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When you make a lifer friend camping out for Billy Joel tickets at Hecht’s in 1983

Baltimore Positive

This recent gathering of old music tickets, artifacts and memories would not be complete without reaching to the guy Nestor met as a 14-year old camping out for concert tickets at the old Hecht’s at Reistertown Road Plaza. Our old Live Aid and lifer pal Richard Abrahams brings the rock and roll music memory bank to State Fare in Catonsville on the Maryland Crab Tour, adding huge contributions with tales of U2, The Alarm and The Smithereens to our 28 bands of significance as we count ’em down. Oh, and that time we camped out at The Spectrum for Rush tickets in the dead of winter of 1984…

#AlmostFamousNes No. 28: It’s time to KISS and shout out loud what your parents would never believe about rocking and rolling all night and partying every day

Nestor Aparicio

God gave rock and roll to you and the God of Thunder and the allure of KISS turned me into a music fan and lifelong concert seeker. This is the first in a series of 28 musical artists as we count down celebrating our 28th Anniversary at WNST Baltimore Positive by sharing our love, lure and the lore of music, concerts, bands, songs and the soundtrack of our lives together. You wanted the best and you got it…

No One Listens Aparicio Nestor Nasty

Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Media Story of Nestor Aparicio, WNST and Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio

Part biography, part civic documentary, this film uncovers the uncompromising journey of Nestor Aparicio—journalist, truth-teller, and founder of Baltimore Positive. Through battles with institutions, personal setbacks, and a stubborn commitment to his hometown, “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” shows what happens when one person refuses to stop believing in Baltimore.

I recognize those uniforms the Titans stole from Houston!

Baltimore Positive

There is no one on earth better equipped to tell the story of the Houston Oilers becoming the Tennessee Titans than NFL historian and five-decade Houston Chronicle reporter John McClain, who always makes time to talk football and Hall of Fame worthiness with us. The General provides a full preview and review of how those LuvYaBlue uniforms wound up on Cam Ward on Sunday. Oh, and why the Texans stink so far…

Plenty of real concern all around for the sport as MLB playoffs commence (without the Orioles again)

Baltimore Positive

Anytime we can bring our favorite baseball folks together to discuss the state of the game in the fall as the playoffs begin and the leaves change, we’re thrilled. We loved having former MLB outfielder and Towson Tigers alum Casper Wells talking seams with our longtime baseball insider Allen McCallum to debate the Orioles state of the franchise and another gloomy MLB offseason labor mess at State Fare on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Rock and roll never forgets: Why I’m spending our 28th anniversary telling music stories

Nestor Aparicio

Baltimore Positive and WNST are celebrating 28 years, and instead of giving you another list of football players, baseball games, favorite sports somethings or places where I’ve eaten a crab cake – and I’ve got plenty of all of those – I’m going back to where a lot of this really started for me: the music. My Almost Famous youth as a teenage music critic…

The loss of Ernie Accorsi and what he meant to us in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

We’re not the only ones who loved the late, great Ernie Accorsi. His roots in Hershey and love of Baltimore sports and his journey through Art Modell’s Browns in Cleveland to the Giants of New York and George Young led him to New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro, who joins Nestor to share stories of their mutual sports passion and friendship with one of the greatest guys we ever met…

Reaching for Rio in deep purple

Baltimore Positive

The reason we save money is to enjoy it and this week many Baltimore Ravens fans will be experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime (or at least until the Ravens play in Abu Dhabi or Bangkok) trip to Rio de Janeiro to see the men of Jesse Minter take on the Dallas Cowboys in an international clash at the legendary Maracana Stadium, which may or may not be a playable NFL surface. Our money dude Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss exploring Brazil and staying on the safe side of the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. Oh, only one of us is going to South America this time…

The 20th Anniversary of Free The Birds

Nestor Aparicio

On September 21, 2006, the listeners of Baltimore sports radio station WNST-AM 1570 came strong to Oriole Park at Camden Yards to voice their displeasure with Orioles owner Peter Angelos. The shockwaves were felt around the city and the sport. There was a lot of conversation and media in the aftermath. This is what it looked like before the walkout at 5:08 p.m. on 9/21/2006.

Unearthing my youthful 1990 late night KISS history dinner chat with Paul Stanley

Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio wanted the best and he got the best! As a kid who worshiped all things KISS in the 1970s musical coming of age, he interviewed Paul Stanley twice as a music critic – once at The News American as a 16-year old in 1985 and again in a late-night, by-invite personal sit down with the legendary leader of the hottest band in the world at a makeup free 1990 chat on the “Hot In The Shade” tour. It was a great chat when the groupies weren’t beating on Stanley’s hotel room at the Dulles Hyatt.

On and off the ice with former WBAL Sportsline host Jeff Rimer

Baltimore Positive

He spent a decade here as one of the premier voices in Baltimore sports, and the now longtime hockey play-by-play voice of the Florida Panthers and Columbus Blue Jackets has written a memoir to share his amazing stories of Orioles baseball, hosting radio on WBAL and our local pursuit of an NFL team before the Ravens came to town. We competed extremely hard with Jeff Rimer 35 years ago, and it was a pleasure to welcome him on the show and hear his stories with The Greatest, and Pete Rose, too!

Did anyone else “camp out” for concert tickets at Hecht Company in the 1980s?

Baltimore Positive

The stories we can tell five decades later about our lifetime passion for rock and roll and chasing great music in general. Musician Ron West of The Cultivated and The Duran Band joins Nestor for their mutual Dundalk childhood memories of camping out for concert tickets at Hecht Company from Golden Ring to Reisterstown Road Mall. Seventh row at Journey. Second row at Styx. And that time at Merriweather in the front row with Ben Orr and The Cars. And the artifacts that mark the date, place, seat and every memory that we treasure in these ticket stubs we earned the hard way! Or, the fun way…

What will Ravens fans find by flocking in Rio de Janeiro this month?

Baltimore Positive

It’s going to be quite a trip ahead for Leonard Raskin and many Baltimore Ravens fans who are not only getting their passports stamped in Brazil this month, but also better have their visa! And their credit card and security for their phones. Nestor, who did the Copacabana, Ipanema and Corcovado run in 2006 with the Rolling Stones in the biggest concert in the history of the planet, asks our resident financial expert what he’s hoping to find in Rio de Janeiro – other than Dallas Cowboys fans.

Picking up the pieces of the sorry state of Orioles

Baltimore Positive

Sure, Luke Jones talked about the lousy baseball over the weekend and the four-game sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards. But Nestor lost his mind in this one about the lack of respect this new ownership group had regarding “honoring” the surviving members of legendary 1966 Orioles World Series on their 60th anniversary. Imagine a guy named “Aparicio” living in Baltimore losing his freaking mind over the indignity of the whole shoddy performance? When is this nightmare season over?

The joys of summer youth spent chasing girls, rock stars and forever memories at Merriweather Post Pavilion

Baltimore Positive

For some of us it was Judas Priest and Ted Nugent and for others it was The Cars and Depeche Mode. But the music of our lives and the stories of the bands, shows and songs add some color to our lives decades later. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor for a 28th Anniversary retrospective at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for the backstage tales from the Ratt Poison Tour that went awry…

The Suggs and Yanda Hall of Fame debate continues as Canton changes the system

Baltimore Positive

It’s always a pleasure to welcome NFL historian and lifer sports writer Howard Balzer from the desert back to get Nestor ready for another Baltimore Ravens season with a deep conversation about the changes coming to the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection system and the long road to Canton for Lamar Jackson and any of the other current players starting another long season with Super Bowl hopes and yellow jacket dreams.

Triumph and holding onto the sounds inside your soul with Rik Emmett

Baltimore Positive

Our favorite rock star Rik Emmett returns to tell Nestor what he’s learned about life during this second act and leg of his band’s reunion, and how his beautifully inspirational words and their meaning flows along for a lifetime. Along with Gil Moore and a trio of incredible musicians, Triumph returns to Baltimore for the first time in four decades on November 21st. The simple truth lies waiting here for everyone to share…

The Kiss and tell of a generation of us being recruited into the KISS Army fifty years ago

Baltimore Positive

It all started with KISS Alive. And here we are five decades later telling rock and roll stories, concert tales and how the music we love still keeps us going. Former Section 513er and fellow rocker Ed Stylc drops by our 28th Anniversary music celebration for a little KISS and tell with a side of Cheap Trick and modern ways to enjoy the old concerts and the best daze of our childhood.

Dear John Harbaugh: The long fraud of your goodbye and $oft landing in The Big Apple

Nestor Aparicio

I’ve blessed myself with time to give your rather abrupt departure here some time to fully decant – like a hair-raising, pellet gun plum Ravens vintage – and smelling that musty, stale aroma and a hint of that rancid taste in the mouth you get when someone leaves town wearing a smile that doesn’t quite match the damage they did on the way out. “What do you want me to tell the other humans I know when they ask me about you?”

Sending another Irsay Nastygram to Indianapolis as Ravens visit Colts

Baltimore Positive

Oh, we always have fun with those guys in Indianapolis! It’s been 42 years since the people of Indiana pilfered the Colts away in the middle of the night. But the ESPN Indy guys still ask about the legend of Beanie Bob (via Ricig) and Nestor still reminds them that there have been two Ravens parades in Baltimore. But does the next one down Pratt Street begin with Lamar Jackson heading to the friendly heart of the Midwest to start the season? He offers a full preview of what he thinks of the new Jesse Minter operation here to the good people of Indy.

Holding the guard in Cleveland for a Wild Card race

Nestor Aparicio

It is certainly not a brand of baseball that is attractive or of high quality but “pennant race” MLB action is unfolding at Camden Yards as the Cleveland Guardians come to town with October on the brain. Our Cuyahoga insider Munch Bishop pitches in from Ohio as the sub-.500 Baltimore Orioles circle the drain and limp toward the finish line in a less-than-optimal baseball season in Birdland.

Baseball business and believing in Boston sports with Bob Ryan

Nestor Aparicio

What makes baseball great is a September pennant race series at Camden Yards between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. This Labor Day weekend makes it a perfect time to check in with the hardest-working retired legend in New England. Sportswriter Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe and ESPN “The Sports Reporters” joins Nestor to talk about the greatest things he’s ever seen from behind a typewriter or a mobile device.

The old fish tales of the Greek stall next to Faidley’s at Lexington Market

Baltimore Positive

Our Smalltimore roots seemingly never cease to end as two longtime WNST and Baltimore Positive supporters reunite at The Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville as Dennis Koulatsos and Damye Hahn tell old Lexington Market tales from Faidley’s and the wisdom of a father to another father’s son about being prompt and keeping your word.

The NFL media and money machine is always ready for September

Baltimore Positive

The author of “Every Day Is Sunday” and The New York Times insider for the business of the NFL joins us for a discussion about the state of the game and why the Baltimore Ravens are playing in Brazil next month. Ken Belson returns for another preseason football chat about the past, present and future of the sport with Nestor just in time for kickoff and a violent Sunday collision coming to you soon.

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With every nerve aware, here are my Top 50 Rush songs of all time

Nestor Aparicio

Written 15 years ago when Neil Peart was alive and Rush was playing in Baltimore, Nestor examined his fifty favorite tracks at the time. With Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the road once again with Anika Nilles on the drums, time to go for a ride in that red Barchetta.

The Rush of passion for Geddy and Alex and the moving pictures of our lives

Baltimore Positive

For the gathering fans of Rush who are convening for this most unlikely 50th Anniversary tour, the music has brought incredible memories and emotions. And mainly for dudes and bros. Leonard Raskin and Nestor “review” the second night in Philly and discuss the allure and passion of music bringing people together in song. And how to have a good time even if Beavis and Butthead are seated behind you during “Closer To The Heart.”

Remembering the shame of striking out back before it was cool

Baltimore Positive

Our resident Florida sportswriter and author from Baltimore Joel Poiley returns to talk Orioles baseball floundering in August and the chase of pennant race that leads to porous defense and double-digit strikeouts most nights. Putting the ball in play here…

NBC horse racing insider Randy Moss educates Nestor about Preakness future and Triple Crown in peril

Baltimore Positive

In our search to bring real information and horse racing history and insights regarding the current spring mess, as the Preakness and the state of Maryland go to war with the big boys at Churchill, NYRA and Fox reagrding the perilous future of the Triple Crown and its significance to the sport, we turn to lifer track man and journalist Randy Moss to educate us and present the reality of the industry.

The future of the Baltimore Orioles and the men making the decisions

Baltimore Positive

With the MLB trade deadline deals of Mike Elias behind us and the labor war ahead, Allen McCallum and Nestor recap the departure of Adley Rutschman and have a tough discussion about the Orioles here-and-now with fans and how this next eight weeks leads to a lot of uncertainty in Baltimore and all around the industry of baseball.

Let’s get the facts about this Preakness and Triple Crown fiasco from the top down

Baltimore Positive

After witnessing and opining on the entire state of horse racing and the sport in Maryland over the past 35 years on the radio regarding its complete deterioration, Nestor Aparicio only really trusts one voice about the sport of kings: Dick Jerardi. His one time colleague in 1984 has gone off to Philadelphia to become one of the legendary horse racing insiders in the sport and attempts to calm his now-much-older-and-more-cynical friend down about very rational Preakness and Triple Crown concerns as Pimlico goes to war with Churchill and Belmont, and NBC and Fox square off and Wes Moore is holding press conferences. Get the truth here…

Did our American World Cup runneth over with riches for FIFA?

Baltimore Positive

The World Cup came to the United States of America for the first time in 32 years this summer. Sports business professor Marty Conway tells Nestor, it won’t be that long before the world’s biggest sports tournament returns to our shores. And, of course, Professor Conway brings the heat for MLB as the labor wars start to heat up in a familiar refrain of billionaires vs. millionaires with the fans paying the freight.

When you make a lifer friend camping out for Billy Joel tickets at Hecht’s in 1983

Baltimore Positive

This recent gathering of old music tickets, artifacts and memories would not be complete without reaching to the guy Nestor met as a 14-year old camping out for concert tickets at the old Hecht’s at Reistertown Road Plaza. Our old Live Aid and lifer pal Richard Abrahams brings the rock and roll music memory bank to State Fare in Catonsville on the Maryland Crab Tour, adding huge contributions with tales of U2, The Alarm and The Smithereens to our 28 bands of significance as we count ’em down. Oh, and that time we camped out at The Spectrum for Rush tickets in the dead of winter of 1984…

#AlmostFamousNes No. 28: It’s time to KISS and shout out loud what your parents would never believe about rocking and rolling all night and partying every day

Nestor Aparicio

God gave rock and roll to you and the God of Thunder and the allure of KISS turned me into a music fan and lifelong concert seeker. This is the first in a series of 28 musical artists as we count down celebrating our 28th Anniversary at WNST Baltimore Positive by sharing our love, lure and the lore of music, concerts, bands, songs and the soundtrack of our lives together. You wanted the best and you got it…

No One Listens Aparicio Nestor Nasty

Watch “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” – The Media Story of Nestor Aparicio, WNST and Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio

Part biography, part civic documentary, this film uncovers the uncompromising journey of Nestor Aparicio—journalist, truth-teller, and founder of Baltimore Positive. Through battles with institutions, personal setbacks, and a stubborn commitment to his hometown, “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” shows what happens when one person refuses to stop believing in Baltimore.

I recognize those uniforms the Titans stole from Houston!

Baltimore Positive

There is no one on earth better equipped to tell the story of the Houston Oilers becoming the Tennessee Titans than NFL historian and five-decade Houston Chronicle reporter John McClain, who always makes time to talk football and Hall of Fame worthiness with us. The General provides a full preview and review of how those LuvYaBlue uniforms wound up on Cam Ward on Sunday. Oh, and why the Texans stink so far…

Plenty of real concern all around for the sport as MLB playoffs commence (without the Orioles again)

Baltimore Positive

Anytime we can bring our favorite baseball folks together to discuss the state of the game in the fall as the playoffs begin and the leaves change, we’re thrilled. We loved having former MLB outfielder and Towson Tigers alum Casper Wells talking seams with our longtime baseball insider Allen McCallum to debate the Orioles state of the franchise and another gloomy MLB offseason labor mess at State Fare on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Rock and roll never forgets: Why I’m spending our 28th anniversary telling music stories

Nestor Aparicio

Baltimore Positive and WNST are celebrating 28 years, and instead of giving you another list of football players, baseball games, favorite sports somethings or places where I’ve eaten a crab cake – and I’ve got plenty of all of those – I’m going back to where a lot of this really started for me: the music. My Almost Famous youth as a teenage music critic…

The loss of Ernie Accorsi and what he meant to us in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

We’re not the only ones who loved the late, great Ernie Accorsi. His roots in Hershey and love of Baltimore sports and his journey through Art Modell’s Browns in Cleveland to the Giants of New York and George Young led him to New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro, who joins Nestor to share stories of their mutual sports passion and friendship with one of the greatest guys we ever met…

Reaching for Rio in deep purple

Baltimore Positive

The reason we save money is to enjoy it and this week many Baltimore Ravens fans will be experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime (or at least until the Ravens play in Abu Dhabi or Bangkok) trip to Rio de Janeiro to see the men of Jesse Minter take on the Dallas Cowboys in an international clash at the legendary Maracana Stadium, which may or may not be a playable NFL surface. Our money dude Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss exploring Brazil and staying on the safe side of the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. Oh, only one of us is going to South America this time…

The 20th Anniversary of Free The Birds

Nestor Aparicio

On September 21, 2006, the listeners of Baltimore sports radio station WNST-AM 1570 came strong to Oriole Park at Camden Yards to voice their displeasure with Orioles owner Peter Angelos. The shockwaves were felt around the city and the sport. There was a lot of conversation and media in the aftermath. This is what it looked like before the walkout at 5:08 p.m. on 9/21/2006.

Unearthing my youthful 1990 late night KISS history dinner chat with Paul Stanley

Baltimore Positive

Nestor Aparicio wanted the best and he got the best! As a kid who worshiped all things KISS in the 1970s musical coming of age, he interviewed Paul Stanley twice as a music critic – once at The News American as a 16-year old in 1985 and again in a late-night, by-invite personal sit down with the legendary leader of the hottest band in the world at a makeup free 1990 chat on the “Hot In The Shade” tour. It was a great chat when the groupies weren’t beating on Stanley’s hotel room at the Dulles Hyatt.

On and off the ice with former WBAL Sportsline host Jeff Rimer

Baltimore Positive

He spent a decade here as one of the premier voices in Baltimore sports, and the now longtime hockey play-by-play voice of the Florida Panthers and Columbus Blue Jackets has written a memoir to share his amazing stories of Orioles baseball, hosting radio on WBAL and our local pursuit of an NFL team before the Ravens came to town. We competed extremely hard with Jeff Rimer 35 years ago, and it was a pleasure to welcome him on the show and hear his stories with The Greatest, and Pete Rose, too!

Did anyone else “camp out” for concert tickets at Hecht Company in the 1980s?

Baltimore Positive

The stories we can tell five decades later about our lifetime passion for rock and roll and chasing great music in general. Musician Ron West of The Cultivated and The Duran Band joins Nestor for their mutual Dundalk childhood memories of camping out for concert tickets at Hecht Company from Golden Ring to Reisterstown Road Mall. Seventh row at Journey. Second row at Styx. And that time at Merriweather in the front row with Ben Orr and The Cars. And the artifacts that mark the date, place, seat and every memory that we treasure in these ticket stubs we earned the hard way! Or, the fun way…

What will Ravens fans find by flocking in Rio de Janeiro this month?

Baltimore Positive

It’s going to be quite a trip ahead for Leonard Raskin and many Baltimore Ravens fans who are not only getting their passports stamped in Brazil this month, but also better have their visa! And their credit card and security for their phones. Nestor, who did the Copacabana, Ipanema and Corcovado run in 2006 with the Rolling Stones in the biggest concert in the history of the planet, asks our resident financial expert what he’s hoping to find in Rio de Janeiro – other than Dallas Cowboys fans.

Picking up the pieces of the sorry state of Orioles

Baltimore Positive

Sure, Luke Jones talked about the lousy baseball over the weekend and the four-game sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards. But Nestor lost his mind in this one about the lack of respect this new ownership group had regarding “honoring” the surviving members of legendary 1966 Orioles World Series on their 60th anniversary. Imagine a guy named “Aparicio” living in Baltimore losing his freaking mind over the indignity of the whole shoddy performance? When is this nightmare season over?

The joys of summer youth spent chasing girls, rock stars and forever memories at Merriweather Post Pavilion

Baltimore Positive

For some of us it was Judas Priest and Ted Nugent and for others it was The Cars and Depeche Mode. But the music of our lives and the stories of the bands, shows and songs add some color to our lives decades later. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor for a 28th Anniversary retrospective at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for the backstage tales from the Ratt Poison Tour that went awry…

The Suggs and Yanda Hall of Fame debate continues as Canton changes the system

Baltimore Positive

It’s always a pleasure to welcome NFL historian and lifer sports writer Howard Balzer from the desert back to get Nestor ready for another Baltimore Ravens season with a deep conversation about the changes coming to the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection system and the long road to Canton for Lamar Jackson and any of the other current players starting another long season with Super Bowl hopes and yellow jacket dreams.

Triumph and holding onto the sounds inside your soul with Rik Emmett

Baltimore Positive

Our favorite rock star Rik Emmett returns to tell Nestor what he’s learned about life during this second act and leg of his band’s reunion, and how his beautifully inspirational words and their meaning flows along for a lifetime. Along with Gil Moore and a trio of incredible musicians, Triumph returns to Baltimore for the first time in four decades on November 21st. The simple truth lies waiting here for everyone to share…

The Kiss and tell of a generation of us being recruited into the KISS Army fifty years ago

Baltimore Positive

It all started with KISS Alive. And here we are five decades later telling rock and roll stories, concert tales and how the music we love still keeps us going. Former Section 513er and fellow rocker Ed Stylc drops by our 28th Anniversary music celebration for a little KISS and tell with a side of Cheap Trick and modern ways to enjoy the old concerts and the best daze of our childhood.

Dear John Harbaugh: The long fraud of your goodbye and $oft landing in The Big Apple

Nestor Aparicio

I’ve blessed myself with time to give your rather abrupt departure here some time to fully decant – like a hair-raising, pellet gun plum Ravens vintage – and smelling that musty, stale aroma and a hint of that rancid taste in the mouth you get when someone leaves town wearing a smile that doesn’t quite match the damage they did on the way out. “What do you want me to tell the other humans I know when they ask me about you?”

Sending another Irsay Nastygram to Indianapolis as Ravens visit Colts

Baltimore Positive

Oh, we always have fun with those guys in Indianapolis! It’s been 42 years since the people of Indiana pilfered the Colts away in the middle of the night. But the ESPN Indy guys still ask about the legend of Beanie Bob (via Ricig) and Nestor still reminds them that there have been two Ravens parades in Baltimore. But does the next one down Pratt Street begin with Lamar Jackson heading to the friendly heart of the Midwest to start the season? He offers a full preview of what he thinks of the new Jesse Minter operation here to the good people of Indy.

Holding the guard in Cleveland for a Wild Card race

Nestor Aparicio

It is certainly not a brand of baseball that is attractive or of high quality but “pennant race” MLB action is unfolding at Camden Yards as the Cleveland Guardians come to town with October on the brain. Our Cuyahoga insider Munch Bishop pitches in from Ohio as the sub-.500 Baltimore Orioles circle the drain and limp toward the finish line in a less-than-optimal baseball season in Birdland.

Baseball business and believing in Boston sports with Bob Ryan

Nestor Aparicio

What makes baseball great is a September pennant race series at Camden Yards between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. This Labor Day weekend makes it a perfect time to check in with the hardest-working retired legend in New England. Sportswriter Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe and ESPN “The Sports Reporters” joins Nestor to talk about the greatest things he’s ever seen from behind a typewriter or a mobile device.

The old fish tales of the Greek stall next to Faidley’s at Lexington Market

Baltimore Positive

Our Smalltimore roots seemingly never cease to end as two longtime WNST and Baltimore Positive supporters reunite at The Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville as Dennis Koulatsos and Damye Hahn tell old Lexington Market tales from Faidley’s and the wisdom of a father to another father’s son about being prompt and keeping your word.

The NFL media and money machine is always ready for September

Baltimore Positive

The author of “Every Day Is Sunday” and The New York Times insider for the business of the NFL joins us for a discussion about the state of the game and why the Baltimore Ravens are playing in Brazil next month. Ken Belson returns for another preseason football chat about the past, present and future of the sport with Nestor just in time for kickoff and a violent Sunday collision coming to you soon.

923557 3230330814081 1591345812 n

With every nerve aware, here are my Top 50 Rush songs of all time

Nestor Aparicio

Written 15 years ago when Neil Peart was alive and Rush was playing in Baltimore, Nestor examined his fifty favorite tracks at the time. With Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the road once again with Anika Nilles on the drums, time to go for a ride in that red Barchetta.

The Rush of passion for Geddy and Alex and the moving pictures of our lives

Baltimore Positive

For the gathering fans of Rush who are convening for this most unlikely 50th Anniversary tour, the music has brought incredible memories and emotions. And mainly for dudes and bros. Leonard Raskin and Nestor “review” the second night in Philly and discuss the allure and passion of music bringing people together in song. And how to have a good time even if Beavis and Butthead are seated behind you during “Closer To The Heart.”

Remembering the shame of striking out back before it was cool

Baltimore Positive

Our resident Florida sportswriter and author from Baltimore Joel Poiley returns to talk Orioles baseball floundering in August and the chase of pennant race that leads to porous defense and double-digit strikeouts most nights. Putting the ball in play here…

NBC horse racing insider Randy Moss educates Nestor about Preakness future and Triple Crown in peril

Baltimore Positive

In our search to bring real information and horse racing history and insights regarding the current spring mess, as the Preakness and the state of Maryland go to war with the big boys at Churchill, NYRA and Fox reagrding the perilous future of the Triple Crown and its significance to the sport, we turn to lifer track man and journalist Randy Moss to educate us and present the reality of the industry.

The future of the Baltimore Orioles and the men making the decisions

Baltimore Positive

With the MLB trade deadline deals of Mike Elias behind us and the labor war ahead, Allen McCallum and Nestor recap the departure of Adley Rutschman and have a tough discussion about the Orioles here-and-now with fans and how this next eight weeks leads to a lot of uncertainty in Baltimore and all around the industry of baseball.

Let’s get the facts about this Preakness and Triple Crown fiasco from the top down

Baltimore Positive

After witnessing and opining on the entire state of horse racing and the sport in Maryland over the past 35 years on the radio regarding its complete deterioration, Nestor Aparicio only really trusts one voice about the sport of kings: Dick Jerardi. His one time colleague in 1984 has gone off to Philadelphia to become one of the legendary horse racing insiders in the sport and attempts to calm his now-much-older-and-more-cynical friend down about very rational Preakness and Triple Crown concerns as Pimlico goes to war with Churchill and Belmont, and NBC and Fox square off and Wes Moore is holding press conferences. Get the truth here…

Did our American World Cup runneth over with riches for FIFA?

Baltimore Positive

The World Cup came to the United States of America for the first time in 32 years this summer. Sports business professor Marty Conway tells Nestor, it won’t be that long before the world’s biggest sports tournament returns to our shores. And, of course, Professor Conway brings the heat for MLB as the labor wars start to heat up in a familiar refrain of billionaires vs. millionaires with the fans paying the freight.

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