They were both a part of the All Star Game pageantry 30 years ago when the Midsummer Classic came to Veterans Stadium and veteran sports brand artist Todd Radom will welcome Nestor back to his adopted homeland of Philadelphia for another MLB “big event” with history and insights into the modern making of an event that will be returning to Camden Yards in Baltimore pretty soon as well. Show and tell and a media tell all retrospective on why we love this game!
Nestor Aparicio and Todd Radom discuss their excitement for the upcoming Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Philadelphia. Nestor has attended 15 All-Star games and is preparing to cover his 16th. Todd, who has attended 30 games, reflects on the event’s evolution, including the transition from FIFA to All-Star branding in Philadelphia. They reminisce about past games, share personal anecdotes, and discuss the significance of the event for the host city. Nestor plans to attend the game and related events, including the Home Run Derby, and looks forward to experiencing the city’s hospitality and baseball culture.
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Nestor’s Introduction and Background
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, Baltimore Positive, and mentions the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
- Nestor talks about attending 15 Major League Baseball All-Star games and his excitement about covering the upcoming game in Philadelphia.
- Nestor reminisces about past All-Star games, including a memorable one in Miami where he drove his son Luke to the game.
- Nestor mentions his plan to meet Todd Radom, a sports brand artist, in Philadelphia for the All-Star game.
Todd Radom’s All-Star Game Experience
- Todd Radom shares that this is his 30th All-Star game and reflects on his first experience in Philadelphia in 1996.
- Nestor and Todd discuss their ages and the nostalgia of attending past All-Star games.
- Nestor recounts his first All-Star game in 1993, where he met Cal Ripken and had a memorable experience with Getty Lee.
- Todd talks about the transition from FIFA to All-Star branding in Philadelphia, noting the city’s size as an advantage for hosting such events.
Memories and Significance of All-Star Games
- Nestor and Todd discuss the significance of All-Star games for their hometowns and the personal memories associated with them.
- Nestor shares stories from past All-Star games, including meeting notable figures and memorable moments.
- Todd talks about the evolution of the All-Star Village and the interactive elements now included for fans.
- Nestor expresses his excitement about attending the upcoming All-Star game in Philadelphia and plans to have a good time.
Philadelphia’s Preparation and Nestor’s Plans
- Todd Radom discusses the preparations for the All-Star game in Philadelphia, highlighting the city’s readiness to showcase itself.
- Nestor shares his plans to attend the game and the various activities he hopes to enjoy, including local cuisine and historical sites.
- Todd mentions the importance of the All-Star game for the city and the opportunity it provides for fans to interact with baseball legends.
- Nestor and Todd discuss the logistics of attending the game, including transportation and accommodations.
Nestor’s Collection and All-Star Game Memorabilia
- Nestor shows off his collection of All-Star game memorabilia, including tickets, credentials, and media information guides.
- Todd and Nestor reminisce about past All-Star games and the unique experiences associated with them.
- Nestor shares stories about meeting notable figures and the significance of certain moments in his collection.
- Todd and Nestor discuss the importance of preserving these memories and the emotional connection they have to the All-Star games.
Todd Radom’s Art and Branding Work
- Todd Radom talks about his work as a brand artist and his involvement in creating logos for various sports events.
- Nestor and Todd discuss the evolution of sports logos and the impact of different designs on fan engagement.
- Todd shares his thoughts on the importance of maintaining the integrity of team uniforms and the significance of traditional designs.
- Nestor and Todd reflect on the changes in sports branding over the years and the role of artists in shaping these identities.
Nestor’s Love for Baseball and Philadelphia
- Nestor expresses his love for baseball and his excitement about attending the All-Star game in Philadelphia.
- Todd and Nestor discuss the unique aspects of Philadelphia as a host city and the city’s rich baseball history.
- Nestor shares his plans to explore the city and enjoy local attractions, including historical sites and cultural landmarks.
- Todd and Nestor talk about the importance of community and fan engagement in making the All-Star game a memorable experience.
Nestor’s Plans for the All-Star Game Weekend
- Nestor outlines his plans for the All-Star game weekend, including attending the Home Run Derby and the main game.
- Todd and Nestor discuss the logistics of attending the events and the various activities they hope to enjoy.
- Nestor shares his excitement about meeting baseball legends and the opportunity to network with other fans and industry professionals.
- Todd and Nestor reflect on the significance of the All-Star game for the sport and the impact it has on the host city.
Nestor’s Interaction with Fans and Industry Professionals
- Nestor talks about his interactions with fans and industry professionals during past All-Star games.
- Todd and Nestor discuss the importance of fan engagement and the role of social media in sharing experiences.
- Nestor shares his thoughts on the future of the All-Star game and the potential for new innovations and traditions.
- Todd and Nestor reflect on the lasting impact of the All-Star game on their lives and the memories they have created.
Nestor’s Final Thoughts and Excitement for the All-Star Game
- Nestor expresses his excitement and anticipation for the upcoming All-Star game in Philadelphia.
- Todd and Nestor discuss the importance of the event for the sport and the opportunity it provides for fans to celebrate baseball.
- Nestor shares his plans to document his experience and share it with his audience on the show.
- Todd and Nestor reflect on the significance of the All-Star game and the lasting memories it creates for fans and participants alike.
Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson, Baltimore. This is Baltimore Positive. And we’re doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour this week, next week, every week. We’re fat leads this week. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery, our partners at GBMC, as well as Farnin and Dermer. They are the comfort guys at 410 36777 I hope I’m more comfortable when I’m in Philadelphia next week, covering the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the Midsummer Classic. This I have attended 15 Major League Baseball All-Star games. There was a 16th that Luke attended in Miami, where I drove him and dropped him off and came back, but I was in Miami for the game, and I was thinking this week, Who can I get on? And I’m like, Well, I’m going to Philadelphia. Who are my Philadelphia goons? My mafia and Todd Ratham isn’t like even a Philadelphia guy, he’s just sort of a transplant, moved there kind of recently. He is the extra artist extraordinaire and sports brand ambassador to Baltimore positive in WNSD. He’s also going to be my roast pork and beer buddy in Philly. I’m going to take the main line into SEPTA and all that good stuff next week in Philly. How are you? This is your 30th All-Star game, correct? Is that right?
Todd Radom 1:16
Yeah, it’s hard to believe, Nestor. 30, where did the years go? I have no idea, but yeah, it’s been a, it’s been a long road, and it started here in Philly in 1996 for me,
Nestor Aparicio 1:27
really. So, I, um, I, because I’m a little older than you, I think, and maybe you’re older than me, I don’t know, I am older
Todd Radom 1:33
than you. My
Nestor Aparicio 1:34
first All-Star game was 93 so, and that was the Getty Lee, hence the Getty gear, and also I had no offense, you’re not the best guest of the day. I had Donna Halper on, she discovered Rush, no offense, she’s pretty cool. So I’m still wearing my Rush gear, but Getty came up to me at the buffet line at the gala, and I actually found the ticket from when I met Getty at the buffet line earlier today. I found all of my, all of my credentials, I have found every one of my Clubhouse working badge in Coors Field. I have found my Cleveland All-Star Game credential with that I’ve sent to my friend Julie, who I met that night, and I’m still friends with my Arlington, and this was a swelterer. I thought Gaylord Perry was going to have a coronary right there in Arlington, and this is the day that John Oates introduced me to the future President United States, who was then the owner of the Texas Rangers. So every one of these has a soul for me, but once you get 30 in, I’ve got 15 of these. I mean, when it comes to your hometown, it’s like a Bruce Springsteen, so it’s my hometown. You’re coming to Philly, is the place painted up, or is it still FIFA up at this point? It
Todd Radom 2:43
is transitioning this week, a lot of FIFA, but it’s given way over the last couple of days to All-Star, and you know, I mean, this is a big thing to come down from, right? I mean, World Cup, it’ll never be here again, most likely, but yeah, it’s starting to look, and you know what, Nestor, the this is the right size city to contain an event like this, having been to so many of them, the Chicago’s, New York’s, and LA’s of the world, I think you’d agree it just gets lost.
Nestor Aparicio 3:15
Kelly’s excited about this, right? Like, I mean, so here’s my deal. Luke’s on vacation, he’s eating max pizza, running around with his nieces, having a great time. I said, “Hey, do you just got to drive? He’s like, “I’m off. I did an all-star game. I’ll do it in Baltimore. And I’m like, “Oh, Baltimore, we’re gonna get our own. All the way, this is the Getty ticket. Getty signed the other part of this. I got to find it. But this is my Getty ticket from 1993 and these are the media information guide, so you know where to get your bus. 33 years later, it was such an incredible thing for my city, Todd. In 1993 I was on the air two years at that point. We had no Ravens, Ripken was in the middle, we hadn’t hit the strike yet. Camden Yards, you still weren’t allowed to put peanuts on the ground to Camden Yards, because it was too new. You couldn’t throw your peanut shells down, the industrials get mad at you. I’m serious. Back in the day, and we’re going to get the game again. And the question I’ve asked, and I’m going to ask you this, quite frankly, and for anybody in our audience that might be thinking, like I’m going to go up to the fan fest, well, it’s called a village now, and you can go to the website. I said to you, hey, man, card show, you know, how much I love all this stuff. You know what I mean, and a little smaller than maybe it was in Arlington 30 years ago, whatever. Because they dreamed big with all of the card manufacturers, and I know you’ve been involved in the art world, the brand world, forever. It was a, it was an all-star team for all the Gillettes and the Rollades, and all the sponsors, and the Chevrolets, and the apple pies and the stand up the cancers and just all of their things came together and then the Milwaukee game kind of and I was at that game was sort of the end of my run and like the last 20 years trying to figure it out well it’s good guys against the bad guys we’re going to get the World Series and they’re going to get the home game and like all of the. Sell their stuff, and this guy doesn’t want to play in it. This guy doesn’t want to be in the home run derby. I hope that when it gets here, it’s got some gusto, and I’m going to Philly this week to say, what is it? Because it used to be like the gala with Getty Lee the night before, and a big thing at the zoo in San Diego, or the Museum of somewhere they don’t have time for all of that the way maybe they once did. I know they, it’s the red carpet they do now at the Independence Hall, but like for the fans and stuff, get run me through. I’m coming up to have fun. Tell me what I’m gonna do to have a good time in Philly this week, dude.
Todd Radom 5:38
Spend some money, eat, drink, and you know, live it up over here and soak yourself, soak the city in, in the company of fellow baseball people. I think that that’s really what the takeaway is for me. Traveling places now, listen, I’m home, but again, you know, being in hotels and seeing stars of the past, people who are just around the game is a really cool thing in terms of the events. Yeah, the All Star Village, it has changed significantly, and I think it’s a nod to the fact it definitely.. it’s not. I think it is a nod to the fact that there are a lot more interactive things for kids, you know, participatory things, you know. I think I think it has changed in that respect, but it’s still a great event. It’s still an amazing thing for me to be able to say, well, I’ve seen every great player of this generation because I’ve been to all-star games, right? And yeah, with interleague play it changed, and that was a long time ago, but to see them all on the field and to see the two leagues lined up for the introductions, I think is still a pretty cool thing.
Nestor Aparicio 6:47
You’re one of those guys over the years, by the way. Todd Radom is our guest, he’s up in the fighting city of Philadelphia, the host city of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, where I’ll be next week, not broadcasting, but I’ll be socialing from up there, and I’ve already told you, if I don’t get a stale pretzel with a cold center at a completely three times cost from a guy pushing a stolen supermarket cart in South Philly, but I, you know, I’m finding all of my old stuff here,
Todd Radom 7:13
I have those exact ones, All-Brunches
Nestor Aparicio 7:15
is Colorado, the delicious downtown, right there. Yeah, this is my 1996 Philadelphia All-Star Game packet? I have the whole Stars and Stripes. There’s the map of Philly that I can.. I think it’s still the same city, even though they tried to blow it up a number of years ago. In that, there are several
Todd Radom 7:32
things. I tell you what, Nestor, I had a look on here because the main hotel.. it’s been 30 years, it’s no surprise.. the Wyndham Franklin Hotel. Like, what the hell is that? Wasn’t that
Nestor Aparicio 7:41
the Hershey back in the day, right there on Broad Street?
Todd Radom 7:44
I have no idea, but, but it’s now a.. it’s.. I think it’s now a Sheraton or something. But the city is still here, but it’s changed considerably since then. I can look
Nestor Aparicio 7:54
at that bell. So, from a, from a pure logo standpoint, hit me, Rave, is that your bell? Did you make that one?
Todd Radom 8:00
No, a friend of mine did it, though. A friend of mine did it, and I love it. Um, not, but because it’s a great logo, it says everything you need to say in a very brief and concise fashion.
Nestor Aparicio 8:12
Look at these fancy invitations they used to make for the All-Star Galas. See, look at this swinging with the stars, which one was this one here? Six Flags Over Texas. Met a girl that night. It was in Dallas, swing it. This was at the fun park. This was a gala that was at six fives, 154 degrees. It was Texas, it was nighttime, but they had that Rebel Yell kind of ride that went down. So, like, I go back to all.. I have such great memories of all of this, I mean, I have tickets from, like, the games, actually went to actual ticket stubs,
Todd Radom 8:45
and look at their pieces of art. Look at this
Nestor Aparicio 8:48
96 all-star game in Pittsburgh, check that out. And the Pirates went to some sort of weird red thing in their logo around that time, I think, for like five minutes too. But, like, all of these things, did you develop any of the All Star game logos, and I want to blend in the why you’re here, other than why you’ve attended 30 All Star games. You’ve been very attached, not just to baseball and your love of the game, and like all that, but you’re like a brand artist that does that, makes cool logos, like this All Star Game logo in my New York Mets city field. This was the night Adam Jones said to me, Why is the old man hate you so much? And I wrote him a book, The Peter Principles. You can check it out. So all of these inspire whole stories for me, because I got on a train, I went to New York, I stayed in the hotel, I met players, I hung out, I got to see City. Like all of these things have such deep meaning to me, you know, kind of all the way through, because I’ve always loved the All-Star game, so this is a big deal to me. Todd
Todd Radom 9:44
same, and I’ll tell you what, the pandemic year of 2020 you know, it interrupted a lot of things, and it was tragic in a lot of ways, and people, I mean, a whole nother story, but the, but for me personally, many other things aside, the lack of an. All-star game kind of broke my rhythm, and it’s interesting to talk about logos. The 2020 all-star game scheduled we played in Dodger Stadium. Well, the 2022 all-star game took place there. They just switched to zero to a two.
Nestor Aparicio 10:14
Okay, that’s like when they used to give out press pins for World Series. He would say eighth Orioles World Series, and they’d still be holding on to the pin 30 years later, because there never was one, right? Yeah, yeah. And
Todd Radom 10:26
then logos would change, and they’d wind up on eBay.
Nestor Aparicio 10:30
Yeah, you know, I’m these might wind up on eBay at some point with my name, and maybe my name makes it worth more or less. I’m not sure, but I sure do have a beautiful collection, and I think more than anything, let’s talk a little art, and about your books, and about your work, and about even the jerseys, which you and Nike, and every Rob Manfred, and all of these, they make all these creepy jerseys, and you and I have fun twice a year when the Orioles put their pajamas on, or when they wear a City Connect that sort of connects, or whomever, but like the All-Star game was the one thing that had what I loved more than anything as a boy, it had full color, and I want to Pride month this into July and say it had the full color of the rainbow, and if you go back and get any picture from the late 70s or early 80s from an All-Star game where they’re all in the podium, not the one where I was in the clubhouse with this clubhouse badge at the 96 all-star game, when Ripken got elbowed in the jaw by or in the nose by Roberto Hernandez at this all-star game here, but the color of the all-star game was always the jerseys, and I guess the number one bitch complaint we’ve had here for a long time is, yeah, they want to bastardize the home team when the Orioles are here. The Orioles will wear some orange, crazy thing, and the National League team will wear some green and black thing, and they’ll say American and national, and they have a bunch of pictures of all of that, and those are nice workout jerseys on Monday night, or home run jersey, or whatever, free game, whatever, but there is something about seeing the colors and the pageantry of the game, and that’s right where your eyes go, your heart and your mind as an artist go to creating things that when I hold up all of these all-star game badges, you know where they’re from, you know that’s that’s the New York Mets, just based on the color, like literally every
Todd Radom 12:18
single one of those speaks to a certain time and place, and some of the logos lean heavily into trends, but that’s okay. I’m wearing a 2001 Seattle logo, like 2001 but that’s good, because it’s meant to come and go. And then we’re on to the next thing. You talk about the uniforms, Nestor, and I think about the fact, and I’m sure a lot of people do that, we deviated in a couple of years, and the players were wearing during the All-Star game, wearing contrived uniforms, they weren’t wearing their regular uniforms. Well, we’ve gone back to the old thing, because people bitched and complained about it.
Nestor Aparicio 12:56
Try, that’s an art word, they’re contrite. I would call them non-regulation, you know. You have a jersey that you love, that you’re proud of, that says Detroit or Tigers or Cardinals, or whatever it says on it, wear it. You know what I mean. And
Todd Radom 13:15
listen, we’re going to presumably you will see the National League lineup in Philly on Tuesday night, and all the players should have their home uniforms on, and the San Francisco Giants home whites are actually cream, they stand out just a little bit, that is part of their brand, it has been for a long time, and that’s very, very special. I recently spoke to somebody about the fact that the NBA has kind of gotten it right with all the uniforms they have and all the Nikeization of what’s happened in the NBA. The league mandated that the Spurs and Knicks wear something that approximates to home and road uniforms for the NBA finals, so instead of the Chicago Cubs in 2016 winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years in so regular home home or road jerseys, they’re wearing dark blue uniforms, just very, very weird, right?
Nestor Aparicio 14:13
Softball jerseys is what I call them.
Todd Radom 14:15
Well, that’s being kind,
Todd Radom 14:17
yeah, yeah. And again, a moment in time you can remember, I know you’re 83 Orioles, you can remember the 79 War Orioles coming up short, and you remember what they wore, right, in 79
Nestor Aparicio 14:33
they had the disco orange, of course,
Todd Radom 14:34
yeah, and it was very much a product of the 70s, and if you look at my
Nestor Aparicio 14:37
closet at my Oriole jerseys, I wear the disco orange, that’s what I say.
Todd Radom 14:41
It’s, it looks like the team, I mean, that, that, that’s okay, but, but, yeah, these moments in time that I keep talking about really do matter, and to see the All-Star game, especially if we’re being asked to take this somewhat seriously as a game, right? They should be caring
Nestor Aparicio 14:59
who wins when. We were together on the seventh inning of the NYA.
Todd Radom 15:02
Yeah, well, you know, all those stories about Warren Giles walking into the NL clubhouse and giving the players a pep talk, and Pete Rose saying, you know, you want, you want to win it for Warren Giles, because you got to like bust out there and win it, beat the beat the hell out of these guys for the National League. Hard to imagine,
Nestor Aparicio 15:21
not quite the fire that we saw from the US team in the World Cup earlier this week. Todd Radom is here, he’ll be in Philadelphia next week. I’m coming up. Um, tell me about the Fan Fest in a general sense, because, like, I know what the Derby is, I know what the red car, like, I like I’m coming up, and I think for my city, not everybody has Old Getty Lee passer, right, by the way, I found this. I want to hold this up, make you laugh. I lost it now, damn it. It’s like the smallest thing on my whole thing here. I was going to offer you a chance. It’s my, it’s my Upper Deck Fan Fest Pass, Upper Deck 1993 It was, it was literally, it got you into the Oriole fan fest, and it was just a little lanyard. I’ll find it for down
Todd Radom 16:06
there, and I remember the air conditioning in the convention center not working so well.
Nestor Aparicio 16:11
Oh, you remember being warm? It’s really that’s what you remember.
Todd Radom 16:14
That is the one thing I remember. And I remember then handing out cups of Gatorade outside, and my friend Bill, I will never forget, he kind of like poked me in the ribs and alluded to the Jonestown massacre, I know that’s in terrible taste, but you know, but I do remember that, and I remember going to the Pratt Street Ale House, which I think was pretty new then.
Nestor Aparicio 16:37
Well, it has, it might have been PJ Crickets then, it might have been, it was balls, then 93 it was balls, I promise you, it was, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, when and where all star games coming to Baltimore, and I’m holding up all the old school, here was the invitation that we had of our beautiful city back in 1993 and I mean the game itself, and the spotlight that it brings above and beyond the game, and whatever. We had the drama here, Ceto Gaston, dude. We had the drama of Free Willy. We had the moment with John Crock and Randy. We had moments here, you know what I mean? Like, literally, Kirby Bucket was the win. Like, we had moments in our Getty Lee, you know, in our, in our All-Star game here, I don’t know if the thing has moments like that in that way anymore, but I’d like to think that it still has some traction that when Katie Griggs gets a hold of it and brings it down here and they work up a Todd Radom logo, I hope you get to work that it will blossom three years to however many, I think it’s gonna be 2030 from my, my insiders telling me that Boston, Toronto, they want the game, that they’ll probably get in line before us, given all of that, but if we get the game in four years, that, that feels like four minutes to me, four years, right?
Todd Radom 17:55
Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 17:55
what the preparation, the sale, the logo, the all of that, what does it mean for my town? Really,
Todd Radom 18:02
it’s a chance for the city to show itself off to people who might not usually go there, right? I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 18:08
like you, right? Yeah, don’t be in town for it, right?
Todd Radom 18:12
I would, I would absolutely. And you know, it’s going to be great. The ballpark is still a great ballpark. Yeah, there have been changes to it, but the Baltimore is Baltimore, and listen, that’s a place that I don’t have to tell you, because you are mr. Baltimore to me. It kind of falls off the usual tourist track between New York and Washington. Philly sometimes does too. This summer has been a little bit different, but it’s a chance for the city to show itself off, and to for people who experience that beautiful ballpark who have never been there before.
Nestor Aparicio 18:44
Yeah, you know, we vet some Army Navy, and we get the occasional YouTube or the concert, and we, the Morgan Wallens, or the soccer matches, or I mean, we lost out on World Cup, you know, you guys got that from a big perspective. We’re scratching at the door trying to get the NFL draft, and I don’t think our owner and the goof that the president of our football team, I, I, they have not done a good enough job of selling our city now that we’re a decade into this, where the Pittsburgh’s in the Washington’s, everybody’s everybody’s getting it but us. So I mean, there is a point where, like, that’s a big event now, that draft is just that’s better than having a Super Bowl, and I’ve been to 27 Super Bowl’s just for what it would do for my town to get that kind of a thing, that’s why I want to put my dipstick into this Philly thing and come up and say hotels, you know, tourism, baseball, the sport, and I know this, the Phillies are much more, they’re much healthier brand, baseball is healthier in Philly, sports is healthier in Philly than it is in my town right now, so I am thinking I’m going to get on a train and in 75 minutes be in a place where, like, I’m not going to be in Philly as much as I’ve been to Philly a million times, I’m going to be in the town that’s having the All-Star game in the convention center where the All-Star game is, and seeing what Rob Manfred’s vision is not. 33 years ago I ran it again. 33 years ago,
Todd Radom 20:03
very different event. 33 yeah, I know. I hope it thinks the last time it was here in Philly. Workout day, which includes the Home Run Derby. Gates open at 10am tickets were $8 The Home Run Derby is taking place on a Monday afternoon at 3o’clock and the stadium isn’t even full,
Nestor Aparicio 20:22
embargoed, right, embargoed, like there wasn’t even live, right, like they taped it to put it on the ESPN at night,
Todd Radom 20:27
yeah, yeah, I think the SPN took it in 97 I think you and I were both there at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, I think that might have been, or no, you know what, it was 98 in college, I was
Nestor Aparicio 20:38
at the buffet with Getty Lee at 830 on that Monday night, and the home run derby was all done at 6o’clock right? Like it was in the can, and it was on television, but the gala was on, and they were trying to get Barry Bonds on in front of Hooters, or whatever, you know what I mean, because the harbor was shut down, is where the gala was, the guard, the gala was from the Rusty Scupper to Hooters, it was listen,
Todd Radom 21:00
that that’s you, just you just hit the nail on the head. Well, one of the reasons why Baltimore is going to be a great place for this is because it’s compact, everything that you’re going to want to do is walkable. I love it
Nestor Aparicio 21:12
on the water, put it on the water.
Todd Radom 21:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I love it. I love LA, I love Dodger Stadium, but let me tell you, getting from the hotel, you did not feel the event again. It’s the bigness of it, but it’s also the size of the city. I was in LA Nestor this past February for the NBA All-Star game at the Intuit Dome. You know, that’s what, 15 miles from downtown LA. Baltimore is going to be great because of the fact that everything is just so tight and interconnected,
Nestor Aparicio 21:43
I passed the Intuit arena. It looks like a pinball machine, and it’s about a mile away from where I saw Getty and Alex and Annika make things happen back at the forum. Todd Radom is our guest. He’s a rocker, he is a brand artist. He has written books on all sorts of sports logos. Every time the Orioles change their pajamas, and by the way, Luke and I will admit, and I had you on right on the back end of City Connect, and we were making fun of some of them, and some of them connected, some of them missed, at least some of them weren’t like in Texas, making having weird things that were memes on the internet, but this City Connect has connected even in a year where nobody’s going to games and the team sucks, and, but I, I talk about that all day, but the green of the seats of Camden Yards, which literally mirrored this logo, everything that the City Connect jersey was based on is literally this logo, and I don’t have it on anything else, and all of it was green and orange. There’s my media hospitality card at the grand ballroom that day, right. So the notion that the green was brought on, but that I see 22 and 26 year old kids with the hat backwards and the be more, and the green looks like the brick, and I’m thinking to myself, they have no association at all with it’s a new logo to them.
Todd Radom 23:02
Yeah, yeah, but you know what, uh, some of these city connects have not aged well. Some of them, right out of the box, you know, just, you know,
Nestor Aparicio 23:11
disastrous. Your
Todd Radom 23:11
nose, this one looked good right out of the shoot, and it’s grown on me even more because of the details that you referenced, because of the home run plaques out on Utah Street, because of the, you know, the grill work up on the scoreboard. It looks like the Orioles, it looks like Camden Yards. I really like them
Nestor Aparicio 23:31
looking around for my Fan Fest pass, because I was going to let you borrow it. I’ll be in Philadelphia for the All-Star game on Monday and Tuesday, Home Run Derby. I, it’s on Netflix, right? Like I’m a Chris Berman, back, back, back, back, back, back, guy. I’ve never been a home run derby guy. I’ll be there Monday. It’s my least favorite event of the year. I do love the All-Star game, though, and I love all.. I love the All-Star game. I would go every year if it mattered here in my audience. Loved it, and I could do the show from the field the way I did for 20 years, and like all of that stuff. I’m really hoping to rekindle my little fire for baseball again by being involved for 48 hours and coming up and seeing how they’re doing it, because the home run derby is a more expensive ticket right this minute than the game. That’s how the home run derby is.
Todd Radom 24:22
Yep, yep, people, people every single year, that is the case. And that’ll be the case here. And yeah, just again, I’ll reiterate, to soak up baseball, and you need two
Nestor Aparicio 24:34
tickets for the workout 98 I have them right here
Todd Radom 24:37
next to me in a box,
Nestor Aparicio 24:39
MCI. Do you have your Beanie Baby from the
Todd Radom 24:42
I do remember people? I should have, I should have sold it when 100 bucks. They were trying
Nestor Aparicio 24:47
to give me $100 as I walked out. If I compound that right now, I could pick a week in Philly. By the way, I got something else here. I don’t know what the hell this is. It’s an MCI prepaid. You have one too.
Todd Radom 24:59
I have one.
Nestor Aparicio 25:00
One, you have one. How do you have the same one I have? Which
Todd Radom 25:03
they were, they were given out to the media and friends. Then, is it still good? Do you think it’s still good? Nestor,
Nestor Aparicio 25:10
yeah. You know what, I’m going to share this picture because I shared it with Lucas earlier today, and you know when I was going through all of this stuff, I found one picture of me at the 1996 All Star game, and I remember it vividly, because a horse stepped on my foot out in front of the vet. I’m not like a horse stepped on my foot, and I was like,
Todd Radom 25:31
it’s very Philly, please,
Nestor Aparicio 25:33
please, please, please, please get off my plea, please. And it might like
Todd Radom 25:37
Alex Harrison, it hurts so
Nestor Aparicio 25:39
bad, it’s
Todd Radom 25:40
the can’t imagine,
Nestor Aparicio 25:41
I remember it was, it was right, I could show you right where I mean, it hurt like hell, but on that particular day my feelings were soothed. When Earl Weaver joined me, I probably used this card for the the MCI call, that’s him on the Cellular One network here with the phone, there is my All-Star Game past that I actually have right here, and my credential, I don’t know where the lanyard is for it, but you can see the bunting here. This is the red, white, and blue bunting that shows it to be a true all-star game. And there’s, there’s my past. 3030 years later, I’m coming back. I’m gonna get some water ice, I’m gonna get some roast pork, I’m gonna have some tasty cakes, and I’ve threatened anybody who wants to run the Rocky Steps with me. 7am on Tuesday morning, I’ll do it with you. But I hear that you’re up for a roast pork and a beer, is that correct? Actor, much,
Todd Radom 26:32
much more of that than the Rocky Steps. A matter of fact, Nestor, I have a close friend of mine here in Philly, she’s a personal trainer, and she leads a group up those Rocky steps several times a week at the at dawn, so if you want to partake, I can hook you guys up.
Nestor Aparicio 26:47
Uh, let me think about it. My hotel, I’m just at my hotel, is over by us on the other side of the river on Monday night and Tuesday and Wednesday I have a quick escape. So crack at dawn is 530 after
Todd Radom 27:01
you’ve after you’ve done a couple of times no,
Nestor Aparicio 27:03
dude, it’s the sheet. She does the Rocky Steps at dawn. You’re not serious. She’s gonna do that on All-Star Game Day.
Todd Radom 27:11
I don’t know, you know, it’s certain days of the week, but I did not find out
Nestor Aparicio 27:16
there is a rumor that you and I will lib eight and on Monday night in some way, and through this libation, if you give me my milk and my tasty cakes and send me to bed sometime halfway through the Home Run Derby, I will be able to walk from my hotel, which is right by the 30 Street Station. I go across the bridge, or if you don’t kill me going across the and then out in the step, the Rocky, it’s not that far from there. It’s about eight blocks, so I could do the steps and then come down, get a coffee somewhere, and Rittenhouse. And then I’ll meet you about 9o’clock and by then I’ll be all lubed up for a roast pork sandwich. The Knicks opens at 905 right there in the Redding. And then you and I can, as Ric Flair would say, now we go to school, and we, and then we go into the convention center, and we can like be baseball idiots, because if I do it alone, it’s not gonna be any fun. I need idiots with me, like people that really know what’s up, like you, that will point at stuff and say, I had that sporting news, I had that Carlo’s card, I want to go do that with you on Tuesday. Are you good?
Todd Radom 28:21
I should be good. Monday’s bad for me, man. Monday, you know that.
Nestor Aparicio 28:25
Listen, they’re giving me a press credential.
Speaker 1 28:29
Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 28:30
have to pretend I’m working. So I on Monday, I there’s press conferences. Luke, Luke told me what I got to do, and I do what Luke tells me. That’s why I keep my gig, you know what I mean. So we’re gonna have fun. This is gonna be fun, all-star game.
Todd Radom 28:46
It’s gonna be, it’s gonna be great. And again, with all the zealous zealousness of a transplant here, I’m looking forward to Philly showing off to the world again. Still, as we go through this busy summer,
Nestor Aparicio 29:00
they have workout jerseys, right? There’s a, there’s a thing the guy like you did. What does it look? Is it on the 50s fillies of blue and red? Is it the stars, the stripes, the pinstripes, the baby blue? Is it the modern P? What? Base it out on me if you’re doing.. haven’t
Todd Radom 29:17
been invested in it. I need to take a look at these, and this is maybe.. I haven’t looked at
Nestor Aparicio 29:21
yet. That’s why I feel like if it’s good, I’ll see it the minute I get a fan fest, and every Phillies fan will want one. It says more and dini on the back, or no, I’m sorry, wrong era, long era, but, but I mean, there will, it will be, they’ll, they’ll be Bryce Harper,
Todd Radom 29:39
oh yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 29:39
National Phillies, Jimmy Rollins,
Todd Radom 29:42
get some, you know, Ryan Howard is still beloved here, obviously, Chase Utley, all those guys who won, and you know, God read them, there’s only one
Nestor Aparicio 29:51
Philadelphia legend, his name is Michael Jack Schmidt,
Todd Radom 29:56
he will be there, I’m sure,
Nestor Aparicio 29:59
man, if I. I meet, I’ve never met Mike Schmidt,
Todd Radom 30:04
greatest third baseman of all time. That would be
Nestor Aparicio 30:07
really, really big deal for me if I meet the Schmitter. So I’m telling you, you have no idea how much I love the Philadelphia Phillies in 1981 82 and 83
Todd Radom 30:17
Yeah, good. I mean, like,
Nestor Aparicio 30:18
I love the Phillies. I don’t, I didn’t root against the Orioles in a three, but I kind of rooted for the Phillies, because I was in a Phillies mode, because they had the Fanatic, and I was a, I was 14, I was a rambunctious young man, and I had, I had a love with the National League, and fake grass, and National League baseball was exotic to me, you know what I mean, like totally exotic. When my life really
Todd Radom 30:45
were different, you know, back then, and like back
Nestor Aparicio 30:47
in 1996
Todd Radom 30:49
right before interleague play. Absolutely involved, you had said to me, we were texting that Lou Brock probably never set foot in, you know, name, name 12 American League. Michael
Nestor Aparicio 31:04
Jack Schmidt only set foot in Memorial Stadium for those World Series games, and that’s it. Pete Rose only set foot in the stadium in World Series games in 7083 Like, I go through it all. I mean, in my childhood, I remember when Steve Carlton pitched for the, for the, for the Twins for five minutes with an ERA of nine. I went to see him pitch,
Todd Radom 31:22
yeah, because he
Nestor Aparicio 31:23
was coming to Baltimore. Like, dude, I’m such an.. I’ll see you Monday. Philadelphia All-Star Games for Nuts. Todd Radom is here. He does book, he does things on the internet, R A D O M. He is a brand ambassador for all things sports. Tell me about your three on three and your, your league in the hoops, and Navy traffic. Yeah, I work with Cube
Todd Radom 31:43
with the Ice Cube on his three on three league, the Big Three, which is underway ninth season right now.
Nestor Aparicio 31:51
Into Baltimore, right? Been to Baltimore,
Todd Radom 31:53
yeah, a couple of years ago in Baltimore, two years in a row, not this summer, but yeah, absolutely. It was, it’s, it’s fun, it’s great on CBS. Check it out if you, if you’re not familiar with it.
Nestor Aparicio 32:06
I’m glad to be participating with something exciting around baseball this summer that has nothing to do with the bananas or men playing baseball on stilts. So I’m just going to say that out loud. We went through our bananas. What a curmudgeon,
Todd Radom 32:18
what a curmudgeon.
Nestor Aparicio 32:19
I’m going to the real all-star game this week, and filthy, and, and they’re not going to wipe the smile off. I’m going to have a good time, because it’s the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Philly, and it’s coming to Baltimore, and I’m going to have fun, because I love basic cheese
Todd Radom 32:34
steaks, crab cakes. We’re cousins, you know.
Nestor Aparicio 32:38
I’ll bring you, you want me to bring you crab cake? I’ll bring you a crab cake.
Todd Radom 32:40
You could get some chicky and pizz crab. Dude,
Nestor Aparicio 32:43
you’re not, you’re 90 miles away on a tree. You know what I paid? You know what I paid to get on the train. I’ll show you my receipt,
Todd Radom 32:49
$10
Nestor Aparicio 32:50
Keep going.
Todd Radom 32:51
Oh no, really?
Nestor Aparicio 32:53
$5
Todd Radom 32:54
Oh, are you.. are you arriving at 3am What’s going on? No,
Nestor Aparicio 32:57
I’m arriving at 837 I paid $5 to go to Philly. I paid five to get back, and there’s your free Amtrak ad for the day.
Todd Radom 33:07
You will appreciate the beautiful 30th Street Station has been restored. I was
Nestor Aparicio 33:12
there a couple weeks ago. I came through. It was beautiful.
Todd Radom 33:14
Looks great. It was my
Nestor Aparicio 33:16
first approach. You’ll appreciate this from being a brand goober. I was flying to see Rush in LA. I didn’t have enough points to get out of BWI. Philly was dirt cheap on like four days’ notice, was crazy. So I used my points, but I’m like, how am I going to get to Philly? I took the train for 48 bucks at that time up to, and I’m like, how do you even get from the station to the airport, like I net, because it’s past the airport from my direction, and like there’s a $12 train that takes you straight to the airport. It’s unbelievably easy,
Todd Radom 33:49
being a New York guy who’s probably spent a cumulative, you know, six months of his life trying to get the JFK or LaGuardia in one way, shape or form. You know, to have a train that goes right into the station, it’s incredible. It’s
Nestor Aparicio 34:01
insanely easy in Philly to get from Center City to the airport, but I’ve never done it. So, when I did it, here’s the cool part: I come out and I’m in that beautiful terminal, which I’ve been in once or twice, but not a lot, and it is beautiful. It’s an old.. it looks like our Penn Station, but a little bigger. It’s beautiful. And I came out, and I saw my first FIFA stuff, it was, you know, a month, month before the thing got here, when our first week of June, and they had a kiosk, yeah,
Todd Radom 34:27
vending machine, they
Nestor Aparicio 34:28
totally vending giant vending machine, where I could get a World Cup keychain with the Gucci on it for 2495 or whatever, and I’m thinking some euro or some South American just got off the train, they’re like, “FIFA, take my credit card, you know. So, I, but I did get a little piece of that action in Philly. Todd Radham’s got that action, he’s in Philly, we’re having cheese steaks, we’re gonna have some art, we’re gonna have some fun. And the next time I come on, you and I can argue about logos and brands and stuff like that. In the meantime, we’re just gonna celebrate baseball, because that’s that’s cool.
Todd Radom 34:58
I love it. I absolutely love it. We need. More things like that.
Nestor Aparicio 35:01
All right, I’m gonna bring my 96 all-star. I’ll
Todd Radom 35:04
bring, I’ll bring my, my MCI phone card from 1996 We could prank call. We should
Nestor Aparicio 35:09
dial it together and see if it works. I like
Todd Radom 35:12
a throwback call to 1996 Who do you call that’s very 19? Anybody wants
Nestor Aparicio 35:16
to steal my code number? It’s oh three. I’m Nestor. He’s Todd. It’s All-Star Game Week. We’re having some fun, and Luke’s on vacation, and I’m trying to make sure the show doesn’t suck. Stay with us.
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