearly 30,000 showed
>up at Darlington to watch some of the old-timers take slow laps.
>
>John

Probably 30,000 oldtimers,
that wouldn't go to a cup race today!!!!!

Dan
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Riley77

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Sep 6, 2008, 10:04:08 PM9/6/08

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"Chuck Steak" <chuck...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I'm betting the old folks brought their upper middle income, Sprint COT
loving offspring...

Ive got to look this up. Was James Hylton there, or did he make another run
in the 01 Nationwide car? lol