Sure, there were a lot of Philadelphia Phillies fans downtown this weekend. And as Luke Jones and Nestor point out, that’s not a bad thing when they leave their money and go home with a series loss to the powerhouse Orioles.
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SPEAKERS
Luke Jones, Nestor J. Aparicio
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home we are wn St. am 1570, Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive. We are worried that the summer months around here mean weather’s warming up baseball’s heating up certainly was something seeing 150,000 people file into Camden Yards over the weekend. I spent my vehicle spent everyday downtown my wife went to the farmers market hobbled around on Sunday in the city, but we just had a beautiful weekend. Moving around the city with Jamie Costello, whom I love I saw so many people have people I couldn’t even talk to that I wanted to talk to. That a Little Havana. So cheers to Jamie. I just want to begin everything we do, saying thank you to the Maryland lottery for sending us off with the Gold Rush sevens doublers. Last week, we had them we had them in Coco’s we had winners. We had a $20 winner Coco’s. Then on Friday, we moved to Cooperstown in in Fells Point, we watch a show the planes going overhead. Bill Cole and I were like ducking through the window, Ron Furman came down and we GISD about all the bands that we used to see Peter, Buck and REM and all that cool stuff we saw last week. So pick appreciations. That’s a huge week. Some of the conversations you’ll hear with Tom pierce this week might be about the Phillies or Phillies and Orioles lore, which I think even in the aftermath of 1983 a new little new little standard was set. So I’m wearing my Costas shirt. We will be in my homeland on Thursday. I’m really looking forward to it. We’re gonna have these gold rush seven doublers to give away. Our friends at Liberty pier solutions put us out on the road as well with our clean water and our clean well water solutions. I talked to Doug last week I’m looking forward to pimping him a little bit. He loves it. I’m wearing the Liberty pure hat with Vinny Testaverde on radio rode down in Miami five years ago in our 25th anniversary documentary Jiffy Lube multicam has got us out on the road as well. We’re going to be in a place where I’ve had my car Jiffy Lube many many times Dundalk we’re going to be at a Costas in on Thursday. The Orioles play the Yankees. Hopefully they got the brooms out. I don’t know time will tell. We’re at the bottom of the rotation. Now. After the Phillies this weekend. Luke is drinking his coffee. I hope he has some royal farms in there. So it’s tasty. I’m drinking mine out of the coal roofing mug at Bill Cole and I had such a laugh the other day just being down in in Fells Point. And look, here’s the pitch the pitch is it was going to cost me 32 bucks to park and a lot for four hours at lunchtime. I paid six bucks up on Broadway in front of where I used to get my wrestling magazines at whities newsstand at the corner Eastern and Broadway. I had like a legendary weekend but part of it was dude from the minute I sat down and Cooper’s Phillies fans everywhere. Every every table, every shot you’ll see in the videos and the pictures. I chatted with them all my wife and I navigated we effed up on Saturday going to Jamie’s party. We arrived at our old home. Everybody knows relived harbor court, right? We arrived there. I don’t know four minutes after the game ended. So like the flood of Phillies fans, the flood of people everywhere. URLs lost that one. So for me this weekend was like everything I ever fought for. Were three the birds when you’re fighting for parking, and my wife and I gotta think, oh my god, we we just drove into 50,000 people leaving Camden Yards. What is this amateur hour? We’re trying to get around key highway. We had the time of our lives with Baltimore full this weekend.
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Luke Jones 03:41
It was an amazing weekend. I mean, it really was and you just said no. I mean, the only thing you could say is well you’d rather it not be quite as many Philadelphia fans but hey, there their money still works right? Their money still
Nestor J. Aparicio 03:52
good. And we beat their ass on the toll booth on the way home they had to go home a loss,
Luke Jones 03:56
correct? Correct. I go home and eat some cheese steaks. But I mean, just an amazing weekend a baseball Nestor. You know, I’m not a hot take guy. You know, I’m not a guy. That’s a prisoner of the moment. Typically, you know, recency bias, which is such a big thing in sports. Not to mention other walks of life. But I’ve been covering the Orioles since 2010. And this weekend series was as enjoyable as anything that wasn’t October wasn’t a postseason game, but an atmosphere. I mean, it really was.
Nestor J. Aparicio 04:25
8You apologize to me and telling me I was wrong that we could play big series in June, you and I were having these arguments about what constitutes like, I think we can all now agree. This is what baseball is like that. It didn’t it doesn’t need to be sleepy, sleepy, sleepy, and the playoffs start. This is what Houston discovered in the last recent years. It’s what Boston sort of knew all along and came to life and is lost all over again. But when these communities come to life, Philadelphia being activated as they are right now, we’re like Mets fans aren’t as activated right now. Right. So when you get activated to reach for your wallet and come out, this is the kind of experience you want to have good baseball, good matchups. Great players, big moments. I mean, dude, like, this is every single as I’ve watched all this documentary crap about my like, this is what free the birds This is what has been missing for a long, long time. And again, it’s big series in June. I grew up on that I grew up with the Tigers came in, you’re in the Red Sox with Jim rice game in here. And the Yankees came in and you felt now I was a kid. You felt big weekends and big series? I don’t know if you’ve had an adulthood of that loop. I really don’t I I mean, you do it with ravens games. You feel a rave a big ravens game. We haven’t had a whole lot of this dude. So what Welcome to the party, even for guys that are 40 years old, that have had a lifetime that haven’t had a whole lot of this man. Yeah,
Luke Jones 05:56
I mean, there have been some of them, but certainly not many of them. And and the point I made to you about the big series, that was more of a late April, early May thing for me. And I’ve said this as someone who’s going to be 41 This fall, Memorial Day has always been the time for me where it’s like, alright, Is it Team real or not? Is this legit or not? We’ve seen teams start out well, and in April and even into May, and then they start to seek their level of what they are. But when you’re talking about going into the weekend with two of the three best teams in baseball, the on the National League side, a team that was in the World Series Two years ago, a team that was in the NLCS last October. And when you’re talking about the Orioles, who were the number one seed in the AFL last year, and came into the weekend, just behind the Yankees as we’ve chronicled and will continue to talk about this week as the Orioles are going to the Bronx. It’s legit even for mid June. My only point when I say that is if you get swept here, the seasons not over. If you sweep that team or win the series, it doesn’t mean you’re made for October. But
Nestor J. Aparicio 06:59
everyone again is tied to to in the sixth inning in these kinds of games. It was this kind of a crowd in this kind of environment with these kinds of steaks when you’re chasing the Yankees or being chased by the Braves, whatever, you know, whatever your flavor is, and fans have gotten together and put their jerseys on and filled up Fells Point and planes are flying over top. And it’s new for the Orioles fans. And it’s you know, fanatical for the Phillies fans, right? I mean, it’s their way into it when dogs are dressed as chase out like I saw last night. I was in Philly last week. And so I went to a Philly Festival last week and Wayne Pennsylvania and I saw it up there that weekend where I was taking pictures of like fun things, fun things I’m going to share with you on it maybe even in this thing with Philadelphia, because it’s um, you know, this isn’t a rivalry. But like, I’ve got a lot of memories that I even shared at the front of Baltimore positive for my Pentax camera of the fanatic in the bird 1983. That if there’s interleague play that matters, Orioles Phillies should pack them in as maybe one day bud Seelig when he dreamed this up 30 years ago to you know that the Brewers need to sell tickets. So let’s bring the move into a different league and bring the cubs in I I don’t know. But like this is we got to have some Hatfields and McCoys, you know, above and beyond the Yankees and the Red Sox. Right. And certainly don’t have that with the Nationals ever. Yeah. Well, I
Luke Jones 08:33
mean, for a minute back during the buckshaw Walter era, it kind of sort of felt that way with the Nationals, but it was very fleeting for both clubs at the at that point in time, but I’m surprised
8Nestor J. Aparicio 08:44
they didn’t Brawl Sunday when it came in on Couser. And, um, you know, and I don’t usually open to conversations with that Sutcliffe talk. But like, you know, I mean, it could have gotten shippi On Sunday, for sure. On Father’s Day, no less. It could
Luke Jones 08:57
have I steal everything I watched to me other than when it came up in in on gunner Anderson in the seventh inning on Saturday where I mean, that was just scary. More than anything else. I don’t think the guy was deliberately throwing out his head. I think he was trying to come inside and then it went up the ladder more than he intended. But yeah, the
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:15
we always say felt intentional felt. It felt purpose. It felt it felt like I don’t know about that. Okay. I don’t know. Oh, he has more control than that. I just give him the benefit of
Luke Jones 09:25
8the doubt. Zack Wheeler got his butt kicked on Sunday. It wasn’t was it wasn’t prime Zack Wheeler. So up. Look, as I was trying to think about this, and this was more of a Friday thing. As we were waiting out the rain delay going into the top of the 11th inning, to try to conceptualize what this atmosphere was like because it was a ton of Phillies fans Sunday, a smaller percentage than the previous two days. But Friday and Saturday. It felt very 5050 and if you had told me it was even a hair In the direction of Philadelphia, I don’t know if I will be able to argue otherwise with you. That’s how many Philadelphia fans were there. What it felt like to me. And I can’t say this with a full authoritative voice because I’ve never been to one of these, but it felt like a major, legitimate, competitive, energetic College Bowl game, where both t both schools have traveled extremely well to whatever neutral location it is. And everyone’s going nuts over it. That’s what it felt like on Friday and Saturday, everything about the game, everything that happened, every outcome, every at bat, every pitch, in certain instances, even the rain delay,
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:43
there was just a reaction, there was a Kimbrel thing. I mean, I sat here all week, and I had Tom Pearson from classic five Philadelphus Gus Kimbrel coming out of the bullpen and getting cheese steaks.
Luke Jones 11:01
I mean, it was amazing. It really, really was, I mean, the atmosphere was just it was unlike anything I’ve really seen from the standpoint of just how back and forth it was, but
Nestor J. Aparicio 11:14
it takes Philadelphia fans to make that happen. Doesn’t happen with San Diego and La are telling you hey, dude, I try. Like maybe you’re sitting in Texas could get together. But I mean, there’s something about these Phillies fans running the streets here all weekend and planes flying, and everybody’s scrambling to get to the game. And to your point to the bowl games. I thought of it more like a World Cup game like you know what I mean? Like I looked at it like that, because it was raucous. Not even like a football game, because they would divide the crowd in some way. And soccer that you know, I mean, where my people come from, and Venezuela. and South America, they built the cages and say you’re over there and you’re over there. And we’re not letting you’re going to exit first. There’s all of that that goes on in a lot of places where they play soccer. But this was sort of mixed and match and the the red and orange on TV I got I couldn’t tell the difference. And but everybody was seated together. It’s a little more communal dude. And I saw, you know, I saw some ladies it might have been from Cherry Hill getting exited from the stadium by some some of Baltimore’s finest in the late innings on Friday night. But I it can. It can only be possible with Philadelphia fans, or New York like it. Right? It wouldn’t be possible with Braves fans, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, it couldn’t have the same energy. It could.
8Luke Jones 12:37
I mean, you’re just you know, the proximity is one thing. I think there were a couple other factors here that made this a perfect storm for what it was. Keep in mind Philadelphia that the Phillies had not been in the Baltimore since I think it was 2018. So you’re talking six years, the Phillies were still not very good at that point in the way that the Orioles were just entering there. Yeah, the bottom had fallen out and they were horrendous, you know, worse than they had ever been at the end of the buck do cat era. So six years ago, I mean, that’s an eternity. So you’ve had the Phillies become what they become over the last three years or so. The Orioles have become what they become. But we know how the MLB schedule comes out in a random day in late July or August. I guarantee you Phillies fans looked at that at that point in time and they put in the back of their mind. Oh, they’re gonna be in Baltimore in mid June next season. Father’s Day let’s go down there that in mind so they didn’t buy the tickets then but that was on their calendar long term as far as whatever road trip they’re going to take and hey, it’s gonna ring the bell. So So when tickets went on sale in the offseason, they they
Nestor J. Aparicio 13:40
they scooped them up and tickets are 100 bucks Saturday night. Yeah,
Luke Jones 13:44
I mean, I believe it because I mean it was packed to the gills. I had a couple friends I had a friend from the Philadelphia area who was rooting for the Orioles mind, you know because he’s from this area originally but he came down on Friday night you know but came with some friends who were Philadelphia fan so so there was some of that but the Phillies Citizens Bank Park that that atmosphere right now that’s one of the toughest tickets in baseball we go look at what the Phillies tickets are on the secondary market on any given night. I mean, you’re a big brand it is. So if you’re someone in the Philadelphia area, and let’s say you’re someone on a fairly limited fixed income that you only have so much money to spend at for luxury items and leisure items. You look at a trip to Baltimore and say, You know what, we can make a weekend out of that not spend a ton of money and have a great time and we know it’s a good ballpark. And hey, the Orioles were in the playoffs last year. So there was a lot of that going on Luke I
Nestor J. Aparicio 14:39
8saw people in Fells Point and I told my wife this. It reminded me of the folks that went on my trips all the time. But even like 15 years later, these are people in their 60s who still get around. Maybe you don’t want to fly maybe you want to pay to fly. They get in their car, they drive down they can dump their car check into a hotel walk around. Everywhere I went. I mean, I wasn’t Cooper’s all day. But these Phillies fans were like, Hey, I just saw, you know, they were talking about bond and players walking the streets, that the tourism, they’re staying at the Four Seasons i, we just ran into player X. He ever knows walking down the street, you know. And I heard all of this vibe and buzz. And, like, if you watch the bill Cole video, like from Friday, we can’t stop smiling. Because he and I are the guys during the darkest days of the city, where I’m planning a bandit mayoral run, where we’re talking about nobody doing anything. And the baseball team stinks. And I’m talking you know, 2018 it like what’s going to bring people back to the city people aren’t going back to Baltimore. Jane Miller eats this up on Twitter, by the way, so I love me some Jane, I gotta get get her on the show. But when you know, when people come back to the city, she’s like, I guess people are coming back to the city, all of a sudden, let’s talk about them coming back to the city. Because they were in the city and the city was vibrant and the kitchen was happening. The food was good. And the traffic sucked. And you know, like, that’s where it is when things get but but my wife and I had to go down to Jamie’s party and we’re driving. And on the way down. I said to my wife, I’m like, oh my god, it’s the bottom of the eighth inning, they just scored three more runs. It’s like then they scored another run. And I’m like the Phillies fans are gonna be filing out, we’re gonna really have a hard time going one way to get to key highway from north, it’s downlights. There’s no other way to get there. Martin Luther King didn’t seem like a good idea at all to go on the west side of the stadium and have to navigate back. And she’s like, why are you freaking out. And I’m like, I was down here yesterday, there’s 50 there’s fleet we like, it’s gonna be as we got through pretty well actually, like all things considered. It was a very, very peaceful trip to the city. But we screwed up and my wife was in disbelief that this many people would be here because we lived downtown for 19 years. And I used to warn her about this we first got married like, you know, three or four or five, like, Hey, we got a plan the marathon you got a plan when streets? Or should you get a plan when the Royals are gonna play and lead in and lead out because you want to get stuck in that? Because you can just get trapped like football games after you know this after games. Like we these are the problems Baltimore positive wants to have, which are lots and lots of people coming back to our city, and hopefully really having a good experience. Right. Like it was. It was a delightful weekend, I think all the way weather notwithstanding the rainstorm on Friday night. But I mean, people really got treated, they would do it all over again next week. And if they could, and I think there’s a feeling for everybody. And I even kidded with you before we even began I’m like, yeah, we’ve gone through the schedule, October. Wheeler burns game one October 20. Like there is a little feeling that that’s possible.
Luke Jones 18:02
Sure. I mean, no question about it. I mean, this was a really entertaining series. I mean, Friday and Saturday, especially were great back and forth. ballgames. I mean obviously the Orioles hit four home runs off Zack Wheeler on Sunday, so it wasn’t quite as tight of a game. But just when these are two super heavyweights, you know, when we when we were previewing the series, a lot of this wasn’t just that the Orioles have been what they’ve been for most of the history of Camden Yards. This is still unique in the sense of there are a good series. They’re a great series and then there are two super heavyweights going at it. Same thing happened at Yankee Stadium the previous weekend when the Dodgers and Yankees convened and we’re playing each other I mean this was every bit of that in terms of the quality of these baseball teams I mean the Phillies are the class of the NFL the Orioles Yeah, they’re still technically chasing the Yankees but there’s no I was actually talking with this talking about this with an Orioles fan late last week you know someone I just interact with on some social media. Orioles fans at this point in time not talking about ownership Masson business side any of that just talking about the team on the field right now. There is no inferiority complex that needs to be had right now this team is as good as anyone and there’s no reason to fear the Phillies or fear the Yankees. Those teams are looking at the Orioles and saying Wow, we got to play the Orioles.
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:28
Not only that the backup plan of the trade the fact that they have the arsenal to be in play for anything and anybody even the money side now you Mr. Moneybags thrown out hats all weekend to be like, there’s gonna come a point where, you know, they’re gonna have to give up Nora bees and give up her stats. And you know, like, well,
Luke Jones 19:52
they’ve already done it for Corbin Bert. I mean, have you seen what Joey Ortiz is doing for the Brewers go Google what his numbers are. I mean, they were saying over the week. again that hey, the Orioles may have made a mistake. You know, Milwaukee was saying they may have made a mistake, given up Joey Ortiz for burns. I think the Orioles are just fine with where Corbin Burns has been up with his latest quality start but but yeah. And we’ll get into it. I’m guessing we’ll have a more extensive discussion. The Kyle Bradish news. Yeah, I mean, God, we brought that up. Right. Right. And that’s that was another part of Friday night was kind of deflating. And they lose. It’s the weird rain delay after Mullins had just gotten his hand in to tie the game in the in the last of the 10th. And they’re feeling good. The heavens opened up and it started pouring me Nestor. It was like something out of a movie. It just started pouring. I knew rain was coming. But this wasn’t like oh, it missed it for 1015 minutes and then picked up it was drizzled for like 30 seconds. And then just it was Howard’s sell
8Nestor J. Aparicio 20:52
dude, I saw it crashing in and I’m like, Yeah, are they going to finish this? You know that then the Kimbrel like all of that was going on? While like the Wizard of Oz was happening. And Frederick like literally.
Luke Jones 21:04
Yeah, yeah. So I mean, if so, so it was deflating and Brandon Hyde reveals after the game is we’re asking because Bradish was lifted after not that many pitches. So it was kind of like, Hey, what’s going on with him? And he acknowledged that Bradish his elbow was bothering him. So that’s why he came out after only five innings. And, you know, obviously it’s listed as a sprain to UCL I don’t need to tell you where this very much feels like it’s heading at this point. I mean, even even if it’s not Tommy John, now it feels more and more inevitable. And certainly that you can’t expect Kyle radish to be pitching again for the Orioles this year. If he does great. You know what, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to that but they bounce back. Grayson Rodriguez gives him what they gave or gives them what he did on Saturday, which was a big boy, Bulldogs start, you know, he pitched extremely well. And that was after it was a little shaky the first inning or two but he was terrific. The bullpen was tired on Saturday, he gives them seven innings. I mean, he was just that was a reminder right there of all right, they’re gonna have to figure out the rest of the rotation. And yeah, they probably have to go out and at least get a starter that can give them innings, you know, even if it’s not your definitive game three starter and a postseason series. But when you still have Corbin burns, and you had the version of grace and Rodriguez that we saw on Saturday, they’re still gonna have a chance. I mean, there’s no doubt about that. I mean, yes. Got to figure out who’s going to slot in and what does Kate Povich look like against the Yankees and Dean Kramer’s starting to rehab assignment and all that. I mean, their questions there. We can’t hide from that. But when you have Colin burns and Grayson Rodriguez, you’re one two, and prey, knock on wood, cross your fingers, cross your toes, all of that. I mean, the same thing that any team does about their best pitchers that they stay healthy, and they’re fine. But if you have those two, we were reminded on Saturday and Sunday that it stinks losing Kyle Bradish It really stinks because that guy is such a talented arm. Uh, but seasons not over. And this is still a heck of a baseball team. And, you know, Brandon Hyde spent a lot of time Friday. I mean, there were so many questions before the game about the series and how big this was. And, you know, he really tried to downplay it in the way that any manager is going to in mid June and say, Look, our guys aren’t viewing it through that lens about thinking about the playoffs or that this isn’t really big series or anything like that. It’s the next set of three games that we’re playing. But he noted on Sunday afternoon, after they finished up the eight the three victory after the four home runs off Zack Wheeler gave, you know easily his worst start of the year. He acknowledged that Friday night was tough, you know that? That was a deflating loss. You know, that was a tough loss in 11 innings and the news about Bradish. But he made note of really says something about the makeup of this clubhouse that they came to work on Saturday. And he said you would have never known that they lost the night before you would have never known that. You know about the disappointment surrounding Bradish and there’s absolutely disappointed they’re devastated for the guy because of all the work he put in and just how well he had pitched since coming back overall. But they just they bounce back. They get a great star from Grayson Rodriguez, Anthony Santander with a huge game on Saturday. And then Corbin burns comes out and does what Corbin burns does, which is give you a quality start a high quality start. And you just pound the baseball you know against one of the best pitchers in the National League. So a great weekend on the field. A great weekend off the field to your point. The fighter jet flying in the late innings on Sunday was just amazing. I mean, I’m sure a few players here and there probably didn’t love it. But Colton Couser said he’d never felt more American playing baseball that the fighter jet fly Grover Camden Yards in the seventh, eighth and ninth inning and you know there was a USA chant at one point. Phillies and Orioles fans chanting that which had That was pretty cool but special weekend. And as I said, going in, doesn’t make or break you. The fact that they took two out of three here doesn’t guarantee the Oreos are making a deep October run. In the same way, if they had lost two out of three or been swept the season would have been over but for what it was, which was a fun barometer a fun measuring stick. Oreos have nothing to be scared about facing anyone. I mean, they really don’t. They’re that good. They’re that talented. To your point. They have a farm system and resources available to them to go out and make some moves. Don’t do it just for the sake of doing it but make the right move if it presents itself. But in the meantime, hey, they took two out of three. And by the way, Boston Red Sox take a couple from the Yankees over the weekend and feel pretty good about that. If you’re an Orioles fan as they finally have an off day, and they head to the Bronx for three. So I mean, just a really special weekend. And to piggyback off of what you said, did not see too much. And believe me if if it’s out there, it shows up on social media. I did not see too much. As far as any issues. I didn’t see a ton of fights in the ballpark or anything like that seems like for the most part, people had fun venturing
Nestor J. Aparicio 26:13
out and I saw getting thrown out was like a 55 year old woman who was in Philly scary was being mouthy and security can’t, you know, like, you’re gonna have a little bit of dude, I’ve had my wife called, you know, begins with the W and ends with an EN five letters in the upper deck in Philadelphia for four quarters. And you know, like, it’s the folks that came down again, these are baseball fans. They were they’re old and white essentially and have extra a lot of income and they come down here and they don’t want to get in fights. It’s not a football crowd. It’s not a tailgating crowd. It’s not you know, it’s not that it’s their parents. Show i i would just say from what I saw in the city, and I saw a lot because I was around all weekend. I saw droves of Phillies fans coming out. It looked to me like a lot of people coming down here and I’m testing and taxing all that’s good about Baltimore and filling up a meat cheese and filling up Cooper’s and Pride weekend. My wife and I drove right into pride on the way out trying to get a taco o’clock a little late night on Saturday night. And they were bused to Napa they were people everywhere. They’re, I mean, the city would, there was pride. There was fleet weekend and there was 150,000 baseball fans piling in and out of Camden Yards and trafficking through all parts of the city in every way. I mean, I’m sure there were Phillies fans in hotels and Towson and Whitemarsh I mean, like you had to stay somewhere um so that’s a beautiful thing for our town and I we talked about Preakness we talked about, you know, festivals we could have or city fairs we could have or an AFC Championship game or getting the all star game this is what an all star game was all star game might not even feel as good as this weekend did. Well, I
Luke Jones 28:03
8mean, I just think the proximity I think because the Orioles and the Phillies are an opposite leagues you know obviously 1983 You know we scarcity,
Nestor J. Aparicio 28:13
right? Scarcity, right. But I also think,
Luke Jones 28:17
I mean, I’m a perfect example this Nestor as someone who is born in Baltimore has lived within 40 minutes of Baltimore my entire life. The Phillies back grew up the Phillies were my National League team, you know, because my grandfather who you know, rooting for the Phillies and when the Orioles the Browns came to Baltimore in 1954 era published
Nestor J. Aparicio 28:36
pictures of me and Philadelphia Phillies Phillies that add a huge fascination with the fear
8Luke Jones 28:42
so you have some of that so it’s not necessarily that all these people are wearing Oreos, hats and Phillies T shirts or vice versa. It’s not like that. But there is a sense of I think there’s an appreciation of not everyone and look, there are plenty of people who don’t like Philly and and that’s fine. Yeah, I’m not gonna sit here and tell anyone who to root for not but I think there are plenty of people in that crowd who are rooting for the Orioles. But when the Phillies aren’t playing the Orioles there, they’d like to see him do well and myself included. I’ve
Nestor J. Aparicio 29:13
talked about that a lot talked about my dad would never do for the Mets. I promise you that. And on
Luke Jones 29:17
the flip side, I have friends who are Philadelphia sports fans, lifelong Philadelphia sports fans who have said to me over the years that they like to see the ravens and the Orioles do well as long as they’re not going up against Philadelphia. So So you had some of that. I mean, it was just, it was a great weekend. Lots of people, lots of money being spent downtown, which is always a great thing for the local economy and all the businesses and restaurants and bars and all that. It was just to your point. It was really a weekend where I think Baltimore people can really feel good. And yeah, ideally it’d be 44,000 Orioles fans and there’s no red or no though the none of the light blue or anything like that in the crowd. But hey, Is there money still? Yeah, that you can still take their money. And if anything, hopefully that this weekend, from that standpoint, from a big picture standpoint, is something that can galvanize Orioles fans to say, hey, the Phillies coming to town, you know two years from now, better buy those tickets early or Philadelphia fans are gonna do the same thing. So we talked about this years ago with the Steelers coming in for ravens games at Memorial Stadium. We talked about this, my goodness, so much in the 90s. Now, even before the bottom fell out on the early stages of the Peter Angelos era, Yankees and Red Sox fans coming in. I mean, we talked about that. That’s this is nothing new in that sense. But I do think there was a little bit of a perfect storm in the sense that Phillies hadn’t been in here in several years. It’s a tough ticket in Philly right now to go there. You’re spending a lot of money. I mean, again, look at the time, that’s why the Red Sox fans came here years ago, right? That’s exactly, exactly. So there’s always some of that. And, look, anytime you’re talking about that kind of proximity, you know, just a couple hours away. You’re going to have some opposing fans in here. So but it was a lot of fun. You said it, probably a soccer match, you know, World Cup or something like that was probably a better comp than even a ballgame. Because Mike give
Nestor J. Aparicio 31:13
8me the give me the numbers. You had you said something in the beginning of the segment. You said Friday, it was Saturday and Sunday, Saturday, I ran into someone whose opinion I respect. Who said it probably was 5050 on Saturday. Yeah, that’s what somebody said. I think Friday
Luke Jones 31:29
and Saturday were very 5050. In fact, if you had told me Friday night, it was 5248 for Philadelphia even I probably probably would believe you. Sunday was still a lot. Still a lot of Phillies fans, but not quite as dramatic. I think Orioles fans probably bought that up knowing Hey, not just the Phillies and a good matchup, but it’s Father’s Day. So I think when tickets went on sale, or people did, you know 12 game packages, whatever package you know, if your partial season plan. Father’s Day is obviously an attractive day. So I think percentage was probably I’d say 6040 Or maybe, you know, maybe somewhere around there for Oreos in ahead of Phillies fans. But But Friday, Saturday, I mean, it was it really was remarkable. Anything that happened. i There were even a couple other reporters. And you know, one point I’d gone to the restroom, and I came back and I hear a roar. And it’s like, Okay, I’ve no idea what happened was it. So it was just it was very unique in that way. I mean, it was just a really fun series. And again, it’s easier to talk about it through the lens of when it’s a series win for the Orioles rather than a series loss. And we’ll get to the Bradish bad news in the next segment. But yeah, but just just a great weekend for Baltimore. And like I said it kind of capped off with the fighter jets in the late innings on the fighter jet flying around on Sunday, which was unique, you know, I mean, that was that was fun. I mean, it really was and you could tell that some of the players were a little disturbed but Colton Couser and even Brandon, I’d set it to he’s like, a little distracting, but he also said, I don’t care. That was awesome. Yeah, he embraced it. So I didn’t even mention we even happened
Nestor J. Aparicio 33:11
at Shea Stadium for 50 years, man Yeah. Oh, no doubt, but
Luke Jones 33:15
I didn’t even mention through all the fun of the weekend. We’ve got an old school manager umpire argument on Sunday with Ron I mean that was Earl Weaver Bobby Cox loop NLS I mean that was
8Nestor J. Aparicio 33:27
a lot of salt a lot of vinegar there you know it was good Yeah, absolutely. So
Luke Jones 33:31
I mean great weekend great series win for the Orioles great to get an off day you know only off day they get in the month of June before hey it’s go time again no no rest for the weary head to the Bronx and see how you do against the Yankees which you’re gonna face Nestor Cortez you’re gonna face Luis he’ll you know their sensation. But on Thursday in the finale, and
Nestor J. Aparicio 33:53
I just love the Jim Palmer St. Nestor all night. Love to hear Yeah. And by the
Luke Jones 33:56
8way that Wednesday TBA. That could be Garrett Cole. It could be from what I understand. I don’t know for sure. But that’s been the speculation. So you and
Nestor J. Aparicio 34:05
I should have gone to New York if your sister was making babies and I didn’t have work to do. I mean, big series in the Bronx summer nights. Come on, Lucas. Let’s do it. Yeah, I mean, it’s still might call you tomorrow morning. I don’t know. We might, you know, big series. I
Luke Jones 34:20
mean, no doubt about it. But also, they they gained a little bit of ground over the weekend and just hold your own here. Yeah, hold your own. So great weekend. Lots of great baseball, amazing atmosphere. I mean, as enjoyable of an atmosphere in the regular season game, as I can remember, you know, talking media or any game that I’ve gone to as a fan in my 40 years here on Earth, so just a lot of fun and a good way for it to end considering it was dicey for the Orioles on Friday night. And obviously we’ll get into the Bradish news and another conversation we’ve had
Nestor J. Aparicio 34:56
enough of Cal Ripken 2130 ones in Delmon young moments and Eddie Murray 500 home runs at two o’clock in the morning that nobody witnessed and Alan walked out on and he likes to tell that story as well. Only Alan joined us last week. We had such great time. Alan and Max did this whole movie thing and Symphony thing and love of Oriole baseball thing from cocoa. So all that’s coming your way Ron Furman and I geason about rock and roll. I had more Brian from Hootie and the Blowfish on last week. I don’t think we ran it much on Thomas Dolby. his band’s going out this week on the road. So we get a lot of things going on. So you’re going to hear from all of that and we have Oracle baseball this week up in the Bronx. So Luke and I will be convening on Thursday at Costas doing the Maryland crab cake tour. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I have fresh Gold Rush seven doublers. We had a $20 winner over Coco’s the other day. We also had a winner Cooperstown it was, it was a Phillies fan, but he only won two bucks. Make sure when you know when John Martin robbed the tickets, it wasn’t for that much luck for the Phillies fans, but we were having a good time given these one at the Costas on Thursday. My guest it cost us on Thursday. I just want to get this straight. The great Chris Emery will be joining us on Thursday as well, Jessica valus, who has really redone our whole website at Baltimore positive.com. So if you seen that she and I are gonna have fun with fonts. If there was such a thing before the week is over, all of that will be coming together. Over at Costas also. I picked Kurinji has threatened to come out on Thursday. And Johnny Oh, future Congressman Johnny yo. He didn’t like when I called him Congressman the other night at Jamie Costello’s party. But he’ll be out at some point on the political trail also heard from Angela also Brooks’s folks. And Larry Hogan’s folks, and I had Damien O’Doherty on and Coco, she made some pronouncement about the senatorial race and about the Maryland election. So we’re doing a lot of things. So I’m brought to you by our friends at Liberty, pure solutions, clean water, clean well water, keeping my water safe and clean and doing plumbing and doing all sorts of cool stuff. I’ll be talking to Doug about that because I know this. Everybody needs a plumber. Everybody needs fresh water. We’ve talked a lot about that Jiffy Lube, multi care, also, keeping our car out on the road, where anytime I go to Philadelphia now I can break out the white panel Oriole hat. Yeah, Luca shared a photo of me and my dad on Father’s Day. And after I shared it, I went up on LinkedIn and I looked and I realized I’m wearing blue coats pants with white stripes. I remember the sweatpants I only wore sweatpants in 1979 8081 82 I got the high school I got GQ doubt with all my boys. We went over to boogie wineglasses place over at the mall. Merry Go Round and I spent a lot on skinny ties. Because I wanted to look like Thomas Dolby. I should have told him that that would have been good. So and then I realized underneath my elbow, my dad’s got like a pendulous belly and he looks like Archie Bunker, and he’s sitting in an Archie Bunker chair. And he’s reading the news American 1982 8182 Maybe 8283 I did somewhere in there. And I look under my elbow and you if you look at the picture, anybody goes out on social and season. You can see the orange cap, the white panel bird, you can see my arm was on an Oriole hat. And so Oreo hat, coat pants. You know, Father’s Day, that’s what it’s all about. So, hope everybody had a great Father’s Day enjoy their time with family or at least fond memories. You know, that’s all I got at this point other than my son is fond memories of my dad and watching like all of you have a good time with your dad or tell good stories about your dad or welcome new nieces and nephews into the world. On Father’s Day weekend. We’re going to talk pitching, we’re going to talk Bradish we’re going to talk assets and offense we’re going to talk about Aaron judge hit one to the moon on Sunday. My wife and I sat here and watch Sunday Night Baseball. We watched the Red Sox she didn’t like that part and the Yankees and I thought that was me doing some scouting work on Aaron judge and Soto I scouted them pretty good back in April when I harangue them and harass them. It’d be a little more fun watching Jim Palmer say Nestor on Masson I am Nestor. He is Luke, we’re back for more. We’re doing a lot of baseball here this week. And really a lot of cool stuff that you might have missed last week that you could find the Baltimore positive.com So stick around
