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For the Ravens, is it zero tolerance – or just zero accountability?

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh indicated that the future of the kicking position in Baltimore would be based on football, not the NFL investigation into the 16 women who have alleged improprieties during massage sessions with Justin Tucker. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the ongoing saga and the team’s eschewing of a “zero tolerance” policy when drafting edge rusher Mike Green, who had two sexual assault allegations while in college. Does any of it matter?

Are you as disgusted by the Orioles woeful leadership as we are?

Baltimore Positive

The franchise with the “under new ownership” sign on its last-place standing in the AL East, an evaporating fan base and a cowardly baseball operation that is now fielding minor league tryouts at Camden Yards with the remnants of a bunch of No. 1 draft picks, decided to raise ticket prices while continuing to lower the bar for tone deafness. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss their mutual disgust with every aspect of the Baltimore Orioles, on and off the field – from David Rubenstein and Catie Griggs down to Mike Elias and the sloppy play on the diamond. Stink. Stank. Stunk…

The melancholy and infinite sadness of Baltimore Orioles baseball in 2025

Nestor Aparicio

Sure, some of you will simply say that Nestor Aparicio (finally) lost his mind on the radio on Thursday morning after the Baltimore Orioles lost an 8-0 lead in Tampa in losing 12-8 in a minor league ballpark in Tampa. There’s been a lot of trauma over the years but even Jim Palmer called it the worst loss of the year for a team mired in last place in American League East and headed to The Bronx this weekend.

A tribute to the Baltimore baseball legend of my former colleague Jim Henneman

Baltimore Positive

Back in the 1980s, baseball coverage at The Evening Sun was sacred and Jim Henneman was the sage leader of Baltimore Orioles’ coverage and made quite an impression on a teenager who wanted to be a sportswriter. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the incredible baseball life of “Henny” and all of the old-timer Baltimore sports media legends who kept the stories of Brooks and Frank alive over the years.

Dear Steve Bisciotti: Are you Tuckered out on that zero-tolerance policy?

Nestor Aparicio

Methinks we’re kinda getting to the point where we’ll soon hear from “your people” in a two-sentence press release on the team website about the future of the kicking department of the Baltimore Ravens. Probably after lunch on Friday, the way all the cowards in your industry drop the news they want to bury. Not-so-bold prediction: Justin Tucker has kicked his last kick for your franchise.

ColumnNes: My letter to Orioles President Catie Griggs

Nestor Aparicio

This month, I’ve had many Orioles fans ask me on the streets of Baltimore why David Rubenstein, a full year into his new ownership and trying to spread a different image from Peter Angelos with a stunt like this bobblehead promotion this weekend, would continue to deny me legitimate press credentials after 40 years of covering Baltimore sports. So, I wrote this letter to new President Catie Griggs a month ago, a week before Opening Day:

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.

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Chapter 6: Baseball punched me a ticket to see The World

Nestor Aparicio

Ever watch a baseball game from far away and think: “It’d be cool to see that ballpark?” That was what inspired Nestor to see the world and chase Baltimore sports anywhere a plane would take him. And that was long before 30 MLB ballparks in 30 days in 2015.

Chapter 3: My Pop and Little League in Dundalk

Nestor Aparicio

What are your Little League memories of youth? Here’s how Nestor fell in love with baseball at rec leagues at Colgate, Eastwood and Berkshire in Dundalk with his Pop as an umpire and manager for kids. And the tales of the diamond that last a lifetime…

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.

What is the Rubenstein threshold for new Orioles’ payroll?

Baltimore Positive

With the news that Grayson Rodriguez and Andrew Kittredge will begin the season off the field, we wonder whether Mike Elias will be out buying more pricey relief pitching in a sport with no salary cap. Luke Jones and Nestor debate the Baltimore Orioles’ pitching needs and the threshold for payroll in the world of David Rubenstein. The money and tough-talk financial realities of small-market MLB in this one…

Justin Tucker Eagles

When will Ravens become Tuckered out by these 16 massage therapist allegations?

Baltimore Positive

The Justin Tucker scandal has continued as seven more women have come forward to The Baltimore Banner to accuse the longtime Ravens’ kicker of inappropriate conduct during local massages a decade ago. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the now-16 female massage therapists’ claims vs. the word of Justin Tucker – and attacking the journalists – and what the Baltimore Ravens are gonna do about it. And when…

tucker

Has Justin Tucker kicked his last kick for the Baltimore Ravens?

Baltimore Positive

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the second wave of reporting from The Baltimore Banner as three more women have forward with credible stories regarding what is now a Justin Tucker massage scandal – and when and the how Baltimore Ravens will react. And, perhaps more importantly, did anyone in Owings Mills know about this over the last decade while he was on the field kicking field goals?

A week later, some thoughts on Mark Andrews and Ravens’ accountability in defeat

Baltimore Positive

The times have changed. We can all acknowledge that while not lowering the bar of expectations of millionaire athletes – in victory or defeat – or the billionaire owners who used to address the fans via the local media this time of year. Luke Jones and Nestor have a longer conversation about Mark Andrews and the Ravens’ accountability in defeat a week after the Buffalo loss as well as a full look ahead to what happens next in Owings Mills in an always-busy offseason for Eric DeCosta and the scouting staff.

Nestor Aparicio media guy

My fall journalism “Declaration of Independence” – Breaking ‘kayfabe’ on how we’re going to cover Orioles and Ravens after 40 years

Nestor Aparicio

What does it say that Nestor Aparicio has been professionally bullied, gaslit and banned by Orioles and Ravens ownership after four decades of covering Baltimore sports as a professional reporter, author and journalist? Plenty. About billionaires, money, fealty and the death of local sports journalism and the emergence of team websites as monopoly “news” sources. Read and learn…

#ColumnNes: Here’s how I see Ravens beating Bills on Sunday night in Buffalo

Baltimore Positive

In lieu of a written #ColumnNes, Nestor Aparicio thought his three minute synopsis when asked by two Buffalo Bills fans about how Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry could run the Baltimore Ravens to an AFC Divisional Playoff victory on Sunday night in Orchard Park would suffice. Let ol’ Nasty break the game down for you with some historical perspective about what we’re seeing with the “Revolution” of the purple offense.

ColumnNes: Big plays, big hits and Ravens showed no quit against Steelers

Nestor Aparicio

The Ravens talked all week about being locked in, and in the end, they were. Creating turnovers. And even landing on your own fumbles. It all matters this time of year. Turnovers turn over games. The Steelers made too many mistakes. Russell Wilson fumbled early and got picked late. Ballgame.

Lamar Jackson Pittsburgh Steelers Baltimore Ravens

#ColumnNes: Steel trying to figure out how to win in Pittsburgh

Nestor Aparicio

The Baltimore Ravens are not playing smart football. The lack of discipline across the board has reared its head and leaves them as indistinct as their 7-4 mark headed to face to the Chargers.

They are the most penalized team in the NFL. And continually adding to the resume.

They have earned the distinction of the 32nd-ranked team against the pass. Somehow, the Steelers even managed to run for 122 yards on them on Sunday.

Phil Jackman Evening Sun

For the love of our legendary “Uncle” Phil Jackman

Nestor Aparicio

The world lost a force of nature. We lost a dear friend, mentor and spiritual north star when longtime sportswriter and columnist Phil Jackman of The Evening Sun died at 87 last week. This is a 2003 sitdown with the reformed TV repairman. It’s two hours of his life, views on sports and the world and tales never told about Ali, Yaz, Earl Weaver and Andre The Giant.

ColumnNes: A black and silver Vegas nightmare raids the purple mojo

Nestor Aparicio

The Baltimore Ravens have a $50 million quarterback and a fifty-cent offensive line. Nestor Aparicio says in his #ColumnNes that it feels like the Ravens don’t lose much but when they do it’s usually involved some creative decisions, big botches and failed plays. And John Harbaugh lords over it all.

Moving the Ravens press box – and kickoffs

Baltimore Positive

After the second preseason sleeper with the Atlanta Falcons, our Luke Jones joins Nestor to discuss David Ojabo, the offensive line and scrimmage life in Green Bay. And the new media view of the field and the NFL’s new kickoff return strategy for the genius of John Harbaugh.

How will Team Rubenstein move the economic needle to boost Orioles payroll and potential?

Baltimore Positive

With the trading deadline ahead and the first measurement of ownership’s strategy on the field coming into focus, our business insider Eric Fisher from Front Office Sports gives Nestor the economic realities of MLB, local media issues and the hurdles and growth needed from Team David Rubenstein moving forward as Catie Griggs takes over the business of Birdland

Badenhausen: Rubenstein bought a distressed asset in Orioles

Baltimore Positive

Our defending champion of sports business valuations and the whys and hows of billionaire owners, Kurt Badenhausen of Sportico joins Nestor once again to (finally) discuss the exit of the Angelos family and the financial realities that David Rubenstein and new ownership inherit with the Baltimore Orioles. And the media and sponsorship landscape for Catie Griggs to take $600 million of your money to grow Camden Yards and an All Star Game into a cash machine that stimulates payroll growth…

For the Ravens, is it zero tolerance – or just zero accountability?

Baltimore Positive

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh indicated that the future of the kicking position in Baltimore would be based on football, not the NFL investigation into the 16 women who have alleged improprieties during massage sessions with Justin Tucker. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the ongoing saga and the team’s eschewing of a “zero tolerance” policy when drafting edge rusher Mike Green, who had two sexual assault allegations while in college. Does any of it matter?

Are you as disgusted by the Orioles woeful leadership as we are?

Baltimore Positive

The franchise with the “under new ownership” sign on its last-place standing in the AL East, an evaporating fan base and a cowardly baseball operation that is now fielding minor league tryouts at Camden Yards with the remnants of a bunch of No. 1 draft picks, decided to raise ticket prices while continuing to lower the bar for tone deafness. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss their mutual disgust with every aspect of the Baltimore Orioles, on and off the field – from David Rubenstein and Catie Griggs down to Mike Elias and the sloppy play on the diamond. Stink. Stank. Stunk…

The melancholy and infinite sadness of Baltimore Orioles baseball in 2025

Nestor Aparicio

Sure, some of you will simply say that Nestor Aparicio (finally) lost his mind on the radio on Thursday morning after the Baltimore Orioles lost an 8-0 lead in Tampa in losing 12-8 in a minor league ballpark in Tampa. There’s been a lot of trauma over the years but even Jim Palmer called it the worst loss of the year for a team mired in last place in American League East and headed to The Bronx this weekend.

A tribute to the Baltimore baseball legend of my former colleague Jim Henneman

Baltimore Positive

Back in the 1980s, baseball coverage at The Evening Sun was sacred and Jim Henneman was the sage leader of Baltimore Orioles’ coverage and made quite an impression on a teenager who wanted to be a sportswriter. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the incredible baseball life of “Henny” and all of the old-timer Baltimore sports media legends who kept the stories of Brooks and Frank alive over the years.

Dear Steve Bisciotti: Are you Tuckered out on that zero-tolerance policy?

Nestor Aparicio

Methinks we’re kinda getting to the point where we’ll soon hear from “your people” in a two-sentence press release on the team website about the future of the kicking department of the Baltimore Ravens. Probably after lunch on Friday, the way all the cowards in your industry drop the news they want to bury. Not-so-bold prediction: Justin Tucker has kicked his last kick for your franchise.

ColumnNes: My letter to Orioles President Catie Griggs

Nestor Aparicio

This month, I’ve had many Orioles fans ask me on the streets of Baltimore why David Rubenstein, a full year into his new ownership and trying to spread a different image from Peter Angelos with a stunt like this bobblehead promotion this weekend, would continue to deny me legitimate press credentials after 40 years of covering Baltimore sports. So, I wrote this letter to new President Catie Griggs a month ago, a week before Opening Day:

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.

IMG 2580

Chapter 6: Baseball punched me a ticket to see The World

Nestor Aparicio

Ever watch a baseball game from far away and think: “It’d be cool to see that ballpark?” That was what inspired Nestor to see the world and chase Baltimore sports anywhere a plane would take him. And that was long before 30 MLB ballparks in 30 days in 2015.

Chapter 3: My Pop and Little League in Dundalk

Nestor Aparicio

What are your Little League memories of youth? Here’s how Nestor fell in love with baseball at rec leagues at Colgate, Eastwood and Berkshire in Dundalk with his Pop as an umpire and manager for kids. And the tales of the diamond that last a lifetime…

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.

What is the Rubenstein threshold for new Orioles’ payroll?

Baltimore Positive

With the news that Grayson Rodriguez and Andrew Kittredge will begin the season off the field, we wonder whether Mike Elias will be out buying more pricey relief pitching in a sport with no salary cap. Luke Jones and Nestor debate the Baltimore Orioles’ pitching needs and the threshold for payroll in the world of David Rubenstein. The money and tough-talk financial realities of small-market MLB in this one…

Justin Tucker Eagles

When will Ravens become Tuckered out by these 16 massage therapist allegations?

Baltimore Positive

The Justin Tucker scandal has continued as seven more women have come forward to The Baltimore Banner to accuse the longtime Ravens’ kicker of inappropriate conduct during local massages a decade ago. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the now-16 female massage therapists’ claims vs. the word of Justin Tucker – and attacking the journalists – and what the Baltimore Ravens are gonna do about it. And when…

tucker

Has Justin Tucker kicked his last kick for the Baltimore Ravens?

Baltimore Positive

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the second wave of reporting from The Baltimore Banner as three more women have forward with credible stories regarding what is now a Justin Tucker massage scandal – and when and the how Baltimore Ravens will react. And, perhaps more importantly, did anyone in Owings Mills know about this over the last decade while he was on the field kicking field goals?

A week later, some thoughts on Mark Andrews and Ravens’ accountability in defeat

Baltimore Positive

The times have changed. We can all acknowledge that while not lowering the bar of expectations of millionaire athletes – in victory or defeat – or the billionaire owners who used to address the fans via the local media this time of year. Luke Jones and Nestor have a longer conversation about Mark Andrews and the Ravens’ accountability in defeat a week after the Buffalo loss as well as a full look ahead to what happens next in Owings Mills in an always-busy offseason for Eric DeCosta and the scouting staff.

Nestor Aparicio media guy

My fall journalism “Declaration of Independence” – Breaking ‘kayfabe’ on how we’re going to cover Orioles and Ravens after 40 years

Nestor Aparicio

What does it say that Nestor Aparicio has been professionally bullied, gaslit and banned by Orioles and Ravens ownership after four decades of covering Baltimore sports as a professional reporter, author and journalist? Plenty. About billionaires, money, fealty and the death of local sports journalism and the emergence of team websites as monopoly “news” sources. Read and learn…

#ColumnNes: Here’s how I see Ravens beating Bills on Sunday night in Buffalo

Baltimore Positive

In lieu of a written #ColumnNes, Nestor Aparicio thought his three minute synopsis when asked by two Buffalo Bills fans about how Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry could run the Baltimore Ravens to an AFC Divisional Playoff victory on Sunday night in Orchard Park would suffice. Let ol’ Nasty break the game down for you with some historical perspective about what we’re seeing with the “Revolution” of the purple offense.

ColumnNes: Big plays, big hits and Ravens showed no quit against Steelers

Nestor Aparicio

The Ravens talked all week about being locked in, and in the end, they were. Creating turnovers. And even landing on your own fumbles. It all matters this time of year. Turnovers turn over games. The Steelers made too many mistakes. Russell Wilson fumbled early and got picked late. Ballgame.

Lamar Jackson Pittsburgh Steelers Baltimore Ravens

#ColumnNes: Steel trying to figure out how to win in Pittsburgh

Nestor Aparicio

The Baltimore Ravens are not playing smart football. The lack of discipline across the board has reared its head and leaves them as indistinct as their 7-4 mark headed to face to the Chargers.

They are the most penalized team in the NFL. And continually adding to the resume.

They have earned the distinction of the 32nd-ranked team against the pass. Somehow, the Steelers even managed to run for 122 yards on them on Sunday.

Phil Jackman Evening Sun

For the love of our legendary “Uncle” Phil Jackman

Nestor Aparicio

The world lost a force of nature. We lost a dear friend, mentor and spiritual north star when longtime sportswriter and columnist Phil Jackman of The Evening Sun died at 87 last week. This is a 2003 sitdown with the reformed TV repairman. It’s two hours of his life, views on sports and the world and tales never told about Ali, Yaz, Earl Weaver and Andre The Giant.

ColumnNes: A black and silver Vegas nightmare raids the purple mojo

Nestor Aparicio

The Baltimore Ravens have a $50 million quarterback and a fifty-cent offensive line. Nestor Aparicio says in his #ColumnNes that it feels like the Ravens don’t lose much but when they do it’s usually involved some creative decisions, big botches and failed plays. And John Harbaugh lords over it all.

Moving the Ravens press box – and kickoffs

Baltimore Positive

After the second preseason sleeper with the Atlanta Falcons, our Luke Jones joins Nestor to discuss David Ojabo, the offensive line and scrimmage life in Green Bay. And the new media view of the field and the NFL’s new kickoff return strategy for the genius of John Harbaugh.

How will Team Rubenstein move the economic needle to boost Orioles payroll and potential?

Baltimore Positive

With the trading deadline ahead and the first measurement of ownership’s strategy on the field coming into focus, our business insider Eric Fisher from Front Office Sports gives Nestor the economic realities of MLB, local media issues and the hurdles and growth needed from Team David Rubenstein moving forward as Catie Griggs takes over the business of Birdland

Badenhausen: Rubenstein bought a distressed asset in Orioles

Baltimore Positive

Our defending champion of sports business valuations and the whys and hows of billionaire owners, Kurt Badenhausen of Sportico joins Nestor once again to (finally) discuss the exit of the Angelos family and the financial realities that David Rubenstein and new ownership inherit with the Baltimore Orioles. And the media and sponsorship landscape for Catie Griggs to take $600 million of your money to grow Camden Yards and an All Star Game into a cash machine that stimulates payroll growth…

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