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As Rubenstein hands out more money, where is MLB getting it from in Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

Barry Bloom of Sportico has spent five decades chronicling the history of labor and ownership in Major League Baseball and shares the financial concerns and strategic challenges facing the sport. He joins Nestor to discus new media, an aging fan base and neophyte ownership groups like the Rubenstein partnership trying to guess at future revenue in order to sign star players to enormous contracts while being gifted $600 million to make Camden Yards a place that lifts downtown Baltimore.

How your wallet knows that The Masters is a tradition unlike any other

Baltimore Positive

Our pal and golf pro Ed Miller of Pine Ridge and Classic 5 gets ready for another drive to Augusta to see the majesty of the azaleas, hills and the best players in the world this weekend as another Masters is set to tee off in Georgia. Of course, Nestor needs those pimento cheese sandwiches investigated this year…

Viv comes outta retirement with a winning pitch for the community

Baltimore Positive

His work on the sidelines and field is done at WJZ but longtime sports anchor Mark Viviano isn’t sitting in the stands and watching life unfold – he’s contributing where it matters in our community. Viv joins Nestor at Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss real life after sports media and serving others across the city via several charities and managing Little League baseball and his two sons.

Is this a real Renaissance for Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

This winter, Baltimore Magazine dedicated its cover to the comeback of our hometown and the whys and stories of its improvement that might be less visible to those of us in on it. Senior Editor (and baseball historian) Ron Cassie discusses the Renaissance dreams for downtown that so many shared with him and ways these Orioles summer nights impact the Inner Harbor and its future investment from Faidley’s in Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Gotta get back in time

Baltimore Positive

Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery goes Back To The Future with Nestor as they torpedo into the swing of Home Run Riches and baseball season with Orioles homers for cash.

Turning on the lights of Spring Illuminations at The Maryland Zoo

Baltimore Positive

We love the Zoo and you should, too! It’s time to turn on the lights of spring at The Maryland Zoo for Spring Illuminations in Druid Hill Park. Let Mike Evitts tell you everything about the gem of a place right in the middle of Baltimore and ways to visit and be involved in celebrating these beautiful animals.

The new Mega Millions and faster jackpots

Baltimore Positive

As the baseball season begins and Home Run Riches makes it more fun at the Maryland Lottery, this week Executive Director John Martin gives Nestor all of the details on the changes to make Mega Millions a bigger, better game for all who love jackpots.

Let The First Lady of Coppin State tell you the amazing story of Fanny Jackson Coppin

Baltimore Positive

Sure, we broadcast Coppin State sports events and MEAC action on WNST-AM 1570 as the flagship of the mighty Eagles of West Baltimore, but this 125th anniversary celebration has allowed us to tell the real story of a gem of a HBCU school with an incredible heritage and tradition. The First Lady of Coppin State, Toinette Jenkins, gives Nestor the full background on the history of the school and how and why it continues to improve and send young people into the world ready to contribute.

Let’s talk out loud about expectations for Team Rubenstein and Orioles in Year Two

Baltimore Positive

The Orioles payroll has almost doubled in the first year of the David Rubenstein era as April begins the second year of the “post-Peter” era in Baltimore for baseball fans. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the expectations of new ownership and what he learned hearing the new boss speak at a CEO luncheon in Hunt Valley last week.

R.I.P. Mister Costas Triantafilos – the loss of a legendary man in Dundalk

Nestor Aparicio

Costas Triantafilos was a giant of a man in my community because his presence was omnipresent. His authenticity, beauty and kindness, displayed over a lifetime, leave no words here that will ever convey. Not many folks know a community like Dundalk, a place like Costas Inn or a man like the man whose life and business was profiled by Vice just 15 months ago, capturing his absolute essence brilliantly.

The ice cold Orioles Hall of Fame credentials of Fancy Clancy

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

The complexity of The Earl Of Baltimore in “The Last Manager”

Baltimore Positive

Author and one-time Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller finally brings his Earl Weaver biography to life and joins Nestor to discuss better understanding his baseball legacy beyond the Baltimore Orioles. Join Miller and our friend John Eisenberg at Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 5th for an evening of Earl conversations.

Highlighting 125 years of West Baltimore education at Coppin State

Baltimore Positive

As our longtime flagship partner at Coppin State University turns 125 years old, we welcome Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement Janeisa Lashley to school Nestor on the power of the HBCU education and all of the big celebration plans on campus this year.

Hitting it big – on or off the field

Nestor Aparicio

As the Home Run Riches hits it deep with Orioles baseball this week, John Martin of The Maryland Lottery has big news on bigger jackpots and a new twist on an enduring Mega game.

Talking comedy, faith and power of fried chicken and latkes with Rain Pryor

Baltimore Positive

She’s now called Baltimore “home” for two decades but in her first visit to the show, we had to shower Rain Pryor with questions (and love) for her famous comedian father and extended the fun to discuss the big “Broadway on Park Heights” event this Saturday night at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.

A good walk with Vaccaro going One On One through Army life with John Feinstein

Baltimore Positive

It’s always a pleasure to spend time talking Yankees baseball and college basketball madness with New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro but this time it was the legacy, writing and relationships of the late, great John Feinstein that fires up the reporter in all sports newspaper men of an evaporating generation. Words on Woj Bombs, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies and the legacy of George Steinbrenner with the venerable Gotham sage.

If you start to work at The StarTUp in Towson, you might never stop

Baltimore Positive

Our CVP Towson stop on the The Maryland Crab Cake Tour brought Patrick McQuown, Executive Director of The StartUp at Towson University, over a few blocks to discuss the unique co-working space offering 6,000 square feet of free, no-membership workspace – and open five days a week. “It’s kinda like a working library without the books!”

Finding your down dog and hot yoga flow at UpDog in Towson

Baltimore Positive

If you’re not a devotee of hot yoga, you might want to try it by the end of this one. Endorsing the many benefits is not hard for Nestor but let Yogini master Susan Selckman of Updog Yoga in Towson tell you about the flow of her studio and mat space just a block away from the CVP, where they convened on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to sweat out the small secrets of better health and a beautiful practice. Namaste.

My good walk of deep admiration and sportswriting on the brink with John Feinstein

Nestor Aparicio

John Feinstein and I had an awkwardly weird and beautiful friendship that had been strengthened by deep conversation and mutual respect over the last two decades since we somehow found ourselves in Brian Billick’s coaching office after games in stadia all over the country during the 2004 season. I know so many of you will miss his work. I will miss him.

Swinging for the fence after they moved the wall in

Baltimore Positive

With baseball season ready to pitch into the fun, John Martin of RThe Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for Home Run Riches and 162 games where local folks will be swinging for the fences and hoping for more grand slams.

Taking the pop quiz of responsible play for gamblers

Baltimore Positive

Every March, the Maryland Lottery steps up its game to make sure than citizens are playing the games within their means and understanding the odds and the help that is available. Executive Director John Martin joins us frequently to discuss all elements of the games and the realization that March Madness and baseball season are here and it’s time to consider your gambling habits.

Live Baltimore: For the love of city life

Baltimore Positive

Meghan McCorkell always formally educated Nestor about the charm of the Enoch Pratt Free Library but recently became the Executive Director of “Live Baltimore” and came to Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to tell him all he never knew about the “I Love City Life” folks’ 30th year aiming to attract and retain residents by highlighting the city’s 278 neighborhoods and offering home ownership incentives like down payment assistance programs. The city’s affordability, cultural richness and community spirit get no argument from the host.

A quarter of a century of Art With A Heart deserves a celebration story

Baltimore Positive

Local attorney Randi Pupkin shares her journey from local lawyer to aspiring artist to making a true Baltimore Positive impact over 25 years of leading “Art With A Heart,” providing art classes to under-served communities and now offering over 16,000 classes annually. Nestor leads her through their mutual friendship with local sports cartoonist and legend Ricig, and this amazing journey and a quarter of a century showing kids the world in color and inspiring creativity.

Taking a deeper dive into Orioles history with The Bird Keeper of “The Magic”

Baltimore Positive

Longtime Baltimore sports writer John Eisenberg returns for another season of Orioles baseball and an announcement about his continuing journey through the history of the franchise – even as he enjoys the present and opines about the future. And, of course, the venerable columnist brings out his journalism sniffer on the Justin Tucker scandal and the NFL investigation.

The local realities of climate change

Baltimore Positive

Professor Billy Friebele of Loyola University Maryland heats Nestor up for a campus climate change symposium on March 13 with acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh and a keynote on “The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change.”

You’ll find her in the Club

Baltimore Positive

Every year, one lucky second chance Ravens scratch-off winner will find 20 years of season tickets in the warm seats and no one could be happier than lifer-purple-hearted Shannan Brown of Aberdeen, who shares her story of being this year’s Maryland Lottery Tickets For Twenty Years victor and her plans for fun to honor her father.

Crack The Sky still soaring 50 years later

Baltimore Positive

Now 39 years after first interviewing John Palumbo of Crack The Sky as an 18-year old music critic at The Evening Sun, Nestor finally gets to ask the singer and songwriter to reflect on the band’s unique blend of rock, progressive elements, and complex songwriting, which often tackled themes of race, culture, and politics. Palumbo shares the origins of songs like “Nuclear Apathy” and “Songs of Soviet Sons,” and discusses the band’s resilience and the joy the music bring to fans in Baltimore.

The glory days of being Hank Azaria and singing Springsteen songs

Baltimore Positive

Actor and comedian Hank Azaria tells Nestor why The Boss has him living glory days in Baltimore and why he’ll be singing “Born To Run” and many more Bruce Springsteen classics when he brings his charity show to Sound Stage on March 7th. Some Simpsons, some poker and a life of loving sports and mimicry and The River with a TV legend.

The nights on Broadway on Park Heights Avenue

Baltimore Positive

Who doesn’t love a great night of music and Broadway? Jillian Manko of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation invites Nestor out on March 22nd for a special night of Broadway music featuring John Rapson and hosted by Rain Pryor, daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor. Oh…and the desserts!

Twenty years of living the Ravens’ club life

Baltimore Positive

When baseball and football intersect, we’re always happy to welcome Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery who reveals the Ravens “Tickets For 20 Years” grand prize winner and the spring training days of entering the Home Run Riches contest to win big when the Orioles hit ’em deep this this season.

As Rubenstein hands out more money, where is MLB getting it from in Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

Barry Bloom of Sportico has spent five decades chronicling the history of labor and ownership in Major League Baseball and shares the financial concerns and strategic challenges facing the sport. He joins Nestor to discus new media, an aging fan base and neophyte ownership groups like the Rubenstein partnership trying to guess at future revenue in order to sign star players to enormous contracts while being gifted $600 million to make Camden Yards a place that lifts downtown Baltimore.

How your wallet knows that The Masters is a tradition unlike any other

Baltimore Positive

Our pal and golf pro Ed Miller of Pine Ridge and Classic 5 gets ready for another drive to Augusta to see the majesty of the azaleas, hills and the best players in the world this weekend as another Masters is set to tee off in Georgia. Of course, Nestor needs those pimento cheese sandwiches investigated this year…

Viv comes outta retirement with a winning pitch for the community

Baltimore Positive

His work on the sidelines and field is done at WJZ but longtime sports anchor Mark Viviano isn’t sitting in the stands and watching life unfold – he’s contributing where it matters in our community. Viv joins Nestor at Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss real life after sports media and serving others across the city via several charities and managing Little League baseball and his two sons.

Is this a real Renaissance for Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

This winter, Baltimore Magazine dedicated its cover to the comeback of our hometown and the whys and stories of its improvement that might be less visible to those of us in on it. Senior Editor (and baseball historian) Ron Cassie discusses the Renaissance dreams for downtown that so many shared with him and ways these Orioles summer nights impact the Inner Harbor and its future investment from Faidley’s in Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Gotta get back in time

Baltimore Positive

Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery goes Back To The Future with Nestor as they torpedo into the swing of Home Run Riches and baseball season with Orioles homers for cash.

Turning on the lights of Spring Illuminations at The Maryland Zoo

Baltimore Positive

We love the Zoo and you should, too! It’s time to turn on the lights of spring at The Maryland Zoo for Spring Illuminations in Druid Hill Park. Let Mike Evitts tell you everything about the gem of a place right in the middle of Baltimore and ways to visit and be involved in celebrating these beautiful animals.

The new Mega Millions and faster jackpots

Baltimore Positive

As the baseball season begins and Home Run Riches makes it more fun at the Maryland Lottery, this week Executive Director John Martin gives Nestor all of the details on the changes to make Mega Millions a bigger, better game for all who love jackpots.

Let The First Lady of Coppin State tell you the amazing story of Fanny Jackson Coppin

Baltimore Positive

Sure, we broadcast Coppin State sports events and MEAC action on WNST-AM 1570 as the flagship of the mighty Eagles of West Baltimore, but this 125th anniversary celebration has allowed us to tell the real story of a gem of a HBCU school with an incredible heritage and tradition. The First Lady of Coppin State, Toinette Jenkins, gives Nestor the full background on the history of the school and how and why it continues to improve and send young people into the world ready to contribute.

Let’s talk out loud about expectations for Team Rubenstein and Orioles in Year Two

Baltimore Positive

The Orioles payroll has almost doubled in the first year of the David Rubenstein era as April begins the second year of the “post-Peter” era in Baltimore for baseball fans. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the expectations of new ownership and what he learned hearing the new boss speak at a CEO luncheon in Hunt Valley last week.

R.I.P. Mister Costas Triantafilos – the loss of a legendary man in Dundalk

Nestor Aparicio

Costas Triantafilos was a giant of a man in my community because his presence was omnipresent. His authenticity, beauty and kindness, displayed over a lifetime, leave no words here that will ever convey. Not many folks know a community like Dundalk, a place like Costas Inn or a man like the man whose life and business was profiled by Vice just 15 months ago, capturing his absolute essence brilliantly.

The ice cold Orioles Hall of Fame credentials of Fancy Clancy

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.

The complexity of The Earl Of Baltimore in “The Last Manager”

Baltimore Positive

Author and one-time Wall Street Journal reporter John Miller finally brings his Earl Weaver biography to life and joins Nestor to discuss better understanding his baseball legacy beyond the Baltimore Orioles. Join Miller and our friend John Eisenberg at Enoch Pratt Free Library on March 5th for an evening of Earl conversations.

Highlighting 125 years of West Baltimore education at Coppin State

Baltimore Positive

As our longtime flagship partner at Coppin State University turns 125 years old, we welcome Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement Janeisa Lashley to school Nestor on the power of the HBCU education and all of the big celebration plans on campus this year.

Hitting it big – on or off the field

Nestor Aparicio

As the Home Run Riches hits it deep with Orioles baseball this week, John Martin of The Maryland Lottery has big news on bigger jackpots and a new twist on an enduring Mega game.

Talking comedy, faith and power of fried chicken and latkes with Rain Pryor

Baltimore Positive

She’s now called Baltimore “home” for two decades but in her first visit to the show, we had to shower Rain Pryor with questions (and love) for her famous comedian father and extended the fun to discuss the big “Broadway on Park Heights” event this Saturday night at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.

A good walk with Vaccaro going One On One through Army life with John Feinstein

Baltimore Positive

It’s always a pleasure to spend time talking Yankees baseball and college basketball madness with New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro but this time it was the legacy, writing and relationships of the late, great John Feinstein that fires up the reporter in all sports newspaper men of an evaporating generation. Words on Woj Bombs, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies and the legacy of George Steinbrenner with the venerable Gotham sage.

If you start to work at The StarTUp in Towson, you might never stop

Baltimore Positive

Our CVP Towson stop on the The Maryland Crab Cake Tour brought Patrick McQuown, Executive Director of The StartUp at Towson University, over a few blocks to discuss the unique co-working space offering 6,000 square feet of free, no-membership workspace – and open five days a week. “It’s kinda like a working library without the books!”

Finding your down dog and hot yoga flow at UpDog in Towson

Baltimore Positive

If you’re not a devotee of hot yoga, you might want to try it by the end of this one. Endorsing the many benefits is not hard for Nestor but let Yogini master Susan Selckman of Updog Yoga in Towson tell you about the flow of her studio and mat space just a block away from the CVP, where they convened on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to sweat out the small secrets of better health and a beautiful practice. Namaste.

My good walk of deep admiration and sportswriting on the brink with John Feinstein

Nestor Aparicio

John Feinstein and I had an awkwardly weird and beautiful friendship that had been strengthened by deep conversation and mutual respect over the last two decades since we somehow found ourselves in Brian Billick’s coaching office after games in stadia all over the country during the 2004 season. I know so many of you will miss his work. I will miss him.

Swinging for the fence after they moved the wall in

Baltimore Positive

With baseball season ready to pitch into the fun, John Martin of RThe Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for Home Run Riches and 162 games where local folks will be swinging for the fences and hoping for more grand slams.

Taking the pop quiz of responsible play for gamblers

Baltimore Positive

Every March, the Maryland Lottery steps up its game to make sure than citizens are playing the games within their means and understanding the odds and the help that is available. Executive Director John Martin joins us frequently to discuss all elements of the games and the realization that March Madness and baseball season are here and it’s time to consider your gambling habits.

Live Baltimore: For the love of city life

Baltimore Positive

Meghan McCorkell always formally educated Nestor about the charm of the Enoch Pratt Free Library but recently became the Executive Director of “Live Baltimore” and came to Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to tell him all he never knew about the “I Love City Life” folks’ 30th year aiming to attract and retain residents by highlighting the city’s 278 neighborhoods and offering home ownership incentives like down payment assistance programs. The city’s affordability, cultural richness and community spirit get no argument from the host.

A quarter of a century of Art With A Heart deserves a celebration story

Baltimore Positive

Local attorney Randi Pupkin shares her journey from local lawyer to aspiring artist to making a true Baltimore Positive impact over 25 years of leading “Art With A Heart,” providing art classes to under-served communities and now offering over 16,000 classes annually. Nestor leads her through their mutual friendship with local sports cartoonist and legend Ricig, and this amazing journey and a quarter of a century showing kids the world in color and inspiring creativity.

Taking a deeper dive into Orioles history with The Bird Keeper of “The Magic”

Baltimore Positive

Longtime Baltimore sports writer John Eisenberg returns for another season of Orioles baseball and an announcement about his continuing journey through the history of the franchise – even as he enjoys the present and opines about the future. And, of course, the venerable columnist brings out his journalism sniffer on the Justin Tucker scandal and the NFL investigation.

The local realities of climate change

Baltimore Positive

Professor Billy Friebele of Loyola University Maryland heats Nestor up for a campus climate change symposium on March 13 with acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh and a keynote on “The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change.”

You’ll find her in the Club

Baltimore Positive

Every year, one lucky second chance Ravens scratch-off winner will find 20 years of season tickets in the warm seats and no one could be happier than lifer-purple-hearted Shannan Brown of Aberdeen, who shares her story of being this year’s Maryland Lottery Tickets For Twenty Years victor and her plans for fun to honor her father.

Crack The Sky still soaring 50 years later

Baltimore Positive

Now 39 years after first interviewing John Palumbo of Crack The Sky as an 18-year old music critic at The Evening Sun, Nestor finally gets to ask the singer and songwriter to reflect on the band’s unique blend of rock, progressive elements, and complex songwriting, which often tackled themes of race, culture, and politics. Palumbo shares the origins of songs like “Nuclear Apathy” and “Songs of Soviet Sons,” and discusses the band’s resilience and the joy the music bring to fans in Baltimore.

The glory days of being Hank Azaria and singing Springsteen songs

Baltimore Positive

Actor and comedian Hank Azaria tells Nestor why The Boss has him living glory days in Baltimore and why he’ll be singing “Born To Run” and many more Bruce Springsteen classics when he brings his charity show to Sound Stage on March 7th. Some Simpsons, some poker and a life of loving sports and mimicry and The River with a TV legend.

The nights on Broadway on Park Heights Avenue

Baltimore Positive

Who doesn’t love a great night of music and Broadway? Jillian Manko of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation invites Nestor out on March 22nd for a special night of Broadway music featuring John Rapson and hosted by Rain Pryor, daughter of legendary comedian Richard Pryor. Oh…and the desserts!

Twenty years of living the Ravens’ club life

Baltimore Positive

When baseball and football intersect, we’re always happy to welcome Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery who reveals the Ravens “Tickets For 20 Years” grand prize winner and the spring training days of entering the Home Run Riches contest to win big when the Orioles hit ’em deep this this season.

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