A bad beat. In Pittsburgh. And a new head coach after 18 years followed this recap of a long, battered season for Baltimore Ravens fans as well as the team. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the bitter end of a dreadful Ravens season at The Confluence and all of the change ahead.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ disappointing season, particularly the loss to Pittsburgh. They highlighted the impact of Kyle Hamilton’s injury on the defense, the missed tackles, and the controversial penalty on Ronnie Stanley. Leonard criticized the team’s management, including the misuse of DeVonta Smith and the lack of involvement from DeAndre Hopkins. They debated the future of John Harbaugh, Eric De Costa, and Lamar Jackson, with Leonard suggesting a need for new leadership. The conversation also touched on the Ravens’ financial aspects, including the potential for cheap PSLs on the market.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Have the team owner or designated senior executive speak publicly to media (press availability) to address the playoff loss and answer fan questions, noting Nestor expects a media appearance tomorrow
- [ ] Request that Ravens ownership/management provide a public accounting of team performance and plans (explain where the team is, what changes are planned, who will be retained or released), as suggested to restore fan confidence
- [ ] Conduct a review of coaching, play-calling, and roster decisions (evaluate coaching performance, defensive scheme, and personnel usage) to determine changes needed after the playoff loss
- [ ] Advise fans to monitor the PSL marketplace for lower-priced season-seat opportunities this year (suggestion to consider buying PSLs cheaply if desired)
Post-Game Reflections and Fan Experience
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the atmosphere at the Pittsburgh game, noting the electric energy and the boisterous crowd.
- Nestor mentions his wife watching the game at home while he was in the lower bowl, struggling to see the action.
- Nestor talks about the after-game experience, including fans approaching him and other radio hosts.
- Nestor humorously apologizes on behalf of fans who might have yelled at Eric De Costa or Tyler Lupetti after the game.
Analysis of the Game and Player Performance
- Leonard Raskin and Nestor Aparicio discuss the season’s ups and downs, comparing it to the game’s outcome.
- Leonard highlights the impact of Kyle Hamilton’s injury on the defense, noting the lack of pass rush and missed tackles.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the impressive play of Lamar Jackson, including a stunning throw to Rashod Bateman.
- Leonard mentions a penalty on Ronnie Stanley that affected the game’s outcome, and Nestor shares his wife’s conspiracy theory about referee bias.
Owner Accountability and Team Management
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the lack of public accountability from team owner Steve Bisciotti.
- Nestor compares Bisciotti’s absence to other NFL owners who actively engage with their teams and fans.
- Leonard emphasizes the need for a public face to address the team’s performance and future plans.
- Nestor mentions the potential for changes in team management, including the possibility of a new coach.
Player and Coaching Performance
- Leonard criticizes the team’s management of talent, particularly the misuse of DeVonta Smith and the lack of involvement from DeAndre Hopkins.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the significant investments in players like Marlon Humphrey, Roquan Smith, and Ronnie Stanley, but the lack of playoff success.
- Leonard questions the decision to bring in Cooper Rush and the team’s play-calling strategies.
- Nestor and Leonard debate the future of Lamar Jackson and the potential for a new coach if John Harbaugh stays.
Future of the Team and Fan Expectations
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the potential changes in team management and coaching, including the possibility of Lamar Jackson having more influence.
- Leonard expresses skepticism about the team’s current management and the need for a new voice.
- Nestor and Leonard talk about the importance of creating value for the team and the potential for changes in the coaching staff.
- Leonard shares his thoughts on the team’s performance and the need for a different approach to managing talent and game strategy.
Personal Reflections and Final Thoughts
- Nestor and Leonard reflect on their personal experiences and expectations for the team’s future.
- Leonard shares his advice on managing money and enjoying sports, including the potential for buying PSLs at a discount.
- Nestor talks about his travel plans and the impact of political events on his family in Venezuela.
- Nestor and Leonard wrap up the conversation, looking forward to the upcoming baseball and hockey seasons.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Ravens season, Pittsburgh game, Kyle Hamilton, pass rush, Lamar Jackson, Justin Tucker, Ronnie Stanley, playoff tickets, team management, coaching changes, fan frustration, Super Bowl, financial advice, travel disruptions.
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SPEAKERS
Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We’re gonna get the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. Brought to you by the Maryland lottery, as well as GBMC and all of our sponsors, including our next sponsor, Leonard Raskin, who’s about to join us in the aftermath of Sunday night. Luke and I have done tons and tons of post game. We’re going to talk about the shotty, dicostal, har ball, Tyler loop, Lamar, just all sorts of things we’re going to be talking about around here. You did not go to Pittsburgh, yeah, as my you were listener before you were like a sponsor, before you were a friend, before you man, like all of that stuff. Inevitably, on a night, like Sunday night, my wife is home watching the game. I’m in the in the lower bowl, where you can’t see the game, by the way, like, right? I don’t know how anybody sits in a lower bowl of a football game. You can’t see down at the you can’t see any especially when it’s in the other end of the field, which is where the field goal was, but all the Aaron Rodgers stuff was on my end of the engine. I was on the opening. It was cold. It wasn’t windy. Like I got a little cold at the end my feet or whatever. But, like, it was not cold. It was kind of didn’t seem to Pittsburgh. You’ve been, oh yeah, plenty. It’s, It’s electric. When it’s electric, I mean, it was really electric fan. It was packed. It was full. It was it was boisterous, it was the music’s great. It was just a vibe through all of it. But the amazing thing is, I get back to my car after because Luke went in the locker room, so I’m watching all the locker room stuff right, right in the press parking lot falling out with the heater on. And it’s amazing how drunk people come after the radio host. How many when the when the Ravens or the Orioles get eliminated, they can’t yell at Eric da Costa. They can’t yell at Tyler, Luke. They yell at me. So I apologize on behalf of everyone, if you read any of the violence, including that great Christian Perry Hall boys basketball coach that was, I had three people apologize this morning because they were my boy, Joe, Papa, guy, dude, I was a little drunk, late. I’ve had apologies already today. It is a fever pitch, and I don’t know my friend Ethan Giffin wrote on my Facebook. He said, karma, karma, with the kick and the kicker and the Miss kick and Justin Tucker and,
Leonard Raskin 02:29
hey, somebody, it was a lousy somebody posted, so somebody posted, I saw a couple things that kind of summed it up. You and I, we can laugh, because it’s over and it’s sad, it’s terrible. But one one said, and this, this, I thought was probably the best analysis of the whole game, was, this was the season, great offense, bad offense, good defense, terrible defense. Kick missed, lost the game like buffalo. Is the way it started the whole season, and then here’s the way it ended. And then the other one, the other one that I just nest, I couldn’t help but laugh. I felt really bad laughing about it, but somebody posted Justin Tucker would have given us a happy ending.
Nestor Aparicio 03:24
8I should have written
Leonard Raskin 03:26
that have fallen off my chair. I didn’t want to laugh. I couldn’t help but laugh. It was just Oh my God. I want
Nestor Aparicio 03:35
to tweet that right now. I want to stop the show and just go ask in a series ration globe, he manages money. I mean, a little bit of your background, because you’ve been a PSL holder, you spend a lot of ravens forever club level. So you’re not paying you’re not doing $80 tickets. You spend 10s of 1000s of dollars with the Ravens just
Leonard Raskin 03:59
about every playoff game over the years except Oakland, because I thought I might be leaving it a body bag if I went to Oakland the way I acted football games. So we didn’t go, and, of course, didn’t go to Pittsburgh, because, although it was a playoff game, what a playoff game. And look like I said, whoever wrote it on on the interweb, you know, this was just like the season. It was wonderful. It was tragic. They scored, then something happened, and they stopped scoring. Three or four series where they didn’t move, the ball didn’t do anything. Then look, I think a big turning point in that game, from a defensive standpoint, was Kyle Hamilton going down. My goodness, when, when he went out of the game, I think the whole tenor of the defense changed, and clearly they had no pass rush. Well, the
8Nestor Aparicio 04:57
lack of pass rushes is there with Kyle. Year, right?
Leonard Raskin 05:00
So you take that out, but you get the opportunity to have him on the field. I mean, how many missed tackles? How many running plays of 10, eight, 712, 20 yards, how many passes across the middle, and then guys couldn’t tackle?
Nestor Aparicio 05:15
But when it’s roquan Smith missing the tackles, when it’s Marlon terrible getting terrible, that when terrible play games don’t show
Leonard Raskin 05:21
8too much, and then, oh my god, like you said, from where you’re sitting, from where I’m sitting at home watching a game Sunday night, and two guys. I don’t know who called this play or how it happened, but two guys were unblocked, preparing to sack Lamar in a hurting his body kind of way, and somehow he extricated himself from that and threw a bomb down the field to say, flowers. Just Stunning. Stunning performance.
Nestor Aparicio 05:55
Was unbelievable. The first one was a great play call. You know, everybody Right, right. It looked right. It looked like right to the right, and then the ball went over the top. Absolutely. That was a beautiful play call. And when
Leonard Raskin 06:06
executed and executed perfectly. And then even at the last series, they get look what was the penalty in the last series of the game? It was Ronnie Stanley for not lining up properly, which is the exact penalty that was called three times opening night, three times, he lines up the same every play that was not it was ridiculous to Call that ridiculous. Okay, so they called it, you know, I’m watching the game with my wife. I can only tell you this. She believes, and has believed for a long time, that the officials are paid off. She believes that they make calls based on who they want to win, whether it’s money or or just their belief of who they want to win, and that, that’s what’s happening all the time.
Nestor Aparicio 07:03
It is amazing. The the league is fixed mentality, and I think all the time, like, there’ll be no way to fix this.
8Leonard Raskin 07:14
Chief six and 11, come on.
Nestor Aparicio 07:20
Look. They the Ravens should have won the game if the kicker absolutely win the game, absolutely so like
Leonard Raskin 07:28
all that, they call that on Ronnie Stanley. And then next play, Lamar rolls out and throws the ball five yards over D hop’s head. He should have run or dumped it right to him. Didn’t happen. It’s now fourth down. I’m thinking, oh my goodness, we started on the 50 and we’re not going to win. How can that be? And then a miraculous fourth down throw to likely, who catches the ball, holds the ball, at first, I didn’t think he was touched. And I’m thinking, get up and go. He gets up. He hands the ball off. Okay, so we got what, 15 seconds, something, two timeouts or one time out, even, I don’t know why you don’t take a shot, or at least see if you can blow up their defense again, like was happening in the whole fourth quarter now, and take a shot for the end zone, take a shot to get closer. Instead, they just let the clock run down, and Senator the ball, which, okay, it’s fine. And then the poor kid, oh, my God. So I watched the post game, I went to sleep, and I’m laying in bed thinking about that kick and thinking Billy condiff. Billy condiff, different circumstance, different circumstance, but the same kick. And then all I could think about was that poor kid. He’s got to think about that kick forever. Well, no matter what happens going forward, that kick will be in his head forever. What a horrible, horrible mean he there ain’t no crying in football. There’s no doubt that kid was crying. No doubt.
Nestor Aparicio 09:16
8Yeah, I you have to feel for the kid. I mean, doubt about
Leonard Raskin 09:21
that goodness, 22 years old, 23 maybe, I don’t know, but rookie right out of college and and that happens. And I’m just thinking, first, of course, I’m like, I cannot believe he just shanked that 10 feet wide, right? But then I’m thinking, for this kid, oh my god, what a horrible, horrible then I’m thinking, well, at least I don’t have to pay money for playoff tickets. And then you think, okay, I said this before the game, and we spoke about it a couple of weeks ago. If they. Get in the playoffs, and if they win, they may very well think everything’s okay and just move forward. And I think interesting from you, Leonard, I think, I think now they have the opportunity to say everything’s not okay. Okay, so do something.
Nestor Aparicio 10:14
Luke and I have been on this for a couple of hours, because we didn’t do as much on the game on like we did a nice, chunky piece on like all that, but the game’s over now that, I mean, you know, 24 hour, 2026 right? But by the time anybody even hears this, it’s on. Okay, so what are the changes? What’s going to happen here? I don’t know that anything’s imminent in any way. I do know this, and I know you’re not a big fan of the Earth, say family, because you’re my age, but right, you know the young lady who is Bob, or say his granddaughter, yes, Jim Mercy’s daughter, who’s running the team very capably, yes, yes, yes. We can see speaking to the media tomorrow. So, you know, like, is the, oh, it’s been eight years, is the
Leonard Raskin 10:59
she’s been on the sidelines. Let me, let me ask you, since he passed,
8Nestor Aparicio 11:02
you’re a serious guy. You give them a lot of money. What do you expect from the owner of not do you expect the owner to throw me out of the press box and have his chump VP be a jerk to me and then call the person lie to them? Yeah, that was crazy. What’s been going on for three years? So I know that off. So I’m not, no, I know I’m not going away as obviously shut up about it, but I’m not shut up. But like this is eight years of the owner doing this to you, to the fans, to not being accountable, to not answering for anything, and the answers of all of it, thing, all of it,
Leonard Raskin 11:40
it’s time to have years ago, and maybe it is eight years, you know, better than me, he used to do the post mortem. I was there a year. No, I’m saying he and Ozzy and Eric and John, you know, they would come out, and they would have their Q, a, and they would do their thing. You know what he got? You know
Nestor Aparicio 12:00
what he got? Really smart. He and Kevin Byrne cook this up because bashati wants nothing to do with me. He wants nothing to do with the fans. He wants nothing to do with the city. He He doesn’t live here anymore. He doesn’t do civic events. I saw Art Rooney. Not only did I see Art Rooney at the game on Sunday night, Art Rooney was on the field during the game with 12 he has a dozen fans that are in his consortium of that they’re the super fans. They’re the committee that represent all the fans, yeah, that he sits with every year. They’re, you know, he owns a team.
Leonard Raskin 12:33
8Get a pulse. Get a pulse
Nestor Aparicio 12:34
of what’s going on. He has that going on, and they had them all on the field. They’re black, they’re white, They’re young, they’re old,
Leonard Raskin 12:41
like shareholders, correct, sort of like Green
Nestor Aparicio 12:44
Bay, but it’s not Sasha Brown’s buddies, guys like you that give them that buy the club. These look like people that sit in the upper deck. But he’s there. He’s a part of it. He’s on the screen. He’s on the field, his great
8Leonard Raskin 12:58
his you see, you see a lot of owners, at least fourth quarter ish on the field. You see a lot of them down there. If you watch football like you said, or say that is, she’s been on the field. No, of course.
Nestor Aparicio 13:12
Arthur Blank, course. Bob Kraft, I mean, bashadi doesn’t want to be in front of this, because it would people like me would be asking about his personal life, which I hear is interesting. So you know, Steve anonymous and all that, I don’t know
Leonard Raskin 13:25
that his personal life has any bearing necessarily, unless he doesn’t want questions.
Nestor Aparicio 13:30
8He wants to be he wants to roll around Jupiter, Florida. Have nobody know who he is, right? You know what I mean? Like, that’s what I mean his life. The more he shows up, the more public he is. He doesn’t want to be a public figure, but you own a $5 billion team, so that’s part of the deal.
Leonard Raskin 13:47
It’s a civic responsibility. It’s not just a team. It’s a team that that we like that I don’t. I’m saying we as taxpayers gave you $600 million you need to answer for performance or somebody in government’s got to get smart enough to say, No, we’re not going to give you $600 million more, you know.
Nestor Aparicio 14:08
Well, then he’ll move the football team to Frankfurt, or the next guy will right? I mean, Chicago’s right. I mean all these places
Leonard Raskin 14:18
stadiums about Kansas, Kansas, although people think it’s not a big deal that they’re moving from Kansas City to Kansas City, but they’re moving from Missouri to Kansas. That’s state money, that’s that’s revenue money, that’s something they’re moving. Everybody thinks it’s no big deal. It’s a big deal. Buffalo, new stadium, no dome. I don’t understand that buffalo, what do I know? But yeah, I think there should be an accounting. There should be a public something and and if he’s not there, the rest of them better have a public face of what’s been happening, where we are, where we’re going, who we intend to keep, who we’re going to dig. With what’s going to happen. Look, Atlanta didn’t take any long time, although they’re not very stable in the first place, but they took about an hour. Their team won. Their team had the same record as two teams that led the division, one of which won with a negative under 500 record the division Carolina, and they fired their general manager and coach an hour after the game was over, first casualty. I don’t know who stays. You know, you got to think, is it time for a different voice? Unlike you, I don’t have a personal anything with HAR ball. Never met him. I’ve met him, but I’ve never broke bread, never spent any time with him. I just think he’s doing a good job. No, not at all. No, I think, I think they’ve been average at best for quite a while. I told you before, I think he’s mismanaged the team, mismanaged the clock. I think the last two
8Nestor Aparicio 15:59
years, mismanaged the media. Last three years, mismanaged the fans right like emptying out of the stadium. He He’s not look
Leonard Raskin 16:09
my last two years, the last two years, they had more talent than anybody should be allowed, and they lost in the playoffs. Both years from what I consider terrible play calling. I don’t know if that’s the offensive coordinator or him, but one way or the other, somebody screwed the pooch, and they didn’t get into the get further into the playoffs or into the Super Bowl, which should have happened, and then this year, obviously there’s some injuries. I don’t know who this is going to sound terrible. I don’t know who the hell brought in Cooper rush. I think that was the biggest mistake of this season. Was playing him one minute on the field when Lamar went down. That was wholly foolish, in my estimation. The guy had nothing to do with this team’s strategy. Mo anything New England game, not playing Derek Henry. And then I watch Sunday night, and I see Derrick Henry rip off a few runs, and then he gets stopped, and he gets stopped and he gets stopped. I’m thinking to myself, well, if I’m Pittsburgh, all I got to do is stop Derek Henry. Now the good news is they threw him out of it, but there were some weird plays that threw him out of it. It was, it was a strange, strange game Sunday night. But I don’t think he’s managed the talent that he’s had. I don’t know again, I don’t know who calls the plays, but, and I don’t think he’s too old, this will be my, my last rant of the team. D hop Hopkins is on the field. What? Five snaps, maybe gets thrown to once or twice. The guy’s a stud. I don’t care how old he is. The guy catches the ball you didn’t have. Bateman, I get you go to likely. I get you go to flowers. I get it. But not using that guy on the field unless he’s not able, and I don’t know I’m not there.
Nestor Aparicio 17:58
Well, the amazing player for me is the skill position players they have. And the money invested in Marlon, Humphrey, roquan Smith, throw Matta beacon, there was a big investment offensively, Ronnie Stanley, Derek, Henry Lamar Jackson, Andrews got paid
Leonard Raskin 18:14
8and didn’t bring home the trophy. And when you’re not bringing that home, you fail and well, but the world of business terrible,
Nestor Aparicio 18:24
the story, but, and that’s the point. It is, or coaching or coaching.
Leonard Raskin 18:28
It’s one or the other and, and look, I look at it from a business perspective, that’s all I can do. CEO, your job. Create value for the company. Now they may say, we’re creating perfectly good value for the company, and our owner is very happy with the increase in value of our
Nestor Aparicio 18:46
franchise. Sashi Brown is creating something I’m not sure what it
8Leonard Raskin 18:49
is, right? And so if they’re creating value, and they believe they’re doing the right job, but they just missed it, then you’re not going to get much change. But I’m hoping they get a different voice, they get a different tone they get.
Nestor Aparicio 19:02
So you want a new coach, that’s what you want. You want Lamar back. You want the Costa back, but a different coach, that’s
Leonard Raskin 19:06
what you well, Da Costa, I don’t know. I’m not at his realm, but the
Nestor Aparicio 19:12
8shot, let’s get real about this. Okay, for forget, forget, fanboy, forget. Like No, sure, sure all that Steve has never changed anything about the structure of scouting. Eric Ozzie, jobs for right? John. He’s never made a decision off of that after firing, well, somebody, it’s been a somebody. Are Lamar, by the way, he’s under contract. Yeah, have to renegotiate with him. And there’s a feeling amongst fans of like, well, you’re not getting rid of Lamar, right? Get rid of John. We’ll find a new coach. You can’t get rid of Lamar because you can’t get rid of Lamar. Well, you’re gonna have to negotiate with Lamar, and Lamar want to be here. And if Lamar yes to be here, it might want to be. He picks the
Leonard Raskin 19:49
coach that. Well, look, that could very well be. I don’t think Steve bashati is going to like that well, but, but point being, if that’s what he wants. Once he may get that meaning, meaning, if they keep John, okay, I don’t know that he’s going to pick somebody else. I don’t know that he would have any knowledge. Maybe I’m wrong. Who? What would he know of who to pick as the coach, I don’t know. Lamar.
Nestor Aparicio 20:19
Yeah, somebody he likes. I listen, I’m not like who if this comes that letter for me, and I’m only guessing here, and I don’t know this to be true, and Preston wrote it so we can, we to some degree, but I’ve done my own research on this, and I’m reading the tea leaves that if John and Lamar don’t really want to do this again. Yes, you’re one of them for eight years, something’s going to have to give. And I don’t I, if it’s bishati, I don’t know what he thinks to say, like, I’m not going to have the quarterback run the football team, no matter how good the quarterback is when he’s diminishing asset that have to pay $65 million to next year and fight with him in the offseason. I’d rather just go back with John and Eric. That what I know that I have, and we’ll figure that out. So tomorrow wants to
Leonard Raskin 21:06
not you got the 14th pick. You got a real 14th pick. What are you going to do? Who’s gonna be your quarterback? Who’s gonna be your quarterback? You’re not gonna get one for quite a while, so I don’t know who starts.
8Nestor Aparicio 21:19
So then you have Lamar, then you’re going to let Lamar do whatever Lamar wants to do. Sleeping in practice in the afternoon, I think John would say Lamar, like Lamar doesn’t run the place. John runs the place. And I
Leonard Raskin 21:35
don’t know for them, I’m not deep enough in there to know. I could only look at it as a business and a fan, okay, so, and as a business, they’re not creating the end result, which is super bowl. And they had the talent, they supposedly had, the coaching, I think the defensive coaching has been horrible. I think the defense has been horrible. Surely, it’s line in line at the first starting point. You don’t have a good line, you don’t have a good team, and they don’t and they have to make changes up front. They may have to make changes in coaching. You know, again,
Nestor Aparicio 22:12
if they come back with Lamar di Costa and har ball, when do you send your money in? Soon. Probably right, they’re going to
Leonard Raskin 22:19
8send you. It’s already it’s already started. They already build. You know, there’s no okay, you want to go, you’re already started.
Nestor Aparicio 22:25
You’re like, are you happy with that if they come back with Lamar to Costa and Harbaugh? Or No,
Leonard Raskin 22:33
not particularly, okay.
Nestor Aparicio 22:34
Well, then you need change. And I don’t know what that means. I don’t know. I don’t know either up firing himself the quarterback. Don’t be hurtful, by the way, the quarterback it antsy with Jameson in the post game. You know, how dare you ask me about the future. Here’s the reality, here’s the reality. They’re all that way. Lamar is never going to get in front of the fans again until June. Like, no, they’re all that way. I don’t think for the media to be, in a way, asking so so me, I think that was a legitimate question, and I think it was a legitimate answer. I don’t think, I don’t think I got that right. Yeah. I mean, look, that’s all you’re gonna get from Lamar, is I’m holding how many times, or I want to be a dolphin, that’s the next voice you’ll hear from
8Leonard Raskin 23:19
I thought that the last time, how many times out of Bill belichick’s mouth was, you know, we’re on to Cincinnati. We’re on to Pittsburgh. Games over the
Nestor Aparicio 23:28
offseason, we have a lot of questions. We have a lot of questions,
Leonard Raskin 23:33
Nestor, we’re on to David and
Nestor Aparicio 23:38
8the O’s now. There you go, man, pitchers and catches.
Leonard Raskin 23:41
My the buckeyes, the buckeyes lost on New Year’s Eve. You don’t want to talk about that. No, no, no. Buckeyes lost on New Year’s Eve. Ravens lost on Sunday. Caps are doing fine, and we’re on to baseball, hockey and baseball, baby, hockey and baseball. Here we go. All right, let’s, let’s wrap football with, besides all the craziness, who’s, who’s winning the Super Bowl, look at this tournament.
Nestor Aparicio 24:07
You know, it’s hard for me to say, Sam darnold, right? You know what I mean? Like I’m looking at quarterbacks, I’m looking at buys, I’m looking at all this. Beware buffalo. That’s all I think. I think buffalo
Leonard Raskin 24:18
doesn’t win. If buffalo doesn’t win this year, they will be the poster boy for underachievement. Well, I mean, we’re look who’s not there. No, no, no, no. I’m talking about who’s in the tournament right now. Look who’s in the AFC.
8Nestor Aparicio 24:33
Well, you would have said that had, had Luke made the kick the Ravens be playing on Monday night. You say, I’ll take Lamar, you
Leonard Raskin 24:40
know, I would have thought Houston’s defense would have shot us down. All right, Houston’s defense is phenomenal.
Nestor Aparicio 24:47
Well, it’s going to pack their lunch next Monday night up here in Pittsburgh. Leonard, wrap, it’s beginning of a new year. You gave some advice last year. At the end of the year, by the way, my wife and I looked at a 6000 pound truck. We just didn’t want one. You. Yeah, there you go. Didn’t want one. Don’t do I looked at it. My wife grand. I’m like, I don’t really like 43 grand right
Leonard Raskin 25:06
8now, right? Well, that’s the decision. Ain’t cheap. 6000 pound vehicles aren’t cheap, my advice beginning of the year. So what we do is money. And I do football and sports because I love it. But we do money. We do everything money. We help you understand how to save it, how to protect it, how to invest it, how to enjoy it, most importantly, how to enjoy it, whether that’s going to Pittsburgh to watch the game or getting ready for next year, my guess is you’ll be able to buy some PSLs on the marketplace cheaply this year. Don’t buy a PSL. Come on. I’m just telling you you’d be able to get it. Come on,
Nestor Aparicio 25:43
financial guy, tell me,
Leonard Raskin 25:46
I’m not saying buy it. I’m saying you’d be able to, if you really want the tickets to that seat for every game, you’d be able to buy it cheaply. This I
Nestor Aparicio 25:54
don’t want the seats that Mike Tomlin gave me in Pittsburgh on Sunday night. They stunk.
8Leonard Raskin 25:58
Yeah, there you go. Well, look, at least, at least he acknowledges your your being and who you are in the world of sports and broadcast and media, although they didn’t let you be media. He at least, you know I will be,
Nestor Aparicio 26:14
whether they want me to be media or not, correct part of all of this, Leonard, that’s right, managing money. He’s out on the front of Baltimore positive. Luke and I are heading down the mountain. Down the mountain from Pittsburgh with Jens and not and, yeah, it’s been, it’s been quite a you mentioned money last little Yes, for you, because I don’t want to get into this with you, but I just want to say I was literally this week booking a trip to South America, Colombia. Medellin Bogota, yeah. Machu Picchu, I was going to Santiago. I’m going to Monte so why not? Nothing changed. There’s a little bit of chaos when that, when your president is saying he’s going to take Columbia and Greenland Next, he has the ability to do I don’t
Leonard Raskin 26:56
think anything’s changed. I don’t think anything’s changed from yesterday with your travel
Nestor Aparicio 26:59
8agent, plenty has changed for me. So I have a lot of relatives in Venezuela so trust me, sure,
Leonard Raskin 27:04
and hopefully they’re running in the streets praising that.
Nestor Aparicio 27:08
They’re not. They know that drug dictator is going it’s a different gangster, different mafia. Well, let’s hope not. Let’s hope not, for the people that live in that I’m sure Mr. Trump has great plans and cares so much about the Venezuelan people after he steals stealing oil over the weekend from my people. It’s great. He’s Leonard. I’m Nestor. We are W, N, S, T, am, but gas prices will go down, so he’ll get reelected. Oh, he can’t get he can’t get reelected. Oh, he thinks he can. No, he doesn’t. We’ll get into politics. Now the football is over, but I’m looking for Steve Machado. I’m looking for Eric di Costa, yeah, John, horrible. I’m looking for Lamar Jackson, and honestly, I’m looking for spring training. We’re back for more. It’s Baltimore positive. Stay with us.
