After a glorious summery day and a 37-3 rout over the Seattle Seahawks, our Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss the surging Ravens and the importance of next 10 days and winning key AFC North matchups with formidable Browns and Bengals.
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Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home we are wn st am 1570, Towson Baltimore and we we never stop talking. Baltimore positive and Baltimore sports. It’s certainly the 72 Baltimore Ravens this week the Maryland crabcake towards getting back out on the road. I’m going to have these ravens scratch offs in the Maryland lottery to give away beginning on Friday at fade Lee’s we are moving the tour around we’re going to a lot of place we’re gonna be cost this next week on Tuesday. We’re going to be a Pappas, which is this guy’s favorite crab cake in Parkville. We’re going to the park the original the the homestead for Pappas on the 21st of the month we’re going to be down in Annapolis with the governor. We’re going to be at gertrudes at the BMA on the 30th We’re gonna be back at Coco’s on the 29th we’re going to be at State Fair in early December as well. And this guy would come have a crab cake at all these places but he’s gonna be too busy counting all those ravens victories and certainly pretty busy this week with the Cleveland Browns and Cincinnati and he asked me calling them the bank owls now. Although the chili may have done that to me back in the day, let a Raskin joins us now. He is our money manager in our financial i in the sky at all things. Raskin global and certainly the guy from the club level on Sunday as the Ravens continue to be impressive, right? I mean, like this is your season ticket holder or PSL holder.
Leonard Raskin 01:19
Yeah, it was. It was hot in the crowd. It was sunny 75 degree November Sunday in Baltimore. And had shorts and the jersey on and it was hot. It was hot. I want the sunny side so it’s a great thing if you’re upstairs in the shade. It might have been chilly but sitting in the club on the sunny side on a Sunday it was a beautiful Baltimore day a a what do they call it? A postcard perfect postcard postcard. That’s it?
Nestor Aparicio 01:51
I thought it was two. I mean, it was It was magnificent. And I wasn’t at the game but we had our own tailgate we fired the girl up we had sausages no beer. Don’t tell Jack’s deal. I had beer during the game, because I’ll never get back in but but we had some like legitimate peppers and onions. I mean, we we did it up here and and then the Ravens went out and really did it cracked me right.
Leonard Raskin 02:13
They did it up. I would have thought if you’d asked me pregame Saturday, Friday, what’s going to happen? I just said maybe 1613 10 two tough defense is some decent offense on both sides, you know, depending on how we play could be better but 37 to three and it could have been 44 It could have been 51 and they throttled them. They throttle them as I looked at the stats game and ravens to was it 298 Rushing and and the Seahawks had 29 It ain’t many a game you go to where there’s a 10 to one edge in rushing and almost a two to one time of possession. It was a beat down. I thought Gino was was a little better than that. They paid him a lot of money to take over the reins there and he just he threw to the other Gino instead.
Nestor Aparicio 03:12
Oh, if the 272 and he just went 37. Three. There’s a lot of things we could talk about. But I think the lead story here a is their health. Yep. The fact that they’re healthy. They’re putting a roster together. They’re good at drafting. They’re good at how they spend their free agent money. They’re great and how they identify veteran players whether it’s Kyle van Noy, yeah. Whether it’s back to ACORN Bolden or back to Matt Burke finding players that are already in the league who are doing this row Quan Smith being in
Leonard Raskin 03:43
the second round draft pick a team could ever have
Nestor Aparicio 03:48
to pay him $80 million. Okay. He was where they’re managing their money. They’re managing their cap, this Lamar expenditure of 20% of their cap. They’ve known that this was going to be the case. Maybe Lamar didn’t know but they knew they were going to be able to absorb all of this, but calvia noi, and picking up clowny who was a one one he’s not surprised at all right, it’s cool, but they all needed to be healthy. All these 30 year old guys play healthy and play at the
Leonard Raskin 04:15
top of their game. And apparently I mean, they are the if you’re a quarterback for the opposition, you don’t know where it’s coming from. You got Hamilton off the edge. You got Pierce up the middle. You got Vannoy I mean, everybody’s coming. Everybody’s coming and they’re not blitzing a lot. They’re just coming and the coverage. This is what blows my mind. How good the coverages because clearly, the reason they’re getting to the quarterback is he’s got to hold the ball. The ball is you know, but it’s also because they’re covering the wideouts. I mean, they’re covering guys. There’s not a lot of room between receiver and and db which is beautiful, especially, especially on a day when they honored crew Chris McAllister,
Nestor Aparicio 05:00
well, if about their health, and we talk about the lead story, it’s amazing health, defense, bend, Lamar, and not even really Lamar more the distribution of the whole offense to be able to run the ball and loose
Leonard Raskin 05:17
and how many guys? How many guys caught a pass? Well, distributing the budget guys caught a pass. And then you got you got three. Look at the at the fourth quarter that game on Sunday, the day still had three fresh running backs except I think, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Mitchell ran out of gas. They’re on the run looked like he just said, I can’t take anymore. I just can’t run another inch. And then he went down
Nestor Aparicio 05:43
on having his dad on this week. So I it’s a great story, isn’t it? Yeah. Well, you know, I have this picture that the late great Bobby Nick took of me from above the tunnel in Tennessee, in a stadium that they’re going to rip down and to build a new one already. And into all this Maryland stadium authority stuff and I highly encourage you’re on the other side of the aisle. Tom Kelso came on, by all means, please. You know what we’re giving Steve Ashati. And what we’re giving off your Angelo’s family to just keep the team’s here, but I’m in Tennessee, and they had won the game. It was the Ray Lewis Eddie George game it was you know, it was the the who was the kicker on al del Greco. Right. All this is Eddie George. That was all documented. They’re all documented purple. Right one. And there’s a picture that Bobby Nick took of me and Anthony Mitchell in the in the tunnel and I knew Anthony. I mean, he wasn’t. Yeah, I knew all the players. I spent a lot of time around the team guys were friendly to me. I knew how do you think I knew Mike Flynn and Spencer full name, guys. I just write everybody on the team. It wasn’t just about like shining Ray Lewis’s shoes or whatever. Yep. But Anthony Mitchell’s is the star and like I knew him. I’m like, Hey, go come to my show tomorrow, and have a picture of me asking him to come on to the barn the next day. Then pictures at the barn the next day where they brought the Tennessee and newspaper right we kicked their ass and I got John, I didn’t hold it up. So it’s an unbeliever.
Leonard Raskin 07:15
It was a baby born by then,
Nestor Aparicio 07:17
you know? Hold on, let
Leonard Raskin 07:20
me was that.
Nestor Aparicio 07:22
This is great. This is great fodder. Because that is Keaton Mitchell was born. Let’s find out.
Leonard Raskin 07:28
He would have been Oh my god. I was gonna say he wouldn’t even know he wouldn’t even know. He wasn’t even on the show. A year later, right? Right. He couldn’t have even come on the show. He wasn’t even a twinkle in his father’s.
Nestor Aparicio 07:39
I’m gonna have to ask Anthony. He made a baby a year and a week after they won the Super Bowl. It must have been a hell of a honeymoon. I mean, wherever Anthony was in March or April of 2001, probably where I was. I know where you were. You were thrown out of the house because you’ve we’ve been through this with you and your wife. Absolutely. You had to go buy her a couch for going no, she’s
Leonard Raskin 07:58
great. She she went and bought a couch for the right, right. Except when I got back
Nestor Aparicio 08:09
at Mitchell Keaton Anthony Mitchell was born. I’m gonna have to ask about the word the name Keaton to born in McDonough Georgia. On January 17, of 2000 in 2002. I got socks older than
Leonard Raskin 08:25
me, right. You had a day. He had a day it looked like Gus was gonna have a day. Gus ended up I think was like 20 yards but he scored two touchdowns and and Odell Beckham got a touchdown on his birthday. Oh, how sweet was a cake and a cake a cake. I didn’t know about the cake. What
Nestor Aparicio 08:41
do you make of your Mr. Fan Guy love to let you win. Look, I went back and forth on Odell Beckham and given him Yeah, a million dollars a week and laugh because I’m thrown out you know this I watch the games on TV. Now I get to listen to Tony Romo. When you get Romo and dance in and you listen to them, even if you go to the game and I know you do, yeah, you should tape it and watch Good. Good no listen to it. Okay, because they sit with the player and they’re respected at an absolutely Lamar Jackson sits with Tony Romo. Chad Steele says Lamar is gonna give you 10 minutes and Lamar might sit there for half an hour because he wants to talk to Tony Romo. And then these guys get information that I hear in the games Yep. About Well, Lamar didn’t like this about about Greg Roman. And I hear new things because you’re all talking now stuff that they’ve said last year. Body now that they’re having success. Here are the things that Lamar didn’t like about Greg Roman. So we hear all of this in the broadcast and early in the game back and gets his catch his steps out of bounds right and Tony Romo says that’s his 15 catches a year and I’m like, It’s November 5, so a lot of money matches $15 million. What’s the value of all this? He might catch six passes for We’re at our to catch the game winner in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. That is, and that’s why they brought him they
Leonard Raskin 10:06
brought him I think for his Moxie and and his from everything I hear and I don’t hear enough or as much but his locker room you know he’s a star obviously and he’s a prima donna obviously but his his locker room presence is apparently amazing and everybody he’s ever played with say he’s a phenomenal teammate and he must just have that going on and then some but see
Nestor Aparicio 10:33
that maybe you did on the scoreboard or in the highlights chose the touchdown pass to Odell the Mars the flake
Leonard Raskin 10:43
going crazy, not
Nestor Aparicio 10:45
just for Snoop but for Odell Brodo like because snips thrown over and other touchdown passes before in playoffs. It didn’t matter as much. He wasn’t there to congratulate him last year was right. But
Leonard Raskin 10:55
he was a he was a pro bowler man. He was a pro bowl.
Nestor Aparicio 10:59
I know we joked about that this week. There’s so much Geno Smith. But back home was something I brought up with Luke Lehner. And I said, that’s genuine. That’s genuine. This notion that they were going to sign Odell Beckham to to ease along Lamar wanting to come back at Lamar wanting to play with a star. Yeah. And that Lamar respects this guy in a way that when Shannon Sharpe came here worked out with Ray Lewis and Ray had his problems in the way that I back when I was reading the real medium. Not that Yeah, right up. But when I was in the real media, I saw this five days a week with Rod Woodson and Ray Yeah, I still see this day with Rod Woodson. Rod Woodson is one of the great people I’ve ever met on the planet. They imported this heart and and they’ve done this all along, right. Whether it was Matt Burke, whether it was Anquan Boldin, they bring
Leonard Raskin 11:51
the guys that’s who they find. That’s what they find that other teams I think don’t other teams find a veteran who adds nothing but a player to their team. The Ravens have been very good about finding guys that add character, along with player time. I
Nestor Aparicio 12:10
mean, they can also Earl Thomas, in every version of Jeremy Maclin, and they brought Steve Smith in who was a really large personality. Yeah, and certainly can rub a lot of people the wrong way. Right, like Steve, I do, but I’m not. Not everybody
Leonard Raskin 12:28
would be wrong. Absolutely. Six
Nestor Aparicio 12:30
months of living with Steve Smith, Steve Smith was a was was a difficult personality and a basis. He wasn’t the easiest fellow in the world for anyone. And but he was talented as hell cared more than Yep. Yep. Anybody set an example? I mean, I’m not and he’s really strong personalities to come in rod Sidwell. Right. And going back to goose going back to McCrary. Right. Yeah, for bringing in these exes that are 30 years old paying them. I mean, everybody in the wide receivers room all their money together, got an equal back. And it’s relativity is not going to equal that. And I think you know that when you sign him that’s not Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 13:15
that’s right. You signed him for his leadership. You hope his character and and his bravado and, and I think one of the things that you get with him, and we all knew I predicted, you didn’t think so maybe I don’t know. But that Lamar was going to be a raven, and he was gonna get paid. But one of the things that backup does is he takes the salary heat off a lumbar, it’s not even an issue. Nobody talks about it. He’s just there
Nestor Aparicio 13:42
seven and two. I mean, well,
Leonard Raskin 13:44
if they were two and seven everybody be talking about. I mean, Leonard, that’s right. No, you’re
Nestor Aparicio 13:48
absolutely right. That that nothing punched around in Arizona, that they lost it to Indianapolis in Pittsburgh when they shouldn’t have you tried with that? Shell
Leonard Raskin 13:56
seven and two, and you got the chance. Let’s face it with a big upcoming, what week and a half to
Nestor Aparicio 14:05
four days. Well,
Leonard Raskin 14:06
I’m saying yeah, you got you got Sunday. Cleveland with who knows who’s gonna be the quarterback and Deshaun Watson. Well, yeah, he had he had a game. And how about the browns, destroying the cardinals who gave away their quarterback to Minnesota who won the game in Minnesota pulled out a victory having had the playbook for like a day and a half.
Nestor Aparicio 14:37
I know what I loved is I had Luke on Monday morning, and he’s like, who was the guy from the Cardinals that even played quarterback? And I had to look him up. Here’s his name. His name is Clayton tune t u and Layton to it’s right there with Spurgeon when rush right there like they lost 27 and a half and the kid was 11 for 20 for 58 yards and two interesting matches with the quarterback rating a 20.8.
Leonard Raskin 15:03
But on the other side what a Shawn
Nestor Aparicio 15:05
Watson play well and yeah,
Leonard Raskin 15:07
yeah so we’re gonna have to shut him down and then you got Joe burrow with a hangnail but he’s he’s running. He’s moving. And Joe burrow on the move is tougher than a Joe burrow standard still, which is who we beat in Cincinnati. So we got a Sunday Thursday that’s going to be big. And boy if if nine and two comes out a Thursday night put the bed put the division to bed. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 15:35
well, that’s that’s the opportunity here while Cleveland is is surging, they’re playing better. Yep. Cincinnati clearly playing better. Yeah, benefit that they’re coming here on four days rest for what? Absolutely. What these teams prepared. This is second time around. Yeah, both of these teams to see them are to see the Mongkut offense to deal with ro Quan Smith in the middle and a pretty healthy team. Let her ask you to see your I’m wearing the shirt. It is Raskind globally. That’s really that’s a whole planet there that I had. There you go. That’s actually just North American, South America. That’s all we could get. The whole planet can’t show the whole planet on the shirt. On the shirt. I did see. What do you do with these guys? Because you and I are different politically and we’ll certainly get into the war and the stadium. And we’ll do all that next week because we have a lot of football this week. And next week we’re going to be between these two games or whatever. But I saw a guy in the airport when I flew out to Vegas last week his shirt said the earth is flat. He was literally he was a flat earther and I thought to myself, what do you do with those people?
Leonard Raskin 16:35
Earth is flat. You just laugh at that guy? What is he talking? What does that mean? Does that mean you said the Earth was flat? Yeah, I don’t know what that I don’t know what that shirt is. In your
Nestor Aparicio 16:45
eyes. The earth is flat. He’s standing in an airport where when you go up you can see the sphere of the earth.
Leonard Raskin 16:49
I guess if that’s a saying that means something politically.
Nestor Aparicio 16:52
He was. I heard him speaking out loud about it. And I’m like, Oh, wow.
Leonard Raskin 16:57
So he’s just LDS How do you
Nestor Aparicio 17:04
feel tries to portray to his buddies and I’m not a real media member. Or
Leonard Raskin 17:08
Star Trek fan or your Star Trek fan. Now Star Wars guy. Okay. Well, there was a Star Trek movie. Back in the day where they had to come back to Earth to save the humpback whales. They had to go back in time. Save the humpback whales from extinction. They were in California. And there’s Kirk and Spock on a bus. And Spock says something crazy and and Kirk says they’re like 80s or 90s. US California. And Kirk says too much LDS so so clearly these this guy with a flatter shirt. I don’t know what side of the aisle that guy is on. I think he’s on the wrong side of the world. He clearly is has never been up in a plane if he’s at the airport. What the heck’s going on there? I don’t know. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 17:51
well, yeah. From for you. And for hockey. The season has begun.
Leonard Raskin 17:56
Oh, there we go. capsure plane. They’re actually winning a couple games that we’ve had a
Nestor Aparicio 18:01
tragedy in hockey and I go back to the melodic thing and I don’t know and I knew you know, he played Yeah, or later on I was Yeah, room with him after that. It’s one of those things that like I don’t it’s like all this awful video coming out of the Middle East. It’s terrible and tragedy and horror and chicken the day watch it, you know, these videos they would sell and stuff like that. But but when it comes to sport and hockey, I mean, even seeing tomorrow, Hamlin. And you know, everyone went on Sunday night. I don’t need to see or know that. No, I
Leonard Raskin 18:34
didn’t see it. I didn’t see it. I heard about it. I don’t want to see it. But this this guy who played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, which we got to respect that for the moment. Although we hate all the things Pittsburgh I guess my opinion. The day he was playing in and not the NHL, but a minor league or an off league game and apparently went down and another guy skate came up and these blades are Yeah, beyond razor enough enough. Yeah, right and got his throat and he died. You know he instantly and think back to Clint Maillard, Chuck, who was goalie for the Cavs back in the day. And he got sliced one evening and was pumping out on the ice and a doctor who grabbed him jumped on the ice life grabbed him saved his life and they said if he’d had been at the other end of the rink, he wouldn’t have made it. And now TJ Oshie. capital’s is, has become I don’t know if it’s the first or second whatever player now wearing a neck guard, right during games and said you know what, I hadn’t thought about it. I hadn’t thought about it. But I’ve got a young family, a wife and children and I’ve gone into those corners. And I need to make sure that that I’m here for them and it’s a piece of equipment that exists. And now you’re seeing other guys for the caps start to pick it up and start to wear this thing. And so this is a the non fun part of hockey that you got to think about but if you think about hockey, let’s face it, I was a kid watching hockey when the goalies didn’t wear a mask. Oh, right.
Nestor Aparicio 20:17
And and helmets carry no helmets guys that were grandfathered into not wearing Yeah, yeah, I
Leonard Raskin 20:23
remember. Yeah, I remember the day. I think Ron do gay was was one of the last with the flowing locks to not wear a helmet. There was a guy up in Edmonton a couple of them but you can’t even imagine a hockey
Nestor Aparicio 20:35
he may be one of those. I mean, I’m old you can imagine
Leonard Raskin 20:40
a game today without goalies not just wearing helmets, but these these things that are made to deflect the force of the puck and shoot it off, you know and not be injured by it. And
Nestor Aparicio 20:54
the morning skates all the time right over at Mount Pleasant down at Columbia when you know, down at piney orchard. I’ve been down to Kettler and and the viciousness of a hockey puck. Yeah, like when you talk about the playing basketball in the fight up in the Auburn Hill later going, you know, into the stands and I mean, I saw a football player take out a Miami Dolphins staffer took his legs out to the shoulder around Sunday morning just watching the game just like your sidelines. I’ve been on the sidelines at NFL games. It’s held down there right like like I I’m serious. I’ve been in I get it but a hockey. They did the netting up after the death out in Columbus. Yes right years ago. And now you go to Ohio. My dad wouldn’t recognize all that. No baseball dude. I hadn’t been to like a baseball game in a while where I was paying attention. I went to Camden Yards and third baseline and baseball is kneaded now, because they
Leonard Raskin 21:53
hold a foul pole basically. Yeah, man I don’t. And when you’re in when you’re in the hockey game, know when you’re in the hockey game, man that pucks on the ice coming right at you. You can you can flip a puck up, that’s not even a hard shot. And it’ll hit you in the face and slice you open. I mean, that thing’s a frozen piece of rubber. Right at your skin.
Nestor Aparicio 22:13
I’ve seen a lot of people get you know, over the years at the Capitol center and whatnot. Yeah, we didn’t have that problem at skipjack games because there weren’t any people to hit. But you hear all the team here. I’ll be in the Catskills this weekend planned. Let her ask you this here. I’ll be doing a crab cake tour. By the way, you come to Papist Parkville and get a crab cake. I
Leonard Raskin 22:33
gotta check the dates as soon as I you got to email me to schedule it as soon as I have the dates. I’ll throw it on my calendar. We’ll see what I can be shedule
Nestor Aparicio 22:41
for the afternoon. Yes, 21st of November. This is in advance of one of your favorite eating holidays Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Tuesday before Thanksgiving, two to five. And I would be very thankful if
Leonard Raskin 22:54
I will do my best to become the PI will do my best to get it on the schedule as soon as possible so that it’s blanketed on there will
Nestor Aparicio 23:02
be pumpkin pie, sir. From what I understand. I am all about last hockey Backstrom. Yeah, I mean, yes. You talked about Yeah, he contributed to the caps, right. I
Leonard Raskin 23:11
don’t know what’s going on there. I I don’t know if he’s retired. Or if he’s just out but it made it. Everything sounds like he’s done. It’s very Swedish. It’s the same state. Everything sounds like he’s done. I’m stepping away for a while. He recovered. He had bad stuff a couple years ago. He was out for the whole almost the whole season, came back had a great ending of the season. figured he’s ready and camp this year, ready to go start the season off. And half a dozen games in. He announced that he’s stepping away from the team for his health. And I think I think that was his way of saying I’m retired because guys are talking about him. Like he’s retired. So I don’t think he’s stepping away for a week or a month. I think he’s done. And I think that has is going to have a big impact on our veterans ability to catch Gretzky on the scoring record. Because Nikki set him up like nobody’s business. And teams are focused on him now more than that more than they even have been, but and he’s getting a little older, a little slower. And I think his his pursuit of Gretzky scoring record may be in jeopardy or heaven forbid it happens somewhere else.
Nestor Aparicio 24:28
I think you should shave next year. Get an eight jersey, you should go next Halloween as Ovechkin. There you go. I mean, seriously, you could be Ovechkin next year,
Leonard Raskin 24:36
I got the gray hair, I gotta cut some more. They’re off to the end
Nestor Aparicio 24:39
of an era but I’ll say this. And this is something that they can only hope for Lamar here in his superstardom is you win one, you know, one, you know what I mean? It sounds like Ted Leone just managed it. Well. It’s not like he didn’t have it all up with with with Barry trots, but they got one and they jumped into foul and then they had a good time and so did the national right That’s something that the Angelo’s family doesn’t know from at this point, something that Steve knows about normal cares about. Everybody else is chasing it. And, you know, so for the capitals, the band breaks up at some point, you know?
Leonard Raskin 25:11
Exactly right. Well, the Beatles are coming out with a new album. Now and then
Nestor Aparicio 25:16
I heard that. Absolutely. Hey, Leonard, I appreciate you as always, if you are investing money if you’re invested if you’re unhappy with your investor, you got questions. You don’t have answers. Let Raskin is your guy. He’s our guy. He’s at Raskin global. You can also find him out on the web at Rascon global.com with a whole bunch of q&a, a whole bunch of education one on one and what to do what not to do, but the first thing you want to do is get some help make sure you have professional sounds linear and your American dream you could find Raskind global at Rascon global.com. And Leonard’s wisdom out on the front of Baltimore positive as well. Hey, rest up man. We got two games next week, man towel off
Leonard Raskin 25:50
two games, big division times. Well, I
Nestor Aparicio 25:54
got my eyes on this Maryland stadium authority thing Tom Kelso joined us last week. It’s the smart guys like Lennar Raskin who manage money and manage money for lots of people that need to understand you understand the value of $300 million. And what that represents to the to the citizens of the state. I am fully on board. Neal DeMoss from field schemes joins us this week as well. Anthony Mitchell, the dad of Keaton, Mitchell, God, I’m old as hell yeah. This week, the stars of Purple Rain one appearing and Purple Rain three. I am Nestor. We are WNS da and 1570, Towson Baltimore. We never stopped talking good stuff around here. Baltimore positive stay with us.
