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Wrestling with the journalism of finding the truth about the Iron Sheik

Baltimore Positive

Always a pleasure to spend time with the author of “The Wax Pack,” the good doctor Brad Balukjian is back with another trek dating back to his 1980s childhood and obsession with professional wrestling. Let him tell you why he didn’t just open another pack of sports cards this time. And let Nestor show you some of his favorite childhood wrestling pictures and share tales about Tony Atlas.

Sharing the heart of a Baltimore sports fan as baseball season begins Koulatsos

How the Orioles and Ravens will split your wallet – and hearts – moving forward

Baltimore Positive

For the first time in most of our lifetimes, sports in Baltimore and parade fever is blossoming as the baseball and football franchises both have a chance to win a championship. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the power of money in local sports and how a guy in Caps jersey can say “no” to pricey playoff tickets. And we’re all expecting playoff games here for the Orioles and Ravens in the coming years…

Discussing WNST 25th Anniversary documentary and NFL Draft weekend history

Baltimore Positive

Our Friday gatherings at Faidley’s have been quite eventful with Jackson Holliday news but it was a great chance for Luke Jones and Nestor Aparicio to discuss the WNST 25th Anniversary documentary “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” and the first round of NFL Draft weekend at Lexington Market.

The sudden halt for Jackson Holliday

Baltimore Positive

Luke Jones and Nestor gather on Friday afternoon at Faidley’s Seafood in Lexington Market to discuss the news that Jackson Holliday is headed back to Norfolk after struggling mightily against major league pitching in his first two weeks with the Orioles.

Who is going to save baseball in Oakland Dan Moore

What is Oakland losing with the Athletics?

Baltimore Positive

Author Jason Turbow gives Nestor an Oakland Athletics history lesson and discusses everything that went wrong over 50 years dating back to Charlie Finley and a book he wrote on the 1970s World Series champions draped in thrift and constant acrimony.

Ravens address secondary with Wiggins as we await offensive line help

Baltimore Positive

Late in the night the Baltimore Ravens were quite excited about drafting Clemson cornerback Nate Wiggins with the 30th pick and now Luke Jones and Nestor await how general manager Eric DeCosta will address the offensive line and other needs this weekend via what has already been a wild NFL Draft.

A sportswriting legend talks about her roots in Oriole Magic and what went wrong in Oakland

Baltimore Positive

Recovering sportswriter Susan Fornoff comes home to Baltimore to talk Oriole Magic, Athletics history and why it matters to fans in Oakland and beyond. And Nestor finally gets to tell some old newspaper tales of her legend and lore at The News American in the 1980s before that creep Dave Kingman showed who the real rats of Major League Baseball were to baseball beat writers.

Getting prepped for a big Orioles homestand at Camden Yards

Baltimore Positive

With the surging Birds coming home to play great weather baseball under new ownership, Luke Jones and Nestor talk MLB and the Orioles’ role in baseball as contender and how everyone is watching “The Next Chapter” and seeing the possibilities of all of this young talent.

What is bringing folks back downtown for Orioles baseball?

Baltimore Positive

Our financial guru Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the energy around Baltimore Orioles baseball and what bringing folks back downtown again regularly can do for the city. Oh, and a good news humanity update on theatre etiquette from Notre Dame Prep, too!

Making time for the Orioles again…

Nestor Aparicio

Bill Cole and Nestor discuss the reemergence of Orioles baseball in lives of many Baltimore folks and how going to Camden Yards has suddenly become cool again with new ownership and a great, young team on the field.

A Walkoff Wednesday for Orioles works well before roadtrip

Baltimore Positive

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the incredible spot start of veteran Albert Suarez start, another walkoff home run by Cedric Mullins and the re-emergence of Cal Ripken to Orioles baseball this month as the team heads to Kansas City and Los Angeles before returning home on Friday, April 26th against the Oakland Athletics.

What does Wells injury mean for Orioles pitching?

Baltimore Positive

With John Means and Kyle Bradish throwing and potentially coming back to the Orioles starting rotation soon, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss what the latest setback for Tyler Wells means as the Birds’ bats take center stage in battering Twins pitching at Camden Yards.

Getting ready for NFL Draft weekend and Ravens many options – and needs

Baltimore Positive

It’s not often that Luke Jones and Nestor Aparicio wind up in the same room together doing live radio. Every Friday when the Orioles are home, come say hello at Faidley’s Seafood in Lexington Market before the game. This time, it was football on the brain with Eric DeCosta and the Baltimore Ravens holding the 30th pick in the first round of next Thursday’s NFL Draft in Detroit.

The Orioles farm that keeps producing legit big league phenoms

Baltimore Positive

With the promotion of Jackson Holliday and the emergence of Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg to go with the already-arrived Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson, the Baltimore Orioles are loaded. It’s the dawn of a new day of Orioles baseball. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the maturation of Orioles system and the solid start to season despite some obvious pitching deficiencies.

Making a case for The Milkman

Baltimore Positive

Outfielder Colton Cowser struggled in his first MLB assignment last year but has begun the 2024 with a torrid pace leaving manager Brandon Hyde with some tough decisions on playing time for Austin Hays. Our Luke Jones joins Nestor to evaluate this young roster and ways to continue to utilize the bench and the potential of big bats from blue chip prospects.

Search no further for better words of wisdom for David Rubenstein and “Next Chapter” of Orioles baseball in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

If you want to know the real history of Baltimore baseball, you ask the folks who authored the story of Orioles Magic. Charles Steinberg comes back to Baltimore to hail Larry Lucchino and the real heroes of Camden Yards and saving the Orioles – and offers his best wisdom and native advice to new owner David Rubenstein from his Worcester Woo Sox seat at Polar Park.

The unlimited free money for billionaire sports franchise owners isn’t coming so easy outside of Maryland

Baltimore Positive

While we watch Steve Bisciotti’s paid-for-by-the-citizens new shiny object get erected on the football stadium and await to hear the plan of David Rubenstein for Camden Yards, Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss aging stadia, big money, threats of moving sports franchises and civic donations to billionaires for sports teams that aren’t happening in places like Kansas City, Phoenix, Oakland and Northern Virginia.

The Holliday of a Baby Birds renaissance has arrived

Baltimore Positive

The decision to promote Jackson Holliday came at a curious time this week for many Orioles fans. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the debut and future of the new Number Seven here in Baltimore as the Birds continue to soar into the spring as a World Series contender with a burgeoning cast of young superstars and new ownership.

Holliday! Celebrate!

Baltimore Positive

It’s not a shock that Jackson Holliday is coming to the big leagues as a 20-year old. This was inevitable. But why here and now? Luke Jones and Nestor celebrate the Holliday of Mike Elias’ decision to promote the top prospect in Major League Baseball and opine on what it means for the Orioles roster.

Tapping into The Bird Tapes and real Orioles history with John Eisenberg

Baltimore Positive

Local author and longtime sports columnist John Eisenberg tells Nestor about unearthing the lost Orioles conversations and tapes of the heroes Birdland from his turn-of-the-century book on Memorial Stadium and the legendary tales of Brooks Robinson, Earl Weaver, Jim Palmer and everyone associated with Orioles Magic.

Mastering the Masters

Nestor Aparicio

On the eve of another Masters, our Augusta insider and head PGA Pro at Pine Ridge Ed Miller, heads back to Butler Cabin and briefs Nestor on the big weekend of golf that will get you back on course to hitting the ball on a Classic Five local course here in Baltimore.

The outfield backup jam from Norfolk to Camden Yards

Baltimore Positive

With the recall of Jackson Holliday from Norfolk, it appears to be the first of many young players the Orioles will be needing to make room for in Baltimore or a decision about in the coming weeks as Heston Kjerstad, Kyle Stowers and others continue to destroy Triple A pitching at Norfolk to start the season.

What happens when Kimbrel can’t go in 9th?

Baltimore Positive

Less than two weeks into the season, it’s been a mixed bag for the Baltimore Orioles. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the disappointing Pittsburgh series and ways a better bullpen could support some frosty bats of the early Orioles campaign.

In the end, Angelos family made $1 million every week they owned the Orioles – plus the actual profit

Baltimore Positive

After Nestor broke out a cocktail napkin and did the math on the $173 million price tag of the Baltimore Orioles in 1993 (that came with $45 million in cash) and the recent sale price of $1.7 billion to David Rubenstein (that comes with $600 million in free money from Maryland taxpayers), he wanted to confirm his Dundalk math with our financial advisor Leonard Raskin as to just how much money the Angelos family actually made while attempting to destroy the franchise for the fan base.

We survived the Angelos Era of Orioles baseball so what’s next?

Baltimore Positive

Allen McCallum and Nestor Aparicio were seated next to each other in visiting press boxes for the iconic Roberto Alomar ALDS home run in Cleveland and the Jeffrey Maier debacle in New York almost 30 years ago. They covered the team every day at the dawn of WNST until they were no longer allowed access. Now almost three decades later, they discuss the future of the Baltimore Orioles with new ownership of David Rubenstein and general manager Mike Elias fielding the best crop of players of our lifetime at Camden Yards.

The real value of a “fresh start” Baltimore Orioles ownership for MLB

Baltimore Positive

Longtime author and baseball historian Barry Bloom of Sportico provides some historic perspective what the new Orioles ownership could mean for Baltimore and Major League Baseball as David Rubenstein and Cal Ripken step forward to unleash of the potential of a franchise that is blooming on the field and about to blossom with fresh energy.

Orioles Bird

How will the “next chapter” of Orioles ownership communicate with traumatized Baltimore fan base?

Baltimore Positive

It’s been 18 years since local communication and public relations guru Greg Abel created the “We’re Not Gonna Take It” video after Nestor Aparicio led “Free The Birds” to communicate some uncomfortable truths to Peter Angelos. That was September 2006. Now, with David Rubenstein taking over the helm of the Orioles franchise, what do we expect to be better for the fans – other than everything?

Foul weather, walkoff wins, unlikely stars and the Norfolk hitting machine

Baltimore Positive

Adding up the math of the first week of the “next chapter” of Orioles baseball, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss foul weather, unlikely stars and the Orioles Magic youth in Norfolk hitting the cover off the ball and banging on the walls of The Warehouse at Camden Yards. Mike Elias has good problems to begin the 2024 campaign.

Wrestling with the journalism of finding the truth about the Iron Sheik

Baltimore Positive

Always a pleasure to spend time with the author of “The Wax Pack,” the good doctor Brad Balukjian is back with another trek dating back to his 1980s childhood and obsession with professional wrestling. Let him tell you why he didn’t just open another pack of sports cards this time. And let Nestor show you some of his favorite childhood wrestling pictures and share tales about Tony Atlas.

Sharing the heart of a Baltimore sports fan as baseball season begins Koulatsos

How the Orioles and Ravens will split your wallet – and hearts – moving forward

Baltimore Positive

For the first time in most of our lifetimes, sports in Baltimore and parade fever is blossoming as the baseball and football franchises both have a chance to win a championship. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the power of money in local sports and how a guy in Caps jersey can say “no” to pricey playoff tickets. And we’re all expecting playoff games here for the Orioles and Ravens in the coming years…

Discussing WNST 25th Anniversary documentary and NFL Draft weekend history

Baltimore Positive

Our Friday gatherings at Faidley’s have been quite eventful with Jackson Holliday news but it was a great chance for Luke Jones and Nestor Aparicio to discuss the WNST 25th Anniversary documentary “No One Listens; Everyone Hears” and the first round of NFL Draft weekend at Lexington Market.

The sudden halt for Jackson Holliday

Baltimore Positive

Luke Jones and Nestor gather on Friday afternoon at Faidley’s Seafood in Lexington Market to discuss the news that Jackson Holliday is headed back to Norfolk after struggling mightily against major league pitching in his first two weeks with the Orioles.

Who is going to save baseball in Oakland Dan Moore

What is Oakland losing with the Athletics?

Baltimore Positive

Author Jason Turbow gives Nestor an Oakland Athletics history lesson and discusses everything that went wrong over 50 years dating back to Charlie Finley and a book he wrote on the 1970s World Series champions draped in thrift and constant acrimony.

Ravens address secondary with Wiggins as we await offensive line help

Baltimore Positive

Late in the night the Baltimore Ravens were quite excited about drafting Clemson cornerback Nate Wiggins with the 30th pick and now Luke Jones and Nestor await how general manager Eric DeCosta will address the offensive line and other needs this weekend via what has already been a wild NFL Draft.

A sportswriting legend talks about her roots in Oriole Magic and what went wrong in Oakland

Baltimore Positive

Recovering sportswriter Susan Fornoff comes home to Baltimore to talk Oriole Magic, Athletics history and why it matters to fans in Oakland and beyond. And Nestor finally gets to tell some old newspaper tales of her legend and lore at The News American in the 1980s before that creep Dave Kingman showed who the real rats of Major League Baseball were to baseball beat writers.

Getting prepped for a big Orioles homestand at Camden Yards

Baltimore Positive

With the surging Birds coming home to play great weather baseball under new ownership, Luke Jones and Nestor talk MLB and the Orioles’ role in baseball as contender and how everyone is watching “The Next Chapter” and seeing the possibilities of all of this young talent.

What is bringing folks back downtown for Orioles baseball?

Baltimore Positive

Our financial guru Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the energy around Baltimore Orioles baseball and what bringing folks back downtown again regularly can do for the city. Oh, and a good news humanity update on theatre etiquette from Notre Dame Prep, too!

Making time for the Orioles again…

Nestor Aparicio

Bill Cole and Nestor discuss the reemergence of Orioles baseball in lives of many Baltimore folks and how going to Camden Yards has suddenly become cool again with new ownership and a great, young team on the field.

A Walkoff Wednesday for Orioles works well before roadtrip

Baltimore Positive

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the incredible spot start of veteran Albert Suarez start, another walkoff home run by Cedric Mullins and the re-emergence of Cal Ripken to Orioles baseball this month as the team heads to Kansas City and Los Angeles before returning home on Friday, April 26th against the Oakland Athletics.

What does Wells injury mean for Orioles pitching?

Baltimore Positive

With John Means and Kyle Bradish throwing and potentially coming back to the Orioles starting rotation soon, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss what the latest setback for Tyler Wells means as the Birds’ bats take center stage in battering Twins pitching at Camden Yards.

Getting ready for NFL Draft weekend and Ravens many options – and needs

Baltimore Positive

It’s not often that Luke Jones and Nestor Aparicio wind up in the same room together doing live radio. Every Friday when the Orioles are home, come say hello at Faidley’s Seafood in Lexington Market before the game. This time, it was football on the brain with Eric DeCosta and the Baltimore Ravens holding the 30th pick in the first round of next Thursday’s NFL Draft in Detroit.

The Orioles farm that keeps producing legit big league phenoms

Baltimore Positive

With the promotion of Jackson Holliday and the emergence of Colton Cowser and Jordan Westburg to go with the already-arrived Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson, the Baltimore Orioles are loaded. It’s the dawn of a new day of Orioles baseball. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the maturation of Orioles system and the solid start to season despite some obvious pitching deficiencies.

Making a case for The Milkman

Baltimore Positive

Outfielder Colton Cowser struggled in his first MLB assignment last year but has begun the 2024 with a torrid pace leaving manager Brandon Hyde with some tough decisions on playing time for Austin Hays. Our Luke Jones joins Nestor to evaluate this young roster and ways to continue to utilize the bench and the potential of big bats from blue chip prospects.

Search no further for better words of wisdom for David Rubenstein and “Next Chapter” of Orioles baseball in Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

If you want to know the real history of Baltimore baseball, you ask the folks who authored the story of Orioles Magic. Charles Steinberg comes back to Baltimore to hail Larry Lucchino and the real heroes of Camden Yards and saving the Orioles – and offers his best wisdom and native advice to new owner David Rubenstein from his Worcester Woo Sox seat at Polar Park.

The unlimited free money for billionaire sports franchise owners isn’t coming so easy outside of Maryland

Baltimore Positive

While we watch Steve Bisciotti’s paid-for-by-the-citizens new shiny object get erected on the football stadium and await to hear the plan of David Rubenstein for Camden Yards, Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss aging stadia, big money, threats of moving sports franchises and civic donations to billionaires for sports teams that aren’t happening in places like Kansas City, Phoenix, Oakland and Northern Virginia.

The Holliday of a Baby Birds renaissance has arrived

Baltimore Positive

The decision to promote Jackson Holliday came at a curious time this week for many Orioles fans. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the debut and future of the new Number Seven here in Baltimore as the Birds continue to soar into the spring as a World Series contender with a burgeoning cast of young superstars and new ownership.

Holliday! Celebrate!

Baltimore Positive

It’s not a shock that Jackson Holliday is coming to the big leagues as a 20-year old. This was inevitable. But why here and now? Luke Jones and Nestor celebrate the Holliday of Mike Elias’ decision to promote the top prospect in Major League Baseball and opine on what it means for the Orioles roster.

Tapping into The Bird Tapes and real Orioles history with John Eisenberg

Baltimore Positive

Local author and longtime sports columnist John Eisenberg tells Nestor about unearthing the lost Orioles conversations and tapes of the heroes Birdland from his turn-of-the-century book on Memorial Stadium and the legendary tales of Brooks Robinson, Earl Weaver, Jim Palmer and everyone associated with Orioles Magic.

Mastering the Masters

Nestor Aparicio

On the eve of another Masters, our Augusta insider and head PGA Pro at Pine Ridge Ed Miller, heads back to Butler Cabin and briefs Nestor on the big weekend of golf that will get you back on course to hitting the ball on a Classic Five local course here in Baltimore.

The outfield backup jam from Norfolk to Camden Yards

Baltimore Positive

With the recall of Jackson Holliday from Norfolk, it appears to be the first of many young players the Orioles will be needing to make room for in Baltimore or a decision about in the coming weeks as Heston Kjerstad, Kyle Stowers and others continue to destroy Triple A pitching at Norfolk to start the season.

What happens when Kimbrel can’t go in 9th?

Baltimore Positive

Less than two weeks into the season, it’s been a mixed bag for the Baltimore Orioles. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the disappointing Pittsburgh series and ways a better bullpen could support some frosty bats of the early Orioles campaign.

In the end, Angelos family made $1 million every week they owned the Orioles – plus the actual profit

Baltimore Positive

After Nestor broke out a cocktail napkin and did the math on the $173 million price tag of the Baltimore Orioles in 1993 (that came with $45 million in cash) and the recent sale price of $1.7 billion to David Rubenstein (that comes with $600 million in free money from Maryland taxpayers), he wanted to confirm his Dundalk math with our financial advisor Leonard Raskin as to just how much money the Angelos family actually made while attempting to destroy the franchise for the fan base.

We survived the Angelos Era of Orioles baseball so what’s next?

Baltimore Positive

Allen McCallum and Nestor Aparicio were seated next to each other in visiting press boxes for the iconic Roberto Alomar ALDS home run in Cleveland and the Jeffrey Maier debacle in New York almost 30 years ago. They covered the team every day at the dawn of WNST until they were no longer allowed access. Now almost three decades later, they discuss the future of the Baltimore Orioles with new ownership of David Rubenstein and general manager Mike Elias fielding the best crop of players of our lifetime at Camden Yards.

The real value of a “fresh start” Baltimore Orioles ownership for MLB

Baltimore Positive

Longtime author and baseball historian Barry Bloom of Sportico provides some historic perspective what the new Orioles ownership could mean for Baltimore and Major League Baseball as David Rubenstein and Cal Ripken step forward to unleash of the potential of a franchise that is blooming on the field and about to blossom with fresh energy.

Orioles Bird

How will the “next chapter” of Orioles ownership communicate with traumatized Baltimore fan base?

Baltimore Positive

It’s been 18 years since local communication and public relations guru Greg Abel created the “We’re Not Gonna Take It” video after Nestor Aparicio led “Free The Birds” to communicate some uncomfortable truths to Peter Angelos. That was September 2006. Now, with David Rubenstein taking over the helm of the Orioles franchise, what do we expect to be better for the fans – other than everything?

Foul weather, walkoff wins, unlikely stars and the Norfolk hitting machine

Baltimore Positive

Adding up the math of the first week of the “next chapter” of Orioles baseball, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss foul weather, unlikely stars and the Orioles Magic youth in Norfolk hitting the cover off the ball and banging on the walls of The Warehouse at Camden Yards. Mike Elias has good problems to begin the 2024 campaign.

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