I don’t believe in the supernatural, ghosts or paranormal junk. What’s real is real and what’s not is not.
Except when it comes to one thing: karma.
I’m a huge believer in karma. Sure it’s not tangible, you can’t buy it in a store but to me the ‘do unto others’ philosophy is very real. Just like the cheesy commercial for the insurance company that shows someone helping someone, who’s seen by someone else who then helps someone and is seen by someone until it comes full circle back to the first scene. 
My entire life has been spent trying to help and be good to others and never expecting anything in return. To me it’s all about spreading the good karma and hoping someday it will come back to me.
Karma can work the other way as well. Do something bad and karma can come back to haunt you or bite you in the rear end.
Enter one Kyle Busch. Busch has come onto the NASCAR scene and quickly become one of the sport’s most colorful characters. His comments and actions on and off the track have been controversial and gained him legions of fans while at the same time brought together legions more that don’t like him.
Love him or hate him, NASCAR needs colorful, outspoken characters like Busch. For some time fans have criticized NASCAR for drivers who are too vanilla, and too politically correct. In that regard Kyle Busch is anything but vanilla.
I’m part of the legions who aren’t necessarily a fan of Busch. Yes he’s a talented driver, but in the few times I’ve dealt with him face to face he’s always had an air of arrogance; not someone I look forward to dealing with.
When he wins, he deserves it, and when he loses it isn’t because he didn’t give his all. However as colorful as his antics are, Busch can sometimes go over the top. Like last weekend at Nashville. Busch won the Nationwide series race then preceded to smash a one of a kind hand made Gibson guitar worth several thousand dollars. And while most agree, including me, that he should be able to celebrate winning a race any way he wants the great guitar smash was nothing short of a bonehead move.
This past weekend Busch competed in three NASCAR races. The Camping World Truck Series race and Sprint Cup series race at Michigan and the Nationwide Series race at Kentucky.
Saturday he raced in the truck series race at Michigan then flew to Kentucky for the Nationwide Series race. In the truck race he started fourth, led the most laps and was passed in the closing laps by Colin Braun who went on to score his first ever NASCAR win. In Kentucky he started second, led nearly three quarters of the race, 162 of the 200 laps, only to be passed by Joey Logano on a late race restart.
An obviously disappointed Busch spoke after the race in only the way he can.
"It always happens that way, we always lose at the end,” Busch said. He went on to thanks his sponsors, obligatory if you want to keep your job, and his crew, which is a good idea if you ever want to have good pit stops again. Busch finished up by saying. “Our fault, we didn't have a good enough racecar today. I told everybody I'd come here a and finish second today anyways.”
While listening to Busch conducting his post race interview Saturday night, with what seemed to be his omnipresent arrogant attitude, then seeing him lead the Sprint Cup race Sunday only to finish 13th, I could only think of that guitar smash in Nashville and said to myself.
Hey Kyle, ain’t karma a bitch?
Comments
I think you are right about the karma Greg. And isn't it great??!!! Kyle Busch is a very talented driver. It would be nice to see him use that talent to gain positive attention instead of all the negative attention he seems to thrive on. He may want to spend a little more time being concerned about the image of himself he's portraying to his fellow drivers, owner, sponsors and what fans he has left rather than picking a fight with Jr. Nation. I'm afraid that would be biting off a bit more karma than he can chew!!!
Well if this Karma thing is real then I guess Karma is biting Dale Jr for dragging his father's wife and his father's company through the mud.
The only person that drove Dale Jr's fathers company through the mud is Teresa Earnhardt.
I agree about Karma and Kyle. Maybe one of these days he'll realize his mouth doesnt do him any good and He'll keep it shut. I doubt it..
Now it would really be karma if Cryle finished behind Jr in points at the end of the season, but I just don't see that happening.
Excellent article. Yep, Karma will bit ya and hopefully teach ya a lesson in life. And Kyle will hopefully understand that as he puts foot in mouth more often. BUT, the problem is Kyle doens't care about fans and J.D. Gibbs said he thought the Nashville deal was cool. So where is the mentor, the leadership to help groom him? The best thing is ignor him or be silent at the races...that's the best karma for Kyle, lack of attention.
But, what did this article have to do with Jr folks? Let's try and keep them seperate, OK. Fans start to go at each other whenever you mention one or the other. We as Nascar Fans have a great deal more to be concerned about Nascar then a pi$$ing match started and fueled by the media. What about Nascar leadership and what it's doing to the sport, ticket prices, the POS CON(Car of NOW)boring races and do I need to go on. Think about that, vs fighting each other. Have a good day.
Here are a few things to consider when discussing Kyle Busch: He has been disliked and booed from day one because he was Kurt's brother, which is the exact opposite of how Junior got his start. Knowing that nothing he could do would change that, he has, as they say, taken the "lemons" and made lemonade. He has taken the role of bad guy that has been forced on him and has run with it. I find it very amusing to see how he baits the media with his "cocky" or "arrogant" persona. I love it when he taunts the little "junebug" nation to see how wound up he can get them. It's his way of handling the situation and I think it works very well for him. Kyle is a racer. He wants to race and winning is the only acceptable result he'll settle for. My god, don't you all want all your favorite drivers to feel that way?? This past weekend, he raced in three events in two states. Junior barely raced in one event and was pleased with his 14th place finish. Kyle's way is gaining him fans not loosing them.
AMEN Sarah!
"This past weekend, he raced in three events in two states. Junior barely raced in one event and was pleased with his 14th place finish. Kyle's way is gaining him fans not loosing them."
Don't you love people who twist things? I do. *rolls eyes* Junior wasn't "pleased" with it, but after finishing 25th or worse in pretty much the past month aside from Dover and 'Dega, he was happy with a good finish rather than a terrible one.
Sarah is another one. Junior stood up and defended Teresa after the debacle. Again, please STOP lying, twisting, etc.
I am twisting nothing. He knew way before his bogus demand for 51% that he was leaving. He threw her and the company under the bus (blamed DEI for his lack of winning) and then once he realized how far his Psycho Nation took it THEN he asked people to stop. He was not man enough to just say he wanted to leave (like Kyle Petty did when leaving Petty Enterprises). Coward.
To LOL: So he was "happy with a good finish" but being "pleased" is twisting the truth? Now I'm rolling my eyes. If 14th is "a good finish", then you have really low expectations for your favorite tee shirt salesman.
He's been a jerk from day one. It has nothing to do with the media, although the media is taking it and running with it. I don't blame them because Kyle keeps fueling the fire with his big mouth and lousy attitude. Don't forget when Kyle won at Bristol with the COT and said his car sucked. He couldn't say something nice to save his life. Kyle Busch is proof that you can win a lot of races and still be a loser.
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