Orioles bear sore lats and sick bats in Arizona

The news about Zach Eflin being shut down leaves us wondering what the entire Orioles rotation will look like next week. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the pitching depth and sluggish bats on the Birds as they exit Arizona and head home for a wet weekend against Toronto. At least Cedric Mullins is seeing the ball well…

Luke Jones and Nestor Aparicio discussed the Orioles’ recent struggles, focusing on Zach Eflin’s low-grade lat strain, which will likely keep him out for 15 days. They highlighted Charlie Morton’s inconsistent performance, noting his 3-0 start with a 6.75 ERA in his last three games. The offense also faltered, scoring only three runs despite a 2-0 lead in the first inning. They praised Cedric Mullins’ early-season success and expressed concern about the team’s pitching depth, with Dean Kremer and Kyle Gibson as potential replacements. The bullpen has performed well, but the team needs consistent offense to stay competitive.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Zach Eflin, lat strain, Orioles offense, Charlie Morton, Brandon Hyde, Kyle Gibson, Grayson Rodriguez, Dean Kramer, Cedric Mullins, bullpen performance, umpiring errors, Tyler O’Neill, Ryan O’Hearn, Jackson Holliday, pitching injuries.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones, Speaker 1

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Nestor Aparicio  00:02

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery on Friday, we’re going to be a Costas giving away the magic eight ball remnants, and we’re going to get the back to the futures, ready to go back to the future was, I think it was those old Diamondbacks running around the warning track in the fifth inning of the game, a late nighter on Tuesday, the Orioles will play again this afternoon. Luke and I doing short radio here today. And look, you can go back and fill in the pieces of everything on Zach Eflin and the MRI, and the fact that we had it on our website and the Orioles had it before the game that I talked to me feels better. And then at 159 in the morning, things aren’t better with him and just a weird loss, a weird seventh inning, awful umpiring, great comedy by Ben McDonald in the broadcast, at least. I thought if you keep me up late and we’re gonna have a half an hour stop at your play in the seventh inning, reviewing whatever the hell they were reviewing when he caught the ball and nobody made a call. I don’t know, Luke, I’m gonna quote Ben McDonald put a tent over this circus.

Luke Jones  01:21

Yeah, yeah, no question about it, but amounts to another loss for the Orioles. And I kind of go back to the first inning. They score a couple runs. They had a chance for more. Tyler O’Neill grounds into a double play look. That happens, but their offense went away after that, and it was kind of the same deal that we’ve seen where they put together a good offensive performance on Monday night, although it wasn’t, you know, they didn’t hang a 10 spot on the board, but it was good enough. And on Tuesday, it wasn’t. And Charlie Morton wasn’t very good again, and more specifically, through an awful, awful one two pitch to Josh Naylor for a two run double when he was ahead and had a chance to get out of the inning and still had a chance at that point to finish the night with the solid outing, and didn’t do it. So Charlie Morton struggles again. The offense struggles again, and they fail to lose, or they fail to win two in a row once again, so they’ll have a chance to still win their first series this afternoon. But all of that, though, kind of overshadowed by the post game news that Zach Eflin dealing with as Brandon Hyde called it a low grade latch strain. He, of course, is going to go on the IL they’re hoping that it’s not going to be a very long shutdown. I think they said they’ll see how he’s feeling in about a week, and are hoping maybe he can start throwing again there, and maybe he’s only misses a few weeks here. But flat strains are tricky. I mean,

Nestor Aparicio  02:53

maybe he only misses a few. Oh, that’s sweeter. Oh, that’s right. Like so I was up that’s not Brandon Hyde saying that a week? Well, I’m just trying to do the math on how many starts he’s gonna miss. I’m assuming this second, it’s three. He’s certainly gonna miss the first one in the second one, well,

Luke Jones  03:12

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he’s gonna go in the IL so that’s 15 days right there. I mean, you’re not gonna, you’re not gonna play short. I mean, they, they could, because they do have off days, two off days here in the next week, they could go till the 19th before needing a fifth starter. But I don’t really you know Where’s, where’s the prudence and you know caution in that, knowing that you want to keep your other guys healthy, right, and pitchers can benefit from extra days. So I’m guessing we’re going to end up seeing Brandon young, I think because Kyle Gibson’s not going to be quite ready yet, although they could certainly expedite that, because Gibson’s supposed to pitch at Norfolk later this week. So maybe we see Kyle Gibson much sooner rather than later, and maybe they expedite that a little bit. But to me, the top option, other than Gibson being ready to go, would be Brandon Young, who was their minor league pitcher of the year. He’s not, you know, not regarded in the same way that Grayson Rodriguez or DL Hall were regarded a couple years ago in terms of what they’re, you know, pitching prospects or being on the top 100 list around baseball. But you’ll find people that like his stuff and are intrigued by what he could be, but at the same time, they didn’t give him an extensive look in the grapefruit League. So I don’t know what that tells you. I don’t know if they say, Okay, you’re not ready yet, or they just didn’t want to expose them too much, because they knew he might be one of their, you know, if not the next man up, one of the earliest men up, if you were dealing with some injuries. So it’s not great. I mean, again, even if it’s the lowest grade latch strain, those are tricky. I mean, Grayson Rodriguez, of course, had a higher grade latch strain when he’s dealt with that the two times that he has in the last four seasons. But it’s still tricky. I mean, it’s what Luis heel is dealing with for the Yankees. Where, you know, again, that’s a higher grade, but he’s going to be out into the summer, you know, or is the expectation there that was a high grade latch strain. So you hope the fact that Zach Eflin was feeling better at that the morning after, you know, when he was going to get his MRI, and you’re hoping that that’s a sign that, yes, it is very minor. He didn’t have, didn’t have this moment during the game where, you know, you saw that he was in sharp pain, or anything like that. So you hope it’s as minor as it can be, but it’s not good. I mean, he’s the one pitcher they have who’s thrown quality starts to this point, you know, for a rotation that’s, you know, kind of ranking bottom five in baseball, in starter riari. I think they’re 25th going into today’s afternoon games. So I don’t know. I mean, we can keep talking about Charlie Morton, or, well,

Nestor Aparicio  05:54

let’s talk about Charlie Morton for a second, because I just in a general sense, they get shot out of a cannon. They score some runs, right? They leave some ducks on the pond. And then Charlie Morton comes in, and there’s, he’s hitting guys throw a while, like, like, all this stuff happens. I looked up he was three, oh, on the third batter, and two guys were on and I had a snapshot of that, and I thought, dude, it’s the first inning. You got a two run lead right? Like, there’s all of this, by the way, we’ll talk about Mullins too. We got to talk, because we’re Baltimore positive, and I’m trying to get my press credential back. So, um, but then it’s bases loaded, and really it was an escape in the first inning for him, right? That thing could have really piled up when you’re talking about nobody out bases loaded, and they wind up escaping that so I don’t know the Charlie Morton thing, and I know I felt maybe I was a little rough on him back on Sunday, you know, through the weekend and just talking about, like, how something’s got to be better, and the something’s today, it’s not Zach ethlen. We didn’t even have that going on back in Sunday. I mean, last 48 hours, this thing’s unraveled even worse. I mean, you and I got together with shining, what? Three weeks ago pizza Johns. You still probably got leftovers, because I sent you a letter with all that, um, and we’re worried about the pitching. And then last week we got together Viviana, remember, first time through the rotation, and we’re playing that this week, we were, we’re worried about the rotation, and that’s with efflin in it. That’s with thinking Morton could at least pitch to an era sub nine um. So I, I just don’t know where the Calvary is coming. And I don’t, I don’t trust Dean Kramer. I, you know, I say this out loud all the time, and I just, I just don’t and, you know, I

Luke Jones  07:52

just laugh, because he’s one of the surest things you have at this point in time. And look, I, I’m not saying he’s very good, but he’s at least shown to

Nestor Aparicio  08:01

be able to trust him. I’m not thinking he’s gonna emerge. That’s all I’m saying. That’s fine. No, no, he’s a number. I’m not even starters. I’m not necessarily disagree. And you know, listen, is to do anything else pits pitch. More about the pitching, so I can keep your press credential, lose mine, and then I’ll come back and praise some of the heading, because I, I do want to praise Ryan O’Hearn. I do want to talk about Jackson. I mean, you know, I got these other notes. The umpiring was such a circuit. Do you have anything on that? Because that’s in conjunction with the pitching, because they missed all sorts of calls, including Tyler O’Neill struck out, right? I mean,

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Luke Jones  08:36

like, and I’m glad you at least pointed that out, because I don’t want this to sound like it’s making an excuse for the Orioles, because it wasn’t. They lost the game they lost the game. They deserve to lose the game. But yeah, that that seventh inning, just the just the administration of that where a call isn’t made, Mullins does the right thing and tags up and scores. But in defense of Tyler O’Neill, who did not make the right play, there still wasn’t a call made to say, hey, he’s out. You need to go tag up. I mean, it was just and, and not just that, but it takes 10 minutes to sort it out. Then, dude, it was an unbelievable work stoppage. It really was. When you look at that beyond recognizing an umpire doesn’t make an out call there, you can watch that replay once and come to the conclusion that they ultimately came to. So it’s like, why did this take 10 minutes then? Well, especially when it’s going on midnight, yeah, yeah. Well, they don’t care so much about that. They’re they’re on West Coast. Well, we do

Nestor Aparicio  09:29

everybody in our office, it was going on midnight. I mean, it just, but the umpire, but

Luke Jones  09:33

the umpire. My point on that is the umpires don’t care about that in the moment. It’s just, why is this taking 10 minutes period Major League Baseball. Should you care about how I know, but, yeah, okay. But in the moment, they’re not saying, Oh, well, those fans in Baltimore are losing sleep right now. That’s at the moment.

Nestor Aparicio  09:50

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Get, get the call right in two minutes, right? Don’t be professional. Exactly. I don’t know what they’re even looking people are gambling on this. I want to keep pointing that

Luke Jones  09:58

out, yeah, but it’s just. Yes, I mean, it’s a lot to be frustrated about right now. And you know, for as much as you can look at positives, like, like, one major positive that I take away from that game that Jackson holiday played some really good defense. I mean, really good for as much as we talked last year about, you know, second base is his new position, and even a couple weeks ago, can even fill in at shortstop. And it’s not to say that I didn’t expect him to be a good defensive player, but there was an example where you saw it. I mean, he made a cup that back pick play at first base. You know, he made a really good, instinctive kind of play there for a 21 year old rookie, you know, basically a rookie still. So, you know, that was just, that was good to see. It’s not like they don’t have positive things happening. But at the same time, there’s just, you know, the the contact play with the play at the plate after Mateo steals two bases, even though, look, they still didn’t get a hit there, right? I mean, it’s a comebacker. Mateo at least stayed in the rundown long enough for Mount castle to get into scoring. Because scoring position. I think was Mount Castle, right? But then Westbrook strikes out, so they didn’t score anyway. But when you see those things, it’s just frustrating. I mean, they run the contact play with a guy at third a lot. It does work out sometimes I do understand and follow why they do it as frequently as they do, but when it doesn’t work out, it’s really frustrating when you’re not scoring runs and but, but at the same time, you know, they still had a runner in scoring position right after that, they didn’t score so, so it’s just, you know, it’s what I’ve said for a while. You know, I say for a while. I mean going back to last year, the second half of the season. I mean, their offense just it’s got to find that level of consistency we saw in the first half of last season, or this team’s not going to go anywhere whatsoever, and they’re not going to survive and and tread these, tread the waters of these pitching injuries, even if you’re going to be optimistic and say, Well, yes, Eflin will be back, and Grayson Rodriguez will be back, and who knows, Kyle Bradish might be back come August, right? So even if you want to be positive about those things, and there’s a lot of unknown, they’re not again. I’m just spewing hypotheticals when I say that you still need to tread water to the point where you’re still in it at that point in time. But that’s to me as much as we are going to hand ring about Morton, and understandably so, he’s making $15 million or whether he’s 41 years old or not, and have questions about, you know, like you said, Dean Kramer, who is what he is at this point in time, right? I mean, he’s been a league average starter for the better part of three years. But are you really at thinking he’s going to step up? I’m in agreement with you, very likely, very unlikely that that’s going to happen. He kind of is what he is at this point, which is still better than some of what they have, right? And well, we

Nestor Aparicio  12:49

better go to the Hill this afternoon and get them out of the desert. We better

Luke Jones  12:53

score some runs. They got to score some runs. I mean, at some point in time, this is what it is. We call this a bottom heavy starting rotation before the season even started, you have a bunch of four and five starters at best. It might be a compliment to call some of these guys maybe a four. I don’t

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Nestor Aparicio  13:09

know if Charlie Morton’s a big league pitcher Charlie, he might not find out, but

Luke Jones  13:13

there’s no

Nestor Aparicio  13:14

Craig Kimbrell last year. I just don’t know what point you know. In fairness,

Luke Jones  13:19

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Craig Kimbrell, at least had stretches in the first half of the season where he was very good at times, right? I mean, he had his late May or late April, into the second week of May, where he scuffled. But other than that, other than that two and a half week period, he actually pitched pretty well for some stretches. Charlie Morton’s not doing that much, right? I mean, for as much as I was kind of sticking up for him a little bit with his strikeouts and missing bats to the degree that he did against Boston, we didn’t see nearly as much of that. No, he walked five guys and hit a batter, so suddenly, then you’re talking about the command being way more of an issue. So but it still comes back to their offense right now, while it’s not whole without Colton cows or and that has complicated their outfield defense a little bit to the degree that, yeah, they decided to start Jorge Mateo in center field on Sunday, and we saw Ryan O’Hearn and right field. Well, on Monday, they’re gonna have to do a little bit of that stuff, because we’ve already, we’ve talked about Tyler O’Neill’s injury history, if you’re, if you’re gonna just trot him out there every single day, he’s not going to last either, right? He’ll get hurt because that’s his history. So they’re already in that kind of a position with their outfield defense, without calzer and, you know, having some less than ideal matchups at times. But that said, the rest of their offense is intact. You know that for the most part. You know, they had their all stars out there. I mean, cows are was maybe going to become an all star this year. Who knows, but, but they have gunner back and Adley rutschman and Jordan westburg, right? It’s so. I mean, those guys need to, they need to hit one through nine. They need more consistency. There’s a lot of

Nestor Aparicio  14:59

swing. And miss, and I worry about double plays, that just two things out loud, that that really crush offenses and will crush them, and late in the game, not scoring runs too. Now you know what I mean. This was like an explosive offense two years ago, post fifth inning, big, big home runs, late home runs, clutch home I you know that we’re early on into this, but all of that pageantry of two years ago, of walk offs and late innings and like all of that drama, goes away when you’re swinging and missing from the seventh inning on, yeah, and and look, let’s be pressing whatever that thing would pressing would be. I mean, I don’t

Luke Jones  15:43

know if strikeouts specifically are a major issue for them. When you just look at what the context of the league is. I mean, they struck out six times on Tuesday night. That’s that’s not a particularly high number. But, you know, you mentioned the double plays. They’ve got a pretty athletic starting lineup, you know, relative to a lot of teams. Now, it’s not, I’m not saying it’s the not saying it’s the Cardinals of the 80s, but Well,

Nestor Aparicio  16:08

Henderson, these guys get on, they’re, you know, they’ve been second base a lot, you know. But even

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Luke Jones  16:13

someone like Mount Castle, who isn’t going to steal bases, he still runs well for someone his size. I mean, we’ve seen that before. So I don’t know if it’s so much that, but you did make the point that I think’s very interesting, and I agree with it. You do think about how they profiled a couple years ago with all the come from behind wins. I mean, we saw last year that they didn’t do that at nearly the same level. And look, is there a sustainability with come from behind wins, necessarily, year to year, is that something that’s consistent, you know, the you know, it’s the old, you know, sabermetric debate. Does clutch hitting really exist over the long haul? Are there truly individuals that are truly better in those high leverage situations than they are any other time? And you’ll find that the data kind of doesn’t really check out that there are many guys that really are like that over the long haul. You know, Eddie Murray is like an exception. Long

Nestor Aparicio  17:08

hall is hitting with runners and scoring, but you got to do two outs, right? Like you either do that or you

Luke Jones  17:13

don’t, but, but really it comes down to it just, are you in a good offense or not? And what we’re seeing right now is it’s a very feast or famine offense, where, okay, the the averages, the, you know, the numbers in their totality, don’t look too bad, because they’ve hung some 1011, 12 spots on the scoreboard and on given nights. But what about the other nights where they’re scored one or two, I mean, even Tuesday night’s game. And look Charlie Morton, I’m not going to sit here and say that he pitched well, but they gave up four runs. I mean, that’s not a horrendous pitching performance from a team standpoint. It’s not anything to to hang your hat on, but it’s certainly a winnable game if you have a a decent offensive performance. And well, they scored three runs, right? I mean, they’re off. Their bats went silent after the first inning, largely. So that has to lead the way. You know, you and I have talked about this a lot. I mean, that has to lead the way. That’s how they were built. Those are all the players they drafted, not not everyone in their lineup. Of well,

Nestor Aparicio  18:17

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you started on this back in the late spring of last year. They have to hit the ball. They had, they had they didn’t hit the ball the second half of the year, Rutger was a part of that. Cows are on off right, guys are on off right. Westbrook got hurt that Mullins wasn’t right. I mean, just in a general sense, last year cursed that they couldn’t keep him right. I am confident that the offense will figure it out. I don’t think the pitching can. And I think that that’s really where you rip the band aid off all this. Is that like after all of this and the bad news on E this morning, Dean Kramer, goes out and you’re pitching for a series. You got a day off. Everybody’s getting rested and coming home, it’s going to rain here this weekend. You don’t have your number one for the next couple turns through. Yeah, there’s no good news on Grayson Rodriguez, and if you’re waiting on Kyle Gibson to be the Calvary. I mean, God, right. I mean, how much better is it going to look than Charlie Morton, really?

Luke Jones  19:16

Yeah. I mean, it’s fair. I’m not going to sit here and and think that watch

Nestor Aparicio  19:19

a lot of baseball. Dude. I mean, these guys that nobody else wants, that are 38 that are good clubhouse guy, I love me a good clubhouse guy. I love Ben McDonald but he can’t pitch it anymore. So, you know, that’s just where we anything you want to say on Mullins? I’m just laughing because I keep thinking Gurriel throwing that baseball to the backstop. Like, if you haven’t seen anything about it, you don’t want to watch the 12 minute delay while they were trying to adjudicate the thing with the goofy first base umpire, who’s the crew chief, who went after Tory lavello After completely getting the call wrong and throwing the manager out. I mean, yeah, but. I mean, it was a circus, as called by Ben McDonald on Tuesday night. But Mullins is something that like, there, there goes your reclamation project. I mean, he’s tearing the cover off the ball. It’s early April. He’s capable, we know all the five tools and all that. And you know, you write him off and he writes himself back in it’s been

Luke Jones  20:21

good to see and look, I mean, it’s not as though Cedric Mullins hasn’t had good stretches the last couple years. It’s just it’s been up and down, right? And a couple years ago, I mean, he had the injuries, and that was that was unfortunate for them at the

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Nestor Aparicio  20:33

time, questioning his role in his place on the roster, and wondering, I mean, dude, I think it’d be long odds this time last year, if you would have said on April 9 of this year, you’d be on this team and contributing and

Luke Jones  20:44

agree with that. Because, I mean, I mean, at that point, a year ago, at this time, Colton kauster was starting to emerge, and Austin Hayes was hurt and on the IL and we were kind of seeing how that and keep in mind Hayes was in the contract year as well. I mean, a year ago at this time, that would have been saying, Okay, I think all three of their outfielders are going to be gone next year. So that’s where I would just push back on that a little bit. But hey, it’s been good to see. It’s good for him. He’s in a contract year. I mean, not that I’m sitting here saying that the Orioles will or will not resign him, but it’s good for him either way, that he’s off to this kind of be the most

Nestor Aparicio  21:19

likable Oriole of the whole generation, like, for me.

Speaker 1  21:23

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I mean, he’s, like, they’re just, you know, kind

Luke Jones  21:27

of a talk Mancini was kind of the, you know, I’ll talk about

Nestor Aparicio  21:30

the guys on the team right now that I cheerful what you said this generation. I mean, I love Westbrook because he wears number 11 that, yeah. I mean, I,

Luke Jones  21:38

I think it’s tough to, it’s tough to compete with rutchman and gunner just because they were the two guys that you know were the headliners as far as this team really, not just turning the corner in Rutgers case, but in Henderson’s case, them becoming a playoff team. But yeah, I think Mullins there’s, there’s very much a sentimental feel, considering he was the one who succeeded Adam Jones in center field. We all remember how bad he was in 19 to the point where he was all the way back in double a you know, he that’s how, how, how bad things had gotten for Cedric Mullins, six years ago at this point. It’s hard to believe it was six years ago, but six years ago at this point, and yet, we see what he’s become. You know, he’s an all star back in 21 he’s been an above average player. He’s, you know, no longer a young player by any stretch of the imagination, but is still a good player. And you know, for as much as we’re talking about their offense right now, and waiting for guys to, you know, not, not that they have a ton of guys that aren’t performing individually, but as a group, they’re not getting enough of hey, so and so this guy and that guy all swung the bats really well and put some crooked numbers up exactly. Numbers up exactly. So, so, you know, it’s not okay. I get it. Gunners hitting 143, gunners played five games so far. You know? I mean, we’re still talking about a small sample size, but, but, but but Mullins has been right in the middle of so much of it. I mean, he already has 14 RBIs. So where would

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Nestor Aparicio  23:04

they be without him? I guess a week into this that’s,

Luke Jones  23:07

yeah, they’d probably be. We don’t have a lot of

Nestor Aparicio  23:10

good news going on three and nine, maybe three and nine. Let you appraise Brian Baker on the way out. I’m trying to get my press credential back. Hey, I’m

Luke Jones  23:18

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glad you at least said that. I mean, once again, their bullpen is performing. Their bullpen has been good. CNL, Perez has been a disaster. But other than that, their bullpen has pitched quite well. So now I don’t know how long that’s going to last when the starters, in all seriousness, when you’re ready, I’m, I’m, I’m laughing because it’s true, because you you know, you only have so many guys in that bullpen that you can option, so that’s where you look at this. And you know, you made mention that there’s rain in the forecast, and, yeah, they’ll have an off day Thursday, so that helps. But you know, if you start having a double header here or there, and you kind of get into a longer stretch without off days, I mean, they don’t have many guys you can option just to get a fresh arm in the bullpen. So that’s where you just look at this thing. That’s why, to me, again, you go back to losing Suarez. You know, we’re supposed to

Nestor Aparicio  24:07

get two inches of rain on Friday and Saturday. Like Saturday, they’ll get the game and it’s Sunday. But Friday, it does not look good. Doesn’t look it doesn’t look good at all. I’m just, who knows, they would have a couple of days down. They would come back and have to figure out double header, Saturday, Sunday, whatever would be. But that is in the mix here, which is all the more reason they got to get out of Arizona with it, with a win, not be three under coming home.

Luke Jones  24:31

Yeah. I mean it just it comes down to it. We talk about this all the time, even when teams are going well, you’ve got to compartmentalize. You can’t be sitting there dwelling on what the state of your your current rotation is. You just have to go out there and say, got a chance to win today, and if we score more runs than the other team, will win, and if we win today, we’ll get a series, and we’ll have our first series. Now we haven’t won two in a row yet, but again, you can’t carry all of that baggage onto the field. Because then it does pile up, and then you do start having that effect where that woe is me kind of mindset that you have to avoid. I mean, it’s, it’s April 9, right? I mean, the season’s not over as much as things feel so bad with their rotation, and it’s bad. I’m not, I’m not going to sit here and sugar coat it. They’re also in a position where the rest of this division the Yankees, for as much as they look like the 27 Yankees the first five games of the series, they’re not go look at their starter era. They’re not pitching very well so, and, you know, they’re they’re not running away with it. So this division is all right now hovering around, you know, a game or two above or below 500 so that’s fine. You just they’ve got to figure out a way to I don’t, I don’t think I can say they’re going to thrive anytime soon with the state of their starting rotation, but they’ve got to figure out a way to tread water at the very least. And that’s going to be their offense. It has to be their offense. If it’s not, then, yeah, they are going to find themselves in a hole, and they are going to be in a position where we might be looking at the division, the wild card race, all that, and saying, Wow, are they going to be able to get off the mat? Well, I found some comedy

Nestor Aparicio  26:09

in Ben McDonald’s commentary, as well as the throw of Gurriel. It’s been a crazy, crazy week around here. I want to send some love out to everybody in our planet, fitness family and the Brick Bodies family and the loss of Vicky brick on Tuesday night. I’m still shaken by it. If you’re watching out on social media, I’ll be sharing some thoughts on that as well. We’ve got Oriole baseball in the afternoon. We’re going to be doing the Maryland crab cake tour on Friday at Costas and gundawg. We will have the match eight ball scratch offs to give away the handful that I have left next week. Beaumont on the 23rd we’re going to be at Cooper’s north in Timonium Mays chapel, and then on the 30th, we’re going to be at Coco’s pub in lauraville. I am putting guests together. I have some space for Dundalk on Friday. Come on out to honor mister Costas as well. It might be raining on Friday. Acosta, the crabs will still be delicious, and the crab cakes I’m also putting together for our 27th anniversary, my 27 favorite things to eat around the city. So that’s been kind of a fun little list of things I’m doing here in the spring as we get up on a weekend of home cooking for the Orioles Blue Jays in town this weekend. I don’t think Getty’s come into town, but that’s okay. I am Nestor. He is Luke. We are talking about all sorts of things and all sorts of ways we are, W, N, S, T, AM, 1570 tasks in Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive. You.