Baltimore’s most beloved beer man since 1974, Clancy Haskett tells Nestor how it’ll be when Orioles finally win the World Series on Crab Cake Row Day 3 of “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” from Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. And we begin the campaign to get “Fancy Clancy” into the Orioles Hall of Fame.
Nestor Aparicio interviews Clancy Haskett, a beer vendor at Orioles games since 1974, about his experiences and the upcoming baseball season. Clancy discusses his role, carrying up to three cases of beer during games, and his favorite beers, including Moosehead and Fancy Clancy IPA. He reflects on the changes in beer prices over the years, noting that a 16-ounce beer now costs $6. Clancy also shares his passion for track coaching at Mount St. Joe High School and his hopes for the Orioles to win the World Series. He emphasizes the importance of community and the personal connections he has built over the years.
Nestor Aparicio interviews Clancy Haskett, a beer vendor at Orioles games since 1974, about his career and experiences. Clancy discusses his typical game day, carrying two to three cases of beer, and his record of selling 40 cases on opening day in 1988. He reflects on the evolution of beer prices, noting a 16-ounce beer now costs $6. Clancy also shares his involvement in track coaching at Mount St. Joe High School and his hopes for the Orioles to win the World Series. They reminisce about Memorial Stadium and the camaraderie among fans. Clancy expresses his desire to be inducted into the Orioles Hall of Fame.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Orioles Hall of Fame, beer vendor, road games, Super Bowl, beer prices, Memorial Stadium, Camden Yards, track coach, track team, beer sales, World Series, fan interaction, beer service, beer vendor life, beer at ballpark
SPEAKERS
Fancy Clancy Haskett, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. I am on my lumpy seat. We’re out here at Cocos. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I have the magic eight ball lucky. Well, one lucky. Even purple two weeks ago was lucky. Clancy and I be sitting in New Orleans right now. It’s all brought to you by wise markets as well our wise conversations. Big appreciation to them. Get us out on the road. It is a cup of soup or bowl. We’re here at Coco’s pub in laraville. We have a Maryland Food Bank donations in the box. You know, she brought me a CoCo. Look at that. They treat me like family here. I’m a Coco’s pub, and it’s only it’s officially 254 in the afternoon. You might be listening at any time. But this is, as Chuck Thompson would say, ain’t the beer? Cold, cold beer at a reasonable price. Clancy. Ask it. Here he is. He’s my been my dude for going on 30 years. He has been a vendor at Oriole game since 1974 74 this is the 51st year coming up. Are you in the Oriole Hall of Fame yet? No, I’m not. You’re nominated. That’s my haven’t talked my good friend Mr. Rubenstein. See, we could do that for you. How are you? How’s your is there an off season for you? Mere Clancy, everywhere you go, and honestly, you and I, right before the air. We were like, I had a flight out of Reagan tonight to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. And you’re like,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 01:26
mine was out tomorrow. I would have left tomorrow. You
Nestor Aparicio 01:29
went to some road games this year. I think you won. I saw you on the field at one point. Yeah, yeah.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 01:35
We said, Cleveland, Tampa and New York, New York Giants. What
Nestor Aparicio 01:39
makes you decide what? Because you’ve been on my road trips. You’ve been on my busses the New England, amongst other things, what makes you decide like, this is the trip we’re going to go on, versus we’re not going to Buffalo because it was cold two weeks ago and you want to be
Fancy Clancy Haskett 01:53
there. Well, well, Nestor, you got to realize in Baltimore, every event, every Raven game, every Baltimore game, you’re the Orio game. I’m there however. I’m working, so I don’t get a chance to drink a cold beer and yell and fuss like everyone else because I’m working. But during the off season, during Raven season, the way games, that’s when I’m able to be a fan. So I get out and I enjoy myself with the regular fans, because, hey, I can make all the noise I want because I’m a fan. But at home, all the home games I’m working
Nestor Aparicio 02:26
Estella, because they did not have fancy Clancy here, the IPA attack I have drank. They did have it here. They did have it here. All right, so you, so you do okay, I did not know that. So when you’re at a road game and you’re Clancy and I’m semi famous. I’m not like you, but I have turned down 1000s of beers over the years on the road as a raven fan. You know, Chad Steele would have thrown me out if I’d have been drunk in the press box. So I had to say, No. Sometimes, sometimes I’m driving. You know, every time I’m over, Costas, Mr. Costas, tried to buy me a beer, mad that I’m having one of COVID Because I can’t drink all the beer that people want to buy me over the course, like, and I’m not you. I mean, dude, you said you were in Tampa. Where were you Tampa? Tampa, Cleveland and New York Giants. Do you ever have to buy a beer? Clancy, very seldom. I was gonna say, man. I mean, I just would think, if I was a fan of the Orioles and I run new I’m like, it’s clinchy. I want to buy him a beer. And he’s like, dude, he cleans he doesn’t need another beer. Let’s listen. Let’s get all the beer he needs.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 03:29
And me and my wife, we go, we go to different restaurants, and believe me, every single time someone sends a son, someone sends a beer to my table, 90% let me say, 90% of the time. What’s
Nestor Aparicio 03:42
your favorite beer, other than fancy Clancy, because you got to say that, because is it still being produced? Oh yeah. Okay, what’s in the it has a funny name. It’s the
Fancy Clancy Haskett 03:50
sketches, brewery sketching brewery I know out of Winchester, Virginia. All
Nestor Aparicio 03:55
right, so they’re still making it. Oh yeah. So when you other than that beer, if I’m gonna give you a beer that you’re gonna love, you say, anyone I drink? As an example, if they were gonna buy me a beer at my house, you go to my house right now. Look at my refrigerator. Moosehead. There’s Moosehead beer. I like Moosehead. It’ll
Fancy Clancy Haskett 04:12
probably, it’ll probably go Stella than Budweiser.
Nestor Aparicio 04:16
So you like a lager? You’re like, yeah, yeah. You know, I don’t you drink what you sell. I don’t need too many of you drink coffee cell Yeah, yeah. All right, so I made fun of you in last segment with Marcy, because you snuck I don’t how do you look like this and sneak in the only door in the whole place? I don’t know how you did. And you’re at the bar, and I turn around. I’m like, Clancy’s cut. Oh, class, he’s here. And you’re at the bar, and, you know, I gave you a hard time. I said, Do you have to fatten up like Santa Claus anyhow? I mean, in the off season, do you have to, like, get into baseball shape?
Fancy Clancy Haskett 04:48
Well, no, not really, because much I try to keep the weight, I pick up about 1010, during the winter time. But you got to realize from April to through the end of August, I’m shedding because I’m up. Down them steps, and I’m sweating every single game, so I’m shedding weight so and the
Nestor Aparicio 05:04
beer don’t get any lighter. Oh no. How much you carry around in the time? Two case, three cases.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 05:11
Oh well, towards the end of the season, during the playoff time, I was up around three cases. But doing this, doing the regular, regular, regular game somewhere around two cases. Well, the
Nestor Aparicio 05:21
crowds have been getting bigger, and you can, you know the Knights when they’re bobble heading and they’re doing that kind of thing, and this new group tried their Star Wars weekend now, right? So, yeah,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 05:30
well, with this, with the when the fan, when the fans come, like a playoff game, those are money games. So you got to carry as much as you can carry, because you don’t make any money. Keep running back to the room. So you carry as much beer as you can out in the stands. So the last couple of games, I was carrying about three cases of beer.
Nestor Aparicio 05:46
How many cases of beer will you sell on a sold out? And then when it’s packed, when it’s packed, how many can’t what you have a record? Oh,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 05:56
my record is opening day 1988 so I
Nestor Aparicio 05:59
knew he would know, all right, so this was in Memorial Stadium, 88 opening day. Okay, okay, but
Fancy Clancy Haskett 06:03
there’s couple things, a couple of things about that game that’s not gonna happen nowadays. Okay, that game, we sold 12 ounce cans. We could sell beer until the end of the game, and then we had to pour the can of beer in a cup. And that game, I sold 40 cases. So nowadays you’re selling
Nestor Aparicio 06:21
1640 times 24 I’m just doing the math on that
Fancy Clancy Haskett 06:24
guy. Nowadays, you selling 16 ounce cans. You don’t have to put a beer in a cup. You can just give it out. So, I mean, if you compare that, I mean, it would be more cases, more cases now, plus 12 ounce versus 16 ounce, and pretty soon we’re going to 25 ounce cans of beer. That’s the way of the world now, the larger beer. Someone
Nestor Aparicio 06:45
make you a hero right now and say, if you price the beer, how much would the beer be if
Fancy Clancy Haskett 06:50
I price the beer? Yeah, right now, yeah, a 16 ounce beer, $6 $6 All
Nestor Aparicio 06:56
right, hey, I’m just asking that you wouldn’t make any money that way. Neither would.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 06:59
Neither would. Gunner Henderson, no, I wouldn’t know. They wouldn’t. Somebody
Nestor Aparicio 07:02
said to me, sort of semi flip. It was my yoga instructor, Bob last night. Bob said to me, and I’m soaking wet. Hour and a half on the mat, I come out, and he’s a fan. He’s from Chicago, and he’s funny because he’s a doctor. He’s really brilliant guy. Bob is, and he said to me, I heard you say on the radio like, like, okay. He said, I heard you say on the radio last week that $5 beers aren’t going to fund $50 million ball, $6 beers, one. And he said to me, what did you mean by that? That’s what he said to me. He said, What did you mean by that? I heard you say that on the radio, and I said, What I mean by that is, it’s going to cost a lot of money to have really expensive baseball players. We haven’t had that here in a long, long time, if ever, to compete at that level, to be a top eight, top five payroll, the kind of two, two, $50 million it’s going to take to keep gunner Anderson, to keep these players, if they all were going to the Hall of Fame like we think they are. And I just said $5 beers aren’t going to fund that. And I don’t, I wasn’t trying to be flippant, right? I mean, you said the same thing. That’s true, right?
Fancy Clancy Haskett 08:14
I mean, it’s funny. I mean, five, $6 beer would be great for the fans. But, you know, in today’s world is you gotta, you gotta pay to play. You know, if you, if you want a good team, you gotta pay the players. But let me tell you this quick story when, um, when our kingdom yards first opened back in 1993 this young lady came up to us and she said, Do you know your beers are very cheap? I said, well, um, where you getting your beards from? She said, I’m getting up my beard from Yankee Stadium. I said, How much are they? $7 that was in 1993 Sure, $7 Yankee Stadium, our beer at the time at oil park at Cameron yards, was $3.50 now, beers are what, $11
Nestor Aparicio 08:55
I remember the first time I got a sticker shock. I went out to San Francisco to see Barry Bonds play back in about 2004 or five just got married, right? And you know, I’m a Dundalk guy. I had friends make fun of me for going into a bar and Fells Point asking how much a beer was before I ordered it. As you go out to a bar when you’re meeting girls, you’re 21 just like, give me a beer, whatever it was, two bucks, four bucks, if you paid it right back in the day. And I went out to San Francisco. I’ll never forget that they had that special craft beer back when nobody had, you know, Anchor Steam or whatever it was, yeah, and I’m out there with my wife, and I went to get a beer, and it was like, $8.75 and that was back then, and I don’t think I’d ever spent more than six, right? And six was, like, it hammer jacks or like, somewhere where, like, you were expecting something happen, you know? And I remember $8.75 I’m like, never. That’s
Fancy Clancy Haskett 09:49
how they do it, man,
Nestor Aparicio 09:50
I was in Canada. Well, Canada’s got a whole they fund their their their health program there, right? So when you go to a hockey game, I went to a Rolling Stones concert in Toronto. At the Air Canada center 15 years ago, and it was the first time in my life I saw a $20 beer. Wow, it’s Canadian 20. So it’s like, 16 or whatever. But I looked up and I saw beer $20 and of course, my wife’s like, well, it’s Canadian they fund their health care through this and, like, whatever. And I’m like, it’s $20 beer, right? Like, what else does it come with? You know what? I mean,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 10:24
literally, that’s what, that’s the way they gotta fund it. So it’s
Nestor Aparicio 10:27
11 bucks. Now, Kim, see, I don’t think that that’s like 16 ounce, right? 16 ounce beer. I could justify that. I would, you know, I’d say, I’d say that’s two, eight ounce, $5.50 cent, exactly. That’s, that’s how I would do it. That’s why we’re looking but now they are doing discounted beer, so cold beer at a reasonable price, up in the stands, there were places, right? I know that that competes with you, but it doesn’t compete with you because you have the service of your Clancy a well, they’re bringing it to you, but it is. It’s 12 answer. It’s a different beer.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 10:54
Well, yeah, and that’s an that’s another thing, you know, when you pay that extra cost, you know you’re paying for the service and all that kind of stuff. So that helps out a great deal. So I mean that that 12 and then you got some beers also, you know, you have the the other types of beers with the alcohol in it. So that costs a little bit more than $12
Nestor Aparicio 11:15
like gelato or whatever those things like, next is that with, Oh, that’ll trick all that. That’s a margarita beer together. They do,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 11:21
yeah, something like the, what is that? The orange Smash, okay, those though, yeah, they, they a little bit more than $12
Nestor Aparicio 11:27
well, I, in all fairness, Clancy’s here, by the way, a beer vendor to the stars. I saw the menu come out, and I can beat the team up about the pitching. Luke and I do that all day long, right? We got this Justin talk, we got all these controversies, but the Orioles, two weeks ago, released this new menu, the Birdland menu, and it got everybody’s attention, because, as I said, cold beer at a reasonable price is you know what? What all Baltimoreans want. Clancy’s already on record saying it’s six bucks, right? And we all know you’re gonna pay more at the ballpark, and it funds the players and like all that. But I thought it was a really nice move of the off season that we’re talking about cheaper popcorn, a kid’s menu, just all of those kinds of things that make people want to come to the
Fancy Clancy Haskett 12:12
ballpark. Well. And another thing, even with the beer prices now we still have the best prices, or you’ll still have the best prices as far as beer Well, you
Nestor Aparicio 12:20
got friends everywhere. Man, people coming in here. Everybody knows Clancy. Man, where are you from? Can you
Fancy Clancy Haskett 12:26
I’m from the west side of Baltimore, and now I live in catonville, Arbutus area. Okay,
Nestor Aparicio 12:30
so I don’t know the Clancy life story. And I’ve asked you before, like, the first time you’ve ended in 74 and all that, and everybody knows you as Clancy, the beer vendor. But have you had other gigs during life, here, during your journey, when they met you in 1979 or 85 there were a couple of you that were always at chirps games, Oreo games, Redskin games, capital games, like there were life or beer vendors, and you were a guy that was that kind
Fancy Clancy Haskett 12:56
of even, even when I was a young guy, I was a traveling vendor. I worked in in 27 different venues around the country, but as I got older, I realized, you know, I can concentrate on one stadium, and since 2014 I’ve just concentrated on Oriole Park. Now, prior to 2014 a matter of fact, of three seasons prior to that I work nationals, Phillies, Orioles, on the first base side, on all in all three ballparks. And so I realized one day I was traveling to the games, and I’m saying, wait a minute, I’m driving all the way to Philly, and then it’s taken me an hour and a half to get there, and I’m driving 4040 miles to DC, and it’s taken me two hours to get there, just to go 40 miles. Why am I doing this when I can just concentrate on one stadium, and I do real well at Royal Park. So since 2014 I decided to work one stadium. But you’ve done Super Bowls, right? Oh, I’ve done all that. I’ve done, I’ve done, I did five Super Bowls in a row from 1999 2004 so I did five Super Bowls in a row. I was there. I worked at Super Bowl when the ravens, um, was in the Super Bowl down in Tampa. So, and I did a NASCAR events, horse races. You don’t see the game, though, when you vended, you really, I mean, you really professional boxing, not at all. No, no. When, when you rolling like that, you know, you don’t see much of
Nestor Aparicio 14:18
the game, not at all. And you love baseball, though, right? Yeah, do you always know to score?
Fancy Clancy Haskett 14:22
Well, yeah, I’m gonna tell you even, even last, even last year, Nestor doing the playoffs. I mean, I was making money, and I didn’t see much of the game at all. I didn’t, did not see much of the game.
Nestor Aparicio 14:36
That’s gonna break everybody’s heart, I think a little bit. You know what? I mean, it really does.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 14:41
They know I’m there in spirit. I’m making sure everybody get their beer on time. But I did not see much of the game. That playoff game, I don’t even
Nestor Aparicio 14:48
you would be the worst guy to do sports radio because you didn’t really see the game. I didn’t think about that. I was there. Do you watch replay sometimes? Oh,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 14:56
I gotta watch the replay. I’ll see a replay. Yeah. Okay, you take I’ll. Yeah, look. I’ll look back and see it to see the replay on the board. But as far as when I’m when I’m hustling, when I’m in the zone, I don’t see much of the game. What do
Nestor Aparicio 15:07
you love about it? All you love you. It’s just it’s different being you than being a regular beer vendor. I
Fancy Clancy Haskett 15:12
think because, because I got, I got a little setup, I got a nice little clientele, and I’m real personal. So it’s, it’s all I love, it all I love look forward to whatever. And like I said before probably one of our previous interviews, I am now serving the grandkids of the parents that I served at Memorial Stadium. So I’m still pretty much serving the same families all these years, and this year, coming up would be my 51st year.
Nestor Aparicio 15:37
I hope that, A, they put you in the Hall of Fame, because you deserved me. B, I hope that they win. For you, you know, for me, for us, for everybody. But I think there are people. Steve jet, I’m just thinking to the people that have never left Luke, my guy, you know. I mean, I don’t go down a lot, you know, where I am. I I’ve begged them. I like, I’m not gonna beg to get my media pass back. Like, hey, but they have new people, and I’m hoping that this is the year I go back. I mean, like, people are asking me the new person that’s running the place I’ve known for 25 years. I am. I don’t even want to say, like, people, if you were to ask me, Hey, you’re gonna give your pass back, because you probably you’re gonna ask me that I’m like, I hope so. I don’t know, Luke, and I would love to go down to Sarasota. I’ve seen you in Sarasota. Last year was my first I’ve seen you down there. So give me your did you go down there for just a weekend? Are you working
Fancy Clancy Haskett 16:33
all the weekend? And let me tell you, did you work? No, I didn’t know you went for fun. Okay, I went for fun. But if I go again, I’m not going down for a weekend. I’m going down for at least a week and a half. That was fun.
Nestor Aparicio 16:43
Would you consider working down there for a couple weeks? Could be fun for you? I could
Fancy Clancy Haskett 16:46
you should, you should. I could go down. You deserve
Nestor Aparicio 16:50
that in your
Fancy Clancy Haskett 16:52
retire 50. I’m 65 man. Well, you’ve
Nestor Aparicio 16:55
been doing it 51 years, so I figured that
Fancy Clancy Haskett 16:58
when I released 50, yep, been started when I was 15 years old. How long you gonna do it? I’m still healthy. Everything’s still good. As long as I’m still healthy, I’m gonna still do it.
Nestor Aparicio 17:08
But you have cut back, right? You do less days a year than you did when you were doing all the games. No,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 17:13
no, I still do. I have, I haven’t, I don’t miss too many Oreo
Nestor Aparicio 17:15
No, I mean, but you do 81 Oreo games, but you were doing like three different you probably were doing 150 games at one point with Philadelphia when
Fancy Clancy Haskett 17:24
I worked those other stadiums. So I cut back. This, my only stadium that’ll work
Nestor Aparicio 17:28
now. So when the orders go on the road, you you get a little downtown, you work 10 days in a row, and you get a couple days like an airline pilot,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 17:35
yep, yep. And I coach Track and Field at Mount St, Joe high, so that gives me something. Hold
Nestor Aparicio 17:38
on. You know the slide you’re coaching the gals. Oh yeah, man, did you run track? Where
Fancy Clancy Haskett 17:44
you ran track in high school? Ran track at capeton Girl Community College in Eastern Kentucky University.
Nestor Aparicio 17:50
He just slides us in. And I don’t know this about you. You ran track in eastern Kentucky. Can’t
Fancy Clancy Haskett 17:56
tell you you were a d1 athlete. Well, you know how it is. You
Nestor Aparicio 18:00
can’t go to Prague on yourself, slide me to notes. You get your wife to write this stuff down for me. But that was back in the 70s. Yep,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 18:07
back in the seven, yep. Early 80s. 70, early 80s. So I
Nestor Aparicio 18:10
did. So what kind what does it mean to be a track coach at St Joe? How did you get to be a part of that? Well,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 18:16
well, right after I retired from the Maryland State Highway, work for the Maryland State Highway for 32 years after I retired, about, about a week and a half after I retired, a buddy of mine called me up and said, Hey, man, mount, St Joe’s looking for a sprinter’s coach. I said, Oh yeah, man, I went up there the very next day, man, and they, as soon as they saw me, they hired me. That was, that was perfect. And the thing I like about St Joe’s all boys school, so we get, we get a nice little turnover, however, with the football team doing good and track and field, it’s one of those sports where, if you play another sport, you have to run track, right? So the track teams are always good there see spring or indoor and outdoor,
Nestor Aparicio 18:54
indoor actors, yeah. So you coach, you around
Fancy Clancy Haskett 18:57
there? Coach, yeah, yeah. Oh, okay. So it’s the type of sport that they never have a down year, because they always have good athletes. So, you know, I love it. So
Nestor Aparicio 19:07
you can, in the fall, you’re getting the spring athletes, and then you’re right so, and then in the spring, you’re getting the football players and the soccer players. You’re gonna win this year. You the best in the city or
Fancy Clancy Haskett 19:18
No, no, no. Calvin Hall is, Calvin Hall is the powerhouse right now. So we have to knock them down. In order to, in order to be the champions, you got to beat the champion. So we got to, got to knock calvid Hall down. Once we do that, we be alright.
Nestor Aparicio 19:31
Clancy is here. He has got a cold beer at a reasonable price available for you at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, looking forward to the season this year. So a little primer on the team, because I knew you do watch Give me your excitement level for winning a World Series. I mean, I I know you told me one of the greatest thrills was when Adam Jones pied you and brought you down years ago. I know you look at his smile
Fancy Clancy Haskett 19:55
that was so sweet. That’s one of the highlights of my vending career as a matter of. Back. I got I got him and me. It might even be on my It might even be on my my page, on my phone. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 20:09
he’s back now in management, right? So that’s
Fancy Clancy Haskett 20:11
nice, that’s sweet. That is so nice. He’s gonna do so much, so much better. I
Nestor Aparicio 20:16
always believe that the old ownership, not just in angering him or throwing him out, I always felt like just making him go play in Japan was a mistake. He loved playing in Japan from all I haven’t talked to him, but I love that he had that experience. To me, he would have been a guy at the end that they should have paid to keep around. He should have never gone anywhere else and played that’s how I felt about Adam Jones, well,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 20:38
my job won’t allow me to talk about stuff like that, but all I can say is Adam Jones is where he’s supposed to be. He’s a lifelong Oriole. He will always be an Oriole, and he needs to be in the organization the way he is now. That’s all I can say about and
Nestor Aparicio 20:53
I hope he pies you when they I’m going to tell him, if I see him too, make sure we win the World Series.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 20:58
I got him in my class. He gets pie. I got him in my cell phone. I’ll call him up bringing pieing back with that. Joe, maybe, I don’t think so. I don’t think so. I bet
Nestor Aparicio 21:07
he’s on a campaign for all that. Clancy is here. He’s got cold beer for you and anything you wanna say on the ravens and disappointment, you did not go to Buffalo for that game, right? No, I did not. You’ve been to Buffalo. It’s cold there. A
Fancy Clancy Haskett 21:19
little too cold. I go to Buffalo in September, not in December. You don’t
Nestor Aparicio 21:22
do cold, not too much. That’s your baseball. That’s right. Hockey, yeah, well,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 21:29
I could tell, I could tell you a couple of stories selling beer at Memorial Stadium back in the day, when we had to pour the beer in the cup. It was so cold one game, when I opened the beer and started pointing, it was liquid, but by the time I finished pointed, it was ice. I like, a little frosted beer. Oh, that was, that was, that was back, like, a beer slushy. Oh, yeah, yeah. But I didn’t sell too many cases of beer that day. It was too cold.
Nestor Aparicio 21:54
I miss Memorial Stadium, like, when I start talking to people like you about what, even
Fancy Clancy Haskett 21:58
back, even back then Nestor, the bid was only like, like, $1.10
Nestor Aparicio 22:05
back in Memorial, yeah, my dad never bought anything at the stadium because it was just all we we would go to Gene a Coney Island hot dog in Highland town my cabin. Say hot dogs are a quarter here, they’re 75 cents at the ballpark. Yeah, me and my dad worked at the point, so we didn’t have much. We were kids, you know. But, yeah, but my dad would make sure we got to the ballpark, you know, twice a week when they were home, because that’s what we did.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 22:24
Yeah, but you got and I tell you another thing. I tell you another thing, fan, fans that we had at Memorial Stadium. Man, they was the good old fans. Man, oh, man, those for those fans, those fans there they they made more noise for a small crowd, they made more noise than a full stadium, actually. Oh man, it was great work. Memorials section 34 Oh yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 22:51
The thing about Memorial Stadium that was so beautiful was the underneath the mezzanine, it echoed, yeah. So as a kid, and you know this, because you were a vendor, you’d sell me a coke in 1979 me and my buddies. We take the coke the cup, we twist the top, we turn it over, and we step on it, and it would go, it would just and underneath, it would
Fancy Clancy Haskett 23:16
sound like a bomb went off. Man, that’s bringing back too many men. You like that? Yeah, that’s bringing back too many man,
Nestor Aparicio 23:21
and if you sat underneath, you’d hear Rex Barney. You’d hear Rex Barney batting, fourth, the first baseman, first baseman, number 33 number 33 Eddie. Eddie Murray. Murray, you would that’s what you would hear, right?
Fancy Clancy Haskett 23:36
That was actually before give that fan a contract. Remember that?
Nestor Aparicio 23:39
Give that fan a contract
Fancy Clancy Haskett 23:43
that didn’t start until cam oil park at Camden Yards? Well, they would
Nestor Aparicio 23:47
actually bring you an actual contract to Camden Yards. I have friends that have the certificates. Are back in the day, did you caught a foul ball vending
Fancy Clancy Haskett 23:54
Oh, no, I didn’t. I’ve been close. I’ve been close. You play it or do you I let the fans see, the fans protect me, so I don’t have to worry about the fans are protected. You’re
Nestor Aparicio 24:04
like, Springsteen, like, literally, you know,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 24:07
no, they will, they will protect me. And then I’ve been hit by a broken bat one time. Chris Davis broke his bat. Now the back, a part of the bat hit me in the back, and then that’s when Adam James. Adam Jones signed the ball and gave it to me. Matter of fact, I still have that signball up on my shelf at home. You weren’t injured, or you’re, oh, no, no, I wasn’t injured. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 24:26
now that they have the, if you have mental ball game in a long time, defense, the caging around, it’s, let’s say it’s just different. Yeah, I mean, and I think when you’re sitting there as a fan, you you’re a little, you feel so much, you feel safer, yeah. Class, he’s here. Ease up three quarters of the way through his beer. I’m two thirds of the way through my beer. We’re at Coco’s pub. It is a cup of Super Bowl. It’s all for the Maryland Food Bank. We have donations coming in. We’re going to be Thursday at State Fair, Friday at Coopers north, if you want to bring some canned goods out for good folks in the community doing good things. Nobody does better things. I’m a man Clancy who. Across town. I offered you all my places. You pick Cocos, I’ll come Wednesday. Cocos, and I you said you had coaching to do, and I didn’t understand the track and field thing that you were doing.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 25:08
Yeah, and state fairs right up the street from my house, because I’ll see you tomorrow. I will then I’ll see you on Thursday.
Nestor Aparicio 25:14
I’m gonna bring you up. I’ll bring you back next I would stay for every couple, three, four months. Beaumont, right up the street, El Guapo across the street, fishmongers, daughter families, folks coming in out there too. So we’ll be doing shows out there. Too Good, all right? Every year or two, I beg him to come out and be the good man that he is. Clancy. Ask. It can be found out on the Facebook, your Twitter yet,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 25:36
selling ball of them. Insta, Instagram too. Yep, and
Nestor Aparicio 25:39
you will be on opening day, available, selling cold beer at a reasonable price, right behind first base, fancy
Fancy Clancy Haskett 25:45
Clancy, the beer. Man, I’m on all of them.
Nestor Aparicio 25:48
It’s not if, it’s not if,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 25:51
if you want it fancy, you only can buy it from
Nestor Aparicio 25:55
clients. So make sure I got the because I got that wrong. You got to get it right. You got to get it I got the Zeke’s fuel. Guy wrong here last time too, I said powered by his fuel. And
Fancy Clancy Haskett 26:04
that’s got all my Hold on.
Nestor Aparicio 26:06
I got a collector’s card. What is this? That’s
Fancy Clancy Haskett 26:10
my card, man, dude, you’re muscling up. Look at that. Every time you ask me how long I’ve been at the stadium, you get one of those cards.
Nestor Aparicio 26:17
All right? You autograph them. Oh, yeah, sure, I do. All right, good. I want you to autograph my money. I have a special in my production studio. I have pictures up on the wall. I’m gonna put this up there right next door. I have a 1972 Earl Weaver. Oh, wow on the wall. Yeah. I have a 1974 Bob Trumpy, too. Remember to dump trumpie When Bob Trumpy said bad things about Baltimore back in 96 every Raven fan remember this? People sent me Bob Trumpy cards back in 1996 so they’re up on the wall fancy Clancy beer man serving Maryland fans since 1974 celebrating this is wrong. It says 50 years. 51 years now, and you can go get some fancy Clancy IPA as well your legend, dude. Thank you, man. I love you for coming out, and this looks great on you. 1973 or, hello, the proper way. I’m Orioles.
Fancy Clancy Haskett 27:12
I bleed orange and purple, baby. That’s me. Wow, that’s me. That
Nestor Aparicio 27:17
makes me think of the 7374 or, I think a Tommy Davis. When I see that, I think of a young Don Baylor. Remember? I think a rich Coggins, the B al Bumbry, right there, right? Yes, I think a MERV Redman. Well,
Fancy Clancy Haskett 27:30
you can remember the lineup. Back in those days, you remember that, which
Nestor Aparicio 27:33
lineup Do you want? 7374
Fancy Clancy Haskett 27:36
75 you can just which one you want. Nowadays, you can’t remember a lineup because you don’t have the same guys. Remember saying to
Nestor Aparicio 27:43
my Dad, what’s the DH, dad, Tommy Davis, a designated hitter. Yeah, my dad was part of the dump the DH thing. He didn’t like that, but he thought the pitcher should hit. Dries Dale and Gibson. Gonna brush guys back. They should grab a bat, get up there and hit. Yep, that’s it. Bring it back. My dad. All right, if you’ve been to Camden Yards or memorial stadium or anywhere, Cole beer is served, this guy has probably served you one. I hope he continues to serve for the next 100 years or so. And I hope, really, really, really, I hope you are there in the ninth inning of the night that we bring it all home and ring the victory bell in late October, maybe November, I don’t know it’s, it’s, it’s baseball, but I hope you get to vend the game clinching World Series game of
Fancy Clancy Haskett 28:27
Camden Yards. That’d be sweet.
Nestor Aparicio 28:30
We can’t retire you off until you do that. Tell we do you have to, do you have to. We have, once they win, then you can, we can talk about you just doing Sunday beer vending, have you, right? I mean, maybe once a week. Come back like a celebrity beer vendor. Clancy is here. I’m a Cocos over six stopping by. I know that’s happening. I have a beautiful STEM teacher from mervo High School. Stop it by here. I met him at beer and bot beer event, beer and bots last week. STEM and robotics. We’re gonna get educated today. Marcy stopped by. We had John Hoey from the y here, also at TJ Humphreys talking about getting addiction addicted, people cleaned up. He was an addiction survivor who won the Maryland lottery. He won the tickets for 20 years last year, and he came by this year. He’s such a good man. TJ Humphries does a great, great work up in Aberdeen, keeping people safe and on the right side of sobriety. I’m here. I’m on the wrong side of sobriety for a minute. I’m having one beer with the beer legend. I can’t do a segment without drinking beer. Gotta have a cold beer. Well, absolutely feels like baseball season. I’m back for more from Cocos. It’s a cup of Super Bowl. Stay where this is all brought to you by the Maryland lottery and wise markets. You.
