Did you know that Tom Davis was once in a movie scene in Baltimore with the legendary Al Pacino? We did and Max Weiss has promised Nestor a full treatment of all memorable local movie history in the next edition of Baltimore Magazine. They continue their holiday chat about bad referees, big money Orioles signings and what’s on the table at Di Pasquale’s in Canton on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
Nestor J. Aparicio and Max Weiss discuss the Baltimore sports scene and holiday plans. Nestor mentions his recent colonoscopy and holiday indulgence. They talk about the Ravens’ $40 million extension with Travis Jones and the Orioles’ $155 million deal with Pete Alonso. Max questions the implications for Adley Rutschman and the team’s roster. They also debate the controversial officiating in a recent Ravens game. Max shares her excitement about the upcoming Baltimore Magazine issue featuring Tom Davis. Nestor outlines his upcoming events, including a fitness plan and various holiday appearances. They conclude with a light-hearted discussion about holiday food traditions.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Get New Year’s Eve hats from Planet Fitness for the show on December 22nd.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring kielbasa home to celebrate the holidays.
Holiday Celebrations and Initial Banter
- Nestor J. Aparicio welcomes listeners to WNST AM 1572, House of Baltimore, and mentions his holiday indulgence in nuts, cookies, and candy canes.
- Nestor talks about his upcoming events, including a fitness plan and a new location for a sponsor event in Timonium.
- Nestor shares a personal anecdote about a colonoscopy at GBMC and his increased appetite post-procedure.
- Nestor recalls a recent show at Faidley’s with Matt Gallagher and Torping Green, emphasizing their casual conversation.
Ravens and Orioles News Updates
- Nestor announces the Ravens’ three-year, $40 million extension with defensive tackle Travis Jones.
- Nestor mentions the Orioles’ five-year, $155 million deal with former Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, brought by Cole Roofing and Gordian Energy.
- Max Weiss and Nestor discuss the significance of these deals, with Max noting the rarity of the Orioles winning a free agent bid.
- Nestor and Max speculate on the implications for Adley Rutschman and the Orioles’ roster, including the potential roles of Pete Alonso and Ryan Mountcastle.
Orioles Roster and Future Plans
- Nestor and Max discuss the Orioles’ recent signings and their impact on the team’s future, including the potential roles of Adley Rutschman, Pete Alonso, and Ryan Mountcastle.
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of the Orioles’ young core and the need for additional pitching to complement their offensive acquisitions.
- Max raises the question of Jeremiah Jackson’s role, with Nestor envisioning him as a versatile player with around 200-300 at-bats.
- Nestor and Max discuss the potential of Robert Trevor Rogers and Kyle Bradish to win 20 games each, with Nestor expressing skepticism.
Ravens Officiating Controversy
- Max Weiss and Nestor discuss the controversial officiating in the Ravens’ recent game against the Steelers, with Max expressing frustration over the calls.
- Max highlights the significance of the game for first place and the rivalry, suggesting that the referees took the win away from the Ravens.
- Nestor and Max debate the rules and the impact of the calls, with Nestor noting the importance of possession and the ball crossing the line for a touchdown.
- Max mentions the confusion caused by the mic being off during the overturned touchdown, adding to the controversy.
Baltimore Magazine and Upcoming Events
- Max Weiss talks about the upcoming issue of Baltimore Magazine, which features an article by Tom Davis about meeting Al Pacino.
- Nestor and Max discuss their plans for the holiday season, including events at Honeys, Costas, and Dundalk, and a fitness plan for the new year.
- Nestor shares his decision to try kielbasa from DiPasquale’s instead of his usual Polish sausage, adding a new twist to his holiday celebrations.
- Max and Nestor discuss their favorite holiday traditions, with Max mentioning sauerkraut as a unique Baltimore tradition for Thanksgiving.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Baltimore Magazine, sports, holiday eats, Ravens, Orioles, Pete Alonso, Travis Jones, Adley Rutschman, free agent, officiating controversy, fitness plan, Maryland crab cake tour, John Waters, holiday events.
8SPEAKERS
Speaker 1, Max Weiss, Nestor J. Aparicio
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:00
Welcome all we are W, N, S T am 1572 House of Baltimore. If I talk funny, it’s because I’ve got nuts and cookies and almonds and pistachios and little pine nuts stuck in my cheese because we’re deep in squalies. I’m eating cookies. I’m celebrating the holidays. I’m with dear friends. Max Weiss is here as she’s the editor in chief all things Baltimore magazine. It’s all brought to you my friends at the my friends at the Maryland lottery, I Raven scratch offs to give away. I’m getting to the candy canes. My bag will smell like peppermint by the time I get to Costas next week, we’re gonna be at honeys and hail Thor. We’re gonna be Gertrude at the BMA. Maybe John Waters will come by me. Please, John, come see me. We’ll do the show from the bathroom. And then on Monday, the 22nd I’m gonna work all these cookies off. I’m going to plan a fitness and we’re getting ready for 2026 with one of our sponsors in a new location in Timonium. I’m going to sit in the rejuvenation bed and get a water massage and pretend that I’m lifting weights and getting tough. Sounds nice? Well, I’m eating a lot. It’s the holidays. I had this I had a colonoscopy, and it was like, GBMC, thank you. Help save my life. And you know, but I’ve been really hungry since the last two weeks. I just keep eating. I don’t know if that’s a thing or not, but I’m like a machine at this point. And I was at faidley’s on Wednesday, doing the show, right one o’clock. I had Matt Gallagher. I had torping Green from St Francis Community Center on and it was like you and me right now, we’re BS, where I haven’t looked at my phone since you’ve been here, literally, right? You’ve looked you’re tethered. You’re like the editor in chief. You’re I’ve looked at my phone.
Max Weiss 01:27
I have to look up the 12 Monkeys. I was the name of the film that was driving me crazy before that. I couldn’t think of I have to do it.
Nestor J. Aparicio 01:34
8Oh, my God. What? Ravens agreed a three year, $40 million extension with defensive tackle Travis Jones, breaking news. This happened 1140 this happened just at W NSC tech services was a great thing to have if you have it yesterday at 104 I was doing. I was having a pub cake, and I looked down it says, Orioles agreed a five year $155 million how about that with former Mets first baseman Pete Alonso, yes. Brought you by Cole roofing and Gordian energy.
Max Weiss 02:01
Thank you, Billy, what was your reaction to that
Nestor J. Aparicio 02:05
I spent some money. Ain’t my money? Yes, what? I ate my money, right? But this better baseball team a my money.
Max Weiss 02:11
What is the last big free agent we spent? Right? I mean, think about that. Three. I mean, so this was an important thing, you know, it said, Finally, we’re getting what we were hoping for with Rubenstein, that he’s willing to put his money
8Nestor J. Aparicio 02:32
where his the one that’s really running the place, but you can look into that. But the but the money, Eric Eddie’s money’s pretty good, too. Okay.
Max Weiss 02:41
Okay. Anyway, it was just, I mean, I hate to say it, I don’t dislike the Mets. You know, the Mets are fine, but there was your New York, so many Mets tears. I mean, the Mets fans are just beside them, and it was so rare for it to be the Orioles who come out on the winning side of one of these, because normally we’re the ones crying because our favorite player got picked up by some other team, or we thought we were in the running for something, but it did. I mean to get that text now I don’t sign up for, you know, the New York Post. Oh, you gotta bereave,
03:19
1969 my daddy got even
Max Weiss 03:21
8with you. I feel sorry for the Mets fans. The shot of Freud is real, like, come on, this is But here’s my question to you, and I’m glad that we’re, you know, having this conversation with you. What does this mean for Adley retchman? Because I feel like this. Here’s why. Okay, we signed Samuel, boss, IO to a long term deal. He’s not a catcher. He’s not a catcher. No. So you think, what is he? Then he’ll be the first baseman. Then what’s Pete Alonso gonna be the first baseman? So we’re gonna have two
Nestor J. Aparicio 03:52
first baseman, Pete Alonso be the DH, by the time he’s 20 or 34 so you think there’s a world where we’re gonna keep besides professionally. So I
Max Weiss 04:02
defer. To you.
Nestor J. Aparicio 04:03
First things, first things first. The fact that someone picked us goes back to Rod Woodson and Shannon sharp and Tony sir, guys wanting to play here and be here, which opened the door. No one has wanted to play here. That’s right. And the line that Angelo says people would use, we’re in on, we were in on him. We were in on to share a we were in on Schwarber. And that’s why, when Luke and I talked late into the evening on Wednesday, his takeaway was, well, they said they were in on schwaR. But we’ve been here in in on for 20 years, in on, in on right, and finishing second is you might as well finish 22nd it doesn’t matter. So the Schwarber thing, when it didn’t happen the next day that they spend this money, I don’t know if it’s great money. I don’t know that first baseman are going to age well, I mean, we had Chris Dave like, you know, but it ain’t my money. And does it make the team better this year? Right here? Right. Now it does. Does it sell tickets? No, does it sell full confidence, no, does it up their pitching? No, wait,
8Max Weiss 05:05
you don’t think it sells tickets. I think there’s going to be a lot of enthusiasm around the Orioles next year, and we’ll see. You know, you have to win to
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:14
enthusiasm is different than my credit card. I’m enthusiastic about them right now. They get my money, and they’ll get my money on Seat Geek on a Tuesday night in April when the tickets are $14 and they’re playing the Mets or whatever, you know, like
Max Weiss 05:26
you were on the fence about, you know, am I gonna renew my season tickets to the to the Orioles and then they sign a Pete Alonso, you’re and then,
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:33
8put further from doing it, right? I would agree. Yeah, it’s a tour, not in a way. I said I’m not against this deal. I’m against anything that makes him competitive, but you’re asking about the catching in the first baseman. Catching in the first basement of money. Yes, yes. Ryan mountcastle Is the guy out now, and Kobe mayo, there’ll be no at bats for them, right? Okay, right. So mount Castle, they gave an $8 million but they only, they’re only on the hook for 20% of it in some way. So they’re going to be more deals. They need to get a picture. They either get a pitcher to a deal or through free agency, they spent a lot of money. They dealt their future pitcher away. One year, outfielder is gonna hit 30 home runs, but what they tried to do was fortify the right side of the offense. Get two right handed power hitters, the catching first base thing. Rushman is the catcher right now. Messiah is going to be a DH, kind of, can he make it? Guy? I think he’ll be more of the DH, in the early go. One thing about Alonso, he plays under 55 games. Okay? He plays every day. Okay? He’s not now, whether they can say, We want you to DH, once a week in the effort to keep you, you’re 31 now you’re 32 you’re 33 Yeah, they sign him through his 36 they’re gonna pay him $35 million when he’s 36 he will be a DH, when he’s 36 he
Max Weiss 06:49
just will be. So you think there’s a world where we keep all three of those guys, Richmond, Alonso and beseo, they’re all gonna be on the team this year? Sure? This year? Yeah. Oh, sure, right. Because we still have, oh my god,
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:00
besides, got hit $78 million rush, million dollars rushman. Yeah. Now would they deal rushman away? That would make beside her the catcher? Yeah, they don’t want beside the cat.
Max Weiss 07:09
Okay, I didn’t know that. I thought he could. He’s a bat, okay, okay.
8Nestor J. Aparicio 07:12
Now he’s a hitter who can catch. Here’s one, and that’s what you do. AAA, then when you get to the big leagues, when you’re a hitter who can catch, they find a catcher and do something else with you.
Max Weiss 07:20
Okay, okay, okay, here’s one more thing, and this name does not come up, but I don’t forget. What about my boy? Jeremiah Jackson, who was the best hitter on the team left.
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:32
He’s the Swiss Army knife. Yeah, so he’s, yeah, I think they envision him as a guy that’s gonna get 200 to 300 at bats. Yeah? Okay, you know. And he would be a Sunday right fielder and DH and move around the outfield, but
Max Weiss 07:48
8because people forget he was the best hitter on the team last year, for a minute, for me, for a long
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:53
minute, Robert Trevor Rogers and Kyle Bradish are expected to win 20 games each this year. Yeah, I don’t know how that’s gonna go. Yeah, and Rodriguez was in the Hall of possibilities, and he’s gone now, really speaks to how little he thought of him.
Max Weiss 08:08
Yeah, I hope that doesn’t come back to burn us, because he was a talent, like when he pitched, he was really good.
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:15
He turns into Jake Arietta. They’re gonna have a lot of display. Oh, yeah, they are,
8Max Weiss 08:19
yeah, well, so we’ll see. But anyway, I’m very excited about Lonzo. It’s just nice. It sends a message. There’s excitement among the fans, and it’s nice to be on the winning side of one of these deals like you say. It’s always like you, like me, and I think you’re absolutely right, because we have this young core of talent who wouldn’t want
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:36
to be he thinks he can win here, who went right, good. Well, great. You know that leads to you, and I believe in we think we can win here. Yeah, Max Weiss is here. I love her because she’s just a fan and All right, so look, yeah, you’re not gonna be happy with me, and we’re gonna get at it here. I was gonna start with this, but the whining about the officiating, oh no, yeah, no, you can’t. No, don’t do it. Just don’t go down that road.
Max Weiss 09:04
I agree with you, slippery slope. And I wrote about this for Baltimore magazine, and I even said it all evens out. In the end, you’re gonna get some calls that go your way and some calls that don’t go your way. But this was particularly egregious because the Ravens were on the comeback charge. They had all the momentum. They throw a touchdown. It’s ruled a touchdown. And then suddenly, oh, but, but, let me this is something I truly don’t understand. I think
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:34
8they got the other two calls wrong. I think Rogers, Rogers arms were at here. I don’t possession, right? And then obviously the thing at the goal line, they’ve already admitted, right, that was right.
Max Weiss 09:44
But okay, let me add and this maybe it’s just, I don’t understand the rules. You can get a touchdown while falling out of bounds. Nobody understands tippy toes don’t make me toes in you’re falling out of bounds. You can get a touchdown by just pushing your all. Arm over the goal.
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:01
Possession of the ball, when it crosses the line, you don’t need a foot over. You need the ball to cross. So here’s the deal.
Max Weiss 10:06
He took two steps, and you could almost argue that when the ball got knocked out, it was session of the ball. It was almost like he relaxed because he knew he had the touchdown. And then here’s the
8Nestor J. Aparicio 10:21
like last week when he relaxed and gave away the ball to go. Well, maybe, maybe there. Maybe he’s got a relaxing problem.
Max Weiss 10:26
But let this is the other thing. How about the fact that the mic was off when they overturned the touchdown? I mean, I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but I think Mt Bank Stadium would have lost its freaking mind, but they didn’t know what was happening, because it was like, surely, they’re not overturning that touchdown. There was just confusion.
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:47
$25 billion industry can’t make the mics anyway.
Max Weiss 10:50
8Look, I agree with you complaining about the refs. It’s, you know, it’s, it’s for chumps, but in this particular game, if you’re ever going to complain about the refs. This was the time to do it. I wrote a little article about it. I quoted, whined. I quoted a lot of people on
Speaker 1 11:08
Twitter. Ravens fan, we don’t whine. Come on.
Max Weiss 11:11
Yeah, no, but, but
11:14
this was this big brother. This is, I
8Max Weiss 11:15
love games. Could not have been more important, right? It was for first place. You know, it was against our rival, and that was our game. We we were gonna win that game. We had all the momentum, and it was time for them to go home with their tails between their legs. And instead, the refs, they took it from us.
Nestor J. Aparicio 11:35
I admitted, I admit it to Luke on Wednesday. Yeah, that I wish my mother were still alive. She’d be 107 now. Yeah, she was 98 when she died. I have videos of her in the backseat of the car, driving her to breakfast on Sunday, yeah, after we got eliminated, and she’s sitting in the back seat, 95 years old, all four foot 672, pounds of her. And I put the video camera, I have video of this. Yeah, she’s like Steelers cheated. They cheated us. They screwed us. I can hear my mother saying that, so, yeah, well, I missed that call this week for my mom saying they screwed us. I got you instead, yeah.
Max Weiss 12:13
Well, Mommy is right. Wherever she is watching us, she knows that I am right.
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:20
8He was a cheater when she met him, too. Yeah, what they cheat, Steelers cheat. Steelers cheat. I gotta find that video. I gotta find that’s cute.
Max Weiss 12:30
But what was she accusing them of doing? Cheating, just cheating. Just general.
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:34
Well, she was 95 she just knew, like she loved football, cheating. I love that because he announced her. Announcer said they were cheating. That’s it, perfect. Okay, that’s cute. Yeah, announcers, work for mom. Ravens, oh, there must be cheating. I guess Max Weis is here. She runs Baltimore magazine. What’s on the cover next month? Not the movies.
Max Weiss 12:50
Next month is the movies. Yes, it’s, it’s once upon a time in Baltimore, written by you give me anything? Tom Davis from the No, no. I don’t want to over, oversell it. It’s just a cute little anecdotes. It involves, he met Al Pacino, though, right? He met Al Pacino and, yeah, just pick up the article. Read It Like I said. I talked to Barry.
8Nestor J. Aparicio 13:10
They re shot the scene 100 times, right? Is that what it was? Something like, yeah, all right. Tom Davis will be in the Baltimore magazine next month. I gotta get up. Stretch out my thanks. Everybody here. At deep and squalies. Joe Domenico, Darren, a sausage King was here. Peter was here. Max came over. I’m so you’re like, a shut in. I mean, I get you out and you, you walk in, you’re like, it’s like, Italy. I feel like I’m in New York. It’s deeper squally.
Max Weiss 13:36
I live in North Baltimore. What you know, I don’t get here
Nestor J. Aparicio 13:40
and take it home for yourself. Yeah, all right, what do you when you come in Italian, what do you want here? Like, what’s the thing you want?
Max Weiss 13:47
8I mean, I mean, when I think DiPasquale’s, I think, like, an Italian sub kind of
Nestor J. Aparicio 13:53
thing, and I’m seeing spinach come out of here, and peppers and, yeah, got some pastrano, yeah, maybe some stuff. I’m gonna go get some food and we’re at deeper squads. We’re gonna be at honeys on Friday. Gonna be Costas and Dundalk. Next Thursday, we Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gina Schock. We’re gonna be honoring my dear friend Ed Lauer, who had a heart transplant a few weeks ago. Ed can’t be with us, but I think his brother in law, Jay’s gonna come over and we’re gonna sing some songs and have some fun. Next Friday, we’re gonna be at Gertrude at the BMA with Dan roderick’s feast of seven fishings with my cousin John shields. And then on Monday, a plan of fitness trying to work it all. I hit the planet fitness people. I’m like, you know, every year I watch New Year’s Eve with, like, with Cohen and and Anderson Cooper, and they always had the plan of fitness hats and, and I said, Can we get those? And they’re like, Yeah, we’re gonna get the New Year’s Eve hats. So it’s gonna be our New Year’s show, okay, on the 22nd for Christmas. And I’m gonna, I made a big decision here in the last couple hours. I’ve had Ostro skis Polish sausage all my life, going back to the Gibson family and Dundalk, but they actually have kielbasa here at DiPasquale’s. It’s Polish Italian, but it’s. Really, really good. So I’m gonna take some kielbasa home and celebrate the holidays. You have killed Boston sauerkraut on the holidays. Or no, not proper.
Max Weiss 15:07
I mean, that’s not really a Jewish tradition.
15:10
Let’s make it one. You know what? I
8Max Weiss 15:13
love sauerkraut with my Thanksgiving meal, and that is, but you don’t that is completely, no, that’s completely a Baltimore thing. Like we did not have sauerkraut with our Thanksgiving meal in Baltimore. I mean, in New York when I was growing up, and now it totally makes perfect sense. You’ve got all the sweet stuff. You put something a little vinegary in with this, with your corn pudding and your sweet potato. I mean, it’s brilliant. Kudos to Baltimore coming up with that one sauerkraut
Nestor J. Aparicio 15:43
added to the meal. It’s perfect. It’s gonna be a perfect holiday around here. Ho ho, ho. Back for more on the Maryland crab cake tour. I am Nestor, and we are W N st am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. The next segment will be good, but not as good as Max. Stay with us. You.
