John Martin of Maryland Lottery gives another pitch for Home Run Riches and chance to win 50 grand for 50 years when the Baltimore Orioles hit their 50th homer of the season. And they’re hitting a lot of them quickly so far…
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SPEAKERS
John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome back, W N st Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive yes I’m back in time for the draft the Orioles to win some more baseball games. Big weekend we’re doing the Maryland crab cake tour several times this week. We’re going to be captain Larry’s on Thursday downtown been waiting to get down there and see Maura for a long time and have their crab cake. Then on Friday. We are a fade Lee’s and Lex in the market the old fade these and then next week we’re moving to Middle River we’re going to be at the new mid falls. I know that falls up near my radio station. Loch Raven, this is the one on the water down in Middle River Luka. Looking forward to that on Thursday, I’ll be giving away these these are instant lottery scratch offs. Ross has given me fresh batches of these to give away and we’ll be doing that all month long. Lots of other things, including just the incredible 50th anniversary that you see logos like this and like BS you’re like, oh, yeah, it’s been 50 years for the Maryland lottery. John Martin joins us now we’ve had a little respite from my time away out in the Pacific still in the United States of America and have to pull my prep as poured out. But I am glad to be back. We got football. We got baseball, we got sports happening. But more than that the 50th anniversary is rocking right now as we go into May right, John?
John Martin 01:13
We’re having more fun than anyone should be allowed to have Mr.
Nestor Aparicio 01:17
Will you give his money away? I mean, I wish I were to Guy give. Well, you know what, when I give these away and people went 20 bucks like somebody did last week. People like go crazy when they went somewhere if you went 20 million, it’s a lot more.
John Martin 01:29
Oh, they do they do and I’m gonna apologize right off the bat. This is bad radio, but I’m gonna apologize right off the bat. Those of you that are watching us through through video channels. I have a new surrounding here. They’ve come in I was on vacation for a week. repainted the office moving furniture in it. Nice. It looks nice. Yeah, same old me though. But yeah, but yeah, so so bear with me as we’re in a under construction in process mode here. But we got that going on. But But what isn’t in process, what is going very strong is all of the links to our 50th anniversary game, go to MD lottery.com. To see all of the products promotions, we are having lots of fun, and more importantly, people players are winning money through entering Second Chance contests and lots of fun and excitement coming up in the months ahead.
Nestor Aparicio 02:16
Not only do we get the wishbone, a logo, but but there’s money associated with this. And these are the more inexpensive tickets sort of an old school throwback but you you’ve done a whole different thing with this 50th anniversary in regard to lines and stuff like you told me in January, February, this was going something was going to be rolling out every couple of weeks for the 50th anniversary, including baseball and homerun riches. You’ve made that pot bigger. We’ve made the scratch off the jackpots are bigger than they’ve ever been. But you put a lot of effort into this and I think I want to hear what do we have going on and demand because you gave me these in April?
John Martin 02:51
Yeah, lots of stuff going on in May. But let’s give a little shout out before we lose the month of April here we had a number of Second Chance drawings and people are winning cash prizes. We have St Clair Forbes, lucky winner in Hanover, Maryland 150 $1,000 In the month of April on a second chance contest with our gold multiplier product. That instant ticket lottery that when you show the throwback ticket, the second chance to drawing on that we had Deanna how mood of trap Maryland won $10,000 On a second chance contest in the month of April. And the end, the big. The big event coming up through the year that we’ve been teasing our 50th anniversary cash bash with our payoff where one lucky winner can win five potentially $5 million at the State Fair this year. And we every month now we’ll select two finalists for that event. And the two lucky people who are now counting down the days of the State Fair. From from the month of April are Anita Karki of montgomery village Maryland and Jacqueline Kaluga of Arnold Maryland. Now they will join two other semi finalists we have for now we will have 10 people that will be at Timonium fairgrounds it’s September to sit and hopefully participate in a live event where one of them could potentially win $5 million
Nestor Aparicio 04:19
that reminds me like sort of the Showcase Showdown on prices right like you got to wait to the end you have to wait to the end. But more than that if your name’s in the hopper, and you might be coming into 5 million bucks this is that makes for a long summer you guys you’re into all this suspense John with these winners which are doing
John Martin 04:34
well I tell you what it’s talking about suspense let’s let’s cut right to the chase because you alluded to it before with the whole Ron Rich’s let me bring it up here. So the way the game is played in many of your of your listeners know this. We’ve done this promotion with the Orioles for years. Every baseball season. We go through our entrance our second chance to win an entrance we select a contestant of the game, he or she wins $500 for just being select did and then during that game they get an additional $500 for every Orioles home run hit during that game. And as
Nestor Aparicio 05:08
a lot of home runs we do they’ve moved the fence back on me but we still let a lot of home runs
John Martin 05:17
Yeah, absolutely so the so that let me just cut to where we are now because we’re on Countdown mode now, when the 50th Oreos homerun is hit this year, that lucky contestant the game will win $50,000
Nestor Aparicio 05:31
And that’s probably going to happen in May now. I mean all the offseason you were thinking it was going to happen in June, they hit more home runs than we thought they were gonna hit their winning more than a lot of people from Cleveland thought they were going to win for sure.
John Martin 05:42
I tell you what, in all fairness, they’ve been playing the JV schedule so far. So. So in May you play Who’s on the schedule. And in May the schedule gets a little tougher. The pitching matchups might get a little tougher. But let’s be optimistic. So we’ve already selected to contested the games through the month of May. So surprisingly enough. The last series let’s go to the end of the month, the last series in May against
Nestor Aparicio 06:12
Cleveland guardians. Oh, who’s that? Why you’re wearing purple today?
John Martin 06:16
Yeah, well, there’s a number of reasons. But here’s this, this is what this wait for it, it’s going to be worth it’s going to be worth the haul here. So on the 29th against the Guardians when the cells Nick from Bellaire is already the contestant of the game. She’s already won $500 And now she’s Tiktok watching the clock. And if we get to 4849 when he’s going to be a little excited on the 29th but if that passes on the 30th Suzanne Winchester, also a Bellaire lot going on in Harford County is the contessa game for the lottery sign
Nestor Aparicio 06:55
in front of Jones Johnson is what I think the one that the giant when the change is when you pull up.
John Martin 06:59
Here’s the payoff and insert your own joke here because I don’t have one i I knew this was coming on the 31st of May against the Cleveland guardians. If we are still at that magical number, just waiting. The contestant of the game I’m kid you not. Daniel Boone. All right. of Baltimore, Maryland.
Nestor Aparicio 07:21
They’re gonna bet McDonald’s gonna have a lot of fun talking about this.
John Martin 07:24
Oh, baby. This is Spitz. You couldn’t have scripted this. And he’s done it. So
Nestor Aparicio 07:29
give everybody the lowdown John Martin is here from the Maryland lottery. He joins us weekly, of course, it’ll be half of the Maryland lottery. So when that game happens, by the way, the 31st is my wife’s birthday, too. So this home run is going to happen at some point in late May, early June. We know that based on their base, that if you get to this night momentus and these nice ladies from Bel Air or watching in the inning comes in like all that what’s going to happen that’s going to trigger them winning. Maybe $5 million, right, 5 million is that number? No, no, this is 3000 50,000 My bad. Using the five lakh I’m sorry. Yeah. 50,000. So they’re online for $50,000. And that’s definitely going to be given away right.
John Martin 08:12
As soon as that 50th Home run has been sanctioned and Claire’s the fence, the wall hits the foul pole, whatever whatever it is that triggers that 50th legit home or the season. That lucky contestant the game wins automatically. $50,000 Nope, it’s not
Nestor Aparicio 08:27
under review. I hope it’s not something anything like crazy like that. We want it to be cut and dried, cut and dried is that we have draft this weekend. Baseball is going on. I know we’ve had some sports wagering and maybe not news right now. But as you’ve talked about the monthly start coming in and we have months like may where there’s no Super Bowl there’s no March Madness, there’s there’s that it’s a little different, but it is available and then own mobile and this time last year, you were trying to work to make it available so people can have it so that people could I guess they can bet on whether or not Lamar will still be a raven by the end of the weekend. Right? There’s all sorts of things in the sports space from an exotic wagering perspective. But people are getting used to this now and I think even in baseball season and we see it every night there’s there’s possibilities for people to play.
John Martin 09:20
Yeah, and certainly we as we’ve preached you know please play responsibly understand the games you’re playing understand the odds understand all the things that are a part of that get get some resources to help you understand the best use of your of your investment and entertainment for that game. Enjoy the game is certainly we have the NBA Playoffs, the the hockey playoffs. I mean you’re now getting in a part of the season where yeah, there’s there’s some very, very interesting things to wait you’re on and to enjoy and whether you enjoy them in the friendly confines of one of our retail partners and you’re in their location, whether it be a casino or an OTB location or, or whomever they happens to be our sports book partner. That’s a great opportunity. Or if you want to join it from the comfort of your own home, kick back and use your mobile device to make a wager I mean, certainly a lot more options available this year than last year, May in through the summer months, will be as little slower pace. March we, we celebrated our $5 million transfer to the state fund. It’s going to be a number of months before we see numbers that that large again, but we hope again, people are playing responsibly. They’re educating themselves. And they’re, they’re playing through reputable organizations like our sports,
Nestor Aparicio 10:37
I thought about that, like all my years with the caps and playoffs and stuff like that. You know, that’s an interesting proposition. You can spend three hours sometimes six hours if they’re playing triple triple overtime in these games. But this is a great time of the year where games are on every night if you love the NBA Playoffs. I was in Hawaii last week, John, and I actually was in Las Vegas where I transferred but watching sports be played at a different hour. You know, in the middle of the afternoon, it really sort of sports is everywhere. And in Hawaii, they put surfing on it. It’s it’s regular sports, there’s like NBA, the Lakers, but they’re surfing on every channel, so I don’t think you can wager on it. John Martin is here and they’re celebrating 50 years of the marijuana even brought back my favorite old school logo. You guys are gonna be doing a lot of events, right? Because I mean, all sorts of things. But as I look at the calendar, my wife and I were talking about this because I don’t it’s the first time in a long, long time maybe since the plague. I don’t have a trip booked anywhere. I’m not flying anywhere. I have nothing on my calendar. I’m thinking there’s a lot going on here that because of the plague and because I mean everything from art escapes downtown to spring festivals to wine festival, lots of things that in 21 Didn’t happen and 22 was questionable whether they could happen. We’re back to sort of normal times and I know you guys are out spinning wheels, giving things away doing all the things we saw you do a conference a couple weeks ago.
John Martin 11:58
We love doing that we love engaging and interacting with our players and I encourage everybody go to MD lottery.com to check out where we may be stopped by players 18 years of age and older allowed to spin and win a lovely prize in one of these venues. Coming up in the month of May just some teasers because we will be out in May really kicks off now. A very aggressive spring and summer agenda for us the Annapolis Irish festival my wife is part Irish and we enjoy those types of things so food music a lot of good times come visit us at the at the island I
Nestor Aparicio 12:36
haven’t heard of that so that I didn’t know there was an Annapolis Irish festival so this is new to crownsville the crownsville
John Martin 12:41
fairgrounds there is very nice we’re also be nets may 6 where we’ll be there. The very next day is the Frederick running festival. I am not a runner. Look at me. Do I look like I’m a runner? No,
Nestor Aparicio 12:55
I think no running last week at all. I ran to the bar to get my tie. So on the run running I did
John Martin 13:00
I tell you where I’m going to run is the following week and the quad state pickle Fest in Boonsboro. Now, this looks like a hoot and a half. Me think pickle everything pickle pickle ice cream, pickled pizza, pickle burgers, pickles, pickles and more pickles.
Nestor Aparicio 13:24
I like a sandwich. I mean a little bread and butter pickle little tilde pick. I like it all because we
John Martin 13:28
are way past dude. We’re way past pickles on the sandwich here. This is this is how many?
Nestor Aparicio 13:36
Okay? All right. I mean, yeah, I mean, well, this is what I’m talking about. Summertime, you’re allowed to eat fried Oreos and fried crab. We’ll talk about that in January, February. That’s a spring thing and it’s all coming. Marital lottery. John Martin, when you give me these to give away. I was up at Pappas in Bel Air. Same as all the Oreo contestants. I was up for a couple weeks. People go nuts when they win, right. And it really I didn’t know this about the relationship. I think I’ve told you this a bunch of times. I didn’t know how much fun was going to be given these way how people were going to be really into it and playing and yelling at me and holding their ticket up when they win like they want bingo. They yell I want I want I’m like I need a picture with you. So I’ve been taking pictures with winners. It is a fun time of the year and I think it’s it’s fun being around the lottery this time of year, especially when you have 50th anniversary you’re giving stuff away every day. And we had a huge jackpot a couple of weeks ago to my wife got in on.
John Martin 14:31
Yeah, there are lots of fun prizes up and down the scratch off line the pick three pick four pick five hate to hear about sorry about the gentleman in Waldorf, who has now won three times on the same number one, pick pick five. And pick five has only been out there a little over a year. So in an 11 month period from May of last year through April of this year. The gentleman has won three times with the same on the same same five digit number.
Nestor Aparicio 14:58
So if I did Number. Yeah. Wow, that’s incredible.
John Martin 15:03
That is although, you know, truth be told here the first time two times one he doubled up, you bought the same number twice the same time. Okay, the number hasn’t come up three times it’s come up twice. But he was lucky enough to have two tickets the first time played it again. And he’s been playing it ever since. And that has been rewarded with 350 $1,000 prizes. Listen,
Nestor Aparicio 15:21
I wasn’t good at algebra. I mean, let’s be honest. I was I was watching sports, you know, like, so. But they’re 99,999 possible. I’ve done the math on this.
John Martin 15:33
Actually. 100,000 Because
Nestor Aparicio 15:34
five zeros is fair enough. See, that’s why I wasn’t good at math. That’s why I need math teacher, Mr. Martin to teach me math. It was a little pocket square in the pencils in there doing the whole thing. For today, number to come up twice. For him to stay with the number. It’s also like,
John Martin 15:51
yeah, right. Right. But But that’s, again, lottery players are creatures of habit. Spoiler alert, lottery players are creatures of habit.
Nestor Aparicio 15:59
If you gave me a three digit right now and said next, I’m going to give you a free three digit play. I’d say box 936 Because that’s my number. Right? You know that. And that’s the number I won the Springsteen thing on back in the day, I can still tell you 35 years later, I saw the Springsteen tunnel love tore because I want 80 bucks on a scratch off at East Point Lakers in 1989. So how bad
John Martin 16:21
that There you go. And there are stories. There are many stories like that and better if you can imagine a better stories by going MD lottery.com. Check out our winner stories. You’ll find lots of engaging stories about our pick five winners, it just said about a proud grandma who won $100,000 on her scratch off ticket about the lucky Laurel lady who won $57,777 Yes, that’s exactly how much 50 57,777 on our fast play. He’s lucky sevens game. We kind of played into that sevens theme there. But she’s very happy with that. And Annapolis cater are 150 $1,000 on one of our scratch off games, great stories, great human interest stories to see how these people are, how they react when they when they have to scratch the ticket twice and scan it three times just to make sure that they’re seeing those numbers and all those zeros.
Nestor Aparicio 17:14
I had a friend that won lotto the first couple years of lotto won a million dollars. A friend of mine from Dundalk that I went to school with his family won, they were in the paper, it was all that I haven’t had anybody recently told me they won 50 grand but I had people all the time when when they come out to the Maryland crab cakes or I’m giving away the instant lottery scratch offs. We’re going to be captain Larry’s Thursday, we’re going to be a fadeless the old families in the old market and the place it’s been for like 150 years. For a little while longer. That’s on Friday morning. Bill Henry is going to be joining us controller as well as Ron Legler from the Hippodrome coming down talking about Hades town and all the big show’s coming downtown. Bill we dealt from CFG bank as promised me out a couple weeks from now because we’re gonna talk about the CFG Bank Arena. And then next week I’m in Middle River at MC falls looking forward to a new crabcake new places new tastes. The weather’s changing the Orioles are playing John Martin’s wearing purple to honor the Ravens on draft weekend right I think anyway, right? Maybe?
John Martin 18:10
Yes, exactly. Then that came up in the rotation. You know, I’m very much a rotation guy.
Nestor Aparicio 18:14
But I’m wearing blue today. Right? Exactly. I mean, it just happens. We will be here again next week. And we’ll be giving away Maryland lottery scratch off tickets everywhere. The Maryland crab cake tour goes big appreciation, our friends at the Maryland lottery keep giving money away out there, we’ll get close. I’m sorry, I messed up the 5,050,000. But it’s gonna feel like 5 million when this person wins 50,000 I guarantee it’s gonna feel pretty good when you win a lot of money because the Orioles had a home run.
John Martin 18:39
And here’s something else you can file away for future reference. We just this week announced the new $5 Corvette ticket with the second chance prize at the end of the year, October 8 drawing when lucky person could win $150,000 that we hope will send them immediately to their Corvette dealer for a brand new ride. But we got plenty of time to talk about that over the next several months. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 19:02
we will talk about that because my wife’s favorite all time cars, a 67 Corvette. And every time one of these car shows comes on there’s an auction their auction and this and that and this car is 300 grand and that cars 80 grand Well, I’ve always said to my wife, if I ever hit it big if I got you know if I got wealthy, I find some way to get over 67 Corvette in a color that she likes. She can have some fun with her life. After all she’s been through, and I’m thinking to myself so she could win 150 grand. Could I buy a 67 Corvette 100 I was wondering I don’t know. But that that’s my homework for this week, as well as figuring out that five digit is actually 10,000 or 100,000 possibilities, not 990 9999
John Martin 19:44
And I’d be remiss if I did not thank you personally, you know, on these airwaves on behalf of all the other husbands out there for setting the bar so ridiculously high by buying your wife and 67 Corvette when I struggled to buy my wife a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day.
Nestor Aparicio 19:58
Thank you very much. I will welcome II that would be the one item that she that would be a fun item for her. And I thought when she said that to me, I’m like, Well, how much can one of those be like 3040 5060 grand like a car. They’re not like known antiques aren’t like that. It’s like my belt buckles. It’s not normal. You know,
John Martin 20:17
by the time you turn the microphone off, you’re gonna have five of your listeners telling you how much they pay 67 Corvette cost?
Nestor Aparicio 20:23
How much does a 1960s I’m going to ask, cost,
John Martin 20:28
let’s say your social media.
Nestor Aparicio 20:30
Okay, okay. In excess. This is very affordable if you went around $75,000 in that range is how much the tool can get to them. No, no, I’m taking no, no, she gets a car and I get
John Martin 20:45
well, weekends and weekdays. Come on, so no, so now you’re going to short Arman. I mean, you’re you’re boasting about how you’re gonna get your wife a new car, and now all of a sudden you get an alligator arms at the end.
Nestor Aparicio 20:53
Listen, Leonard Raskin tells the story as often as he can, that he went to Super Bowl 35 without his wife 23 years ago, and spent an inordinate amount of money on tickets and fun, and he had to come back he said he had to furnish the whole house when he got John Martin is here he is furnishing us with scratch offs in the realm of the lottery, the throwback to the lotteries first ever scratch off. I have them I’ll be giving them away at hat me falls next week, as well as Captain Larry’s and Faidley’s this week. And I’ll be seeing you next week. And I promise you these bags under my eyes and I’m gonna call a suntan. I’m gonna be well rested for you next week. And I might be the one wearing purple based on maybe Lamar Jackson be wearing purple by this time next week. John Martin is here. Make sure you’re wagering responsibly as you do your wagering here. And if you’re betting on baseball, and basketball and hockey each and every night, just think about things know what you’re getting yourself into. We always tell people that because, you know, there are risks involved here and we want everybody to stay safe and have a good time with the way they play the lottery and with the way they enjoy sports. And I was the guy at Las Vegas late into the evening last night, John, we’ll see you next week. John Martin from the Maryland lottery joining us here don’t forget they have the throwbacks to I don’t have any of these. I have these but that’s okay. We are wn st am 1570, Towson Baltimore. And we never stopped talking. Odell Beckham Jr. and the Maryland lottery stay with us.
