On Saturday night, folks will gather at the Sagamore Pendry to celebrate the Visionary of The Year for Blood Cancer United, which you might know was the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Former MLB outfielder and Towson alum Casper Wells is pitching in and batting cleanup in trying to raise funds and awareness and visits with Nestor here for some current Orioles chatter and ways you can help cancer patients.

Nestor Aparicio discusses the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, sponsored by the Maryland Lottery, GBM, Farnum, and Dermer, with stops at various locations. He highlights Casper Wells’ involvement in the Leukemia Lymphoma Society’s Visionary of the Year award, which he is competing for. Casper shares his personal connection to blood cancer through family members and emphasizes the importance of raising awareness and funds. They also discuss Casper’s baseball career, including his time at Towson University and in the MLB, and his current role at Heller Kowitz Insurance. Nestor encourages listeners to support Casper’s campaign by donating $36.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Appear at and host Maryland Crab Cake Tour stops (including Sorrento of Arbutus and others mentioned) as part of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour; attend the Sorrento of Arbutus stop on June 10 (promote tour and sponsors during appearances).
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Share Casper Wells’ Blood Cancer United donation link and campaign details with your radio audience and outreach channels to encourage donations (including the $36 donation option tied to the gala invite draw).
• [ ] Select one donor at random from people who donate $36 to Casper’s Blood Cancer United campaign and provide that donor with an invite to the invite-only Visionary of the Year gala.
• [ ] Ensure and maintain the public donation link for the Blood Cancer United campaign on Instagram and other public profiles so donors can find and contribute to the campaign.

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Baltimore Positive

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, sponsored by the Maryland Lottery, GBM, Farnum, and Dermer.
• The tour includes stops at Sorrento of Arbutus, Gertrude’s, Dipasquale’s, and Green Mount Station.
• Nestor mentions Casper Wells, a former MLB player and current insurance salesman, who is also a contestant for LLS Visionary of the Year.
• The Visionary of the Year event is on June 6th, and tickets are still available for support.

Casper Wells’ Background and Family

• Casper Wells shares his background, including his move to Baltimore for his wife, a local girl from Bel Air.
• Casper discusses his baseball career, including his time at Towson University and his tenure in the MLB.
• He mentions the rebranding of Leukemia and Lymphoma Society to Blood Cancer United.
• Casper talks about his involvement in the LLS campaign and the support from his team and inner circle.

Challenges of Fundraising and Personal Connections

• Casper explains the challenges of fundraising and the importance of personal outreach.
• He shares stories of people affected by blood cancer, including his aunt and uncle.
• Nestor Aparicio discusses his wife’s battle with cancer and the importance of raising awareness and funds.
• Casper emphasizes the emotional impact of hearing positive reinforcements from people he helps.

Visionary of the Year Event and Community Support

• Nestor and Casper discuss the upcoming Visionary of the Year event at the Pendry.
• Casper highlights the importance of the event and the impact it has on raising awareness and funds for blood cancer.
• Nestor mentions other contestants in the campaign, including Katie Grasmick, Blake Modder, and Katie Meeks.
• Casper encourages listeners to support the campaign and attend the event if possible.

Baseball Career and Defensive Challenges

• Casper reflects on his baseball career, including his time in the MLB and his defensive challenges.
• He discusses the transition from playing in the outfield to playing first base.
• Casper shares his strategy for baiting runners and the importance of confidence in the field.
• Nestor and Casper talk about the challenges of playing different positions and the impact on a player’s performance.

Orioles’ Performance and Fan Support

• Casper discusses the current performance of the Orioles and the importance of maintaining momentum.
• He encourages Orioles fans to keep supporting the team and to stay positive.
• Nestor and Casper talk about the importance of having a competitive team and the impact of recent wins.
• Casper shares his experience attending a game and the positive energy he felt from the team.

Insurance and Community Involvement

• Casper talks about his role at Heller Kowitz Insurance and the importance of providing comprehensive insurance solutions.
• He emphasizes the need for insurance and the various services offered by Heller Kowitz.
• Nestor and Casper discuss the importance of community involvement and supporting local initiatives.
• Casper encourages listeners to consider their insurance needs and reach out to Heller Kowitz for assistance.

Final Thoughts and Call to Action

• Casper reiterates the importance of supporting the LLS campaign and attending the Visionary of the Year event.
• Nestor encourages listeners to donate $36 to Casper’s campaign and share the link on social media.
• Casper thanks Nestor for the opportunity to discuss his involvement in the campaign and his passion for helping others.
• The conversation concludes with a focus on the positive impact of community support and raising awareness for blood cancer.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Blood Cancer United, LLS Visionary of the Year, Casper Wells, Leukemia Lymphoma Society, fundraising, baseball, Towson University, insurance, Heller Kowitz, Baltimore Orioles, crab cake tour, Maryland Lottery, GBM, Farnum and Dermer, Blood Cancer United gala.

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SPEAKERS

Casper Wells, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:02

Welcome, all. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, positively getting you ready for a summer time around here. And I’m going to be doing a bunch of Maryland crab cake tour stops. They’re all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery, in conjunction with G B M C and Farnum and Dermer. They are the comfort guys. We’re going to begin things at Sorrento of Arbutus, our maiden voyage there. We’re also getting back to Gertrude’s, where I had my, my current guest on a few months back during the holidays at the BMA. We’re also going to try to get back down to Dipasquale’s, and I know we are getting back up to Green Mount Station in Hampstead, beautiful Carroll County. This guy writes insurance anywhere you are, maybe not outside a little league fields with broken windows, because he probably broke some of those up at Schenectady back in the day. It remembers backwards foul balls, and he’s broke somebody’s windshield in the parking lot. Casper Wells broke a lot of windshields and broke a lot of bats, and was a major league baseball player and fought the good fight through the ranks here at Towson State University in the Tigers over at the university. He makes a home here in Baltimore. He married Wright, got a local girl, got out of New York, he got one of those Maryland girls here. He’s selling insurance with the Heller codes, and more importantly, he is up for Visionary of the year with LLS, they save lives, including my wife’s life. The Leukemia Lymphoma Society has their Visionary of the Year awards on the sixth of June. That’s coming up Saturday night. Want to make everybody aware of it. You can still buy tickets, you can support LLS, but more than that, Casper, I love having you on because you played baseball, and we love talking baseball and all that, but is this harder than hitting like a curveball, trying to become LLS Visionary of the Year? I mean, you’re down to nitty gritty. It’s like the World Series here this next week between you and the other contestants, who are all doing a good turn and trying to create some notoriety for blood cancers and trying to save people’s lives. Like my miracle in the other room, is engineering right now.

Casper Wells  02:03

No, absolutely. Yeah, Nestor, thanks for having me on. I really appreciate it. And yeah, definitely had to get a local girl. She actually brought me back, you know, when we found out we’re pregnant with our third. We came back, she’s from Bel Air, so we came back here, and we’re here for a long stay. Being a Towson alum, love being in the area, always have. And you know, from Schenectady, which, kudos to you for saying it correctly. This is considered south, so that’s that’s what brought me here in the first place. You know, Maryland’s considered south, being in upstate New York, where it’s freezing all the time. So, yeah, I wouldn’t say it’s harder than anything I endure in base. It’s harder for different reasons, you know, baseball, obviously, is the hardest thing that I’ve ever done, is hitting a baseball, round, round bat, round ball, and towards the latter part of my career, when I was still trying to make a comeback in Double A, you got guys that were throwing an upper 90s cutters, so I was like, yeah, it looks like I’m gonna, I’m gonna be hanging it up pretty soon here, maybe I’ll come back as a pitcher, but that never came to fruition, but I’m very blessed for my, you know, tenure, my 10 years playing professionally, four years in the big leagues. But this is hard for different reasons, and the hardness is just trying to, you know, make sure I’m allocating the proper time for the proper outreach, you know, and trying to extend, obviously, the word Baltimore, you know, trying to really with Blood Cancer United in the Baltimore region and beyond, you know, I have relationships throughout the country, so trying to balance out getting the message out and just bringing more awareness to Blood Cancer United, which, as we know, rebranded from Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Nestor Aparicio  03:34

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Thanks for bringing that up, because, like, I am like behind the wheel on that. You guys talked to me about that, and I’ve had some of the other contestants, you know, on as well, and, but there has been a rebranding for LLS, and if you look at the website, you go to Blood Cancer united.org you’ll see that it kind of looks like the old LLS, and you know, I’ve been calling LLS forever, and you know, this isn’t my first rodeo with Man of the Year, Visionary of the Year, Woman of the Year, or Junior Visionary of the Year, where I was an emcee, a couple years ago, and they never invited me back. I think I cried too much on the podium for him, so it was, it was tough on me, and a lot of the young people there too. But it was good party. I know they’re gonna have a great party next week as well. We want to invite everybody down the pendulum for that. But tell me a little bit again about your involvement in this, because I think, do think, and I see you, Bordick Tippy. Rick Dempsey, people that live in the area. I haven’t seen AJ Burnett, but I know he lives around here. I see BJ Suhrhof, you know, for anybody that’s got the badge, and I’m lucky enough to have the last name Aparicio. When I wear it, people ask me about my cousin just because of my last name. I was with Ryan Ripkin the other day, he didn’t play in the big leagues either. He’s a legacy, you know. It’s there’s a baseball thing about having a baseball name and being a part of this that when you get invited into it, um, you know, you want to pitch in, you know, you, you like that part of your celebrity and the part that you were a big leaguer. This is a way for. You to do a cool thing and be a former big leaguer that participates in something like this, and I think that’s awesome that all of you keep a hand in this, but more than that, this isn’t a golf tour where you just show up, man. You do. They’ve asked me to do this. I’ve told you I didn’t. I felt like I wasn’t fully committed, because it really is the last 90 days of your life. It’s been a different kind of experience for you, and I knew it would be having you back on,

Casper Wells  05:21

no. Absolutely, it’s been a great experience. You know, I’ve been fortunate enough to hear stories, people that are personally affected, and just the impact that it’s had. You know, I’ve had family members that have been impacted. My aunt, you know, passed away at a young age, and she left behind a son and my uncle from multiple myeloma. So it’s very rings very true to our family, blood cancer. So, Nick, who won Visionary there last year, who I was my counterpart here, co-worker over at Heller Co, it’s, you know, he asked me to take part, and I hopped right on board. You know, I mean,

Nestor Aparicio  05:55

so Heller, Coach won last year, so there’s a lot of pressure on you here next week, like literally, right? Like, I mean, your organization won last year, right? And I know Nick, and listen, do you know? You know Nick’s dad was my high school gym teacher, you know this, right?

Casper Wells  06:10

I feel like he was everyone’s coach.

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Nestor Aparicio  06:12

Yeah, I mean,

Nestor Aparicio  06:13

Ron Schultz coached everybody from overly.. I think he was at Milford before that. I mean, he’s been everywhere, but Coach Schultz sometimes shows up up at Cooper’s North, sometimes Nick shows up at Cooper’s North, and sometimes the celebrity member of the Schultz family, Curtis Schultz, that everybody remembers from the Maryland Terps, and you know Curtis, long, long career in PT, and working with athletes, he, he box trained me with, with what’s what’s the band, the oh gosh, of not.. I keep wanting to say Foo Fighters, but Wu Tang, he’s a Wu Chang guy, and he would take me to box in the late 90s, when you were a young man, Casper, when he was, before he went in the NFL, Curtis Schultz, he trained at Brick Bodies, right up here at Plutonia.

Casper Wells  07:02

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  07:02

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and so the Schultz family is very special to me. And I’ll tell you this, let me do my best, Ron, right now. We’ve never done anything but winning around here, Casper. We’re a Schultz family. Curtis, winner. Nick, winner. Casper Wells, you better be a winner. Is that good? That’s pretty, pretty good, Ron. I see it

Casper Wells  07:21

right. That’s great.

Nestor Aparicio  07:23

Was that good? I tried.

Casper Wells  07:24

I think that’s real good,

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Nestor Aparicio  07:25

but I think there is, you know, I mean, this is important to Steven and Brian too. And you represent Heller Kowitz, and somehow Nick won last year. I hope he didn’t cheat, but I think he won on the up and up last year, right?

Casper Wells  07:36

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, a lot of it’s the support of your team as well, you know. I got some teammates that actually all around the country, just close people that are in my inner circle, kind of helping, and you know, you can’t do it alone, you know, enough fundraising. I think Nick was anywhere for, I think, 85 if I’m not mistaken, 8586 grand, that he was able to raise, which is incredible and unbelievable.

Nestor Aparicio  07:56

Are you

Nestor Aparicio  07:56

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right now? What’s your timpani? Are we allowed to have to know which

Casper Wells  07:59

competition, Nestor? So I’m obviously not gonna, not gonna let you know, but let’s..

Nestor Aparicio  08:03

oh, nobody knows it’s a surprise.

Casper Wells  08:05

Oh yeah.

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Nestor Aparicio  08:06

Oh, teach me. See, they.. I didn’t get to that part in the play when they called me and said, “Do you want to be Man of the Year? which is what they used to call it. I’m like, “No, I’m not. No, no. I saw, like, I saw..

Casper Wells  08:16

they don’t.. they don’t have the stats right in the scoreboard there, like baseball, man. You know,

Nestor Aparicio  08:19

look, I saw Jimmy Stewart, and I’m no Jimmy Stewart, you know. So I know I’m not quite.. I’m not man of the.. I told you this, I’m not visionary. Well, that makes me.. I saw, man, I have to feel like I have a visionary, you know. So maybe I could participate in this, but I do know it’s a lot of work, and to your point, it would involve all of my sponsors, all of my audience, everyone, because once you get in, you want to win, your competitive guy, if nobody knew that about you, as is the Schultz family, as we pointed out last year, as was Brian Coetz, as is Steve Eller, and we’ll get you’re

Casper Wells  08:49

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very competitive here,

Nestor Aparicio  08:49

competitive about your insurance as well, insurance rates all the way around, but, but this is a fun thing, and it is about raising money, but there was, there’s a secret to success of raising money that you’re trying to figure out here, that Nick found out last year, that it really is, and I love that you’re talking to baseball with it’s a team effort, because people think, oh, Nestor, he’ll just do it by himself. I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, people like me enough to help me to do this the way they’re gonna have to help you here the next week or two. But I, what have you done? You guess bartending, what? How are you raising these funds here? Casper,

Casper Wells  09:23

yeah. So everyone kind of participates in their own way, but guest bartended most recently at Das Beer Hall, you know, Scott and Mel, they’re they’re on part of their on my team to help support me, actually. So me and my wife met, so you know, full circle moment. We bartended 10 years later from the old Das Das Beer House down in Fed Hill up to Parkville, and that brought in a lot of people, you know, just to help contribute, but you know it’s just about raising awareness, you know, having an event there. I did Cooper’s North, maybe what really drives is just the personal outreach, I think, just reaching out to people, just mentioning, like, hey, I’m doing this thing, you know, to help raise funds and. Awareness for blood cancer. I don’t know who’s affected by this personally, so if this is something that affects you and you’re, you know, willing to consider a donation or support, you know, here’s a link, you know, and I’m just reaching out to people in my inner circle, and along that, and just, you know, I found out stories, and people are more often than not, what keeps me going is people saying, like, thank you for doing this. This is, this is really, it’s really great that you’re doing this. Like, I’m proud of you for doing this. Like, those hearing those things get rejuvenates me, gets me, keeps me going, right? Because if you’re not seeing the dollars adding up, at least those people that do contribute and give you those positive reinforcements really keeps you, keeps you going.

Nestor Aparicio  10:43

If you need my wife to come in and thank you, I’ll grab her out of her meeting right now, because, like, how many bags of blood and platelets came to her in that era of her life, in 14 and 15, when she was fighting for her life. The second time I’ve talked about it this week, I’m not going to cry this time, so don’t make me, but I had, I had Russ on Russ Sadler from GBMC, one of my clients, and Christina, who does PR and marketing there, says, “Want to have him on? He, he’s an old fan of your, of mine, he’s a listener, he’s a fan, but he builds the buildings around the campus at GBMC, designs their cancer center, designed the building that his mother, his, we lost his mother. My wife lived, but anybody with cancer lives in these buildings for months at a time, like my wife spent 155 nights in the hospital, right. So, what you see, what you experience, in addition to the medicine, the food, the four walls, what’s out the window, the design, all of that, so I talked about it, and it’s the first time in a long time, like I’ve talked about it, and I brought it up with my wife last night at dinner, because, like, yeah, my wife almost died twice. We don’t like sit around and talk about this every day, the way you talk about your baseball career. People come and say, oh, you like talking about it, except the point that you know you’d like to play 20 years ago onto the Hall of Fame, and made 100 million, like, but like it’s neat that you played in the big leagues, and it’s neat people want to talk to you about it. My wife, her part of her celebrity is Jen Strong, and all of that is tied to me and surviving there, dude. I can’t, and she doesn’t believe this. She really does, and I don’t think in her heart believes this. There is not a minute of my day where I’m not somewhere out anywhere out when people come up to me to this day, they never ask how I’m doing, they always ask how she’s doing first, and so she didn’t love talking about it, you know what I mean, like for the people that Blood Cancer United, like I first off, not in town Saturday nights, I can’t bring her, so there’s that. But for me this week, and I would encourage everyone, we’re gonna go through this. It’s at the pendry, you’re invited, you can buy tickets, you can donate, you could donate to Casper’s team. I’m not gonna say you could donate to Grass McS team, but if I have her on next week, I’ll say that, because I think you could donate a lot of different ways, and all of you have given of your time. It’s a fun competition, it’s corporate, it’s local, it’s about money, it’s about awareness, but to your point, it’s about like my wife walking the streets and not having to talk about it so much every day, because it is – it’s, it didn’t go down a trap hole with her to talk about it, but it’s not something I bring up at the dinner table. Like, hey, I talked about your cancer today, and how you almost died, and how cool it is that people are still trying to save lives. Like

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Casper Wells  13:30

emotionally, it is a very emotional guy as well. Like, I’m a crier, especially having a couple girls in my life now. I’m blessed with a couple daughters, and my firstborn was a was a girl, and I feel like she softened me even more. I mean, I grew up with all girls, I have younger sisters, three younger sisters too. So we watch movies on the television. I remember growing up in the living room, and everyone wait for me to cry, my mom would cry, and then we’d all be crying together. So it’s like we’re emotional. Pastor, I had a friend of mine on, and I’m not gonna out her, but anybody that looks in my audio vault, I had a friend of mine on who’s a celebrity meet in the media world, and I had her on, and we just did like I’m doing with you right now, 20 minutes. Hey, how we doing? Let’s promote your show. Had her on, we got done, and we stopped the show, and she first thing she says, How’s Jen? And I’m like, she’s great, she’s fine, she’s got back from Italy. I started telling her she came back from Italy, she started sobbing because she’s like, she’s alive, and I’m like,

Nestor Aparicio  14:30

that’s the weirdest part. For my wife, people come to me, they’re like, how’s she really doing? Is she okay? She’s good, she’s good, you know. And I’m like, she’s fine, but she didn’t want to hear that every day, you know. People come up and they’re like, “Oh, you’re still alive. Yeah, you’re still alive, because people like you are raising money, and doctors are doing doctor things, and scientists are doing scientist things, and people like Neils are giving their blood from across the ocean to save people’s lives. All of that is still going on, and I don’t want to ignore it. Is why I have Casper Wells here. He is obviously always representing our friends at Heller Coats and selling insurance, but doing Blood Cancer United. So, give the hash.. have you been to that? You went to the event last year, then you and your wife know what you’re getting into here, right?

Casper Wells  15:15

Yes.

Nestor Aparicio  15:16

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So, tell folks, if they want to buy a ticket, come down, what’s going to happen on Saturday night? Because I’ve been to the event one time, it was when my wife was really sick, in 14, so we went 12 years ago, and my, if this just means anything, I was with Nick last year, he won, I was with Lee Tessier in 2014 he won, I’m with you right now, I’m just saying, there’s a lot of pressure on your Casper Wells, so, but the event was down in Hanover when I went, it was, you know, ballroom and a lot of storytelling, and then after we cried, there was a disco, but my wife had a bone marrow transplant three days later, and she’s about 90 pounds of bald and wasn’t feeling downish, and I wasn’t feeling touchish, so, so we’ve never been back, and at some point it’s not going to be this Saturday. I am just out of town, but I want to support it. What am I going to see when I come with you next year, and you’re the defending champion? Oh, yeah, that was good. I like that. Right, is that good?

Casper Wells  16:13

Well, yeah, I mean, I think first off, just correct me, and like I don’t want to misspeak here, but I think it’s invite only, so I don’t think.

Nestor Aparicio  16:22

Okay, okay, fair enough.

Casper Wells  16:24

Next Saturday at the Pendry, but I mean, you could support on the outer, there’s tons of bars, they give you

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Nestor Aparicio  16:29

money. Let’s

Casper Wells  16:30

go! Yeah, well, hey, anyone you know, anyone want to donate? You know, I mean, they’re next year, they need to buy a bigger table. Yeah, I mean, I have a certain ticket allotment, but we get to a certain goal that we want, you know. I’m happy to extend some tickets to some of the donors if they feel so willing and compelled to donate here as an incentive. I’m happy to have you be a guest at our table, but I mean, that you know, being at the event last year at the Guilford Hall, that’s what really was the driving force for me getting involved, and the reason why I’m so passionate about it this year, so there was a honored hero there, Sophia, who was on set with leukemia at the age of four, so me and my wife were there,

Nestor Aparicio  17:14

I know it gets tough, man, you know, I went through it earlier in a week, dude, I mean I started talking about the kids in the cancer ward, and designing buildings at GBMC, and I lost my ish, so I’m with you, bro. So, yeah,

Casper Wells  17:25

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so my daughter, and my daughter was Ford at the time, so like, just so just thinking about seeing the pictures, seeing the videos, what that family went through. It’s just, I, you know, I’m so blessed with having, you know, children first and foremost, and you know, having healthy children at that, that I feel like this is the least I can do for those families that don’t have access or means to some of these medicines that’ll, that’ll help their, their children, or even, you know, you know, leukemia being the number one cancer in children, that’s my driving force, is just helping families that are, you know, less fortunate and not in a position that me and my wife are, or anyone else that is, you know, in that position to be able to help them. That’s really my driving force for being involved, and that’s what’s just got me motivated and continue to want to do what I can for those families that can afford those treatments.

Nestor Aparicio  18:17

Well, at some point, you’ll fist bump my wife, and she’s like, literally a miracle everywhere I go, so this is important to me.

Casper Wells  18:23

Your wife, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  18:24

Blood Cancer United, she’s better looking than me. Blood Cancer United Visionaries of the Year, Katie Grasmick is contestant number one, Blake Modder, see him online as well, and throwing things out, Katie Meeks as well, and Casper Wells, who is my guest, if you’re familiar with Casper, we played ball over Towson, played ball in the big leagues, several different organizations, and try and hit the curveball. Let’s get on to baseball for a minute, because I’ll come back and

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Casper Wells  18:54

Richie, man, give shout out to my boy Richie in town, Towson alum, you know.

Nestor Aparicio  18:58

Yeah, I saw that picture of you guys, man. So, how big is Chris Nab Holt? Does that name any? So, I interviewed him, and is

Casper Wells  19:11

the other big leaguer.

Nestor Aparicio  19:12

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I’m gonna find 1989 9091 I was a young sports writer at the paper. Mike by Lecky went to Dundalk High, I’ve known Bill Lecky, he’s crazy. If you see him, tell him stay over in Eastern Shore. Um, we don’t need him back in Dundalk. So, but during that era, I was the kid sports writer, and I got assigned. He was pitching for the Expos. I got assigned to do a story on him at Veterans Stadium up in Philly, and I went up and sat with him in that era, and I got the cover story, so it was a big deal for a 22 year old kid, you know. It was like, and there’s a picture of him, the lefty, you know, delivering, and it was a whole like Towson, and then you became that kid, you know what I mean. It’s kind of neat, you know, like my dad, not to blow too much smoke up your Schenectady, but my dad, we’re from Dundalk. And when my dad, when I was a boy, and the Aparicio thing, this is my adopted dad, this wasn’t my, this was the dad that raised me, not my Aparicio dad, so my, but he loved baseball, and we used to get the Marylanders and the miners on the Sunday paper, and Kowitz knows exactly what I’m talking about, because he was one of the, he was a contemporary of mine, I mean, we went to high school at the same time, he was a SAR athlete, prep athlete. He, we rooted for our people, like a Bruce Springsteen song. We take care of our own, you know what I mean? Like, there is a part of all of that, that dude, that’s a small little circle you guys are in, from Towson,

Casper Wells  20:34

yeah, to the grain in the culture here. Small Timor is a real thing, like, who just.. it’s so funny, even on a national level. So, it’s there’s a there’s a culture here, and most people ask where you go to high school, and I’m like, well, I’m from New York, so I didn’t go to high school.

Nestor Aparicio  20:47

From here,

Casper Wells  20:47

like, okay, you’re in, okay,

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Nestor Aparicio  20:49

you’re in. It’s like she’s a citizen, you’re in, right?

Casper Wells  20:53

Yeah, but my kids, hopefully my kids will be in the network there, you know. Hopefully my son plays baseball. I know lacrosse will be knocking on the door here, being in Baltimore, so I told him I jokingly say, like, if you pick up lacrosse stick, I’m going to break your arm, but he’s two and a half, he doesn’t understand what I’m saying, right? No, but that

Nestor Aparicio  21:11

would be

Nestor Aparicio  21:12

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one of my grave concerns as a guy that’s ragged on lacrosse for 35 years on the radio here, to the point where I pissed off every so when I say this, not my stalkers

Casper Wells  21:20

can play, my daughters, they could be

Nestor Aparicio  21:22

pissed off all the blue bloods. They’re like, ‘Oh, what do you mean blue blood? I’m like, ‘Do you have lacrosse stick? Okay, enough said. See me, Chad Roland Park. You know, I fucked on dog dude. We had one kid in our neighborhood, and I tell this story all the time. There’s one kid over at Berkshire who had a lacrosse stick and a ball, and it reminded me of my tennis game, my tennis game was me looking around and saying, oh, that wall looks like a great opponent, and I just hit the ball against the wall, and I served against the wall. I did all of that because you couldn’t find there was nobody in the neighborhood that played, play tennis, right, or even golf, because Dundalk didn’t have like a golf thing either. But golf, something you go to a course, tennis, it’s like Snoopy, it was like ping pong, you know. I was playing myself, lacrosse. This guy, I don’t even know where he’s put the ball against the wall and in the basket, in the wall. And meanwhile, we’re like out playing wall ball, pinky ball, baseball, t ball, ball, wall ball, run down, run down. So, like that’s what you did when you didn’t have a bat, so the Orioles, while we’re on this Casper Wells big leaguer, I don’t know whether you would have been one or two or three or four in Strat-O-Matic, but that’s all I know. So we got a lot of fours on this Oriole team right now, that even a rundown is not rudimentary here. Defense has been real struggle for this team, you know. If I’m going to talk about the Orioles right now, like, is that the hardest thing to get better? You told me hitting the baseball’s the hardest thing in the world to do. I’d say, “Hey, you’re an outfielder, play third base for five minutes, let’s see if how hard that is for you. Because they do that to Kobe Mayo, they’re doing that to Jackson Holiday. This thing where you pick up a glove and just move around, that’s stratamatic, that’s not big league to me. You tell me,

Casper Wells  23:00

well, especially at the higher level, because things are way just everything comes so much faster, you know. I spent some time when I was in the Arizona Fall League, they had me doing a little first base, they wanted me to do a little first base action, and just seeing a different seeing it from a different angle out in the field, and the speed, and everything else, it’s just it’s like learning all over again, but you’re learning with some, some of the best hitters in the world, so it’s coming quick. It’s a steep learning curve, you know. So that’s why you see some of these guys that they just throw out there. It’s, you know, look, I mean, offense is going to run the shift, you’re hitting home runs, and offense, they’ll find a spot for you. They always say that, right? But you know, there’s definitely consequences of that defensively. We’ve seen it throughout the entire league with some defensive mishaps. I mean, I think

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Nestor Aparicio  23:45

Russia guy to the big leagues, if you could hit 330 home runs, you would have been playing. I mean, like, it didn’t matter what your club, I mean, and that is the philosophy, right? I mean, it really is.

Casper Wells  23:54

Yeah. Well, and I think you know, you don’t have as much offense as there has been in the past, where you’re sitting behind someone and it’s like, oh, I was behind, you know, Derek Jeter, or I’m behind, you know, these guys that had long tenure, and it’s kind of like, all right, well, I’ll move you over there. I mean, look, a rod had to do it when he was on the Yankees, right? He went over third base, so it’s like, I think they’re doing that with a lot of players because they’re trying to just increase the offense, right? Because, you know, pitchers drive, pitchers drive it, especially now, like they’ve thrown 100 100 mile an hour cutters, it’s like, okay, you know, there’s there’s obviously some hitters that stand out amongst others, but you see the national average drop, you see national, you know, you see strikeouts up, so obviously, you know, favors pitchers this game, I’d be in favor of moving the mound back, to be honest with you, but that’s that, that can be a conversation for another time, but I just think if they have the offense, it’s kind of like you’re they’ll find a spot for you, or at least they, you know, try to plug in somewhere to keep that offense, keep that offense going.

Nestor Aparicio  24:50

Casper Wells is our guest. He is one of the contestants in the Visionary of the Year for Blood Cancer United. Their big event is Saturday night at the Pantry. It is by invite only on the. Go ahead, that’s it. Get ticked, give some money, do something nice. Buy a table next year, support the junior visionaries. There’s a million different ways that you can be, you can get blood. I mean, like, let’s get involved here. Roll your sleeve up. I had to do that last month as well. So you know, on the moving around part of it, it feels to me, and the only thing I can compare to, and you can appreciate this. I’ve been doing sports radio for 35 years. I joked the other day that I am qualified to be the announcer at the Ravens games to do the public address. I would be really good at that. Their play by play job is open, and people think, like, oh, radio guy Nestor knows the Ravens. No, I could not do.. I can’t. It’s a different position. I mean, like, I went out to the race track about 15 years ago, before the Preakness. They were promoting Pimlico, and the.. and they asked me to call a race, dude, like, no bull, like a real race. Like, I.. it had 11 horses. I had to learn the silks, the jockeys, the names. It’s not something I’m proud of. I did play by play on TV one night of my life for a Baltimore Spirit game in Milwaukee at the Bradley Center. Burn the tape, I couldn’t follow the ball. I could.. it is.. it’s a different thing. It’s a different thing. It’s like even doing TV, doing radio, doing reading announcements, reading versus doing ads. Like, the jobs that I have are all different. I’m good at some of them, I’m bad at some of them. Some of them I wouldn’t even try to be the tower engineer here to make the radio station work. And I think, like people think, oh, baseball player, you got a glove. We just not gonna put a left-handed guy at second base, although we did that in Little League or left-handed catcher. We can’t have that. There’s things that, like, were hard and fast rules about things, but you know, if you were your dad was the coach, you get to play shortstop and pitch or third base and pitch when you were in Little League, and I guess for Shohei Ohtani, who’s won in a trillion, or any Bo Jackson that gets Brian Jordan, that could do some of these things or do some weird things, moving from the outfield to the infield at that level would be like being a race car driver, like, and the level of confidence that you don’t have, to your point, 10 years ago they did it to you, and you’re a ball player, and you had a glove glued to you, and all you cared about was catching a ball, and they move you into first base, and there’s probably not long before you’re like, ‘Shit, I can’t do this, or ‘I can’t do this well enough to feel like, even if I… and then it starts to screw with your hitting, right? Like, right, like I would think it’s a real, really, really problematic if the Ravens really did hire me to please play by play guy, I would poop myself, because I wouldn’t be any good at it, and I know I wouldn’t be any good at

Casper Wells  27:34

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no, I’m too add to do that. I mean, I at a time I was talking about getting involved with baseball and doing play by play, and I probably mess around with kind of doing it, watching a game, and it’s tough to track. It’s

Nestor Aparicio  27:47

really

Nestor Aparicio  27:48

hard to do.

Casper Wells  27:49

It’s a certain skill set.

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Nestor Aparicio  27:50

Kenny Albert started my career. Kenny was my first co-host here 35 years ago. He’s the reason I’m on the radio. I marvel, I mean, I marvel, and when I watch him prepare, which I’ve done the cards, and it’s a different job, and I would think seeing a baseball from shortstop in third base is a lot different than it looks on television.

Casper Wells  28:12

Yeah, absolutely, they make it look pretty easy on television.

Nestor Aparicio  28:16

How hard is it? What did.. what was going through your mind when you went to first base, and for that period of time where they stuck you there because they loved your, they wanted it, was a compliment to you. Do we want you? We, we want, and it’s also, hey, learn a new skill set. We’re telling you, telling your kids to do that, right? But at that point, like, you’re like, dude, just let me play where I play. It’s hard enough, right? It really is. For Kobe Mayo and for Jackson Holiday, they ain’t done it. They haven’t done any more or less than you at this point, like you know they’re trying to make their way, and it’s hard, it’s it’s hard. Second base was hard for Jackson Holiday, that’s why I’m thinking, What are you doing to this kid?

Casper Wells  28:52

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Yeah, I mean, I like playing first base again, I went into fall accident, didn’t experience it, you know, in game setting and the major league level, but I think the bigger transition was when I was at Towson, because I pitched so much that I just, you know, when the scouts come to, like, we have to have you have a position, because I dh so much that pitch on the weekends and be, you know, one of the weekend starters, but then, you know, during the week I can’t just go play outfield and throw my arm out, you know, like trying to hose people out at home plate, or, you know, so on and so forth, so I’d have to, you know, be strategic when I do get in the outfield, because the scout had to technically be like, “Hey, we need you to play there a little bit to say that you’re an outfielder, you can’t just DH the whole time be like outfield. So, needless to say, I had limited time in the outfield throughout my collegiate career before I got drafted as an outfielder, man. I just hit home runs and hit well, so they were like, all right, you know, again, like what they do now, like we’ll find a spot for you. But when I was down in Lakeland, Florida, with the Detroit Tigers, you know, I was working with Gino Roof, Al K Line, to name a few, you know, to kind of, kind of hone my craft a little bit, and I really had to, you know, I kind of stayed extra, I really. Worked on my outfield, and you know, with my arm, I kind of developed the, you know, to a point where I had the confidence in the outfield, and that kind of, that kind of translated into offensively as well. And it’s a big thing, you know, if you feel confident in the field, the biggest thing is, have a tough, you have a tough day at the plate, right? You do something defensively that can be the catalyst that can get you back, you know, doing something where the crowd’s roaring, where teammates are getting on, you like, good play, way to throw someone out, and you’re back in it, right? You can’t contribute offensively, but you’re contributing defensively, and that, that, that boosts you up, and then all of a sudden you’re like, all right, I’m feeling good, I’m up at the plate, then I blast one, and then I’m like, all around, you’re feeling good, right, so that’s that’s kind of where that’s kind of where I feel like, you know, honing your craft defensively, where that can help you.

Nestor Aparicio  30:46

Well, your arm, left center, or right arm’s fine angle, though, right? You preferred one of them over the other, right? Like, I would think in any, we all have a preference in one way, we’re like, I’m most comfortable here, if you just leave me here, I can be my best me here, right? Like every player would feel that way about, and even if they’re wrong, I mean, Gunner Anderson might think he’s a shortstop right now, I don’t think he is, you know, like, and that happened with Machado, Ripken with Bordick, you know, just in our organization, but I’m just thinking, you know, by the way, Casper Wells, former big league players, here on behalf of Heller Kowitz, as well as Blood Cancer United, in their Visionary of the Year. Did you have a preference, and then why? And then what would happen to you when they would move you to number two or number three?

Casper Wells  31:33

Sure, my preference is right field, and mainly because it was, you had the best opportunity to be able to throw guys out second, third, home. I love throwing guys out, and I would actually, you know, towards the latter part of my career, I would, I would actually bait guys. I timed it as such. You can see the highlights, me throwing out Mike Trout back-to-back games, you know, like I’ll come, I’ll come a little slow, and I’ll be like, I see him busting it out of the batter’s box, so I time it as such on a ball hit down the line.

Nestor Aparicio  32:00

You’re trying to make him run, right? Literally,

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Casper Wells  32:02

right. And I see when he turns, I can see when he goes to turn, like he’s gonna go to second. I zoom up and come up, and I just gun them. I beat guys all the time, because in my, in the minor leagues, I had such a good arm, you know? I mean, I was throwing 9596 you know, off the mound, so translate that to the outfield, you know. And I had a pretty strong arm, above average arm in the outfield, so in the miners I, they be holding guys up all the time, so I’m like, when I play left field, so I’m like, I got to do something where it looks like I’m nonchalant, nonchalant, and then I turn it on real quick, and then I’ll just hold someone, so I did that quite a bit, so you can see why my assist numbers were pretty high,

Nestor Aparicio  32:38

you do know the job was to hold them on, the job wasn’t to bait him and try to throw them out in case they slid in safe, right? Like, the whole thing is when they don’t take third base on the single as the fan, as the manager, like, good, you know, like, but you,

Casper Wells  32:53

well, I couldn’t, no, I couldn’t always do it, I mean, I’m not baiting, I’m not baiting someone going home, put it that way, but more like second base, and more in some situations, I would, I would know the timing as such, and know who’s on base to know that I could throw them out, but dude,

Nestor Aparicio  33:06

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I only played Little League, but I was a catcher, and I loved when someone would come at the plate at me. I like, and I wasn’t rough and tumble, I wasn’t a fighter or anything like that, but I loved the bang bang play, you know, and I had a good second base from the shortstop that could get me, so I, when I think of playing Little League, I don’t think of hitting, I don’t think of hitting much at all. I think about making a great, you know, like that was part of being a catcher, like maybe I was my dad thinking defensively, that, but I, you know, I wasn’t trying to make the big leagues on my bat, right? Like, literally, right? So everybody’s trying to make their big leagues, and I mean, look, my people from the island, you can walk off the island, right? The old adage, right? You had to swing the bat, and that’s what the game is, I guess. At this point, Casper Wells is here. Anything you want to say to Orioles fans out there? About eight games under 500 sweeping the Rays, Blue Jays coming in. It didn’t feel so good when you get swept in Pittsburgh, you get swept in New York, you get swept it like it just this thing was really getting off the tracks week, week and a half ago, and it’s still not that it’s still, you got to get back to 500 for me to start to to smell contention, even when nobody’s any good in the wild cards. Why I’ll hear all of that, but mean good teams, I want to feel like you’re above 500 team and you’re on the trail to that. It feels like they’re trending in a little bit of a better direction, because it felt like it was going off the cliff a week or two ago, man.

Casper Wells  34:24

Yeah, I mean, obviously, to come out and sweep the number one team, not only in MLB, but in, you know, your respected division, I think that’s that’s positive momentum. So, you know, what I’d say to Orioles fans is, like, keep that momentum going. Seems like they have a lot of positive momentum. You can hear it from, you know, some of the coaches, some of the interviews post game and pregame, there’s a little energy. When I was down there, I felt a little bit of energy. When I went to see my boy Richie Towson alum down there for pregame and BP, it seemed like they were kind of loose, and you know, this might be the catalyst to get it going, because I know it’s a hungry, thirsty baseball town, you know. So, and I know they, they’re thirsty for a winner in the Baltimore Orioles, so they’re gonna, they’re gonna hold on when they keep having streaks like this and keep that momentum going. So, I’m pulling for them, and I hope it keeps up.

Nestor Aparicio  35:13

Casper Wells is threatened to have a crab cake with me, threatening to go to a baseball game with me, and talk my ear off about baseball, though I don’t. You want to go to game with me? You don’t. We go to Das Beer Hall with me. Let’s get a pretzel or something like that.

Casper Wells  35:24

Truist suite, that true sweet’s pretty, pretty phenomenal. Got to get a view, got to go check that out. When, when I was at the game on Sunday, and yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s nice. It’s,

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Nestor Aparicio  35:33

you know, what I call it, the press box, that’s what I call it, because that’s what

Casper Wells  35:37

it was. It was the old press box, yeah, that’s right.

Nestor Aparicio  35:39

Last I checked, it was press box,

Casper Wells  35:41

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yeah. But I mean, look, if you’re gonna, if you’re gonna be spending money on those, you know, tickets that’ll be on home plate, you know, you might as well just have a few rows up, and you get the, you get to have the ahi tuna, and then the flamin yon, and all you can drink, you know, beer and wine, and spend a little more, I mean, you’re gonna spend it on dinner anyway, so it’s, it’s, it’s a, I really enjoyed being there, yeah, it was nice,

Nestor Aparicio  36:00

I know everything on the buffet, because everybody I know that’s been in there has the – they don’t show the seats or the glass. I know what it looks like from in there. I sat there until they threw me out in 2006 so I, but the food is what everybody showed

Casper Wells  36:13

food.

Nestor Aparicio  36:14

So, when I was there, my dude Ethan Giffin, I had him on a couple weeks ago, and I’m like, dude, if what would they have done if you would have gone in and gotten one of those like carrot cake muffins and given it to me off the buffet, just handed it over the rail to me, like I can’t, like I think like red lights would have gone off, the alarms would have come, the police, I don’t know, but I know I wanted one, I know I was out there and I saw people, I had my face pressed up on the glass, I’m like, come on, eat, man, just give me something off the buffet up there, but now you mentioned Ahi Tuna and filet mignon. I have to rethink this. By the way, our partners at the Maryland Lottery send folks to the truest suites. We had our first winner there on Tuesday, and Bisayo hit a bomb, so at least there was a there was a winner in the Truist Suites of our competition. I, you know, I don’t say I hope you’re the winner of the competition. I hope the best candidate wins. How about that’s very political to me. Plug Cancer United, it’s Visionary of the Year. It is Saturday night. Casper Wells, former big leaguer, and he, a tiger from here, Towson, and also with Heller Coach. Hey, sell some insurance for me. What kind of insurance do you do? Nobody needs insurance, do they?

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Casper Wells  37:16

No, no one needs it. No, I mean they need it, and sometimes they don’t know they need it. Right? I work on the property and casualty side, so I’m doing business insurance myself, but you know, we have – we have a life insurance division, personal home and auto, as well as employee benefits. So, we can basically – we can just be your full-service brokerage firm here, regional brokerage firm, mainstay. You know, I know we have good reputation here with Heller Coetz, and we can take care of you. That’s what we pride ourselves on.

Nestor Aparicio  37:44

You never know when you need insurance, you know. I drove past my buddy’s house in the neighborhood, and there’s like a tree down, like, oh boy, Opium Heller Cohen. Casper Wells is here, you can find him, you can find his partner, Brian Coetz, the famous Marylander in the Miners, went from back in my youth. And tell him I still have that Atlanta Journal Constitution from when he won the World Series. Ted Turner died the other day, and when that happened, that was the day I met Ted Turner. I was in the locker room when he’s holding the trophy. I was in the locker room when all that happened. Ryan Klesko, who I know is another partner of yours, is the only human who has ever dumped celebratory champagne over my head, because I asked him to, because I had always seen it on TV, and I was in the Braves locker room the night Coetz won, and Ryan Kolesko doused me because I knew him a little bit, and Mizzoni didn’t even do it, so I owe him. I don’t know where Coets was, I didn’t know him back then, he was a big shot, because he was a Marylander and the Miner, and he was in, he, he was a good player, you know that, right? Does he tell you how good a player

Casper Wells  38:44

was working? He was working his business, man, that’s what Cat Paul. He started, you know, being an entrepreneur back then, you know, doing baseball and entrepreneurship.

Nestor Aparicio  38:51

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Well, if I’ll give him a hard time back Clemson, who will, you know? So, right,

Casper Wells  38:55

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  38:56

his

Nestor Aparicio  38:56

son’s on the business of being a bigger big shot at Kansas City, doing a weather and all that stuff.

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Casper Wells  39:00

Yeah, you sit, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, he’s doing, he sounds great. I like following him.

Nestor Aparicio  39:04

Well, I like following all of you guys for Saturday.

Casper Wells  39:07

He’s here because I would love to get a better, you know, really, really know what the weather’s about. Here is, I feel like it’s gonna be sunny one day, and all of a sudden a thunderstorm rolls in when I’m playing on it being sunny, so I guess it’s just Baltimore. Here’s what I’m gonna do,

Nestor Aparicio  39:16

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I’m gonna threaten Brian right now that if he doesn’t come get a crab cake to me and talk baseball. I’m going to reach to his kid and get his kid on, who’s a bigger celebrity in Kansas City. What do you think?

Casper Wells  39:27

Yeah, I think that’s good. Well, I want to ask you something, something that you can do for your fans that benefits both parties, and let’s go, and also contributes to blood cancer. So, with the Gallup being an invite only, let me ask you a question, what’s your favorite number?

Nestor Aparicio  39:41

36 636

Casper Wells  39:43

so everyone that listens to your show, if they donate $36 to my specifics. Oh, wow, all right, 36

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Nestor Aparicio  39:51

I would have picked a higher or lower number, depending on whose side I’m on.

Casper Wells  39:54

That’s fine. 36 I think I was 36 when I was with the White Sox. Don’t, don’t I. Could be, could have been number 36 so that’s fine. But anyone who donates $36 they automatically get pulled in this pool. We got nine days left on order to receive funds. I’ll select someone, and then I’ll get you, give you an invite to the gal, invite only gala. I’ll pick someone at random out of the donates $36

Nestor Aparicio  40:19

Hold on, you weren’t 39 in 39

Casper Wells  40:22

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yeah, 39

Nestor Aparicio  40:23

you weren’t 36 What they get, $39 it means they like you or they like Towson. If they give $36 I mean, you, you were 33 Wait, you were 33

Casper Wells  40:33

I was 22 at Towson, that was my number.

Nestor Aparicio  40:38

Did you ever get to pick it, or did it slap it on you? Were you that good that you ever got to pick

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Casper Wells  40:42

it? I never got to pick it. The only time I had my number number is when I was at the Phillies, I was number 22 on the Phillies, just, and that was just not a coincidence. I never got to pick it, and the Miners, I had some say, right? You

Nestor Aparicio  40:53

wouldn’t have been 22 with the Orioles, you’d have been, you’d have been sol, 22 with the Orioles, you wouldn’t have gotten that one,

Casper Wells  40:58

yeah, wouldn’t have gotten that, they wouldn’t have given

Nestor Aparicio  41:00

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you that,

Casper Wells  41:00

but I was 57 my rookie year. If that’s a more, if that’s, that’s a better number. Again, I’m not trying to gouge people this day in this economy, right? So, you know, I think you know 36 You said it’s your show, you know, everything goes to you. Anyone that donates $36 my campaign, you can share the link. I’ll pick, you know, out of those names.

Nestor Aparicio  41:19

Alright, somebody give Cass for 36 bucks, just so we can prove somebody listens to the show and somebody out there has a heart. So, and where they get, where’s the link to do that?

Casper Wells  41:28

Where, where is it?

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Nestor Aparicio  41:31

Blood cancer, is it? Is it the, is it the Blood Cancer United or LLS visionaries.org Is also another website. They are rebranding, by the way. Anybody who’s familiar with Leukemia Lymphoma Society, LLS, I still call it that. It’s cancerized, so, BC, you saw

Casper Wells  41:48

my Instagram too. My Instagram, Twitter, I have it on there. I’m on Instagram. My profile’s public now, for, you know, I usually kept it private with the kids, but, like, I opened it up for this campaign specifically, so my link’s on there, but you know, if you want to share it too, on your outreach, you can find it, find it there as well, or probably Google Casper Wells, Maryland Visionary of the Year. I’m sure it’ll pop up.

Nestor Aparicio  42:11

People ask me, why 36 is my favorite number? I don’t know, I played 936 they would like my lucky numbers, and I won a lottery thing, and I went and saw Bruce Springsteen at the Spectrum in 88 and ever since then 36 is my, my lucky, yeah. So, I don’t know,

Casper Wells  42:25

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I mean, my favorite number is 22 because just as my number in college and high school, you know, deuce, deuce, that’s that’s always rang true for me.

Nestor Aparicio  42:34

I hope you’ve met Jim Palmer somewhere along the line, he’s the only 20,

Casper Wells  42:39

yeah, he was at the ballpark the other day when I saw Richie for BP.

Nestor Aparicio  42:42

And listen, I’m gonna say this to you because you’re like a real big league ball player, and I would admit things to you, and I’ve admitted this on the air, and we did a whole thing about this, like 20 years ago. Here, Jim Palmer’s the greatest oriole ever. No offense to Brooks, no offense to Cal, I like them both. Brooks love me, I love Brooks, Cal endorsed me. I love Cal, and Jim endorsed me, but I love Jim, and Jim, Jim’s the greatest oriole. Just turn the turn the bubble gum card over. Now, people would say, when I say that, people a little older than me, they bristle about Frank. They’re like, Frank, Frank changed everything here. Jim Palmer would tell you, Frank Robinson, I’m like, Frank had the most impact, but Jim’s the greatest story. So, just so you know, so 22 they’ll always be number one for me. I’m just saying, and I spent time with Al Bury last week, number one in my program, and in my heart.

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Casper Wells  43:32

I ran into Jim, and ran in a gym at Merritt, working out one time. So, we got the chat a little bit back when I was about 10 years ago, so it was good.

Nestor Aparicio  43:38

Listen, I saw him last year at Jim Henneman’s funeral, we had a long conversation. He has, he has chicken wings waiting for him, hot dogs, whatever he eats at immediate. Couldn’t believe he eats hot dogs on the chicken wings, crazy. But Jim, to me, always number one. I told him that when I saw him, he’s the greatest Oriole ever. So, 22 is number one, and you can donate $22 if you’re too much cheap faith to donate 3622

Casper Wells  44:02

or 36 we got it. Those are two options. It all, it all works.

Nestor Aparicio  44:08

2036 2230 different show that was back in the 90s. He’s Casper Wells, he’s with Heller Kowitz Insurance. I am Nestor. We’re doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. We’ll be at Sorrento of Arbutus. I’ve never had their crab cake. I am going to be enjoying that two weeks from now. That date, let me get the date right, because I get the wrong date. The 10th of June, it’s a Wednesday, will be it’s rather, and by the way, the 11th World Cup begins here in America. Copa Mundi, I got my dude Pete Carringci coming by. He has been my shows how old I am, actually shows how old Corinji is, Highlandtown. I think Corinji has been my World Cup insider. I’m going to ask him, but I think it’s been since 98 I think since 1998 not 94 but since 98 So we’re working on 28 years. Pete Corinji has been my World Cup insider, so he’ll be with me on the 11th. I have a surprise location. For that, I’ll be giving more about that later on. Our friends at GBMC Support has put us out on the Maryland Crab Gate Tour, as do our friends at Farnham and Dermer. They are the comfort guys. 410 36777 Luke is at the ballpark. Mandatory mini camps are coming next week. And, of course, support our friends at Blood Cancer United, the LLS, the big event visionary of the year. It’s Saturday night. Give 36 bucks to Casper. I’m back for more. We’re Baltimore Positive. Stay with us. We never stop talking Baltimore positive.