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I get a big kick out of Kyle, this time because he dexribes the runor mill almost exactly the the way it was dexcribed here several weeks ago!!
Kyles comments on PE's announcement to come later this week.
"I’m like everyone else. You try not to pay any attention to the rumors and stuff that keep flying around the garage but you just can’t help yourself sometimes. Hey, I believe this sport was pretty much built on rumors. Those are some of the things that make each day so interesting around the garage.
"The stuff that has gone on this year is nothing new. It’s the same thing that’s been going on forever. Some years the talk is a little more intense and some years not quite as intense, but it’s always going on. I think since you had a pretty big name like Ricky Rudd in the mix and you had top rides like the one at Robert Yates and the one with the Wood Brothers open, it made the talk this year even more intense.
"The rumors involving other teams are always a lot more interesting than the ones about your own team. I know pretty much what our plans are and what we are going to do. But I don’t always know what other people have in mind, so I get a kick out of listening to some of this stuff. Garage area gossip is always big, always has been big.
"We’re going to make an announcement Saturday afternoon at Richmond. That’s a good example. Hearing what people think we’re going to announce or hearing what people think we’re doing, some of it is pretty funny. Some of it might be kind of close. Some of it is absolutely outrageous.
"There was one wild rumor a few weeks ago that we had some motorcycle company that was going to sponsor us. The rumor had everything all figured out - other than the fact that I ride a Victory and we have agreements with Victory, and the fact that if it isn’t a Victory, I’m not going to ride it. That would pretty much kill out any other company being involved. Once that filtered out, that particular rumor died out - for a while anyway. It’s coming up before, will come up again and won’t be any more true then than it was before or it is now.
"Remember that game you played as a kid at birthday parties - ‘Gossip?’ One person whispers something to another person, and then they whisper it to the third and one down the line. The game ends when the last person announces what he had heard, and it usually doesn’t compare to what started.
"We play that game every week in the Winston Cup garage, except we tend to play a higher version. Not only is it, ‘I hear somebody is going to drive for so-and-so,’ but it takes the step of filling the position rumored to be open. That way your gossip doesn’t just involve one driver or crew chief and team, but two drivers and two teams. Driver A is going to Team B and, from what I hear, Driver C is going to Team A. It’s nuts sometimes!
"You know the one thing that makes ‘Silly Season’ move the fastest? Rain. The talk really started to pick up this past weekend at Darlington. Nobody did anything Friday (rain canceled all track activities), and then there was a lot of down time Saturday. So everybody sat around and talked, and came up with stuff. So much of it starts with ‘You know, I bet this happens,’ and next thing you know, people are saying it is going to happen. Speculation becomes fact pretty fast here.
"Give us more time to talk, and there is going to be more talk. Saturday at Richmond is usually a good ‘talking’ day but I think our announcement Saturday should clear some things up.
"Perception is reality but even thinking about something can become ‘reality’ pretty fast here (Winston Cup garage).
"When we put the word out this week about our press conference, there is going to be a bunch of talk. ‘Kyle told me this’ or ‘Kyle told me that’ and then someone will take all of that and start trying to add it up. The problem is it doesn’t always add up the way it is supposed to.
"We feel we have a pretty significant thing or two to say Saturday, and that race fans - and the media and the rest of the garage - are going to want to know what we had to say. And it should make our plans clearer. You’re going to hear a lot of different ideas of what it might be and what we might say but, you know what? Nobody knows for sure until Saturday.
"Finally making the announcement ends it. That’s the only way to stop rumors.
"Well, most of the time anyway."
Kyles comments on PE's announcement to come later this week.
"I’m like everyone else. You try not to pay any attention to the rumors and stuff that keep flying around the garage but you just can’t help yourself sometimes. Hey, I believe this sport was pretty much built on rumors. Those are some of the things that make each day so interesting around the garage.
"The stuff that has gone on this year is nothing new. It’s the same thing that’s been going on forever. Some years the talk is a little more intense and some years not quite as intense, but it’s always going on. I think since you had a pretty big name like Ricky Rudd in the mix and you had top rides like the one at Robert Yates and the one with the Wood Brothers open, it made the talk this year even more intense.
"The rumors involving other teams are always a lot more interesting than the ones about your own team. I know pretty much what our plans are and what we are going to do. But I don’t always know what other people have in mind, so I get a kick out of listening to some of this stuff. Garage area gossip is always big, always has been big.
"We’re going to make an announcement Saturday afternoon at Richmond. That’s a good example. Hearing what people think we’re going to announce or hearing what people think we’re doing, some of it is pretty funny. Some of it might be kind of close. Some of it is absolutely outrageous.
"There was one wild rumor a few weeks ago that we had some motorcycle company that was going to sponsor us. The rumor had everything all figured out - other than the fact that I ride a Victory and we have agreements with Victory, and the fact that if it isn’t a Victory, I’m not going to ride it. That would pretty much kill out any other company being involved. Once that filtered out, that particular rumor died out - for a while anyway. It’s coming up before, will come up again and won’t be any more true then than it was before or it is now.
"Remember that game you played as a kid at birthday parties - ‘Gossip?’ One person whispers something to another person, and then they whisper it to the third and one down the line. The game ends when the last person announces what he had heard, and it usually doesn’t compare to what started.
"We play that game every week in the Winston Cup garage, except we tend to play a higher version. Not only is it, ‘I hear somebody is going to drive for so-and-so,’ but it takes the step of filling the position rumored to be open. That way your gossip doesn’t just involve one driver or crew chief and team, but two drivers and two teams. Driver A is going to Team B and, from what I hear, Driver C is going to Team A. It’s nuts sometimes!
"You know the one thing that makes ‘Silly Season’ move the fastest? Rain. The talk really started to pick up this past weekend at Darlington. Nobody did anything Friday (rain canceled all track activities), and then there was a lot of down time Saturday. So everybody sat around and talked, and came up with stuff. So much of it starts with ‘You know, I bet this happens,’ and next thing you know, people are saying it is going to happen. Speculation becomes fact pretty fast here.
"Give us more time to talk, and there is going to be more talk. Saturday at Richmond is usually a good ‘talking’ day but I think our announcement Saturday should clear some things up.
"Perception is reality but even thinking about something can become ‘reality’ pretty fast here (Winston Cup garage).
"When we put the word out this week about our press conference, there is going to be a bunch of talk. ‘Kyle told me this’ or ‘Kyle told me that’ and then someone will take all of that and start trying to add it up. The problem is it doesn’t always add up the way it is supposed to.
"We feel we have a pretty significant thing or two to say Saturday, and that race fans - and the media and the rest of the garage - are going to want to know what we had to say. And it should make our plans clearer. You’re going to hear a lot of different ideas of what it might be and what we might say but, you know what? Nobody knows for sure until Saturday.
"Finally making the announcement ends it. That’s the only way to stop rumors.
"Well, most of the time anyway."
