Longtime local public relations insider John Maroon joins original WNST producer Andy Mueller at WNST at Drug City on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss a quarter of a century of changes in the Baltimore sports media landscape. And how to survive Dan Snyder and Peter Angelos in the next century.
The king of Pie Style in Hampden, Hot Rod Henry of Dangerously Delicious Pies crosses town into Dundalk to serve Nestor and his pal Bill Yerman some 25th Anniversary Pineapple Right Side Up Pie at Drug City. Rock and roll, dive bars and the perfect apple pie on the road were on the savory menu.
Luke Jones offers his purple musings from the preseason opener as one of sports’ weirdest streaks continued.
It took Nestor Aparicio more than 31 years to finally corral his first boss and the man who sponsored his “big break” at The Baltimore Sun in 1986 to come on the radio show and tell all. Let former Baltimore Sun editor Bob Nusgart tell you (and Nestor) why he gave him a sports journalism life in 1984 at The News American that eventually became WNST at the 25th Anniversary at Costas Inn.
As Baltimore Orioles “owner” John Angelos fights with Wes Moore and the Annapolis folks trying to give him $600 million of our free money that he won’t take, our favorite sports and civic foil Bill Cole catches up on a summer of Orioles baseball, MASN misery and the kids going back to school.
As the summer turns to fall and the Orioles appear to be headed in a postseason direction, our financial expert Leonard Raskin and Nestor playfully discuss just how much money October baseball will be costing and why you should start saving now. Let two Baltimore kids dream a little.
