Our resident financial man Leonard Raskin loves sports and during a week of television from Roland Garros to the Orioles playing the A’s in Sacramento and the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals in full focus, Nestor goes international in a Triumph of discussing the magic power of bringing the sports world together in June.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed various sports topics, including the Oakland A’s relocation to Sacramento, the Orioles’ performance, and the upcoming Stanley Cup Finals. They highlighted the A’s move to a minor league stadium and the team’s struggles, predicting a potential wild card race for the Orioles. They also touched on the French Open, praising the upsets and drama, and the NHL playoffs, noting the Edmonton-Florida series. Additionally, they mentioned the rise of sports betting and its impact, emphasizing responsible financial management. Leonard’s company, Raskin Global, focuses on wealth management and tax planning.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Sports, baseball, minor league, Oakland A’s, Sacramento, Vegas Stadium, tennis, French Open, Stanley Cup, hockey, Edmonton, Florida, gambling, sports betting, Baltimore.
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Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. Happy Summer to everybody celebrating out there. It is time for crab cakes, beer, orange crushes, whatever you’re into. The Maryland lottery, sending us out on the road on Friday will be at fade leaves at Lexington market. I will have the Back to the Future scratch offs. I have these most of the summer. We have 16 crab cake tour stops ahead, including next Tuesday. We’re going to be in this guy’s former homeland of Randallstown. We’re going to be at the Y in Randallstown on Liberty Road next Tuesday, talking about some good stuff going on in the community. Juneteenth pools being open kids summer, big kids like myself and Leonard Raskin from Raskin global joining us here a long weekend in Sacramento. You know, the baseball stadium nerd in me. Leonard was thinking, like, probably should go see a game in Sacramento. I have friends in Sacramento, and I watched the game on TV all week. It looks like watching Floridian minor league baseball in Northern California, you know, near the Wells Fargo headquarters. And I just the minor league baseball thing. It can’t be lost on me how really absurd it is. How, how far the how far baseball has sunk to entertain and allow this for three years for a franchise that’s been dangling for a quarter of a century.
Leonard Raskin 01:21
I don’t quite understand it myself. I mean, it’s not as if they couldn’t have stayed in Oakland till the Vegas Stadium was done. I guess Oakland wanted them out. Oakland was done with them, right? Oakland wanted them out, and the fans certainly weren’t going to support them. So I guess they figure We’d rather see what 12,000 people fill a minor league stadium, than 12,000 people leave a major league stadium empty.
Nestor Aparicio 01:47
But what happens when you want 13,000 there? Can’t have
8Leonard Raskin 01:50
it that you can’t happen. So as long as the A’s aren’t great, for the next three years, it’ll
Nestor Aparicio 01:55
be popular or popular? Well, they are popular. How dare them be popular? They’re popular.
Leonard Raskin 01:59
They’re just not going to be maybe they’re not going to be great. Maybe they are, in which case, they’ll have standing room and something until they get to Vegas on the strip with their magic new stadium right next to the Golden Knights and the Raiders hanging out in Vegas. Who’d have thunk it, 20 years ago. I mean, Pete Rose is rolling over in his grave already. Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 02:24
8Well, who would have thought we could just make bets from our phone anytime we want, right? I mean, like, that was not something that I had on my dance card. Hey, legal cannabis is also something I didn’t have on my dance card. Like jump, running the country a second time and shutting down the the things that are happening in the world. Me having the Orioles in the Ravens take my press credentials and say, I’m not a real me like you live long enough you see things, you know. I mean, the oils are going to play. I looked at my schedule next week, by the way. Let it Raskin series, Raskin global. He handles money, hands the American dream. I looked up with Luke because we finished our segment. We worked on Sunday night after the Sacramento games. And look down. I was trying to look at the schedule like all right, tigers are in this week. Angels this weekend doing the show Friday next week. They’re playing at George Steinbrenner field for three days, and then they go to Yankee Stadium.
Leonard Raskin 03:13
So they’re playing in Tampa outside minor league another summer was that spring training
Nestor Aparicio 03:18
nothing, but it’s an a ball spring training stadium. It’s not even like a but it’s next to where glory happened for you and I, out on the Dale Mabry on January 28 2001 but it’s going to be 98 degrees at game time. Thunderstorm. Yeah. Whatever happens in Florida, you’re going to know why they built the roof in Miami and why they wanted one in Tampa, but they’re playing at George Steinbrenner field and then at Yankee Stadium next week. So
Leonard Raskin 03:43
busy time Detroit, New York, and I don’t know a Tampa is, I guess, playing well, but surely Detroit and New York, they gotta, they gotta win one of each, maybe two, to prove something, trouble, trouble after the series. But I told you, I’m giving them to the end of June. I’m giving them to the end of June to prove what they’re going to be, they’re going to be. They’re going to have their healthy guys back. I’ll give them to the end of June. We’ll see how they play, and then we can judge whether there’s any chance at all that they get back in the wild card race. Luke
8Nestor Aparicio 04:13
has done the math on this. They have to play like 700 ball to be a wild card team. It’s going to be like, insane. Yeah. Look, they
Leonard Raskin 04:18
played 25% ball coming up to now, they can certainly play 75% ball after now. Well, you being a guy that handles money. And you know what? About Money numbers? It can happen. Corbin burns would have certainly
Nestor Aparicio 04:30
sunk this ship in the since time we got
Leonard Raskin 04:34
8Corbin burns. Sad, right? Wow. Tommy John surgery.
Nestor Aparicio 04:39
This is where Mike Elias can look to the fan base and say, told
Leonard Raskin 04:43
you really think they had any clue that he had a bad arm? No way.
Nestor Aparicio 04:47
I don’t think there’s any clue anybody. I don’t think they had a great bad
8Leonard Raskin 04:50
arm, right? That’s it. So they could say, yeah, he wouldn’t have been here. But, my goodness, you can’t if you’re throwing 96
Nestor Aparicio 04:56
with spin one day and you’ve been doing it for weeks and months. Months, it’s and then it pops. I don’t know where, where the warning could be. I don’t think there is any warning. Is, if you throw the ball 96 long enough, it’s going to happen with your wrist. You’re a human, it’s going to happen right that the arm is not made for that. We all know it. Look at how many guys baseball doesn’t realize that. Of course they do. They don’t care. They don’t care. Of course, they know it. There you go. Now they don’t. It’s not, it’s like the concussion thing in football, just to hide the movies. No, we’re not that crazy African doctor up in Pittsburgh. What does he know?
Leonard Raskin 05:33
Care? Nonsense. Come on, if we care, these sports like that wouldn’t exist. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 05:38
8that’s why I’m like, that’s why you like tennis, right? That’s why you’re going to talk about Coco golf in the French Open, right?
Leonard Raskin 05:44
French Open. I love tennis. I played as a kid. I played as a teenager. I loved it. It was great. I enjoy watching it. I don’t enjoy watching the whole tournament. I don’t have enough time for the whole tournament, but I do enjoy watching the finals of the majors. And have you ever been to the US Open up to New York. You know what’s crazy. I have not gone to New York to watch the US Open, which I should do, Wimbledon’s
Nestor Aparicio 06:06
not on your list.
Leonard Raskin 06:10
Okay. Was in France, unfortunately. Uh, right after Wimbledon, which was after Roland Garros. So I missed it.
8Nestor Aparicio 06:19
I have attended two of the four majors. I have been to the US Open in New York and New York in 1986 I saw Yvonne Lendl, and I saw Boris Becker, and I saw a ranch Sanchez vacario play in in front. And in France, Steffi Graf as well. But I saw in in in France, I saw Andre Agassi. It was a 99
Leonard Raskin 06:43
still had long hair. That was the one Agassi
Nestor Aparicio 06:45
caught fire and yeah, so I went to roll on garrows. My hair was bleach blonde, but I have pictures right there.
Leonard Raskin 06:56
8Absolutely man. So it wasn’t long then. So you had the Agassi buzz. I’ll tell you this. If you want
Nestor Aparicio 07:01
to go to a nice event, go to a tennis tournament. Tennis Tournament, wonderful.
Leonard Raskin 07:04
They are. We went to Wimbledon when we were over in London, and it was magnificent. I’ve not been to the open. I should, but I’ll tell you what, watching the quality of tennis, Coco golf, number two, upsetting number one, in the finals of the women and then the men’s final was absolute theater. It was, you couldn’t script it. Number one, sinner. Sinner. What a name. Number one. Number two, our Spaniard friend and and he was down two. Oh, the first set, six, four against. Second set, lost in a tiebreaker. Seven, 6/3. Set, six, 4/4, set, seven, six. Tie break and and being down two sets in a major you ain’t coming back. You got to be put away. And in the fourth set, he had three match points against he was down 4015 at a game, came back, won. The game, made it to a tie break. And now, you know, they used to Nestor. They used to play win by two games in the final set, you could play forever. That was the famous Borg McEnroe. You had to win by two. It was the V launder all night, right? They played forever, yeah, now they don’t. Now, the fifth set tie break, they just have to go to 10. And, man, it was, it was theater, tennis, Carlos, Alcatraz sinks, not Alcatraz in a prison. I said, Alcaraz, did I You said Alcatraz, but that’s okay, yeah, it’s all right. Swim from there. I’ve been there in LA right, except just go. So the two beat the one in the women’s, the two beat the one in the men’s and our special, by the way, sabalenko crying too. I was was that? Yeah, it was unreal. Well, she won last year. She lost this year to Coco. She got beat,
Nestor Aparicio 08:53
complaining about it, though, but Coco, you know, Coco, the thing I like is when the the winners approach all the ball kids, and they do the they do the World Cup celebration, yep, I kind of like that. They kind of
8Leonard Raskin 09:08
like, did it and Alcaraz was just it was too much. It was it was theater. It was amazing. Tennis. The only problem, the only problem, and this is not a, not a problem with tennis. It was five hours and a half of my Sunday. So it took Orioles. You don’t
Nestor Aparicio 09:27
have to worry about them. The ravens are playing.
Leonard Raskin 09:31
Orioles were on right after the tennis. So it was it was fine, fine baseball viewing after the tennis viewing. The only unfortunate is they lost to the A’s who had lost. I didn’t realize this, 20 of the last 22 Yeah, they and then took two out of three against the
Nestor Aparicio 09:49
8correct and now the Orioles are back here against tigers. A lot of Raskin is here. He is. Raskin global. You know the tennis thing. Have you ever played on clay? I have not. There’s Clay courts in West Baldwin. More
Leonard Raskin 10:00
than I played on chartreuse court. That’s kind of like that, you know, it’s got that slide ability to play. I didn’t like it. I did not like playing on that. Stuff’s flying up in the air, you know, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 10:11
and everything gets red and, you know, your shoes get all clayed up. And, yeah, I remember that, yeah. But,
Leonard Raskin 10:16
you know, I’ve played on hard court. I’ve played on grass and, and that’s amazing, but you’re not a pickleball No. Have not done you’re not, you’re never, you’re you’re not going to play pickleball, not playing pickleball. I’m not playing pickleball. Let me tell you, this my definition of pickleball. And people can, you know, write and call and tell me I’m crazy old, old slow Fat Man tennis, and I am an old, slow, fat man, but I am not gonna play pick you stick
8Nestor Aparicio 10:43
to putting in golf is from what I can understand, like the pickleball thing. And tennis, my buddy Tom cap, my you know, one of my partners here at NST, he’s got a pickleball thing he’s doing out in Carroll County. By the way, I gotta give a pro I gotta give a promotional plug here in the middle of this segment to Darren the sausage King from deep Pasquale sausage. You used to bring sausage out to NSD, 25 years ago. All the time I was hankering sausage. Last week, I got in touch with the family that used to own the primary sausage company here that makes sausages the right way, because that four letter word in East Baltimore where they’re made, they’ve changed the recipe like you know, I’ve been getting those sausages, the ones you know about the local ones? They’re not from Rome, but they say that on there, and they’re the recipes different. So I had to go back to the original purveyors. And it turns out our friends down at the Pasquale is make a really nice sausage. So I I have, apparently, sausage for life. I’m not going to eat it all. But I had sausage over the weekend, so I was busy making sausage instead of instead of watching tennis so I could sit and enjoy the Orioles lose over linguini and sausage and so that was my Sunday, but you Stanley cupping right now? Absolutely your appointment watching yes to yes
Leonard Raskin 11:56
and game three is coming. Game one, incredible. Game Two, both games, Edmonton ties it up in the last minute. Game Two in the final seconds of the game.
Nestor Aparicio 12:08
There’s something about when the games in Canada, too. Yeah, there’s just a different level of the national anthems and all. And
Leonard Raskin 12:15
8then who wins the game and double overtime, the king rat, Brad Marchant, the man was traded. He was the captain Nestor, the captain of the Boston Bruins at the deadline. They’re they’re going to blow up their team and rebuild in Boston. They get rid of their captain. He’s hurt. They send him to Florida. He’s rehabbing. He comes back and plays a couple few games at the end of the year, he’s playing all right, gets into the playoffs, goes off like a crazy man, and he drives the other team nuts. Always has. He wants the car. He will not just that. He always he’s an instigator. He’s He’s that guy. He’s that, that damn Hunter side, yeah, he’s that thorn in the side of every other team, and he gets under their under their jersey, and he causes penalties. And sure enough, he scored a short handed goal in the game, and then he scored the game winner in double overtime, which was a beautiful goal that just slid right through Skinner’s legs, and it’s one, one Florida, Edmonton. Now gonna play two games, as you said, in 100 degree Florida, where the ice will be freezing cold, the arena will be freezing cold.
Nestor Aparicio 13:36
And you could do some nice shopping at sunrise, if you want. There
Leonard Raskin 13:40
you go. Beautiful area, sunrise, Florida. They made a city for hockey. I’ve always thought
Nestor Aparicio 13:46
that when I went to that rink 25 years ago, the first time I went there, I saw a lot of hockey there, because the Orioles trained in Fort Lauderdale, yep. So when it opened in the 90s, that you know that was the rink, but I had seen the the Panthers play at the old Miami Arena in downtown Miami, right during the rat era. You know, that was when Brian Murray, my friend, coached the team, and Doug McLean, my other friend, coach the team, all by the way, if you are a hockey fan, we had a wonderful 40 minute conversation with Barry Trotz last week about Baltimore and Nashville and Washington the caps and winning the cup and being a general manager and all of that. So I am still um, hockey came back to me all over the weekend, and you’ll be appreciative of this, because this is where hockey, rock and roll, and my love of Canada all kind of come together, the band, triumph, triumph, right? Rick Emmett, who did the show with me about 10 weeks ago before opening day, because he lives in Toronto, he’s a baseball fan, right? We talked about the Blue Jays and the Orioles that we talked about together. They, well, they not completely. Mike Levine. Mike Levine the bass player, and he’s 76 years old. He’s getting a little older. He looks 76 he looks a little older. And he was always sort of the old man in the band, and he always wore hockey jerseys when he played back in the day, famously on stage. Every night he didn’t go, and people were freaked out, and he wound up doing, I think, Eddie trunk in Toronto, the rock and roll, serious guy. And literally said he had waited four months for a doctor’s appointment that he had to have that day. It was an important medical appointment. Yeah, doctors in Canada, that’s what he said. He said, in Canada, you know, socialized medicine to see you, you show up. He said, That’s what he said. That’s exactly what he said. He said, so I needed a medical appointment that day. That’s why I’m not there. My heart’s there. Rick Emmett put together a five piece band to do what triumph did, and they went out to Edmonton and they played in the street. They played a free show in the street. Triumph hasn’t played together three times in this century. Yeah, forever. They did one reunion show. They did one reunion TV taping and a documentary, but they famously kind of don’t like each other. Hasn’t been a reason to be together in 40 years. Gave him a reason. Well, the story, apparently, is in Canada, the CBC. And I don’t know if this is the NHL. You tell me, because you’re watching the games, and I’m not. They’ve been using the song, lay it on the line, the Triumph song, lay it on the line has been part of the NHL promotion. Absolutely, it’s the song, the theme song for the Stanley Cup. So and Rick Emmett said, I’m watching the playoffs, in the second round, and I heard our song, I had no idea they were even using it. And then they called and said, Hey, do you guys want to come and play the Stanley Cup Finals if Edmonton wins? He’s like, sure, we don’t have a band.
8Leonard Raskin 16:32
I’ll be there solo. I’ll figure it out. Yeah, we
Nestor Aparicio 16:35
don’t have, well, Rick Emmett had a terrible cancer this time two years ago, and was life was in peril. And, you know, like, so it’s a really miraculous thing that they did it. And so to marry that with hockey. And as much as I love rock and roll and love the band triumph that got my attention over there, good job, NHL. You got
Leonard Raskin 16:51
Barry, you got a whole week of hockey.
Nestor Aparicio 16:55
8Did you hear his whole thing about the difference between being a general manager?
Leonard Raskin 16:59
I’ve heard a bunch. I have not heard the whole thing. Yes, he’s lazy. He’s
Nestor Aparicio 17:03
non stop. I thought he didn’t love me anymore. I thought the night he came sleep, the man is, the man is the last time I saw trots, the last time I was well, that’s not true. I was at his house up in Long Island two days before he got fired. Yeah, so that was like two years and a month ago, right? We stayed at his house and went to see John Mayer at the hockey rink up the islanders new rink, yeah, the UBS or whatever, where Billy Joel was playing in Belmont, New York. And we stayed at his house. Was the last time I but I he took the islanders job. He kept it three years. You kept the same phone number. So then he left to go to Nashville, and I started texting him, and I didn’t hear back from him for a period of time. And I’m like, he’s a guy. I better call a secretary. And he must, he must have cashed his capital’s phone in, you know what, or whatever, right? And fine, he answered me. He’s like, Dude, I’ve been so, so tired. I’m so sorry. Let’s get together. Let’s talk. Let’s we talked last week for 20 minutes just to catch up. He’s like, all right, I’m gonna do the show when the Stanley Cup Finals are set. Here’s the crazy part. We waited until Edmonton and Florida got in to do the segment. We did the segment. We did 42 minutes, and I forgot to ask about the finals.
Leonard Raskin 18:12
Talk about it, right? Didn’t even come up. He
8Nestor Aparicio 18:15
told me, Florida in seven. That’s what he told
Leonard Raskin 18:17
that was last year. That was last year. I think Edmonton and six, but we’ll see. It’s, it’s, it’s been a wild time, and it’s been great hockey. If I do know this, I don’t know this, but I think I saw this. It’s like the lowest rated Stanley Cup final in years and years and years. And I think it’s because people are trying to figure out who these teams are that aren’t, you know, fans, and it’s on TNT, so it’s buried somewhere. You know, they, they got the finals, but good for them. They also, I wonder, Leonard, what’s tennis? You
Nestor Aparicio 18:50
know what I mean? Like, I know the NBA has its thing, and they’re making a lot of money. They don’t have me, but Luke wanted to work early on Sunday night because he wanted to watch the game fair enough, right? Like, I’m respectful of anybody’s sports thing. If the hockey game are going on now and you want to go, I’m down. I mean, I canceled most of my life for 56 years, parenting, love, sex, travel, my family. I didn’t go to weddings because of football games and baseball games. I am I stand a little embarrassed at the end of all of it. Now that I’m 56 and I’m getting closer to death, I have decided, like, I’m only going to watch the things I want. That’s right, not interested in Carlos Alcatraz or Alcaraz. I don’t Well, you know? I mean, it’s funny. You say that I’ve given so much of my life to strikes, I feel like I want to do some other
Leonard Raskin 19:41
8ish, well, I tell you, you know, there’s, there’s a story, if you a lot of them, there’s, there’s more than, more than you can count on both hands. But you know, Wendy’s, Wendy’s the fast food place. Dave, yes, yeah. Dave, juicy, yeah. Dave, yeah. Dave, Dave, story, yeah. At the end. He said the Wendy’s success was the worst thing that ever happened to him. You know, it took his life. It took everything away to find his life, right? And it took away from weddings and family and things. It became it instead of what is
Nestor Aparicio 20:16
amazing. Once you get one Wendy’s open, and then you want to and then you have two, and you want three, and if you have the potential to have 280, of them, right? And and you’re really in the business to put Kentucky Fried Chicken out of business, which is hundreds and McDonald’s, once you get obsessed with that, that’s what we think in America. That’s how Trump got elected. That’s like we think that that shine of more and more gold and more of everything, locations and more of this. And there’s a price to be paid. There’s
Leonard Raskin 20:49
a price everything, for everything, for everything. And you got to set your priorities and say, you know what’s what’s my purpose, what’s truly important to me? And you hear, you hear Barry say it right now, you know what’s important is winning a cup in Nashville, and what it takes to do that. And people think it’s easy. It ain’t easy to have a good team, more or less, to win a championship. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 21:16
the Orioles had a good team, and look what happened to that, right? I love the mindset that the orals had a good team in the office? Yes, they did, yes. And
8Leonard Raskin 21:22
something happened. Half the guys got sick and hurt and and now they’re not so hopefully they can have some pitching. Look at the pitching. You got one guy that you thought was going to start for the season before the season, Eflin, you know, that was your that was the guy from last year you thought was going to be a starter. Else? Kramer? Oh, right. Kramer’s still pitching. I forgot about Kramer. He’s still pitching. Dean still pitching. But
Nestor Aparicio 21:47
we’re gonna see the Tigers this week. We’re gonna see scuba going to see Mize that. I mean, they can’t hit left handers. Yeah, it’s,
Leonard Raskin 21:52
yeah, what is with that? What is with not being able to hit a left handed pitcher?
Nestor Aparicio 21:56
8Well, I mean, Gunner Henderson being more of a poster child right now for struggling with the Jackson holiday, trying to figure it out at figure it out at the big league level, right? Right? The the imbalance for this particular baseball team, if we you want to get into it with the Tigers and the angels coming in right now,
Leonard Raskin 22:13
we’ll see. We’ll see what, what? That’s it? It’s going to be. Well, you mentioned watching tennis because it was
Nestor Aparicio 22:18
the finals. You mentioned watching the Stanley Cup. You’ll watch the NBA. And if you don’t like the final, you don’t like the NBA, nope. So
Leonard Raskin 22:24
what I will do, you know, it’s funny, they got a lot of stars playing in this round. I don’t know any of them. I didn’t know that this one guy, the MVP. They call him SGA. I don’t know his name, gildre skill just, I don’t know. I couldn’t tell you. But what I what I do know what I would watch. Here’s what I would watch. You ready if it is the potential clinching game I watched the last 10 minutes. Maybe. All right, the NBA for me. Jordan, magic bird. Kobe Shaq, you know, then, and then it starts to get silly, and I just, I have no interest.
8Nestor Aparicio 23:09
Todd rate him about this last week. He’s my uniform guy. He does logos. He’s up in Philadelphia. He writes books on all that and just how the NBA is unrecognizable to anyone our age because of the colors and the jerseys and the way the game’s been more it’s been marketed away from you and me, because I don’t recognize marketing like I look on the floor and I just don’t see anything I recognize and nothing that compels me. Hockey keeps moving. Hockey is a better game than basketball. I’ve been saying that on the air for 35 years, without question. Um, you know that if you put a hockey game on tonight, a Stanley Cup final, there’s going to be so much action, hitting activity, the puck moves fast. It moves moves so fast that your I can’t follow it in the old world, on T I can’t see the puck on TV. Remember that one four years ago? That’s never a problem now, especially with angles, it’s the speed is the game in hockey, and basketball is living on all of it. You know, basketball is living on its street value of being a game everybody has played, and these guys are all big and super human and play above the net and shooting three point. It’s just a different kind of the women’s game is much more attractive to me to watch as a sport. Either I’m not watching it. I like to watch people shoot. Yeah, I do. I watch basketball, I watch college I watch the college ball. I like it’s different game. I like watching the it’s over quicker to see a tournament. Yep, different game, better. I’m all for it. Pro, I don’t know. Just
Leonard Raskin 24:35
doesn’t do it for me. Leonard, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 24:36
funny, because, like with this, with the death of Jim Henneman, I brought all the sports writers together, right? Yeah, I saw everybody. I brought people together. Like anime was known for baseball, but that room of people, the sports writers, everybody in that room wrote about golf, left you Giselle, basketball. Covered hockey, covered Olympics, covered this, covered that went here, went there. Now that I’m older and there’s not a sports page. And I’m not addicted to ESPN for 30 minutes to an hour a day to know who won NASCAR this week, that the US Open is in Pittsburgh this week, at Oakmont, that you know where they’re racing, and that the Belmont happened on Saturday, and it happened and it never made my timeline. It never made my time. Watch that not one person in my world shared anything about the Belmont until it was over with. And I saw sovereignty beat journalism. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 25:24
8I watched that. I watched that too. On Saturday. I love I love the horses. I don’t go out to see him. But here’s the thing again, the big races, I like to watch him. And that’s three minutes of life. You don’t have to watch four hours. You watch three minutes, and it’s over. They they’re off, and sovereignty pulled out a great victory. It’s kind of like the two really
Nestor Aparicio 25:46
is like anything else, commitment of time is the issue,
Leonard Raskin 25:49
yeah, look, you only had that’s the only thing in life, right? The only thing in life, no matter what once spent, is gone.
Nestor Aparicio 25:59
You can maybe the last thing left in life that happens live, that you can engage not know who’s going to win, and bet on it now and bet on
8Leonard Raskin 26:08
Well, that’s something I don’t do. Well, that’s the engagement of the world. Is one of that is amazing. It is amazing to see the the industry, the multi billion. I don’t think it’s trillion, multi billion dollar industry that has become sports betting. It is surreal. I mean, people that don’t have money throwing away money, betting on sports, praying for that hit. The worst part for me is such a dopamine hit gambling, and you get hooked on that. I mean, there’s stories about kids in college, you know, getting in whack debt, killing themselves over debt they owe because of gambling.
Nestor Aparicio 26:49
Well, 800 gambler is our number. I talk about it all the time. John Martin, it’s one of the reasons the lottery sponsors me is to let people know that, like, this is all online now. It’s on the up and up. It used to be with Louis, the bookmaker. He come after you with a knife or five knuckles, Louis, you know, if you owed him 100 bucks, now it’s, it’s, it’s so private, it’s so on to you, you could have a problem. Nobody would know it. So, right? I talk a lot about this issue because it’s a new thing, and there’s no question in this country over the last five years there, there just has to be tragedies tied to this. And I know this as a young male, one time, I was a young male, yes, and and having this radio station. And you know, for years and years, I would open this up. So I found Luke, I would open this up and say, Do you want to come in and do sports radio? And all of these kids that came in here, they were all white kids. They were all white male. They were all sported up, or thought they were right. They all had a gambling thing. They all had a little thing about gambling that was never the, ever the genesis of anything that I love sports about so I’ve never understood it. The thing that really that I never understood, and I employed one of these kids who went to work for another company here in the area who was obsessed with gambling and didn’t have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out. And the amazing part was that he was convinced that he could beat the system, of course, that that’s the thing. Like, I know more than anyone else, I haven’t I. I have an edge. I
Leonard Raskin 28:20
have a special formula as
Nestor Aparicio 28:22
8well. The special formula was all the brokering the guys Jim Feist had in her hair. She put all the oil in their hair, and they’d have an 800 number, 900 number. In the USA Today, hold my 900 number. I guarantee I got my five star lock of the week dunks. And I met young people all the time in bars and Essex and Dundalk in Middle River who would come over here wanting a job, and I say I can’t send you to the Ravens locker room. You’re going to be out there trying to shave points from Joe Flacco. Right wrong with you. We’re not mixing gambling in sports. People
Leonard Raskin 28:55
have no idea. You know, everybody likes to speculate and gamble until their house is repoed or their car. I walked
Nestor Aparicio 29:05
out of a couple casinos in Vegas lost a couple 100 bucks, and that was
Leonard Raskin 29:08
enough for me, right? I don’t need to lose anything more than fun. I haven’t
8Nestor Aparicio 29:12
gambled in Vegas in as long as you’ve known me. I mean, in 15 years at least, I haven’t gambled in Vegas, yeah, probably since the oh nine market crash, when my life changed.
Leonard Raskin 29:21
I was there. I was in Vegas six months ago, four months ago, whatever it was before now, with a with a conference. I was there, and
Nestor Aparicio 29:30
I know I don’t have an addiction. I walked through there after the
Leonard Raskin 29:34
8conference. Day ended. Six of us went over to the the club that’s right across street from the Vegas arena. Okay? And and hung out there watch the game because we didn’t have tickets to go, and it’s tough to get a last minute there with six guys. So we went to the bar, sports bar. We watched the game, I don’t know, 1000 inch screen. It was huge. It was beautiful. And when. What was really funny was, when Vegas scores, they play that fog horn that loud, yes, Foghorn. Well, the game on TV was like four seconds behind, because the foghorn would go off, and then we’d see the goal, and we’d know that they scored. It was really funny, but six guys sitting around watching the game, having a drink, nobody betting on the game. Nobody at the tables watched the game. It was over. Went back, you know, hotel rooms, and that was it, end of the night, and there are people all around, tables everywhere, doing everything. I just It doesn’t appeal to me. It’s funny. You’d say that,
Nestor Aparicio 30:36
because my dad and I sometimes would leave Memorial Stadium a little early, and we’d walk down 33rd Street, and you’d hear the roar, and we’re like, something good must have happened. Something good. Mike, like when I lived at Camden. This is my home, right? Yep. So I lived in the 23rd floor. This is the, literally, the view I had. And I could be watching a game in bed, and my bed was in this direction. For the actually, my bed was in this direction. I gotta get opposite. And I would look at the left side of my arm and see the fireworks getting shot. And I’d see the Tigers pitcher on the mound deliver the ball to Nick Marques. And I’m like, Hey, Mark Agus is about to hit a three run armor. Boom. There it goes. Right because I could see the fireworks already, because every time there was a home run, we could fireworks. That’s it, especially the end of the game too, two outs in the ninth inning on you know what I’m saying? Boom, boom, boom. I’m like, well, Britain’s not. Bases are loaded. Britain’s gonna get it out here. So it’s right here. Raskin is here. He is. Raskin global turbo money. That’s
Leonard Raskin 31:27
how you bet, when you’ve seen it ahead of time. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 31:31
I’ve often wondered about that. When the Do you remember the cage used to go down at the racetrack? You catch your fingers, right? You know the minute, the minute the racetrack goes down, the cage would That’s it. That’s letter. Raskin
8Leonard Raskin 31:42
manages money. Tell me what you do briefly, and we’ll we’ll get you back in here next week. We’ll probably have a Stanley Cup champion by next here’s hoping we do not speculate and gamble with your money. We do the exact opposite of that. We show people how to protect their wealth, how to enjoy their wealth, how to grow their wealth, and ultimately, how to transfer their wealth, and it’s about doing the right things that the financial institutions don’t tell you you should do. It’s tax planning that your accountant doesn’t tell you you should do. It’s estate planning that your lawyer hasn’t done. It’s all the things that are in the world of earning money and how to do it properly, and I can promise you, gambling on the Stanley Cup final, the Belmont Stakes, the French Open are not in our purview.
Nestor Aparicio 32:28
There you go. All right, sports. Love sports. Put your money in the market. There it is. Leonard Raskin is here. Raskin global, um, you know, there are parts of sports I still love, but there is a point where, as I get older, I’ve seen everything, been everywhere. Yeah, I want you to go to the French Open. I want you to go to the USA.
Leonard Raskin 32:46
I should go
Nestor Aparicio 32:47
8up to New York train.
Leonard Raskin 32:50
I’m there in no time. I
Nestor Aparicio 32:52
have friends that go every year, and they rave about it. They go second, third round. They want to pick a nice weather day where the weather is going to be good. Get on the train and go. Let her ask. Is here? He’ll be going to sports this week. Luke will be at the ballpark all week, mandatory next week. And on our next program, we’ll argue whether the guy making $50 million a year being the quarterback should show up for practice with his teammates. Practice. That’s an Allen Iverson. We’re wnsta in 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stopped talking Baltimore positive.
