From 30 years of Cal 2131 to no hit, to walk-off to WTF? A Baltimore weekend in sports to remember and forget

The 30th Anniversary of Cal Ripken’s 2131 celebration brought Camden Yards to life on Saturday – and that was before the incredible baseball game that was a prelude to a tremendous thud for the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night in Buffalo. Leonard Raskin tells Nestor why he left a Yamamoto no-hitter in progress.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ disappointing loss to the Buffalo Bills, highlighting key plays and coaching decisions. They expressed frustration over the team’s inability to close out the game, particularly the decision to use an end-around play instead of running with Derrick Henry. They also touched on the Ravens’ upcoming game against the Cleveland Browns and Joe Flacco’s contract. The conversation shifted to the Baltimore Orioles, celebrating their recent wins and the excitement around Cal Ripken’s ceremony. Leonard shared his experience of walking out of a no-hitter game, much to his regret.

Ravens’ Loss and Upcoming Games

• Nestor Aparicio discusses the Ravens’ loss to the Bills and the upcoming game against the Browns.
• Nestor mentions his Maryland crab cake tour and other upcoming events, including a discussion with Chad Steele on democracy.
• Leonard Raskin and Nestor talk about the Ravens’ collapse, highlighting key moments and plays that led to the loss.
• Leonard expresses frustration with the coaching decisions and the team’s performance in the final minutes of the game.

Orioles’ Magic and Personal Experiences

• Nestor shifts the conversation to the Orioles’ recent games, including a walk-off win and a no-hitter.
• Leonard shares his personal experience of attending a game where the Orioles won despite his absence.
• Nestor and Leonard discuss the significance of the Orioles’ recent performances and the excitement around the team.
• Leonard recounts his experience of walking out of the no-hitter game and the subsequent home run that ended the no-hitter.

Reflections on Sports and Personal Stories

• Nestor and Leonard reflect on their experiences as sports fans, including attending games and watching significant moments.
• Nestor shares a personal story about meeting Ken Griffey Jr. during the 1993 All-Star Game.
• Leonard talks about his interactions with Joe Flacco and his admiration for the quarterback.
• Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of sports in their lives and the impact of significant moments in sports history.

Upcoming Events and Personal Preferences

• Nestor mentions upcoming events, including the Maryland crab cake tour and a discussion with Pat Young.
• Leonard talks about his preference for certain foods and how they help him cope with sports losses.
• Nestor and Leonard discuss their plans for the upcoming week, including attending games and events.
• Nestor shares his excitement about the Maryland crab cake tour and the delicious food he has tried recently.

Final Thoughts and Future Plans

• Nestor and Leonard discuss their thoughts on the Ravens’ performance and the upcoming games.
• Leonard expresses his hope for better performance from the Ravens in the future.
• Nestor talks about his plans for the Maryland crab cake tour and other upcoming events.
• Nestor and Leonard conclude the conversation with a light-hearted discussion about their favorite foods and sports experiences.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens loss, Buffalo Bills, Joe Flacco, Maryland crab cake tour, Orioles magic, Cal Ripken ceremony, no hitter, Derek Henry, Lamar Jackson, NFL schedule, Ken Griffey Jr, Eddie Murray, Baltimore sports, football collapse, baseball highlights.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Speaker 1, Leonard Raskin

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Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 task of Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, positively into Joe Flacco, Homecoming Week. The Cleveland Browns are coming to Baltimore this week in the Ravens round one, and I’m doing a Maryland crab cake tour next Tuesday at the Beaumont and Catonsville. Life will be great in the 21228, hopefully the raves be one and one. At that point, we’ll be eating delicious food with the councilman. Pat Young is running for Baltimore County Executive, also my pal Chad cause is gonna come out and discuss democracy and seventh grade social studies. And I’m hoping that’s a couple of the guests. I got some good stuff going on. We’re kicking it off. We’re gonna have the Raven scratch also the first time next Tuesday. And of course, tastiness continues, and as I welcome Leonard Raskin in from Raskin global, I’m wearing my Raskin global shirt in the aftermath of the disaster on Sunday night. This is what I do to solve my purple wounds. I do purple therapy here after losses like this. I’ve been known for this for this for 27 years. Whether Chad Steele likes it or not, is I have peach cake,

Leonard Raskin  01:07

at least for now, this losses soothe the pain.

Nestor Aparicio  01:11

Listen to me. I’ll have to do pumpkin something next month, because there’s no peach cake next month. So you got like this week to get to the Fenwick. It is on my list of tastiness and the 27th anniversary of everything we’re doing with curio wellness. I want to give them some love as well, but I am counting down food this week. So I know a lot of times you you eat it makes you feel better, makes me feel better. Um, and I’ll just say, like, we all need to feel better after what happened. Now I have, like, I could be Monty Hall with you, lender Raskin, and say, Do you want door number one and talk about Saturday night’s glory and joy and 20 and almost seeing a no hitter, but not seeing it, but seeing this Oriole magic. Or do you want to do Josh Allen and the Ravens defense after 11pm for adults only?

Leonard Raskin  01:53

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Yeah, I’ll let you pick the door. I’ll walk through it. Well, let’s do

Nestor Aparicio  01:57

football, man. Football. Football’s a rare,

Leonard Raskin  02:01

unbelievable collapse. I’m here with the wife and the boy. We’re watching the game. It was phenomenal. Everything right. Defense. Couldn’t stop him. It was obvious they stopped him a couple few times, which is all they needed. 40 to 25 How could they lose? I said, You know what? We’ve been up this far before, but with four minutes to go, you think they gotta put this away and then drive? That doesn’t work, and punt and score. And I said, Okay, you get the ball two minutes to go, all you need is a first down, fumble, score. They’re down two, punt, fumble, punt. I said all you need is a first down. And then what had been working for 59 minutes, or 58 minutes. For some reason they decided to not do that. So Derek Henry, Lamar Derek Henry, Lamar Derek, Henry, no, we do a a end around to zay flowers, who falls down. He had a great game, a great game, and then falls down with no gain on second down. And then, okay, I get the throw to D hop. That’s fine. Eight yards. You have got to put Lamar in the position right there with two yards to go to win that game. Harbaugh says after the game, if we don’t make it, they’re in field goal range. If you don’t make it, they’re in field goal range. If you get a first down, the game’s over. If you punt to them, they’re in field goal range, because your defense for the last 10 minutes has sucked. There. Terrible call. I’m saying it, terrible call, dreadful. So you would have gone on fourth down absolutely. You got Lamar and Derek Henry. Lamar runs backwards 30 yards and forward 50. You’re telling me he’s not getting three yards. Derek, Henry’s not getting three yards there.

Nestor Aparicio  04:18

You know, there’s a lot of things that are I mean, the bills were curious to me, and I brought this up with Luke earlier, Baltimore positive that when Josh Allen had the two point conversion, they threw the ball. Yep, and I’m like the same idea having this offense same regard to having either, and they’re not the same offenses, but having a quarterback that can run you over or run by you, or extend the play long enough that a run could turn into a pass or some sort of option, but that you don’t have an option at the goal line with a two point. I mean, that is the that is your, that’s your, your market advantage in the world that manage it your, your advantage is having this mobile core. Quarterback and then not taking and then neutralizing that. And worse than that, for the ravens, in the circumstance you’re talking about, taking Derek Henry off the field on second down,

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Leonard Raskin  05:09

yeah, punt, fumble, punt, that, that last drive, all you need is a first down. The game’s over. I give the ball to Derrick Henry. I give the ball to Derrick Henry, and then I give the ball to Derrick, Henry, I’m pretty sure in that moment he’s gonna find decrease and he’s gonna find a first down. And then we take a knee because they have no timeouts, or I faked the ball to Derek, Henry, Lamar run. I got thunder and lightning. I got two plays. There’s two plays. The Joan Reed was working all night long.

Nestor Aparicio  05:43

I got to do my Charlie Ekman here, because I got two plays. Hold on. Let me tell you later there’s two plays South Pacific and put the ball in the hole. That is classic.

Leonard Raskin  05:53

Charlie Ekman, I just gave you there. You know what? Really, you know what we get? We get Lido Mitchell up the middle. We get Lido Mitchell up the middle. If it doesn’t work.

Nestor Aparicio  06:03

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By the way, I’ve been chasing the 75 colts for a month. I’m I’m zero. I lied Burt. I’d love to have they’re coming down right. Throw into Don McCauley. And if it doesn’t work, are you going Saturday to the 75 colts thing? I don’t know about this thing. No, what? It’s a union growing this Saturday in the afternoon. We’re all old now, right? What did you go to any colts games? Or were you just a couple? We were really poor. And I didn’t go to football much. I I watched football then when you could, but I wasn’t. But you went to a handful of games? Yeah, it was dreadful when they drove away. Yeah, I went to a lot of colts games. Yeah. Person, right. So the 75 colts to me, I found my ticket stub from the I did. I found my ticket from one of the games, 52 to 19. Big win. Man, Bertha Bert, Roger Carr to Glenn dowdy, baby, let’s go

Leonard Raskin  06:59

with those ears. Man, he did see at

Nestor Aparicio  07:01

least I promoted the 70, dude, you were the one that mentioned the Colton. Hey, diddle, diddle, I thought you know about that.

Leonard Raskin  07:07

Didn’t but, but you can’t lose that game. The only good news is we’re tied with the chiefs.

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Nestor Aparicio  07:13

Yeah, I know. But the Steelers and the Bengals looked okay. Hey, Flacco, looked okay, and the Browns play defense, and you lost this game last year to the Raiders game

Leonard Raskin  07:23

interception. You know, for for Joe wasn’t his fault, bounced off a guy went to another guy.

Nestor Aparicio  07:29

Well, let’s go back to 11 o’clock on

Leonard Raskin  07:32

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over. Game was over.

Nestor Aparicio  07:35

How were you feeling about the team now that we’ve urinated out all the bad and all the awful that happened in the last five minutes. I mean, I’ve seen so many things that went

Leonard Raskin  07:47

right team to compete, the ravens, is the ravens, and they proved to do it again. I don’t know who’s I don’t know what happened to Todd mumpkin. Did he die before the last three series calling be called great plays, the the what was it a screen pass? It was, it was effectively a screen pass to zay flowers, with Ronnie Stanley out there blocking on the edge. Oh yeah, and they pulled the other guard right and knocked those two guys on their ass. Instead, we give an end around to zay with no blockers. What? Who’s calling these plays at the end of the game,

Nestor Aparicio  08:24

the misdirection is really something. When everybody on the line’s going right, and you it can either be Derrick Henry or Lamar maybe going to the right, given that

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Leonard Raskin  08:36

I’m sorry I’m not doing it. I know he’s gotten a couple yards on that thing, but at that point in the game, I’m going with bread and butter, thunder and lightning, Lamar and Derek King are the only two touching the ball. That’s that’s me. They know it’s coming. They knew it was coming all night. They couldn’t stop it. They’re not going to stop it. We’re going to win the game with our our billion dollar backfield and and the fact that we didn’t, it’s dreadful. And then, of course, I had to watch the post game because I had to hear BS questions to Harbaugh that he answered with will will get better.

Nestor Aparicio  09:13

Well, there’s nobody in the room to ask questions. I know, but Chad Steele has made sure that real journalists and people that that were

Leonard Raskin  09:21

for four questions, and then he walked off. Okay, that’s all, well, the podium stream didn’t work either. Yeah, that was Lamar. Something happened. Weird, yeah, it broke so Marlon. I think Marlon said it best, right? We got to figure out how to win games. We got to put this away. We had, we had a couple like that last year, but you can’t drop 15 points.

Nestor Aparicio  09:44

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The the thing about it is, it’s September, man, I’m not jumping off of anything, no, but no, I’m going to spank them real hard this week about everything, about their bust, about their sleeves, and their ease, and their integrity and their accountability and their and their wealth. Upstream all. So Boston is about January, yeah,

Leonard Raskin  10:04

but you don’t get there. If you don’t win in September, you might have to go to Buffalo now in the playoffs because of that. You lost the tiebreaker right there, not might, probably will. Well, you gotta win the division and and see what happens, you know.

Nestor Aparicio  10:17

So Luke and I played this out. Let me play this actually. We played it out once, and we did it hours into our conversation on Monday morning. So Ravens have the Browns this week. Okay? They went fine. Better than Detroit. They didn’t look so good. They, you know, whatever, they better better be two and one getting on the plane to Kansas City. You darn right. Okay, so that means they have to win. They’ve now put themselves in this position, if they’re one and two and they’re going to cancel, you know, so what? So what happens if they’re two and two after Kansas City? What if they’re three? Whatever they say, okay, Buffalo their next six games. They don’t have games. They’re playing the Jets, everybody else they’re playing. I mean, they’re going to be five and one, six and, oh, they are. I mean, injury aside, they’re going to be five and one or six and oh, that’s what they’re going to be. I don’t know what the ravens are going to be. I’m afraid the Ravens might be three and three because of the schedule and where they are.

Leonard Raskin  11:10

It’s tough. I looked at the schedule, saw a piece that ranked the winning percentages of the teams you’re playing against, whatever. I think we’re fifth or sixth toughest schedule in the league?

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Nestor Aparicio  11:22

Well, because you’re in a division where you’re the Steve and are formidable. And as much as we spent the last eight months patting ourselves in the back, mad at Mark Andrews, happy at Lamar, you know, Harbaugh’s got a three year extension, you know, they they made the Justin Tucker story go away, and the mike green thing, and the bank lead, like, all of that hit a joint. Like every it was a one point game, yeah, and the kicker was involved, yeah.

Leonard Raskin  11:49

But, you know, their two point conversions, they lost. They missed three of them. It was just a weird game. The ending was just atrocious. That’s all there is to it. That’s all there is. It’s just atrocious.

Nestor Aparicio  11:59

All right, back onto a better subject, Leonard Raskin is here. Raskin global, Luke and I’ve talked a lot of football. You can go check it out. Browns week. Joe Flacco, all that going

Speaker 1  12:08

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on. Joe Flacco, and how much is Joe making? He’s still playing, My God, how much is he making? Yeah, what are they paying him? I think Joe’s probably got 12 or 15 million on real.

Leonard Raskin  12:21

He got seven years, 110 million here after the Super Bowl. And the sky was falling because they paid Joe so much money they weren’t going to have any other players. Seven years, 110 million.

Nestor Aparicio  12:36

All right, I’m gonna read you his salary here, because it’s just not nearly as much as you think he’s like 100 years old. No, that’s a sink for supper, right? Now, this is a total sink for your supper, right? I get it one year deal. Base salary of 1.2 5 million. Okay, signing bonus of 174 million, which makes it three incentives that could raise his total compensation to 13 million. Okay, roster bonus per game, active bonuses and playing time based incentives. Okay, I have no doubt that Joe Linda wrote this up pretty good per game. Active bonus is $58,000 a week, up to 1 million for the season, incentives up to 7.7 million, with potential bonuses for SNAP percentage and wins in games he plays a significant role

Leonard Raskin  13:21

in well, he’s starting, so I think he’s up to, this is

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Nestor Aparicio  13:23

crazy. I want to rewrite this is fun. Um, playing time. He could earn bonuses for playing a high percentage of snaps in game. He starts with incentives tied to performance for the fourth and subsequent instances of meeting the requirement. He earned $75,000 for every game in which he plays 50% of the snaps, and the Browns win with a trigger. And the Browns win. They didn’t win with a trigger. After the third instance of this happening, he could earn a $1.5 million bonus if he plays 80% or more of the snaps this season.

Leonard Raskin  13:53

Oh my god. Okay, so Joe’s gonna make a few million point How old is he now? I mean, 40. He’s reaching us, baby, 4040. God bless him. I love Joe. I think Joe’s a great human I’ve had nothing but great interactions with Joe over his his career. In my interactions with him, he’s a cool dude. Great guy. Seems to be a great husband, great father. And I hope he makes all the money in the world and loses to the Ravens. But anyway, it’s Flacco week. Keep them in the box. You can’t move. You knock them down. It’s game over. All right, on to more fun things. I gotta out myself here with you. All right, check this out. I have not seen the Orioles win in person in over two years. Every game I’ve gone to, they’ve

Nestor Aparicio  14:41

lost and but how many games you’re going to? Half a dozen. Okay, you can one. You can with two hands.

Leonard Raskin  14:47

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Yeah, half a this was half a dozen.

Nestor Aparicio  14:49

You’ve lost. Six or seven. You’ve lost, lost. You’re off the Dodgers going into the game Saturday, five in a row. Okay, go ahead.

Leonard Raskin  14:55

Okay, so I’m watching, uh, Friday night. Walk Off. Uh, Sam, Well, besides, oh, home run. Fantastic. So I go to the game Saturday with the wife and the boy.

Nestor Aparicio  15:11

Now, was this planned out? Did you buy a ticket? Was it? Cal, Ripken? What was

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Leonard Raskin  15:15

it? Yes, we bought tickets for the Ripken game all that

Nestor Aparicio  15:20

way ahead of time. We’re going

Leonard Raskin  15:22

okay, we’re going okay, hoping to see Otani pitch, at least see Otani hit. He’s a phenom. It’s wild to see. Go to see the Dodgers. Go to see the Orioles seeing him. Yeah, go to see Cal so we get there, there’s some concert at cfg, and the bike race is downtown, so traffic is hell. And they say, Get there early. So we get there early, and the boy has like this problem with his foot. Every now and then his foot acts up, and he has a hard time walking. It’s just a thing. So it was Saturday night, it hit him. Might be the weather, who knows? So we park right near the arena, and there’s a million little girls with parents there for some concert. I don’t know what it was, not my gig. Anyway, it’s raining. It’s raining. We walk to the stadium. We get there plenty time. We get to our seats, we get some

Nestor Aparicio  16:18

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grub. What time was the ceremony supposed to start six, 620

Leonard Raskin  16:23

started at six. At seven, started at seven. Not terrible.

Nestor Aparicio  16:27

I watched it on TV. Terrible. I put the pregame show on at six. It was very clunky, with pieces with Rob long and Melanie. You know, I got the television version of it. I my wife, I talked about it, and I spent a few days out last week, and just kind of getting into the flow. I’ve been working my ass off all month, and I just said to her, You know what, we’re gonna be home all day Sunday watching football like I like Cal, but I think I want to see it on TV if I had a press credential, and I’m not being a jerk, if I had a press credential, and I could say hello to Messina, say hello to Paul marrow, say hello to my friend on the day that Davey Johnson died. Oh my goodness, yeah, so talk about it. And by the way, I did an hour with Alan on Sunday morning, yeah, after Saturday night, just on Davey Johnson, because Alan was my ballpark reporter. Allen was in all of the press conferences all that with he was with me for Jeffrey Mayer Alan that was sitting next to me and Scott garso Watching Jeffrey Mayer in 1996 I mean, we were in left field. We saw it. It was, I’ll never forget it as long as I live. So the Davey Johnson thing happening on Saturday morning? Yeah, he died. And my wife didn’t know a lot about David. She’s a Boston person, right? And I’m like, Man, Davey’s really, really significant Oriole, played with my cousin, played with Jim Palmer, won championships the Met, and is really more famous for the Mets, right? So what a wild day. So I spent the whole morning Davey telling Davey stories to my wife that I later told to Alan, that I haven’t told to Luke yet, that I’m going to, I won’t bore you with it, but, like, Saturday was a baseball day. I didn’t even watch college football show up in my world. I did, of course, my wife and I, like she did, say, Are you sure you don’t want to get out for this Ripken thing? And you know what I said to her, and I spent about a half an hour looking for my press credential from that day, right? And like 2130 with the bet we had a special clubhouse badge. Sure couldn’t find it, because I have so much stuff. The reason I couldn’t find it is it was under glass. Here with the immortal Cal Baltimore Sun um newspaper for 25 it was under glasses. Was under glass so long it faded. And the ticket stub that I had like was on but I have it. I don’t know where it is, and I misplaced it. So Jen’s, like, the whole thing, you’re obsessed with this Ripken thing, and, like, 20 well, like, you sure you don’t want to go because, I mean, look, my wife and I flew to Beijing with Cal and Kelly Ripken, and spent four days with them, in on planes, airplanes, doing things like, I like Cal a lot. I’ve spent a lot of time Cal’s always been more than fair and honest, and I like Cal a ton. But I thought I said to my wife, I just don’t feel like being with people tonight. I didn’t want to be 40,000 I didn’t want to be nasty Nestor walking around the stadium, right? Got it? Yeah? I just didn’t, I didn’t feel social, yeah, at all. Right. So I, I watched it on TV, and I took, I made a night of it. I mean, all the way through, yeah, to the point where the no hitter, my wife and I watching it miraculous, like it was a memorable night. And I remember going downstairs after we get a bowl of ice cream late at night, and I thought to myself, Man, I wish I would have gone. I mean, it’s an all top five all time night, and I felt that way when the no hitter happened, because I am the guy chasing the no hitter. So it wasn’t even a bad cow for me, or ceremonies, or the rain factored into me big time. I look, if it had been perfect, I probably would have gone but the rain made it like i. Ain’t going down there and doing a rain delay went away.

Leonard Raskin  20:03

No, yeah, rain went away. The ceremony started. Lot of good, good dudes on the field. A lot of memories on the field, sirhoff and Musina and Palmero and Bumbry and Eddie. You know, it was great. Jim Palmer, seeing John Miller come back. I was surprising. I thought they might have, wasn’t that awesome men, but he’s, he’s the bomb. I mean, my wife and I are sitting on the love sack

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Nestor Aparicio  20:28

in front of the TV, and they’re in there Kevin Brown’s inner, you know, bringing people out. Yep. And I didn’t even think about Eddie. I didn’t wonder why Bill Ripken wasn’t there. A lot of people,

Leonard Raskin  20:40

right so,

Nestor Aparicio  20:42

but I was there, a fan brought it up. But Brady, you know, like, so I’m watching the broadcast for all this and all these pieces. But there was something when John Miller walked out, awesome. John Miller sat in my studio and sobbed when, after he was thrown out of here,

Leonard Raskin  20:58

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when he talked in broadcast, you know, when he went to the microphone, I thought that it was just Outstanding, outstanding. And then he introduced Cal. Comes out in the the old car rolls around the track, beautiful, by the

Nestor Aparicio  21:12

way, John Miller didn’t just introduce Cal. He made sure that he got an Eddie chant, absolutely. Told an Eddie absolutely on cow night. So everybody would

Leonard Raskin  21:24

yell For indeed, which was already happening. But, yeah, man, it was outstanding. It was this is what I missed out on. That’s, I feel bad. It was outstanding. So raskins are at the game. Had our had our food, watching the game fifth inning, had little ice cream, watching the game. Sixth inning, seventh inning, three to nothing. No hitter, starting to drizzle this guy’s pitching. Lights out. Now, you want to see a no hitter, right? I don’t want to see us lose to a no hitter, really? I don’t really care you if we’re pitching the no hitter,

Nestor Aparicio  22:05

man, when you get to be my age and you walk out of no hitters, and you’re

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Leonard Raskin  22:09

obsessed with no hitters, I’m walking out of the no hitter in the seventh I get to the car, we get in the garage. We pull out of the garage. There’s no traffic because the concert’s still going on. Hold on, you walked out of the no hitter. You heard what I said, and I’m in the car, and it’s the you’re not a

Nestor Aparicio  22:28

baseball fan. You don’t stop your card. No, I just

Leonard Raskin  22:33

lost my baseball fan card. Anyway, we are on 83

Nestor Aparicio  22:37

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lost people in traffic. If you’re one of the guys that walked out of theater.

Leonard Raskin  22:41

We are on 83 north. We get off 83 North Delaney Valley. I’m cruising home. I am two minutes from my house when up walks Jackson holiday two outs bottom of the ninth one strike and smashes a home run over to right field fence.

Nestor Aparicio  23:03

So you’re home watching everything else after Yes, yes, ball one, ball 12, ball 21 oh yeah, yes, hit gunner Henderson. All that. And then, and then you walked out of the grade one of the five greatest Oriole nights ever. Like I I was trying to put paper to pen and say, All right, I’ll give you Delman Young. I’ll give you 2131 right? And then from there, we’re gonna, like, discuss whether the Messina near no hitter, or the curse of the Andino I was at that game, um, the pope coming in, if you’re into such things, or Billy Joel or Paul McCartney.

Leonard Raskin  23:44

So they win the game, and you walk out, I’m sitting on the couch in stunned disbelief, and then what did I say after that? They won because you left right, because I haven’t seen him win in six games in over two years. So if I just stayed, it would have been a no hitter, which it was through two outs in the ninth, they, for sure, would have lost the game.

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Nestor Aparicio  24:10

Listen, you’re a hockey fan. You’re hockey I’m putting you in the box for major misconduct. I’m giving you at least a three game suspension.

Leonard Raskin  24:20

Ravens I never leave the Ravens early. I’m going to

Nestor Aparicio  24:24

do what the NFL is going to do to Lamar. I would send you an envelope and say you’re fined, right? You like, this

Leonard Raskin  24:30

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would be like a guy in the stands. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  24:33

right? Rex Barney, fine, imprisonment, or both. Right? Here we go. There we go. You walked out of a no hitter I did, and walked out of Jackson holiday and walked out of one of the five greatest Camden Yards nights in history.

Leonard Raskin  24:51

I did indeed, I admit it, I admit it, but you got to

Nestor Aparicio  24:55

yell, Eddie. Eddie, and your boy did too. Is that your boy’s first time in his life? Right, that he got the chant Eddie.

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Leonard Raskin  25:01

Of course, he doesn’t. He doesn’t even hardly know who he is, right? I mean, he knows, but that’s it. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

Nestor Aparicio  25:08

I wish I were there for Eddie. I wish, I wish the audience was kind to me, and I wish I could go say hello to John Miller and give him a hug. Because, right, I love John Miller, right? You know, I thought the Ryan Ripken, the first pitch was wonderful. I thought the ceremony was all hokey. I don’t know about being there. It wasn’t. It was hokey. Yeah, I think Cal saw this Hokie and then laughed about it a little bit. But Cal’s like, it’s good to be here with my teammates. And I thought, Oh, look at Larry sheets. That’s Larry sheets. Yep, yep, you know. So looks like he’s ready to play in peak physical condition,

Leonard Raskin  25:43

doing well, the other guys look like they plumped up a little bit. How about Griffey Jr being

Nestor Aparicio  25:49

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there? Yeah, you know, can I tell you a Ken Griffey story? Sure, that was like, This is what I do with my wife, is I tell her these stories. She’s like, You should do this on the air. And I’m like, Well, who would I go with? Raskin and Luke. Don’t want to hear my BS. So Ken Griffey, Jr is famous for hitting. And they showed warehouse, they showed the ball and the spot when they brought him out, and Bonilla came out looking like he gets a million dollars every July 1, right? So, yeah, right. So, um, he looked at a lot of Casey, and Casey in the Sunshine Band. So for me, um, Ken Griffey, whenever I see him. This is my Ken Griffey story, 1993 All Star game, and I’ve told you, I was in the dugout sitting next to Mark McGuire when all that happened. I did not get thrown out of the dugout. The the all star Derby was embargoed. It wasn’t live broadcast. It was taped. It was in the afternoon, sort of late after. Was hot as hell. It was on Monday, right? So with and like the Gala was that night, Getty Lee. I had dinner with Getty Lee that night, so you don’t forget any of this when you’re 23 years old and you’re right, trying to be nasty Nestor, trying to, one day, have a radio station absolutely brag about and then all star games in Baltimore. Your name’s Aparicio, and it’s so I had a press pass, and I’m fully dedicated to spending every I mean, I was downtown at five in the morning, yep, and I was there all day Monday, and I was at the stadium the minute they would let me in. The gates open seven in the morning. I’m in there. And I literally was in the American League clubhouse, which was the Orioles clubhouse as and there were auxiliary club assets. There was more players and more stuff and like all of that. And players weren’t there. And again, the Orioles were well represented. Messina was there, you know, like and Elrod and and some of the coaches and stuff were banging around, like, as assistants and BP and this and that, Greg B Genie is the one that showed me the juice baseballs that he hit and Gonzalez hit, and told me they were baked. They were in the oven. They were warmed like biagini told me they were corked baseballs, like showed me they were corked baseballs in 1990 literally, like, so that’s how the ball hit. The warehouse, the balls were corked without question, I was told by the people who threw them and were in on it, so, but this is 32 years ago, right? So Ken Griffey that morning, I’m in the locker room, and I’m like, Barry Bonds is coming, and John crock Right? Like all of these, Tony Gwynn super like, you know, like, so I’m trying to make friends with people I knew a little bit like Jeff Montgomery, and people that I had gotten to know a little bit that were players, and then walking around and getting bumpers. I have bumpers from all sorts of major celebrities from that day, all the all star players, of that, 80% of them did a bumper. Hi. This is, this is Ben McDonald and you’re listening to the Budweiser sports forum or that, like, I have all of that, so I was going around doing all of that, and while I’m doing it, Ken Griffey walks in, and he looks like he’s got bags under his eyes, or like, like he’s got an overnight bag, a satchel he’s carrying all of his ish in mariners gear. He dumps it down in front of his locker. And I sit there, and I swear to God, he said this to me, because I knew him a little tiny bit from saying all over the same age. He’s a big star at that point, an emerging star. Yeah, you know, he wasn’t an old guy. He was young. He was the kid. He was the kid with the bad cat back, right? The kid, right? So he sits there that morning with me, and I started talking to him, and he said, Yeah, I flew in. We played west coast. I had to take the red eye. I just got out of a cab. I’m here. He’s like, Hey, man, sit here and talk with me so nobody bothers me. So I said Doctor for like, 20 minutes. I mean, just could. I’ll never forget it, because it just was like, and this was not uncommon in that era, right? Like I look like I belonged, I belonged. I hung out. Everybody knew me, people. I talked ball, you know, I mean, I talked real baseball, right? You know, a part of baseball royalty, his father, you know, played against my cousin. And, you know, like in that era and this, well, not really, but across that so, like, I. So I it was a different time where you just sat and talked to these guys. Ken Griffey was one of those guys. I always cheered for. It always like so the fact that he was there, I’m like, we always was one of the great guys. He always was one of the really normal, unaffected. Loved baseball, love being an athlete. Was not a jerk, you know, just a decent person like Joe Flacco, just a really decent guy, really decent guy, that’s

Leonard Raskin  30:23

right, yeah, there you go. Talk to me so nobody else bothers me.

Nestor Aparicio  30:26

Yeah, yeah. Hang on. Talk to me. Somebody else bothers me. Leonard Raskin is here. Uh, he will talk to you about money, about American dreams, about finance. Tell me what you do, in a nutshell.

Leonard Raskin  30:35

Just you said it. We help people figure out what to do with their

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Nestor Aparicio  30:39

money, how not to blow 15 point leads with four minutes left to go right, so that they can go to

Leonard Raskin  30:45

things in their life, do things in their life, retire when they want, put the kids through college, walk out of nowhere. Walk Out of no hitters be disgusted at at the Ravens at 11 o’clock at night because they’re watching the game at home, not in Buffalo sing when the buckeyes beat Grambling State 70 to nothing. What is that? It’s It’s why to watch college football did a makeup game. They were supposed to have somebody else who backed out on him. And so they brought in Grambling because it was a make out game, not a make the only team that was available. Look. They got to give them credit. They only played their starters for the first half, yeah, and then after that, they played pushover. Football is no fun, I agree. And sadly, every team does it too much, but they have a pretty good schedule. When the big 10 gets

Nestor Aparicio  31:31

accounts football change, and once they figure out what it is, I’ll figure out whether I whether I want to be invested. They won against Texas the first game. I’m having a hard enough time with the criminals, you know, in the general sense that run all of this as to how influenced I should be by all of this.

Leonard Raskin  31:47

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You know, man, well, I read last night somebody said the NFL is fixed, and the game last night was destined to end that way, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  31:55

because it’s just yeah, yeah. I don’t know. Listen, it’s the big magic eight ball. I don’t want to get too political, but there are some people on your side of the fence that when they’ve met me, they say, You media all get together and figure out, yeah, that’s what we do, and that’s, that’s what CNN does every morning with NBC. Their heads get together and decide what they’re going to make that just doesn’t work that way. It just doesn’t work. It doesn’t work that way. So, but I did appreciate that Jerry Sandusky, at about two in the morning, I was watching the Late Night with Pete Gilbert and Keith Mills, and Jerry Sandusky did his one off. He’s like and all week long, even the podcasters and which I’m now right, even the podcasters and the Boston pundits will be talking about, you know this, how terrible the loss this is. So hey, man, we didn’t even, we didn’t even beat on him too much. I’ll let you do that next week, and we’ll give Flacco the love. I mean, the good thing is that Saturday night did happen from an Oriole fan perspective. And there was Oriole magic.

Leonard Raskin  32:57

Yes, there was Saturday look, three against the padres, two against the Dodgers. Take your money. Enjoy a game. Don’t walk out on a no hitter. You never know what’s going to

Nestor Aparicio  33:08

happen. Well, you know, I left a no hitter, right? You know this? I get it. You know that story of Bud Smith. I found the ticket the other day looking for that 2131 gear I couldn’t find. When I find my 2131 gear, I’ll put it all up, and you will get to see letter Raskin can be found out at the front of Baltimore positive. Also, our Maryland crab cake tour is back activated next week, we’re going to be at the Beaumont in Catonsville. My wife had a dispute on my my nastiness. Countdown brought to you by curio wellness. I just want to say the lamb chops are delicious at the Beaumont. I will feature them next week, even though I feature the fried lobster out on the tour, because I thought the fried lobsters just that good. Now, that being said, my wife and I Friday night, we we watched Otani, yeah, and we watched the Brazil football game at El Guapo in Catonsville, and I had a bowl of the chicken tortilla soup there. That’s really pozole, P, O, Z, O, L, E, pozole. Um, it’s a Mexican tortilla soup. It? It was so good I took another bowl home, and I insisted it was my pre game meal. Jen’s like, you don’t want chicken wings or playing the bills? I’m like, No, I’m gonna get the chicken tortilla soup at El Guapo above the basement. So I love all three of them, but I picked the fried lobster tail. And I will tell you, Leonard, this is the last week of tastiness. We’re doing the countdown. We’re going to get the number one we need the list, peach cake. Peach cake is going to be involved in this. And if you want peach cake, if you’re listening to my voice here early in the week, go get it. It’s the last week for peach cake. So by the time I feature it, it’s going to be like eggnog in January. Over with so next summer. Oh, time for next you and me. I’m ready for some pumpkin spice, some autumnal flavor. And so do the pumpkin spice more football? Well, I mean, we got to play better football. That’s awesome. That’s all, all right, I’m trying

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Leonard Raskin  34:58

to do, well, do it. I’m trying to play. Echoes permit out. Gotta purge it out, trying to find

Nestor Aparicio  35:03

my purple Mojo and my therapy here, some people do aroma therapy. I do peach cake. I am Nestor. He is Lennon Raskin. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. Big thanks to gboc for sponsoring our new hotline around here and our guest line and all the good things and trying to keep me on the healthy side of the street. I’ll be talking more about that at Baltimore positive you.