John Martin of Maryland Lottery celebrates fall baseball excitement and tells Nestor about the huge Multi Match jackpot that is all about us.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
fall celebration, Multi Match jackpot, Maryland Lottery, Raven scratch offs, jackpot winners, Mega Millions, Powerball, Multi Match game, experiential prizes, Fan of the Game, Home Run Riches, Second Chance prizes, pumpkin promotions, San Diego vacation, My Lottery Rewards
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, John Martin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, tassel, Baltimore, Baltimore, positive. We are positively into the good times. It’s once you got I got apple cider donuts. I got Pumpkin, pumpkin everything at this time fall has arrived, we’re going to be celebrating our mutual birthdays. Luke Jones and I next Friday on the 11th at Pizza John’s in Essex. Yes, they have a crab cake. They don’t have any oysters, but they have crab cakes. Might have fried ores. I don’t know that they do, but maybe fried clams, Raven scratch offs. I don’t, wouldn’t order that there. I get the pizza. Pizza John’s. We’re gonna be there next Friday. We’ll have the Raven scratch offs, I must tell you, John Martin, this has been a very lucky batch. We were at Costas on Friday, I had winners, winners, winners. The first day at fade, leads. We had a $20 winner right out of the first batch. And of course, I always say I did that on purpose. But how are you? It’s been a it’s been a baseball week. It’s been a football week. Football teams on the baseball you know. But how are you? How are things? How are things at the Maryland lottery, things
John Martin 00:59
are going very well. Thank you. And it’s good to hear that there are winners, winners on all levels. And we’ll talk more about that in a minute. But no, you know what is that great time of the year? You got, you got the sports coming together in different in different capacities. You’ve got that little nip in the air I have brought out. You really can’t tell her I brought it the the autumnal wardrobe. So got
Nestor Aparicio 01:24
a thicker, thicker material there. You know, I’m old and skinny now. I get cold quick. So this type, oh, first day, it gets to be 52 in the morning, I say to my wife, and we’re in for a long you know, this is, this is a little bit of a slog these next six months here, getting through this. Yep, I get that. I hear that brother absolutely jackpots and things. Let’s, uh, my, my wife’s been in Florida the last two weeks. She had a little family issue down taking care of things. She came back. First thing she wants to know is, you know, jackpots, we because that’s her play. I mean, she doesn’t do here. Look, that $20 winner last week. That’s cool and all that’s nice. She like but she wants to win 20 million, and 20 million doesn’t even get her to play. It has to be 500 million for her to start thinking about playing, which is, how is that an industry issue? Is that That’s, that’s, it is, right? Oh,
John Martin 02:10
it absolutely is. I mean, we are in that that that nice place to be, where the big jackpots, Mega Millions and Powerball, are in triple digits. As if you know, 2040, 60, 80 million is not enough for people. I get that
Nestor Aparicio 02:25
you have that lottery thing there. It has three digits. When it only has like 88 million, it doesn’t seem like enough. It has to have that third digit has to
John Martin 02:32
no Exactly, exactly, and even, even for those who like to keep their money in the state of Maryland, the multi match jackpot is now over $1 million so that’s
Nestor Aparicio 02:45
multi match. Explain multi X. I see it all the time. Everybody knows a Mega Millions. You know the games that they play, but multi match, what is that? Because that’s great logo.
John Martin 02:54
It is a great logo. It’s it’s been with us, uh, probably since, not necessarily day one, but it’s been around a while, and you can go to MD lottery.com to get all the details about the game. But it is a game that is unique to the state of Maryland, as opposed to Mega Millions and Powerball, which are multi jurisdictional games, as we call them. It starts at a, you know, jackpot level in the hundreds of 1000s, and it grows very slowly as sales grow and it progresses. It’s drawn two nights a week. Let’s see.
Nestor Aparicio 03:27
It’s a Maryland jackpot, correct? It’s a mirror, okay? Same game, same concept. They’re different, yeah,
John Martin 03:35
same, same concept. Matter of fact, you know, let’s I will do it before you will, but we will do it nonetheless. We’ll get the exact you know, they love it when I start, you know, saying things, but it
Nestor Aparicio 03:47
always grows anyway. When you put it, no different, by the time people hear it, it grows. Well, it’s a kind of
John Martin 03:52
game that that my mother dreams about playing, you know, she, she buys her Mega Millions and her Powerball tickets, and she’s, she has multiple lines on them. And she says, Well, I got one here and one there, but they’re not on the same line. Well, multi match really addresses that you get to play for $2.18 numbers, three lines of six numbers each. And you if you get all six on one line, and the numbers go from one to 43 and certainly you can select them yourself, where the computer can quick
Nestor Aparicio 04:23
pick. You know what number I’m taking, 36 is my lucky number. You know that absolutely, absolutely. So
John Martin 04:27
you get from one to 43 across the top line, whether you quick pick or you select them yourself. And then the computer generates two more lines randomly so you could get some of the same numbers, and then all 18 numbers that you have right three lines of six contribute for a fourth way to win. So you can win on line one, line two, line three, just as who you would in any other draw game, like like you’re familiar with. But then you can play all those numbers so that the numbers come out and you’ve got a. Are 10 of the 18 numbers you know, that wins a certain prize. And there are, there’s, there are levels of tiered prizes based on how many of the total numbers that you have. MD, lottery.com, look up multi match, and it’ll explain all the wonderful things about it. And
Nestor Aparicio 05:15
you know what we you and I have talked for years. I don’t think we’ve ever talked about multi match in this way, like I you know, you just have a lot of games. I mean, there’s a lot of different ways to play. People have their game, their scratch off, their thing. I mean, these ravens tickets are your most popular item because it has a raven look. Branding matters, right? I mean, literally, branding
John Martin 05:33
matters. Time of year matters. Promotions matter, and sometimes they all come together. And you mentioned Raven, so let’s talk a little bit about that. You know, this year, we have a number of experiential Second Chance prizes, and a couple of them are new this year, one, I think destined to be a favorite, is called the fan of the game, and it’s modeled a little bit after our home run riches game with the o’s for last several years, where a lucky contestant is selected. People submit their names into a drawing. Contestant is selected, and as the Ravens fan of the game, they win $1,000 for just being selected, and they win $1,000 for every touchdown. Lucas Austin of gaithersburg is our leader in the clubhouse, because last weekend, he got his $1,000 plus five more for five touchdowns, for a total of $6,000
Nestor Aparicio 06:22
so hold on a minute. It’s better to be a raven scratch off winner than it is to be a home run. There’s more home run riches winners, 160 games, right? So when you win, you automatically get 1000 so it’s double, and then touchdowns, and hope we score more of them. I liked last week better than I liked the week before, um, but they can win more money, right? I mean, theoretically.
John Martin 06:47
So let’s so. So let’s do the final tally on on the baseball season, because we only paid off for the regular season games. The Home Run riches we had, uh, 228 home runs, seven were grand salamis, so we paid out over $230,000 in home run riches to fans across the great state and neighboring jurisdictions who chose to participate. That’s more than we paid last year.
Nestor Aparicio 07:15
So if they kept hitting them the way they were in May and June, they would have broken you. You you would have been trying to figure out how to pay it all and a few more grand slams. Last year we had six, I think this year at seven, like the first five came in the first two months, right like the ball, they hit the ball in the spring. They didn’t hit the ball on Tuesday. But the Raven scratch offs, though, have way different kind of experiential things get into it than home run. Richard, right?
John Martin 07:44
Sure, sure. This fan of the game I just talked about, and Audrey Harvey of Baltimore will be the fan of the game for this weekend, and the game on the 13th of October. Robert beers, and again, you can go to MD lottery.com to see who these lucky folks are. And true, a lot
Nestor Aparicio 08:01
of touchdowns that day play the Washington commanders. They don’t have defense, so that’s good. Well, I hey, if I get to pitch where we’re going to score more touchdowns, you know? Yeah, but you know what? That’s why they play the game. So, I mean, Tucker hits a field goal. No bueno. You get nothing for that. I’m ready to go three points, but you don’t get
John Martin 08:18
anything. Okay? Nope, nope. Touchdowns. Only touch I’m scored by anyone on the field wearing a Ravens jersey.
Nestor Aparicio 08:25
All right, so this is where I put my purple hat on, and I try to assist John Martin and the folks over at the Maryland lottery with my bright ideas. I have a bright idea. Safety’s never happened. Safety’s never happened. And the Ravens had a safety got screwed out of it two weeks ago. You saw that. I think it should be a $5,000 bonus for safeties. That’s what I think. And every time I say that, you’re like, All right, so Nestor Aparicio is gonna go ahead, do your little thing, but I just think, like, people don’t get excited about safeties, and they’re only worth two points, but they never happen. So this is where I think, like having that little poison. Don’t say they never happen. They don’t have they happen. We have no you’re not gonna get
John Martin 09:05
sim doesn’t win four to two based on on safeties. No, no, no.
Nestor Aparicio 09:09
So this winner of this winner doesn’t have to throw any footballs. They don’t do that. That’s a different okay. So this is just the these nice folks Audrey and these nice folks at two boys, they’re just chill out and root for touchdown, simple as that, right? They’re
John Martin 09:24
sitting in their their recliner with their favorite adult beverage. Their snacks may be a pizza, John’s pizza. Who knows what they have. They’re really
Nestor Aparicio 09:34
good shape. If they’re doing that, they’ll have leftovers like I have. But there’s also the point where it’s like fourth and three from the 38 and horrible is, like, Tucker, they’re like, no, no. Go for it, yes. Of course, there. Of course there. Well, there’s also the New York trip though then, and that’s sort of the banana this year. But there’s also how many winners get paid. It’s a couple, it’s a dozen or something like that. And really a handful. So there’s still, like, big experience. Prize is still available in October for this, right? Oh, absolutely.
John Martin 10:03
I mean, each each month we select winners for whatever the next several weeks of promotions happen to be, there’s always going to be a fan of the game. There’s always going to be a pass for cash game day experience for the home games. And that used to be where the fans themselves would throw the football through a target.
Nestor Aparicio 10:19
And I like that idea, unless it was me, if it was me, yeah, it’s can I? Can I get someone else to, you know, bring Bobby sad to throw it for me, so somebody knows how to throw that
John Martin 10:29
was, that was a painful experience in more than once. So we opted this year to have a Ravens alumni player be your proxy. So whoever you are, and for the next game, home game, I believe, is going to be the 13th, I believe command Herbert, Herbert Lloyd and Amos hooks. Herbert from Lusby and Amos from Salisbury are the two winners. They will not be throwing the football. I don’t know who it will be. The Ravens. They get
Nestor Aparicio 10:57
to go to the game, though, right? Oh, absolutely down there, right? Okay, yep,
John Martin 11:01
yep, yep, yep. It’s still a field experience, Game Day field experience for them, but just without throwing the
Nestor Aparicio 11:07
football. I’m looking at my phone. Stony case is in here. I could get him. That’s not going to work. You know, Flacco is in my phone, but he’s busy, right? I
John Martin 11:14
mean, why was he busy? He was busy last weekend.
Nestor Aparicio 11:17
How weird is that him in the cult? I said, the only thing now is, if you were a Steelers jersey, it was just, I mean, we saw what he did for your football team last week, so I know you don’t want
John Martin 11:27
to talk, yeah. Well, we will, no, no, we will forever be appreciative. He will have his his page, his half page in Cleveland Browns lore.
Nestor Aparicio 11:37
Can I ask you, as a Browns fan, John Martin, when the ravens and the Bengals get together. Who do you root for? I don’t know. Probably not Cincinnati, because there’s a whole Ohio thing, right?
John Martin 11:48
There’s a lot going on. There’s a lot you know, you in the NFL long enough, there’s a lot of relationships that you can’t undo.
Nestor Aparicio 11:56
I admitted something this week. I wrote a letter to the owner of the orders, and I’m like, the Washington Nationals won the World Series, and we haven’t yet, you know what I mean, so there’s a point for Cleveland not winning the Super Bowl. And I didn’t want to bring that up. I mean, I hate bringing up the Cleveland’s never won the Super Bowl, but Cincinnati hasn’t yet. You still very comfortable saying it’s a fact. I mean, and I do facts. I’m a fact. I’m in the fact business, John, um, but there would be something that is Cincinnati won the Super Bowl before Cleveland. I don’t think that would go well. And I certainly from my Baltimore, Washington. I don’t want to see the commanders get there, you know, yeah, the Beckles have been in a couple, but never successful. Yeah,
John Martin 12:35
yeah. Well, who knows? We’re set up with you for more reason. And you know, to bring it back a little bit, but not much the Yeah, that’s what makes these playoffs so interesting, right? I mean, you have these teams that that are wild card teams. I mean, last year, on on day one of the playoffs, somebody told you, hey, Texas is going to be the Diamondbacks for the for the championship. They would have told you, you were crazy. Nathan, of
Nestor Aparicio 13:00
all the stop, right? Exactly. Who’s to say that we
John Martin 13:03
don’t have a Tigers Mets World Series this year?
Nestor Aparicio 13:07
The Indians right now, though, right? Because, like, as we sit here, the Orioles are twisting in the wind and resting our pitching. And like, I keep on, Andy, I’m sorry, Guardians resting their pitching. Well, I think it’s force. It’s been going on a long time. John Martin is here. He’s executive director of all things Mayor like he will be watching a baseball football this weekend, as well as other things. Jackpots up multi match. We got scratch offs. We got new scratch also have new games. You have Game of Thrones. And this is in the modern world. I You and I both admitted I don’t know anything about Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones. You know anything about Game of Thrones? This is God’s honest truth. Last week we started talking about it, and I was Googling it, and then you kept saying Game of Thrones, and I say Game of Thrones, my phone hears me now, every time the internet thinks I’m a Game of Thrones fan, I’m getting served Game of Thrones. Well, because you know how it is. If you just in the modern era, if you just think about strawberries, they’ll start showing up on your timeline and that. And it is a little like the man’s listening, but I’ve had a lot of Game of Thrones this week, John and I know it’s your fault.
John Martin 14:16
Wow, that’s interesting. Yeah, yeah. And you know what else is going to be fun this month, our new promotion called hollow win. Hollow win. See
Nestor Aparicio 14:25
what we did. I don’t know. Hello, win. Yeah, pumpkin, black cat. What do we have? There
John Martin 14:29
you go. There you go. You’re you’re onto it. So for it’s going to be unique to our pick three, pick four, pick five. Games. It’s a second chance contest. You buy $1 worth of pick three, pick four or pick five. Enter your tickets to my lottery rewards for the month of October, and you could win one of five, $5,000 prizes, or one of 510, $1,000 prizes. Or In addition, just for playing, you could win a free $2 Fast play, cob web, cash.
Nestor Aparicio 15:02
Cobweb cash.
John Martin 15:05
We have fun around the holidays here.
Nestor Aparicio 15:07
I haven’t had an apple cider donut yet. I haven’t I did have a pumpkin muffin about two weeks ago. It’s delicious. It was a little early for pumpkin for me, but I am all about the fall thing. I even like putting my sweater on like you pointed out, like getting getting it, but five minutes summer already, you know,
John Martin 15:26
you know what’s bad about, about the pumpkin stuff? Who doesn’t love pumpkin? This pumpkin that. So last weekend, I was out for, I won’t mention the establishment out for dinner, and they had a pumpkin cheesecake. I should Sure. Let’s do that. It was horrible.
Nestor Aparicio 15:41
Oh no, then don’t mention the place. I gotta send you some. Oh, I can’t. I can’t. Well, pumpkin, pumpkin spice and everything. Nice. Sean Martin, so from the Maryland lottery and MD lottery, I tell you what. Next week we’re getting a crab cake tour. Back out, I’ve been doing the oyster tour. I saw your folks, Gail, everybody out at the Oyster recovery partnership event last week. Um, you even said it on the air because I listened to our segment last week. When I’m driving around listening at 57 you’re like, oh, it’d be the world is your oyster. And I’m like, I didn’t know the name of the event, like, well enough, and I was there and involved and like all of that, what a wonderful event that was at the piano Railroad Museum. Um, people were spinning the wheel and having a good time and winning stuff. And your crew was out there. And you know, your crew knows the good parties where they have the good food for my friends at fadelies and my friends at State Fair and Beaumont were out there giving delicious oysters. My favorite oyster was there last week from the Federal House down in Annapolis, that that crab savitche oyster. They had that on special there. And I was going over to her, just bringing them to people. I brought Ben Cardin, our great senator, one of these delicious oysters. So but there’s a lot of events and fall, not just hay rides and all the wind and other things like that. You bring the crew out. This is a this is a good time. Good
John Martin 16:53
time. Good time to dust us all off and get out there. There’s a couple things come up here in the next first half, let’s say first half of October. This weekend, we will be at Fells Point for the Fells Point fun festival. That’s the October 4, fifth and sixth again. MD, lottery.com. To learn more about that. We’ll be there on the fifth and sixth, and then Monday the seventh, with one of our good partners and friends and one of yours as well. Royal Farms is opening their 300th store.
Nestor Aparicio 17:26
Wow. Where is this? You know,
John Martin 17:28
it’s going to be in Millersville.
Nestor Aparicio 17:30
Oh, almost Annapolis. Okay, right on 97 Okay, good.
John Martin 17:33
So the Maryland lottery team there and one of our promotional partners will be there at the grand opening, and that’ll be Monday morning, October 7 at ROFO. Hopefully you can stop
Nestor Aparicio 17:45
by, and I want to give them some advice. Get the fried chicken. That’s what I would tell them. Alright,
John Martin 17:49
there you go. Good, good. And then coming up next weekend, fun event. We do this and have for several years. It’s the 27th annual Endless Summer cruisin in Ocean City. So we will be there. Of you know, it’s still not too late to get to the beach. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 18:07
cruising. Is that cars? Yes. Oh, my wife’s all about that. I mean, if there’s a 67 Corvette, she wants to see it for sure. There you go. So
John Martin 18:15
next weekend, the event itself is actually, I believe, the 10th through the 13th. So again, MD, lottery.com. For more fun stuff. So yeah, we like to get out and about, because pretty soon the weather will get not as friendly for all these things. But we enjoyed, come on, spin the wheel, win a prize and enjoy it. Stop by.
Nestor Aparicio 18:35
Well, you and I have convened together in Ocean City, and I, I know when I had Tom prolazo on down there talking about ocmd and last weekend, Ocean’s calling this weekend country fest. Next week, they’re going to cruise. Two weeks ago was bike. They’ve done a really nice job down there of what they say, Endless Summer. Let me make the summer never end, even though we got sweaters on, right?
John Martin 18:53
Yep, exactly, exactly. But you know, you think about warm weather even when it gets a little cool. I’ll just tease you with this one, MD lottery.com for all of our promotions and special events. And one thing we like to do for our my lottery rewards club members is to give them opportunities for for trips, for vacations, and we have just put out there now through January 5, an option, you can take 50 of your draw points from your My lottery rewards account and be eligible for a San Diego resort vacation.
Nestor Aparicio 19:27
They might win the World Series. They might, they,
John Martin 19:30
that’s who knows? Maybe they might, might even have the parade by then. No, I think the Para be long gone. Listen,
Nestor Aparicio 19:35
you don’t need it San Diego. You don’t need any excuse to go. There you go anytime you want. It’s the world’s air conditioned city. You know, I would send them out to Coronado and tell them they should ice skate on the Coronado ice skating beach on the Pacific Ocean. And that’s a little like what people say there was a pool at Dundalk high on the third floor. There really wasn’t one, but we told the freshman that there really is an ice skating rink at Coronado out on the beach in San Diego. So a. When I tell people, go to San Diego, go ice skating, they were like, You’re making that up. I’m like, No, it’s real, but San Diego is one of the great places in this country, or any country, quite
John Martin 20:09
frankly, five days, four nights, at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay spa and Marina.
Nestor Aparicio 20:15
I have stayed there. I know the mission. I have stayed at the Hyatt Mission Bay. It’s lovely. I’m sure you would. It’s right in your Sea World, it’s right. It’s on the north side. It’s beautiful, beautiful area. It’s San Diego, five days, four nights in Cali. I’m in. How do we win?
John Martin 20:29
Just by going to MD lottery.com, getting all the deets there, as the kids say. And if you have a My lottery rewards account, you take 50 of your draw points, equals one chance to win, and you can enter now through January 5, and we’ll select the lucky winner at that point.
Nestor Aparicio 20:47
All right, well, I want to go to San Diego. You know? What if the Orioles, maybe they could play maybe, because you never know who the World Series. I mean, like, right now you think you’re going to be in the World Series, right? The Cleveland guard. I mean, it could.
John Martin 21:01
They’re good. What we’re in, what? No, I would
Nestor Aparicio 21:03
be very I’ll tell you this. I’ll say this with with respect and reverence, not just to you, but also to the ghost of Tony Fernandez, who came up this morning, by the way. So we talked Charlie Nagy this morning because of the game 619, 97 one, nothing, 12 inning game that made you happy and made me very sad that night. We did talk about that today. So I will be holding a candle for the Orioles. The Ravens won’t need that on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. John Martin is joins us each and every week. Usually, I’m not this weird or distracted, but this is what happens when the Orioles don’t hit the ball, John in the playoffs. In October, I will have a raven scratch. Also, they have been very lucky. We’re going to be pizza John’s on Friday, the 11th in the afternoon. Come on out, have some pizza. So if you don’t like me and you love Luke, this is a great chance for you to come out and tell Luke that you love and buy some ice cream or a milkshake at Pizza John’s, we’ll have some pizza. And we’re also going to have a crab cake, because it is the Maryland crab cake Tour presented by our friends at the Maryland lottery. And I really appreciate, tell Roz, I appreciate the lucky bat should have my listeners that these ravens tickets have, have they performed better than the Ravens have lately. So I’ll just say that they’ve been very, very good. I don’t want to be too nice to the Ravens. The Orioles are having a rough week, so we, we wish you continued success. John. I appreciate thank you for your patience this week. You know a K faba, I’m a mess around here during playoff time. So John Martin will join us next week. He joins us all the time. He gives us these Maryland lottery scratch offs to give away, which we’ll be doing, and the Maryland crab cake tour. John this Oriole thing, I haven’t been able to plan anything. I only have one crab cake tour in the 11th I am hoping that the Orioles would keep us busy throughout the month of October, but I don’t know when the baseball team goes wrong. It it sets the mood around here a little differently in early October, and I need some pumpkin cheesecake or some apple cider donuts to get me through this. John Martin, the Maryland lottery sponsor. All the things we do around here, including our oyster tour, you can find ways to win. And more than that, download the app, because when people come up to me with the scratch, also like, how do I win? I don’t mind. It says, Put woman? It says price check right here you do modern era. And the neat part is, when you do the little boop and somebody wins $20 even if it’s not me, because I use my scanner to find people’s tickets. It like balloons go off and confetti goes off. It’s kind of fun. I like it
John Martin 23:20
absolutely. We enjoyed doing that just for you and their players.
Nestor Aparicio 23:23
Well, it’s more fun than just, hey, I won two bucks. You’re like, zap it, and the thing goes off and you’re like, so I would encourage everybody, zap. Am I using the wrong word? Scan? You like, no scan too. Zap your tickets with your scanner and your QR codes and all the cool stuff with MD lottery.com it’s easy thing to do that. It’s a scan to win. He is John, I am Nestor. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking jackpots. Go play that multi match, Baltimore. Positive, stay with us. You.
