Five million reasons Essex has a very happy winner

There have been lots of Maryland Lottery winners recently but when someone wins $5 million bucks on Back River Neck Road in Essex, we take note. Managing Director of Communications and baseball historian Seth Elkin joins Nestor to talk about more than just Home Run Riches and grand slam power.

Seth Elkin from the Maryland Lottery discussed various promotions and events. The Orioles’ Home Run Riches contest offers $500 per home run and $5,000 for grand slams, with recent winners including Rich McFadden from Edgewood. The Gold Rush progressive game has a $2 million jackpot. The Maryland Lottery also supports state programs, contributing over $1.58 billion in FY24. A $5 million winner from Essex played a $50 ticket. Upcoming events include promotions at Orioles games and the Maryland crab cake tour. The Back to the Future scratch-off promotion ends on July 14, with a final $8,888 prize.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Maryland Lottery, home run riches, Orioles, progressive jackpot, Gold Rush, Mega Millions, Powerball, Back to the Future, Let’s Make a Deal, winners, promotions, events, baseball, summer tour.

SPEAKERS

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Speaker 1, Seth Elkin, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T am 1570 towns in Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. Shout out to my friends at Cocos. It took last Saturday off. I’m wearing my cocoa shirt. We’re gonna be at Coco’s again in August. We have put together 17 Maryland crab cake tour stops this summer. This is gonna be a Maryland lottery segment. I’m gonna enjoy this with some baseball, but we will have the Back to the Future scratch offs on Thursday at readers crab house in Reisterstown, taking the week off for the Fourth of July because we’re doing two shows beginning on the eighth of July, and the morning will be at deepest squales in Canton. I’m looking forward to that big time. Got great guests coming that day. My Highland town mafia is all going to be a Pete cringy is coming out. We’re gonna talk soccer in the middle of summer. I know it’ll be 150 degrees. Then on the 10th we’re gonna be at Costas and Timonium, the new Costas at the racetrack, at Timonium, before the State Fair and all that good stuff. We’re gonna get out there. All are brought to you by the Maryland lottery, our friends at curio wellness and liberty, pure solutions. This guy has eluded me for a month. Last time we got together, the Orioles were in last place. The oils are still in last place. Seth Elkin is here of the Maryland lottery. He communicates and communicates very clearly and succinctly. I know all you count are the home runs, and specifically, this is why John Martin’s not here, because they hit a grand slam the other day, and he’s got to go figure out how to pay the five grand on these grand slams. I wish they hit more of them. But when I say that to someone like you, you flippantly say, Hey, dude, you hit three in a row the other night. What do you

Seth Elkin  01:31

want? Right? That was, that was big. I was getting text messages all over the place when that happened, because I didn’t happen to be watching the game at that moment, but I wish I had been back to back to back against the Texas Rangers.

Nestor Aparicio  01:43

People text you because people at home runs for the lottery. Really your friends do this?

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Seth Elkin  01:47

Yep. I get, I get texts from from family. I get texts from people who work here.

Nestor Aparicio  01:53

I felt like, when they when the Grand Slam happened today, I text John Martin, and I felt like I just wanted him to know. But if he tells me, 100 people text him when there’s a Grand Slam just because they know they’re into five grand. I mean, it is amazing. You get texts when the Orioles at home runs, because you’re giving money away.

Seth Elkin  02:08

Really, it’s our communications team in particular. We’re paying attention to it because we interact with those winners, and we greet them when they come in, sure, and you know that that and the more home runs, the more happy they are. Absolutely in the Grand Slam winner was, was here, and I can get his name in a moment, if you give me a second. I didn’t know we were

Nestor Aparicio  02:25

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going to get to know please. It’s fine. I mean, I want to honor all these people, because I can’t think of anything that would be more fun or depressing depending on, you know, watching nine innings Oriole baseball, you know, the three home runs felt nice on Tuesday night, but they still lost. And that’s like, that’s not the fun

Seth Elkin  02:42

part. It was rich McFadden from Edgewood on, I believe it was on Father’s Day, and it was Gary Sanchez, I believe was hit a grand slam on that Sunday afternoon. And he was all smiles when he was here. They got a picture of him up on on our website. If you go to the news section of MD lottery.com,

Nestor Aparicio  03:00

well, he’s not as displeased with Gary Sanchez as I am. $6,500

Seth Elkin  03:04

I would say he’s not so or the Yankee Stadium

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Nestor Aparicio  03:06

crowd last weekend to boot him off the field. So

Seth Elkin  03:10

well, you got to rely on Him right now, of course, with Adley rushman on the shelf for a while. So unfortunate, lots of unfortunate, he’s only

Nestor Aparicio  03:18

given up six runs in the last two nights with his defense. But that’s okay, you know? I mean, it’s, you have anything else on baseball? Homer rich, because I know this thing. Last place heats up. The trading deadline heats up. We have questions about all this. Jackson holidays looking good. He’s costing John some money, which I’m appreciative of, but, but this is an ongoing thing, win or lose. The rest of the summer, y’all going to be giving some money away, and as it heats up, we’re going to hit more home runs.

Seth Elkin  03:44

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That’s what I was saying. About to say, you know, with the way the weather has been, you know, hot weather, hot air, hot air, makes the ball fly. Let’s put it that way. Also makes the radio work too. It makes it right, it makes it, makes communications work. Go, go pretty smoothly as well. But no the the we just actually did the drawing for the contestants of the game for July, and there are still two more drawings we’ve gotta do the drawings for for the contestants for August and September games. So you still got plenty of time to get in for the last couple of months of the season. But the July winners have been drawn, and I tell you what I have circled on my calendar, with the hot weather and a somewhat more favorable schedule, perhaps in July, than what the Orioles have had recently. And here’s what I’ve got circled, is toward the end of July, the 25th through the 27th the Colorado Rockies come to town. The poor will be gotten. Colorado Rockies who are barely playing baseball or major league level, and we’ve got, we’ve got three people for those three games. I would want to be Ryan Kyler from new market, Sally Baker from Edgewood, or Dana cook from Baltimore, because they are the contestants for those three games in late July against the Rockies. So something tells me that the oz are going to hit some out of the park.

Nestor Aparicio  05:00

It would be better if the games were in Colorado. Now, think about it, right?

Seth Elkin  05:03

It would, but you’re talking about, you’re talking about a historically terrible baseball team, so

Nestor Aparicio  05:08

well, they’re going to get roughed up because they’re playing John Martin’s guardians, though, right before that, you know, it has been quite a summer, as Jimmy Buffett once saying, in regard to, you know, Oriole baseball, but the home runs are stacking up. If you’re into home run riches. Give them all the details of home run riches, it’s 500 bucks. Well, when you win, it’s 500 bucks a home run, and then it’s five grand for a grand slam. We’ve had base runners. That’s the good news, right? Yeah,

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Seth Elkin  05:33

yep, it’s, it’s a $5 fast play ticket. Is the first thing you gotta do the $5 fast play home run riches walk off winnings. So you may win instantly on the ticket, but whether your fast play ticket is a winner or not, you can enter it into the home run riches contest. You’ll automatically get an entry into the home run riches contest just by entering your walk off winnings ticket into your My lottery rewards account. And as you said, $500 for each person who’s selected as a contestant of the game, and then you get an additional 500 for each home run the Orioles hit. And if it’s a Grand Slam, that 500 becomes 5000 so some, some, plenty of chances to win here. We got still about half the season left, so we’re going to, we’re going to give away some more money here. As the weather continues to heat up, I know that’s going to be true. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  06:20

from your lips to the left field walls ears. Seth Belkin is here. He’s communicating for the Maryland lottery because he’s a pirates fan and doesn’t really want to talk. We can move off of baseball if you want me. I tell you what. Last week we began. Thanks. John Martin was here last week, and we talked about this progressive it was at 1.9 million, and the records 2.6 I want to give you locks, because that thing millions move my wife. And don’t ask me why, she wouldn’t think 2.018668 that would be a lot of money in a progressive jackpot, but my wife’s much more than Mega Millions when it gets over 300 million. But this progressive, this a lot of money, 2 million bucks in a progressive local jackpot.

Seth Elkin  06:58

Yeah, it’s, it’s, uh, it’s a big progressive prize amount for for fast play, the Gold Rush progressive game. It is a $30 fast play ticket, and that jackpot, as you and I are speaking, has topped $2 million now and continues to increase with the sale of each ticket. It’s a progressive jackpot. So that means the sale of each ticket contributes into that jackpot pool, and you may win other prizes. There are lots and lots of other prizes at lower amounts that you can win on the ticket, but that progressive jackpot is now over $2 million so we’re we’re waiting to see when that one hits, and it could be any day. It could be any moment. We have no idea when, and that’s another thing we keep an eye on, because on our website, if you go to the fast play page of MD lottery.com I’m on

Nestor Aparicio  07:43

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it right now. So I’m trying to learn a little bit about this $30 game because I was not completely familiar with it. So this is where you educate me. Seth,

Seth Elkin  07:50

you can see the progressive jackpot amounts if you go to that page and you you can sort the tickets by

Nestor Aparicio  07:56

by, probably walk a ticket in here for 10 bucks. Look at that. Okay, go ahead and you

Seth Elkin  08:01

can click on that, that gold p at the top of the page, and that’ll show you all the progressive jackpot games. Those are the ones where the prizes, that top prize amount, is incrementing up with the sale of each ticket. So every 15 minutes on our website, you get an updated number. If you refresh the page every 15 minutes, you’ll see the it

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Nestor Aparicio  08:20

says, hurry play today. This game is closing soon. Is what it was

Seth Elkin  08:24

when the what we’ve got that time for is that the next time that progressive jackpot hits, when somebody hits that $2 million that’s when that game will will no longer be sold. So whoever buys that progressive jackpot ticket, they’re going to be the last one to play, and they’re going to going to nail down that price. So very much looking forward to that, because that’s a great prize for us to give away. We’re excited, along with our players, when we get a

Nestor Aparicio  08:47

chance, tell my wife to go play that one. I’d be good with 2 million. Man, I don’t need 300 million. I mean, just a little beach money is all I’m looking for here. Seth Elkin is here from the Maryland lottery. We are reaching the beach. Matter of fact, Seth, I will see you like an in real person. We’re broadcasting from Mako down at the Maryland counties conference in August. I want to put it’s close to we’re six weeks away, seven weeks away. I’ll be down there for the whole week. We’re gonna be broadcasting live from the beach. And that’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. And that’s usually you guys bring big numbers end of year, sort of closing out a year here this week, right? I mean, the sort of fiscal right?

Seth Elkin  09:21

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Yeah, the state’s fiscal year ends June 30, so we spend most of July tallying up all the numbers and getting a summary report together. And that’s always something that we look forward to, because, you know, the lottery’s mission is to generate revenue for the state, which is always an important mission, and particularly now under the the situations that the state’s

Nestor Aparicio  09:43

been I could say, West needs the money everybody’s pays been frozen. I’m sorry, you know, like, I saw all of that, and people wonder where this money comes from. And I sit here, we play lottery, and I give tickets away, whatever this this generates money to send kids to school. Like, like, that’s one. But that’s why, when I talk to John about this being on the up and up, and we talk about this, we talk about five finger Louis and a bookmaker salad and all those things that went into sports wagering, this is an incredible tax part of the base of what operates our state, and I don’t ever want to lose sight of that, because it’s fun. We play the games and whatnot. But it is on the up and up, and it is sort of a 24 hour a day casino, as I see it, because it’s updating online here, just this progressive $30 game. I’m like, This feels like, you know, you could play anytime, anywhere. We want people to play responsibly. But this is, this is important for the state. It

Seth Elkin  10:36

really is. The profit from the sale of lottery tickets is is one of the largest contributors to the state’s general fund every year after after taxes, it’s the largest contributor to the general fund. And of course, the general fund is where the budgets for a lot of state programs come from. A whole host of state programs and services. The regular annual education budgets come out of the general fund. Lots of public health and public safety program budgets come out of the general fund. So it’s a point of pride for us to be able to support so many state programs and services and have such a big role in that. And that’s just the lottery side. Uh, probably about $700 million or just shy of $700 million in in profit to the general fund on an annual basis. But on the casino side, the contributions to the state are will probably exceed that number so and the sports wagering number is going to be far in excess of what it was last year. We We topped, believe we’re, we’re past $80 million in contributions to the state from sports betting. It was just over $60 million for all of FY 24

Nestor Aparicio  11:42

so by the way, it was 05 years ago, and for all of eternity before that. It was a street thing, you know, and not safe and not regulated, and not any of that. It

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Seth Elkin  11:53

is a new stream of revenue and and a growing stream of revenue for the state. So again, that’s something that we take pride in, regulating that and making sure that all of that, as you say, is being done on the up and up, and we’re diligently monitoring that and and making sure that that all of those numbers are accounted for and and in August, we’ll have our fiscal year summary report, we’ll be able to tell you what the combined figure was. It was $1.585 billion in FY 24 would it be billion with a B, when

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you one five, it was that 1.58

Nestor Aparicio  12:26

5 billion almost what the Orioles cost, or what the rays I’m the rays are playing this weekend. I’m talking about their sale. 1.8 billion is what the baseball team’s worth

Seth Elkin  12:35

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and and with a very low payroll, from what I understand, well

Nestor Aparicio  12:39

managed, though, in Tampa, you know, they’ve, they’ve had a little bit of glory. Seth Elkin is Seth Elkin is here for the Maryland lottery. He communicates with them. I want to talk winners because, like I went on to the winners page here, Essex woman moves up retirement plan after $5 million lottery win. Well, if I admit, look, my wife wants to win this 300 million in the Mega Millions, 3 million right now, I’m not greedy. I’m getting older. I could eat off of that. You know what I mean. I think I’d be okay. I hope this, this young lady in Essex is doing well.

Seth Elkin  13:11

That’s a great story too. Because what I love about this is that, typically she, she said she plays bingo theme tickets, or sometimes crossword style tickets as

Nestor Aparicio  13:20

well Essex and bingo. Come on, how that goes? A lot

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Seth Elkin  13:24

of people love those style of tickets because they take a while to play. It’s not just scratch and look at the numbers and see what happens. So you have to take your time and go through it and match things up when you play a bingo style ticket. So I think that’s what a lot of those people like. Who enjoy those games. That’s what they like about them. So it was interesting when she told us the story of buying this. It was a $50 $5 million fortune ticket that she bought. And instead of scratching the whole thing off all at once, she did it a little bit at a time. She scratched off the numbers to see what she matched. And one of those numbers, it turned out to be a stack of cash, a little stack of cash symbol, and that tells you you’ve won whatever that prize amount is, that that is with that stack of cash, and that turned out to be that $5 million amount. It’s the first $5 million prize out of three that there were on this ticket, so still two of them remaining out there unclaimed, waiting to be found. But this

Nestor Aparicio  14:17

woman won 5 million bucks at the back river Exxon, dude. It’s across the street from pizza John’s. That could have been me. I’ve driven by. It’s right by salvos. I’ve driven by there a million times in my life. I think

Seth Elkin  14:33

that’s the other thing that people love about, about these things, reading about winners, is finding out where those tickets were sold, and knowing just, just this, this sense of astonishment that I’m seeing from you right now. You know that place you’ve been past there a million times. It could have been you wandering in there.

Speaker 1  14:47

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She says she’s gonna buy a jeep. Good for her 5 million daughters. Buy two Jeeps. One for her daughter, too. Buy two Jeeps. Why everybody gets a jeep?

Nestor Aparicio  14:57

That’s like, Oprah, man, this is fun. That’s okay. And you get to meet these people. When this woman comes in from Essex, and she stayed anonymous. And some people take the put the sign up, take a picture and give themselves a funny name, the king and the queen of money and whatnot. Um, there is some humanity involved in your gig. And I always say to Doug, who has the other end we has to call people who don’t believe they’ve won, and people scratch it, look down, know they’ve won, and still don’t believe they’ve won, right? There really is that that’s the weird part of your job that I think, I think you got a tough job, state job. I see what you do every day, but I’m thinking every day you get to see these really happy people that come in a lot of business. Don’t get that. Get really happy people when they come in, everybody that’s, there’s a winner for the most part, right?

Seth Elkin  15:41

You do get that reminder on a regular basis that you’re you’re meeting people on on what is probably one of the best days of their lives. If you ask them, they probably the first thing they would say is the day their children were born, and then the next thing is going to be Wow, I’m going to remember this for the rest of my life, the day that I that I won this prize, or the day that I came in and claimed it. So it is an exciting we try to make sure that it’s a fun experience for people. It’s a relaxed experience for people. We want them to be a good time for them, and as you say, they are. Anybody who wins a Maryland lottery prize is allowed to remain anonymous. We certainly hope that they will embrace the moment and allow us to take a photo. But no one’s required to do that, and we we want it to be a good experience for them. And we love telling their stories and and having a good time with them as they celebrate.

Nestor Aparicio  16:24

Well, Essex and 5 million bucks, that gets my attention all the time. Seth Elkin is here for the Maryland lottery. We communicate on a weekly basis about where the money goes and how the money flows. And the Mega Millions at three 50 million in Powerball and 140 million, that gets my wife’s attention. Um, progressives up all of that going on. It’s summertime. We had home run riches. Am I leaving anything out? Because we had Back to the Future. Winners. We’ve had, let’s make a deal. Winners. We have this NASCAR you have been you have all of these fun little promotions going on that we’ve talked about week to week to week. But we’re now into these hot summer months. We have events coming up as well.

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Seth Elkin  16:58

Yeah, we’ve got the Back to the Future, we just had the second to last drawing, and got a new set of winners there. But the last drawing is coming up on the the 14th of July, and that will be where we give away that $8,888 prize. That’ll be the largest prize of that promotion. And of course, that corresponds to the 88 miles an hour that Doc Brown’s DeLorean had to travel in order to travel through time. This this year, of course, the 40th anniversary of the every

Nestor Aparicio  17:29

time you see travel back time, I start singing the Huey Lewis song. You know what you do? I mean, it’s amazing. 40 years later, gotta get back in time. Yeah, yeah. So you know, Back to the Future has been a fun promotion for me to give these away. Everybody’s familiar with

Seth Elkin  17:44

that. I’ve really enjoyed this one. I just think it’s a sense of nostalgia for people, and we love tapping into that, so it’s a good time, and we’re looking forward to giving away that last prize, still time till the middle of July to get entered into that contest. Enter your non winning back to the future. Scratch offs into my lottery rewards, and you’ll be in there for

Nestor Aparicio  18:03

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that one. That’s this one right here. If you come out and find me readers, on Thursday, you’ll get this one also. We’ll be at on the eighth of July, we’re going to be first time ever deepest qualities, the new deepest qualities in Canton. I’m really looking forward going to have a great guest list that day. I know it’s going to be hot. And then on the 10th of July, we’re moving inside at Costas and Timonium. So come on out. I will have the Back to the Future scratches NASCAR promotion. I know we had that going on, um, as well as, let’s make a deal. So I heard about these people going out to LA I mean, at some point you and Doug got around up people, because I want to know if they dress like bananas, oranges, the cone heads, um, whatever the gig is on, dressing up to get to go to the Let’s Make a Deal thing that that that sounded like as fun of a thing this side of getting, I don’t know, cheesecake from roquan Smith during the Raven scratch off promotion. Yeah, we’re looking

Seth Elkin  18:50

forward to that trip. I think that’s going to be a great time for those. For those folks, we’ve got two winners already, but there’s still three more drawings in the Let’s Make a Deal promotion coming up in July, August and early September. So you got plenty of time to get your non winning. Let’s make a deal. Tickets entered, and you’ll have a shot at winning a trip to Los Angeles to to be there for a taping of the Let’s Make a Deal game show, but also some cash prizes that we’re giving away as part of that second chance promotion. So plenty of chances on that. Go to the promotions page of MD lottery.com to check out all of the current promotions and figure out how to get it, get in on all of that.

Nestor Aparicio  19:26

What makes me jelly going to LA at this point, because I the Hollywood Bowl was like toward the top of my bucket list at this point, because I thought arenas at stadiums, and I don’t really want to go to Notre Dame. There’s a couple places I’ve never seen. Games at the big house. I don’t need all of that, but, but concert venues. LA, I mean, I haven’t been to the troubadour. I haven’t been to the whiskey. I want to see a show at the coach outs in San Juan Capistrano. I want to, you know, some places I need to get to the cavern out in, LA, the Agora cavern, these great music venues, but the Hollywood bowls, iconic, the WHO IS. Playing out there with the Joe Perry Project in September. I’m thinking about it, but the Let’s Make a Deal thing. If there’s a taping and I get to dress up as, like, I don’t know, one of the Wonder Twins or something, I would do that. That would be fun for me. Everybody likes the Halloween thing dressing up, right? Let’s make a deal.

Seth Elkin  20:15

Yeah, I think it’s going to be a really great time. Of all the we give away a lot of trips through Second Chance promotions and through points for drawings promotions. There’s the choose your own vacation that I think you and I talked about a few weeks back, that’s still going on. But I think this one’s really going to stand out. I think

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Nestor Aparicio  20:32

it’s going to be a great time for uniquely unique and memory making. Seth Elkin is here from the Maryland lottery. They’re trying to make memories and give money away, raise money for the state. We try to cover all of that here. If you’re into home run riches, make sure you’re playing that. If you’re playing any of the games, if you’re gambling straight away, if you’re looking down on your phone right now and you’re gambling, just slow the roll. Do it responsibly. We always talk about that one 800 gambler around the corner for you, because we have fun with this. But for some people, it’s sick and get out of hand. And this is the time of year on summertime here, anything, um, we’re doing event wise, getting out because it is so hot right now. And I love spring because you got wine festival and brew at the zoo. We’re doing all of this stuff this time of year. It’s like, reach the beach is all, you know, find the pool is, you know, be cool in the pool, but I know you guys are getting out to it stuff. Also

Seth Elkin  21:23

where you’ll be able to find us here over the next couple of weeks is on Utah Street. We’re going to be at a couple Orioles games on on the 27th of June, we’ll be at the game against the Orioles, and also, on the eighth of July, the game against the New York mess. You’ll be able to find us out there and spin the prize wheel out on Utah Street and win yourself a lottery item, and have some fun with us. And we’ll be at a couple other places. The 12th of July. Will be at the Baltimore magazine crab fest, at the Bucha Railroad Museum, and we’ll be at the show your soft side fundraiser in Owings Mills on July 17. So a bunch of things coming up.

Nestor Aparicio  21:57

Well, show your soft side. I mean that I’ve done a lot with what they do. You know how much I love my kitty cat so and, you know, we talk about animals around here all the time. Seth, always good to visit with you. You got any baseball you want to throw at me here at the end? I mean, Otani back to pitching and hitting, and we just take this like Babe Ruth. And you know how bad the Rockies are? I mean, you pirates, your benching guys there. We’ve already got a manager fired here. I mean, this thing settle out in the middle of the season, the big blockbuster trade right Red Sox get rid of their dead weight endeavors and but the Orioles, buyers, sellers, swappers, I don’t know, but this is for anybody to baseball fan, this time of year, it starts to settle out a little bit, doesn’t it?

Seth Elkin  22:42

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I’ll tell you the fun. The thing that’s fun for me at this time of year is voting for the all star team. Okay, I love going and voting for the All Stars because, partly because it gives me a chance to really look at some stats of players who are doing a lot better than my pirates are, and probably a lot better than the Orioles are doing. I enjoy that. It’s a lot of fun. So I like going and picking out the all star players and and voting for that. Remember, you do it online now, of course, but of course, that’s not fun enough to remember the punch cards,

Nestor Aparicio  23:11

right? That’s I was gonna say to you. This is where I was gonna go with this. Because sets an old school. Most of you have never been in sets office, at the Maryland lottery, at the montgomery part I have, I mean, there, everything in there is from Brad Shaw. And I feel like, mean, Joe Green’s gonna come out of closet offer me a coke. I mean, that’s kind of what I feel like is going on in your office. Dale bearer would offer me something else, but you kids can Google that. But nonetheless, I just, I’ve never talked to you about three river stadium. And like, the did you go to a lot of pirates games when you were, like, run me through the star drills, through Barry. But like, were you a once a year? Guy, a 12 times a year? Guy, I don’t know how far you live from three river stadium. I attended baseball games at three river stadium, many times at the All Star game in 96 the whole deal. But like, it was 94 sorry, 96 was Philly. But I would say this the punch card thing. When you say All Star game to me, I can tell you how what size they were. They were in a baby blue the little punch outs. And my dad would get pissed at me, because I would take them like five deep and punch through all of them to try to get balanger in. You know, I’m old enough that I remember my cousin being on the punch card in 74 when he wasn’t even on the team, he was still on the ballot because he was a Hall of Famer. And in 74 Burson was playing shortstop at that point, but nicos might have been playing some short. I’ll find out, because Seth, I’m gonna make you jelly today. You ready for this? All right? This is, this is really big. I can’t believe I didn’t tell you about this today. I am having a bucket list guest on today, a guest I’ve never had on my show, a guest that I’ll trivia this, you’ll get this, and if I give you two clues, you’ll get it. This was my favorite baseball player in 1975 before cesto lescano came into my life in Milwaukee. Game became my favorite baseball and before like Eddie and Gary Renick, he was my favorite Oriole. So we’re talking late 70s here, 1975 this player became my favorite baseball player. Do you want to Gander a guess, or do you want a second clue? Because you’re going to get this

Seth Elkin  25:16

okay, 1919 75 the first thing I think of is Carlton Fisk’s home run in the World Series.

Nestor Aparicio  25:21

This guest is closely related to that particular event, Bernie Carbo. Bernie Carbo is not on the show. I have met Bernie Carbo. Um carbo was in for the 1970 Oriole celebration that happened at the at the Meyerhoff one night. I was there with Brooks and Jim Palmer. And, you know, Brooks was like Earl was alive. Then this is a long time this. This was a 2010 they had a 40th anniversary of winning the 70 World Series. Not Bernie Carbo, but you’re getting really warm. Why would Bernie Carbo be my favorite baseball player? No, I don’t know. Give your

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Seth Elkin  26:04

senses. Didn’t he get a home run in that in that game, in that game six, he did, yes, if I’m remembering correctly. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  26:10

see Louie as a four, five year old. When I became a baseball fan at 7273 74 Louis was a Red Sox. So I have my Red Sox bobble head, the real bobber that I bought a 33rd Street. And Louie was, you know, my cousin. I met him, and so I always had like, at that point, I’m six years old. I want to be an Orioles fan, and Tommy Davis and Jim Palmer Brooks is getting old at that point, starting to lose his hair a little bit, getting patchy, you know, just got Lee may like that period of time. I My cousin was my my guy. I’m five years old, right? I’m watching the Orioles every night. But my favorite baseball player was a Red Sox in 1975 he later became an

Seth Elkin  26:57

Oriole. Fred Lynn,

Nestor Aparicio  26:59

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yes, yes, yes. I got, you can name that in three clues. There you go. Fred Lynn’s coming on. Isn’t that exciting? Yeah, yeah. I need like that. So I got Fred Lynn coming on today, so I am excited. So this is the baseball nerd in me. When we’re in last place. I have to chase down heroes. I thought I had Steve trout booked on the show, who’s had a better career than I thought he had, but I’m such a baseball gooby, you know what? I mean? Like, it’s weird, like Bruce Bucha walked out to make a pitching change on Tuesday night, and my wife and I are watching the game, and I know Bucha pretty well from my Padres days from 30 years ago. I mean, Bucha come up. Hey, Nestor, you need me to do your show. That’s pretty good. Bucha, right? So you know Bucha was in San Diego when Larry lakino went out there in the 90s, and Tony Gwynn and I’ve told you know, our broadcaster was, was Mel Proctor, became the Padres broadcaster. Lots of the front office people went out and worked for the Padres at that time, from the Orioles. So I knew and my aunt lived there, so I loved the Padres at that time. So, you know, I’ve had different favorite players, like Tony Gwynn was my all time favorite player. Fred Lynn was my first favorite player. George Brett is probably, you know, like, way, way up there as far as, like, having heroes, but when your team’s in last place, you’re just trying to, like, keep baseball interesting. So for me, Fred Lynn Top of the Pops. But I got to figure out who else I want to chase and have on the program, because, like, I can’t chase Tony Gwynn, right? I mean, so I’m trying to find people that are alive, that can still come on and let me be the FANBOY idiot that I am and was as a kid.

Seth Elkin  28:34

There’s something magical about that 75 World Series. The fact that I can tell you that Bernie Carbo hit a home run in game six of the 75 world so should tell you everything I need to know. You need to know I was only three years old when that

Nestor Aparicio  28:46

game was can I tell you something about the 75 World Series that freaked me out? I mentioned it to Luke this morning. Was 50 years ago, 50 years ago. 50 years how is that that’s not even conceivable to

Seth Elkin  29:02

me. That’s the beginning of your conversation with Fred Lynn,

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Nestor Aparicio  29:05

no, I don’t want to insult Fred Lynn like that. You know, when Freddie came to Baltimore, you know, like, I just that was the greatest thing for me. But I remember, I just remember, have all these memories of the 70s and the 80s and being a baseball fan, and I like letting that pour out of me, you know, because, I mean, that is, that’s sort of the fun part. And a guy like you going to three, how many games you go to three river stadium a year?

Seth Elkin  29:26

Oh, probably a few times a year. I and I remember, you know, again, there was, again, a magic about it when you’re that, when you’re young, like that. It’s the biggest place you’ve ever been that that stadium, it was, it was gigantic, and as big ashtray on the end of the river was, years went on. I was about to say it lacked character, to put it kindly. And you know, we were, I think everybody was kind of glad to see it replaced by two stadiums that have a lot more character to them, but, but definitely, I have a lot of memories of being there and go doing the tour of the stadium and being down in the dugout and all of that. It. It’s a lot of great memories of that place and of those teams in the in the late 70s and early 80s, when they were still pretty good, before things fell off a cliff, and they haven’t been very good since then. So great memories, really,

Nestor Aparicio  30:12

of Orioles should have closed the damn deal and gained five and 79 up there, and we wouldn’t have had these

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problems. Yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  30:21

You know, we’ve been through this every time I run into burp Bly Levine when he’s 79 world critically, we are family. Um Seth Elkin, his family. He is at the mayor of the lottery. He communicates on their behalf. We talk baseball. Next time I bring you on, we’ll, you know, we’ll have other throwback maybe I’ll have Mike Brodick, or coming on, or something like that. You know, maybe you’ll be an old pirate. I’ll get on. If I get Bert Bly Levin on, I’ll freeway and let you come in and talk to him about 79 All right, you know about circle me? Bert, do you know about circle me? Bert,

Seth Elkin  30:53

yes, I do. I do from his time as a broadcaster with the twins. Yeah, absolutely.

Nestor Aparicio  30:57

You have a big circle behind you at the Maryland lottery. So it’s like, circle me. Seth, you know, Seth Elkin is here from the Maryland lottery. Always pleasure to talk to baseball with you. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for making time. All right. Good to see you. Alright, I’ll see Seth again, probably before August. We’ll be at Mako broadcasting. We’re doing the Maryland crab cake Tour presented by our friends at the Maryland lottery. We have the Back to the Future scratch offs, my final batch to give away. The next couple of weeks, we’re going to be on the eighth at deepest Qualis, the 10th, augustas. We’re going to be at 1623 brewing in Eldersburg in July. And we’re also bringing the show back to all sorts of places in August for our 27th anniversary, including Coco’s Bob, including El Guapo and Catonsville. We’re going to be Costas and Dundalk. I am hoping to get back to amicis in Little Italy, because if I’m going to include my 27 favorite things to eat, the meatballs and the meat cheese and the garlic cheese toast. I mean, forget about it. Making me hungry. I gotta go. We are a wnsta in 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive.