Monster Energy Cup

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hey man i just i got a question can we get rid of these playoffs and sign a petition to bring back monster cup

I'm on board already.

I said

that earlier in the show.

I didn't really like Monster Cup, but goddammit, let's get it back.

You know, it's one night, I will say that, but like, it's at least action-packed.

Everyone wants to fucking try all three of them, at least.

Is the 91 from the fill-in year? Was that your

number? No, that is actually my Monster Cup jersey.

It is from that year, but that's just my Monster Cup jersey.

I have my factory Yamaha jersey.

I'm just waiting for my wife to put it in this frame that I have.

You can run different formats, every whatever.

And you just put the focus on like an end of the year money reward and like this spectacular monster cup thingy.

Dude, no one would really be that hard on it because we would treat each and every race like it's just a dirt bike race and we would love it.

But when you put it way up here, an expectation that you cannot meet because you're competing against the two sports that you're already running that are the two best in the world, you come up short automatically just in theory.

dude we're so we're solving all the problems dude you're right okay so first one supercross second one motocross third one you want to make everybody happy go back to vegas spend the money go into allegiant state is that what it is allegiant Yes,

yeah.

Go into Allegiant Stadium, pay the money, and give everyone their Vegas finale back and run a Monster Cup track that is...

I mean, it'd be too expensive, but man, do some crazy stuff and do it there and you'd probably satisfy everybody.

No, it's not it.

And they always tell you, they're like, it's just one more because there's one less national and then the Monster Cup.

But, dude, the fact that they try to claim that is ridiculous.

First of all, the Monster Cup was two months away.

I like the

Monster Cup way better.

No, but they're saying like, hey, look, you used to all do the Monster Cup.

What does it matter? It's one extra race.

Yeah.

Two weeks off, one big brouhaha Monster Cup million-dollar race just like we used to have.

Optional or mandatory?

Mandatory.

And I know the money is there for the riders and teams.

That's cool.

I like it, but can we just throw a Monster Cup after a few weeks after the last outdoor and call it a day? No?

I just don't think you'll get the buy-in.

It's a thing that they brought in, you know, sort of we don't want whoops, and I get that.

I mean, we don't have the Europeans coming that we once hoped for Monster Cup.

So we got a stadium in L.A. and in Columbus that's, I mean, they look kind of neat, but it's no whoops, and we're racing Supercross with no whoops.

That's what it is.

So I'll take that for as long as I can get it.

One thing I'll ask you about SMX real quick is the one kind of cool thing about the Monster Cup every year is it was a cool event.

It was always interesting to see who would win.

Someone was going to win $100,000, but someone could win a million dollars if they were dominant.

And, man, it was a tough year.

Obviously, we didn't have the Monster Energy Cup or the SMX Next.

Yeah.

I feel like I got on supercross way too late.