Leonard Raskin and Nestor wonder what happens to Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks next Saturday night now that the Orioles will be playing Game 1 of the American League Division Series on October 7th? And of course lament the lost opportunity for Ravens against dreaded Colts in a giveaway game.
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SPEAKERS
Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome back wn S T tacit Baltimore and Baltimore positive we’re positively into what’s going to be a crazy crazy couple of weeks for sports around here i i go back into the plague when sports weren’t playing, certainly over 25 years and we’re celebrating our 25th anniversary are with our friends at curio wellness and foreign daughter with our barn pictures as well as our community charity work as we count down these 25 years but in the 25 years, I cannot remember a time where the Orioles have really usurped the Ravens Mojo and these next couple of weeks so at the Ravens going away for a couple couple of weeks Cleveland, Pittsburgh and then London and we’re going to be at Hollywood casino on October the 15th having some nice breakfast, a proper British breakfast, as well as having some fun. So please join us on October 15. And the mayor the lottery winners I’ll be giving these away we’ve hiatus the crabcake Torgeir a little bit after the cocoas deal last week with Max Weisen received and alternate day. But letter Rascon joins us now and he and I are gonna get some crabs at some point. I let it I don’t know if it’s gonna be these away games because I think Luke and I are gonna go on the road together for playoff baseball. So right now I’m I’m plotting how to get the Toronto or Tampa two weeks from now and then who knows whether it’s Seattle, Houston, Texas, Minnesota could be anything, but
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Leonard Raskin 01:20
we’re gonna be home games we’re gonna be home. You know, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 01:22
amazing. I was gonna say to you on a Monday morning when you wake up. Are you thinking in terms of magic number orange can’t wait for the nationals. I have to great Jim Palmer. Are you thinking holy hell, what did the Colts do to us on Sunday? Because we
Leonard Raskin 01:38
didn’t do anything to us. We we did it all to ourselves that was self inflicted hell on Sunday, self inflicted hell. That’s my definition of it. I said sit stunned at both at both. I was at the game Sunday. And I had my phone going. And Masson at the stadium. Did your app work? Yeah, yeah. Good. And I’m watching the Orioles and got the score the ESPN app open with the with the Toronto rays game. So I’m counting down the magic number to for the magic number to three and Tucker for 61 yards. And he missed it. But look, that game was last long before Tucker. I I’m frankly stunned at the Ravens play Sunday. I I was trying to figure out when they brought Greg Roman back.
Nestor Aparicio 02:40
8But Leonard, they can’t throw the ball. They have no protection for the quarterback. So this this problem with Greg.
Leonard Raskin 02:48
Greg, let’s face it. Let’s
Nestor Aparicio 02:49
face it, the offensive line personnel all week
Leonard Raskin 02:53
was not was not good at all. But but it seems to me and I could be wrong. Could could Lamar, okay, he’s got vision. Now he’s doing better. Could he take a three step drop after he gets the snap? Or is that not allowed in the league? Because he comes back passing? He Yeah, he gets the snap out of the shotgun. And he stands there. And in 321 there on him. So take a couple steps back. And then it’s 54321 maybe maybe I’m just an outsider, I’m not a coach. I never played in the in the league. He’s never
8Nestor Aparicio 03:32
been a drop back passer Leonard dope. His body doesn’t move the same way that John Elway said, but my
Leonard Raskin 03:39
point is, take no no not in fire. I’m still good with him running here and there. But if he took a couple steps back, it might give him a little more time to see a receiver somewhere. That was number one. Number two, let’s face it. You can’t fumble the ball four series in a row, lose two of them and win the game. How many? How many redzone chances you’re gonna give that team? And then I’m telling you again, I heard the excuses after the game or the answers to the questions. Let’s say I’ve never seen such poor piss poor two minute management in my life. I can manage the two minutes better than they did. First of all, how they said they couldn’t communicate to say flowers that they moved the clock to 203 we had a timeout. We had a timeout. We had a couple of timeouts. When you notice that and you can’t talk to him. You call timeout. You tell the man do not fair catch this ball and what the heck is a flowers doing on a punt? Where’s du Vernay? Is he missing an action. But but you don’t fair catch that. Now you got the clock down to 120 you give the ball back to the adults with 20 seconds left instead of You don’t fall back you write down. Yeah, first down, but first down, but if you’re gonna give them the ball back, it’s with 20 seconds not make you’re serious about
Nestor Aparicio 05:09
winning the game, you get a first down, that’s
Leonard Raskin 05:13
8if you’re serious about winning the game, you don’t go three and out six times in the first half, or whatever they did. I mean, they were terrible. What the heck happened? The offense march right down the field and scored. Then they marched down the field and fumble and it’s like, all of a sudden they forgot how to play football.
Nestor Aparicio 05:31
Well, we spent the last six months talking about personnel and we spend the time talking about draft picks. We talked about free agency, we talked about the unassigned clowny. They’re not going to sign Marcus Peters, you dropped that pick on Sunday night, I watched that game against the Steelers as well, that pick six would have changed the game they would have the floor right. So you go back to these little things, but Right. The team as comprised in our minds and in our hearts in June, was Todd Monken is going to come in he’s going to have toys he has all these wide receivers. Look at the line. Ronnie Stanley proved he was healthy last year. Obama had a little banged up last year like he had in college, but he’s going to be a pro bowl center and Marlin Humphries back from the injury and everything is fine and Marcus waves are finally gonna get him on the field. We’re gonna be able to unleash hell with Carl Hamilton and Adelphi Oh was going to step up this year and David a job was gonna play the edge, Rashad Bateman and we’re gonna have Dobbins, your Ohio State guy is going to run the ball. He’s going to be the bell cow. And that’s everything I just talked about. None of that, including Odell Beckham and 16 wasn’t on the field. God wants to take away all of these pieces and you want to be a Superman. The only way Lamar could be the Superman with Patrick Macquarie playing left tackle is to run the old electronic games that they’re doing on lottery commercials now, that where it looks like 2019 and a phone booth again.
Leonard Raskin 06:55
Yeah, I still say there was that game was overly winnable multiple times, multiple times. I mean, do Vernay brings a kick, a punch back to the 4850 Whatever it was, and they couldn’t get a first down. I mean, the Colts defensive line is good. But they are not the I mean, my God they’re not the best
Nestor Aparicio 07:21
thing to do was give stone Stover I said Stouffer because I put my three up, Tucker a chance to hit a 61 yarder and then maybe 64 yard or 6360. Right. So right if we couldn’t get your offense is giving
8Leonard Raskin 07:34
you and you deserve to lose. Look. The Colts kicker five field goals for over 50 yards and hurry. Yeah, well, there was nothing there. There was no weather. They blame the weather. That’s a mistake. There was no weather there at all. It was just 58 but it’s amazing. It was these many 550 yard plus field goals right on a day that began with Jacqueline began. The game had no other game. I had no weather. I was out there. No weather was perfectly lovely. And you know no son, you
Nestor Aparicio 08:10
know, you’re not a gambling guy cuz you handle money. Let her ask. Yeah, but if you’re out of bed on Saturday, oh, 550 plus field goals. I bet $1 would have gotten you 1000
Leonard Raskin 08:21
Yeah. Well, you know, that’s how those things work. That’s crazy. It is crazy. And nobody bet nobody took that bet. Which is why I got you 1000. But, but my goodness, they they kept getting to the 35 to give him 50 yard field goals. And we couldn’t get 10 yards to save our life was terrible. In the meantime, in the meantime, let’s go to happy things. Because the magic number was three. Well, that would
Nestor Aparicio 08:48
8have been it would have been a nice magic number from Justin Tucker as I wrote Yeah, colonists Yeah. Hey, so could the baseball side makes this thing wash away? Right like what I write columnist right, is that they paint is short. They’re gonna play in Cleveland. They’re gonna play in Pittsburgh and we’re gonna it’s gonna be a train wreck at one o’clock. We’re gonna get beat. And then they’re gonna go play in London at 930 in the morning and I’m up in Perry Woking.
Leonard Raskin 09:11
We don’t see him for a month correct. So
Nestor Aparicio 09:13
the things that are going to happen including maybe a Billy Joel Stevie Nicks show or maybe not depending on the Al DS next week, that once the Orioles clinched this thing,
Leonard Raskin 09:23
what do you mean? What do you mean? What’s that? What’s that? What’s that? What’s that about? They’re gonna cancel the Billy Joe Show.
8Nestor Aparicio 09:27
No, no, hold on here now Billy Joe, Billy Joe and Stevie Nicks play. You have tickets for this? Apparently? Yes. Yeah, you’re talking to me. So this is Saturday. The seventh that is all day of game one. Yes, you may have to play in game one. alts. Yeah. Which they wish they would be in, which we will be in. It’s the same parking lot lender. They have the same issue. I got it. Got it in every case the Orioles hold. The Orioles are the big brother. Yeah, because they were there first. Yeah. So there is some question as to how the sketch dueling would work that if they were to play a one o’clock game that let’s say goes 12 innings or 13 innings and the building like they’re
Leonard Raskin 10:09
crazy and here’s here’s our boy John who wants to own the parking lot plus
Nestor Aparicio 10:14
okay But hang on I have even I have even more for you sevens okay yeah ravens are in Cleveland this week and the Orioles against the Red Sox weekend of the seventh and eighth okay the ravens are in Pittsburgh on the eighth seventh is Billy Joel stadium so the Orioles will play at home on the seventh and the eighth by the way did you score playoff tickets we haven’t even tried okay so but you need to get get them schedule a call get them Yes. Seventh and eighth our games wanting to Okay, right? The ravens are gonna be in Pittsburgh, right? We’re going to be a Camden Yards fine afternoon game that game to the alts might be a one one o’clock game or four or seven? I don’t know. But it’s gonna be the eighth. Okay, so then we’re gonna get on a plane Luke and I need to fly to Toronto or Tampa probably right. And we’re gonna do games three, at least because you got to play at least Right? Right. For you know, okay. If you have to play five that’s on that’s on the 12th All right. So we when we went in three or four or five, we’re gonna share what American League Championship Series for the 14th that series would begin would begin on Sunday the 15th when the ravens are in London, right? You and I arrived in the morning, casino nine in the morning at nine in the morning breakfast at Hollywood casino for us. And then came one of the American League Championships there’s against Minnesota, Houston, Texas, Seattle, whoever’s gonna be right. We’re gonna play at home that night, right? Yep. We have one and two. And then Luke and I get on a plane to Minnesota, Texas, Seattle, wherever you gotta go. 18 1920s games three, four and five. And then here’s where it gets interesting. All right. Yeah, we go to Minnesota. We you know, we win a couple games. We got a game six back and Bowsher. Let’s say there’s a game six and Baltimore. That would also be the same day that the Ravens come out and play the lions. So Game Six of the American League Championship Series would be the same day as lions, ravens, and therefore, we could have some, some issues in that. And here’s even the better part. Now. If we have World Series games, they would be Halloween weekend 27th 28th could play in Atlanta, right where they would be the one scene. Oh, maybe not. That whole week Halloween would be gained for is October 31. But here’s where it gets into the game seven would be Saturday, the fourth of November. Oh, that would be Saturday night. And then the Ravens Blizzard home again against Seattle on the fifth of November. And by then it’ll be over so the Ravens only play one home game. The lions on the 21st between now and when the Orioles can win a World Series. This city like I like you can be 1000s of black and orange for games. There could be six weeks home games here have the biggest magnet just surreal series lights and only one Raven home game between now and then and Billy Joel Kahn. So the ravens are really going to be a back burner a back burner thing and that’s less happened here now.
Leonard Raskin 13:20
8Yeah, not since they’ve been here. That’s exactly right. Because the Orioles haven’t had the juice. They haven’t had the juice. But now we got some orange juice. So we’re gonna we’re gonna make it happen and it’s gonna be an amazing sports time. And if the Ravens go into Cleveland, and they’ve they’ve played Oh, the original $250 million. Man
Nestor Aparicio 13:45
Deshaun Watson to Shawn backwards yesterday in the same way Lamar threw the ball left handed out of bounds. I don’t I don’t know what either one of those dudes was thinking in AFL game but ball in that direction. We didn’t even do that on the Colgate playground. The 70s Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 14:01
yeah. They’ve played him. Well. They’ve played him well, he hasn’t really gotten our number. I don’t think so. So I’m gonna guess they’re gonna play him well, and and sadly, Pittsburgh looks better. So they’re looking better. But if you come out of those two, four and one on your way to London, who do we play in London, Tennessee Titans Tennessee who doesn’t look very good at all. So So you walk out of that with the overly optimistic Raskin projection of five and one you might take some of the joy in Oreo land back. If you if you lose Cleveland or Pittsburgh. The town is very unhappy and breakfast in London is not going to be strawberries and cream Wimbledon. Yeah, I would say
Nestor Aparicio 14:53
letter Rascon is here he manages money in the American dream as well as the Oriental stream and the Orioles playoff dream and playoff tickets and all that good stuff. Lots of folks spending lots of money on baseball playoff tickets. I mean, I’m, I had them up on my screen and I just said, Dad just on that field, and 640 bucks for two tickets to a game at the end of August. I’m not feeling a $700 night for me and my wife in the same way that like going up to Broadway and seeing Bruce Springsteen or going and seeing staying at Wolf Trap, if it’s 500 bucks for two tickets, or going and seeing Queen two weeks. I mean, these are financial decisions, and you make them every day that not everybody at Oriel park will be spending disposable income at 45,000 people that are there, whether they can afford a 234 $100 ticket or not.
8Leonard Raskin 15:41
There’s gonna be there’s gonna be some cheaper seats, we talked about that there’s gonna be some cheaper seats available. There’s no question whether it is on the secondary market that somebody’s got some tickets they’re gonna get rid of, or the secondary market the day, afternoon evening of the game, you might miss the first day, but you’re gonna get in there for a fair price if you want to. I’m telling you, it’s gonna happen. We saw we saw at least I saw on Sunday, an empty stadium that was not full. Now obviously, that’s a weather thing in Baltimore. And whatever other reason, but I’m guessing you’re going to be able to get into Oriole Park with some fairly decent pricing day a game without too much trouble. I’m telling you, I still think no matter what it’s going to happen. I think only so
Nestor Aparicio 16:34
many people here that are going to spend $390 on left field seats for an American League Division.
Leonard Raskin 16:42
But somebody somebody bought the regular price. got the tickets? And is it gonna go to the game? And before the game is gonna say do I eat these tickets? Or do I sell them for 40 bucks you spend $325
Nestor Aparicio 16:55
8on the ticket you have to be very very in this market knowing who the buyers are. Now that being said, if they play the wrong team that has money that comes in we’re alive last year in Philly.
Leonard Raskin 17:09
Sure, yeah, sure. You’re gonna get it’s gonna get expensive. There’s
Nestor Aparicio 17:11
no I know who’s not coming. Yankees fans are coming. That’s right.
Leonard Raskin 17:15
That’s right, the heck with them bounce their butts. That’s beautiful. You’re competing with Blue Jays fans are raised fans that are not common. They’re not common. And that’s not gonna make the prices it’s gonna try to price that’s right. And so somebody that bought them on the hope or the hope is not going to be able to get rid of them. And then they’re going to sell them and people are going to be able to get in. I have faith in humanity that the average fan who wants to go will be able to go if he wants a Seat Geek StubHub ticket master day game and buys a ticket for a fair price I think that’s going to happen I think no question about it. My plans my plans although they’re they’re not going to work of course was was I would go to the Ohio State Maryland a game and then fly home for Billy Joel.
8Nestor Aparicio 18:05
See, I haven’t even had that in my calendar to know like Maryland’s foreign Oh, they beat me. I gotta play Michigan State fan haven’t heard anything from them. You know, like, and, and the Maryland thing at least for the time being all everybody that loves me stuff, and even the commanders of guy I mean, anybody that loves sports here right about now, this has been this has been a beautiful time to be a sports fan.
Leonard Raskin 18:32
And the caps open preseason. It’s all going on. It’s all going on. Yeah, the commander’s one. What are they two and one, two, and one just like us? I think they lost yesterday. On Sunday, didn’t they?
Nestor Aparicio 18:46
They did they Yeah. struggle against the Buffalo Bills. Yes. Yeah. I
Leonard Raskin 18:51
8didn’t take that in but I thought they lost. How about how about the tours? The tour was 16 for 16 in the first half, and they put a 70 burger on the board. A 70 burger.
Nestor Aparicio 19:04
I saw that you like my little Wilt Chamberlain exact creates my buddy from Miami. shared this picture of the heading the 70 Y’all but but with the face of of the coach. All right, let her ask and can be found he is Raskin global. I’ve got it here. I got the crab mallet around here somewhere. pulling this out. I whip this out of Coco’s your day. It’s my Richard share, like my gavel, the conversation. Max Weiss and I got into about best of Baltimore, we had some fun. I give my love to Steve Jeppe. I said I want to see him getting champagne dumped on him at the pitcher’s mound, my buddy Clancy we we feed it Adam Jones last week. I gotta call him up. We got all sorts of things happen. Let her ask it supports us, as well as the community and folks who need good advice on money and what to do with their money and making sure taxes, insurance, all these complicated things. He’s smart about this stuff. You can find him at Rascon global I’m finding This week as well, you can find me at Baltimore positive Luke’s gonna be in Owings Mills. And he’s going to be a Camden Yards every night this week as we get ready and cross our fingers for clinch Miss to happen before the Jim Palmer celebration this week, Maryland crabcake tour on a little bit of a hiatus. We’re going to be Hollywood casino on the 15th giving away the Maryland lottery scratch offs. We did have some winners at Coco’s last week. And we had the fabulous house music diva legend and my friend alternate day on the program. So that was a thrill for me as well. Big week around here. play offs ahead, boy, buckle your chin straps, everybody we got to sit down at Mater we’re wn st am 1570, Towson Baltimore and we never stop talking Baltimore positive on our 25th anniversary.
