The fans of the Baltimore Ravens sent quite a vivid message on Sunday in leaving the stadium deserted in the fourth quarter of a 44-10 Houston beatdown. Leonard Raskin is a lifer PSL holder and tells Nestor why he left early and why he’ll be back again next Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ recent performance and fan dissatisfaction. Raskin, a season ticket holder, criticized the team’s lack of effort and fundamental football skills, citing a game against the Eagles where fans left early. He highlighted issues with players like Cooper Rush and Justin Tucker, and the team’s overall accountability. Raskin also mentioned the empty stadium and the lack of fan interest. They touched on the broader topic of accountability in sports and media, emphasizing the need for transparency and responsibility. Raskin’s business, Raskin Global, focuses on financial management and accountability.
Leonard Raskin’s Experience at the Ravens Game
- Nestor Aparicio discusses his birthday week and the Baltimore Orioles’ playoff situation.
- Leonard Raskin shares his experience of being thrown out of his seat at the Ravens game.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the empty stadium during the third quarter and the lack of fan interest.
- Leonard mentions attending every Ravens game and the alternative of attending his son’s birthday party at Chuck E Cheese.
Observations on the Ravens’ Performance
- Leonard Raskin criticizes the Ravens’ performance against the Eagles, comparing it to a preseason game.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the lack of effort and fundamental football skills displayed by the team.
- Leonard mentions the poor performance of the offensive line and the lack of threat posed by Cooper Rush.
- Nestor and Leonard agree that the team showed no mercy and played poorly, leading to their decision to leave early.
Leonard’s Decision to Leave the Game Early
- Leonard Raskin explains why he left the game early, citing the lack of effort and the pathetic performance of the team.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of accountability within the Ravens organization.
- Leonard criticizes the team’s scheme and the lack of threat posed by Cooper Rush.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the poor performance of the offensive line and the regression of some players.
Accountability and Fan Frustration
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the lack of accountability within the Ravens organization, mentioning incidents involving Justin Tucker and other players.
- Leonard Raskin shares his frustration with the team’s performance and the lack of effort shown by the players.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of accountability from the owner, general manager, and head coach.
- Leonard mentions the lack of effort and the poor performance of the team, leading to his decision to leave early.
Leonard’s Business and Personal Life
- Leonard Raskin talks about his business, Raskin Global, and its focus on helping people manage their money.
- Nestor Aparicio shares his birthday week and mentions celebrity birthdays he shares with.
- Leonard discusses the importance of accountability in managing money and the challenges of dealing with misinformation.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of accountability in various aspects of life, including sports and business.
The Future of the Ravens
- Leonard Raskin expresses his expectations for the Ravens’ performance against the Rams and the importance of effort and good football.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the team’s chances of winning the division and the importance of getting Lamar Jackson back.
- Leonard mentions the importance of accountability and effort from the players and the coaching staff.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the potential impact of the team’s performance on fan attendance and support.
Nestor’s Personal Reflections
- Nestor Aparicio shares his personal experiences and frustrations with the Ravens organization.
- Leonard Raskin discusses the importance of accountability and the challenges faced by the team.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the impact of the team’s performance on fan loyalty and support.
- Leonard mentions the importance of effort and accountability from the players and the coaching staff.
The Importance of Accountability
- Nestor Aparicio emphasizes the importance of accountability within the Ravens organization.
- Leonard Raskin discusses the challenges of dealing with misinformation and the importance of accountability.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the impact of the team’s performance on fan loyalty and support.
- Leonard mentions the importance of effort and accountability from the players and the coaching staff.
The Role of Media and Fan Expectations
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the role of media in holding the team accountable and the importance of fair reporting.
- Leonard Raskin shares his frustrations with the team’s performance and the lack of effort shown by the players.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of accountability and the challenges faced by the team.
- Leonard mentions the impact of the team’s performance on fan loyalty and support.
The Future of the Ravens and Fan Support
- Leonard Raskin expresses his expectations for the Ravens’ performance against the Rams and the importance of effort and good football.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the team’s chances of winning the division and the importance of getting Lamar Jackson back.
- Leonard mentions the importance of accountability and effort from the players and the coaching staff.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the potential impact of the team’s performance on fan attendance and support.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Ravens game, fan dissatisfaction, accountability, stadium attendance, Justin Tucker, Cooper Rush, offensive line, defensive issues, fan effort, team performance, media treatment, ownership issues, financial management, sports fandom, Baltimore sports.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively into it’s my birthday week this week. So nothing, nothing is going to get me to stop talking about one in four and what’s going on here in this baseball playoff situation? Right now, I’m going to be giving away Raven scratch off sub on the Maryland crab cake tour. I have postponed. It used to be a bar in Dundalk. Would say, till times get better, you know, beers half price or whatever, till times get better. We’ll be at Costas next week. It’s my birthday. I’m pushing things around a little bit this week, not because of the Rams or the Ravens or the Texans or John Harbaugh or Cooper rush or any of that kind of stuff. Leonard Raskin is here. He manages the American Dream that I’m trying to manage this week for my birthday and do some bucket listing on my own. Leonard Europe, your season ticket holder, you’re PSL holder, yes, sir. Leveler, you’re there. I watch on TV because I was pretty much thrown out of my seat, told I was not wanted, was not respected, was not needed, was not welcome. To be a raven fan anymore, be in my seat so I don’t go, but I watch it on TV, and in the beginning of the third quarter, they were still in the game, yeah, the third quarter, nobody kind of went back to their seats, because I’m used to that. You know, early third
Leonard Raskin 01:30
quarter arriving, drinking, late arriving, right? It was hot,
Nestor Aparicio 01:36
so people are in the in the club level or the concourse, cooling down the cut, how empty it was packed at the end of the third quarter, and then nobody came back. I would think that if anything, is a message to Mr. Bashati about his lack of accountability, or that fraud, Sashi Brown, or the other fraud and John Harbaugh that like someone should be speaking to the fans, because the fans quit on the football team on Sunday. And I found that to be fans unique.
Leonard Raskin 02:08
You know, Team quit on the fans on Sunday. Go ahead. I’m sorry. I go to every game. You know that I do a road game at least once a year, been to almost almost every single playoff game over the lifetime of the Ravens Home and Away.
Nestor Aparicio 02:24
I think my number was 237 out of 242
Leonard Raskin 02:28
or something. Yeah, we’re a lot out of we’re a lot out of a lot, but not that many because, because we count all the home ones, and then, you know,
Nestor Aparicio 02:35
I’ve dedicated a large portion of my life and wealth to them as Yes, yes.
Leonard Raskin 02:39
Well, so, so we go to the game and the alternative, of course, let me tell you the alternative. So the last two games, Monday night against Detroit, we couldn’t make the game. That was Rosh Hashanah, so it was a little tough to get to the game. We did watch it on TV because I’m not that religious a Jew, but I wouldn’t go the football game. We gave our tickets to good friends, but then this game, we had the option to go to an eight year old’s birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. And halfway through the game, Matthew the son, said we should have gone to Chuck E Cheese. It would have been better. So we go to the game. It was a hot day. It was an Eagles game. Would have been on there. Yeah, right. It was, it was a beautiful day, and then it wasn’t look we watched CJ Stroud at Ohio State.
Nestor Aparicio 03:32
So you went to the game your son’s home? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he’s at Ohio State or so there’s something different about CJ strike. I just want to make
Leonard Raskin 03:39
that sooner for those so we watched. We watched CJ play football at Ohio State. One things I remember was he was average, mobile, extremely accurate, and could drop any pass on the field, anywhere at any time. Dude just has it good, good guy and really good quarterback. And obviously he’s proven that in his first couple years, because they’ve made the playoffs and we beat the heck out of them, so good for us. And then they came in here to a wounded team, obviously wounded, but I would have expected a better effort and better fundamental football from a professional football team than what they showed.
Nestor Aparicio 04:20
It was a hell of an effort by the Texans. I’d say that just they whooped them everywhere. Yeah, everywhere
Leonard Raskin 04:27
they want individual battles in the way you want to, if that’s your football team and and I’ll tell you, and you think you’re getting better, and you think your playoff team too. I asked Matthew. I asked Matthew, and I didn’t have a chance to ask Kathy, she she’d been out after but I said to Matthew, do you think this was as bad a game as the game we saw in London against the Jags? Oh, okay, because this is what it felt like, just a team that, for whatever reason, was not played. In football was not playing fundamental football, tackling nothing, covering nothing. I didn’t see the defense holding edge half the game, guys got outside. Nick Chubb running around the outside for 30
Nestor Aparicio 05:17
with the Ravens. Did the other teams? You know, first and 10 becomes second and two, or it becomes 12 yards on first down on the ground.
Leonard Raskin 05:24
And hey, you know they have a memory. They’re professional athletes, and they know they got whooped by the Ravens last, what, eight times, and there was no mercy. And I don’t blame them. I don’t believe in mercy. In sports, you play till the game’s over, because the other team can always score, as we saw Buffalo and others do to us late in the game. It ain’t over till 000, or the bottom of the whatever, in three outs. So you got to keep playing. And they kept playing, and they kept scoring. And I said, My god, does this team have a punter by the time he punted Ness, we were home, and that’s a horrible thing. I was at the game. I’m sure you were years ago, Raven, why
Nestor Aparicio 06:09
did you leave early? Is it just no fun for because I just being honest, I haven’t left a lot of games early in my life. I was just being sick or
Leonard Raskin 06:19
not. No, listen, we left. We did not leave the game in London till the end. I was at the Seahawks. I know you remember that game where they came back after a big deficit at halftime. Second half came back roaring. Won that game, most incredible, one of the most incredible games I’ve seen. And the people that I was with at that game left at halftime. I laughed at him for the next, you know, year
Nestor Aparicio 06:42
that was 20 years ago now, right? Exactly, yeah, and,
Leonard Raskin 06:45
and so now I’m waiting halftime. I’m in the concourse getting some food and drink come back out. I’m in my seat. Nobody around me is in their seat. Nobody around me comes back except a couple Houston Texans fans, and it’s hot, and the third quarter, I still will watch the third quarter. We’ll see what they do. And the effort was just pathetic. I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 07:09
so you left because of effort. You left not you left because there was nothing left to
Leonard Raskin 07:14
see. There was nothing to watch. There was no chance. Yeah, it was a, it was a bad preseason game. And, you know, I don’t know Nestor, I’m no general manager, I’m no head coach, but I said it in the summer. I guess it was June, whenever it was, what the heck are? I don’t care. He’s not he’s just one guy. What the heck are they doing? Bringing Cooper rush to this team? He does nothing. He He’s a serviceable backup in the preseason, in the season. I mean, what do you want? I’d rather have Tyler Huntley play. Their whole scheme has to change when he comes in, and it’s not good to begin with right now. But he poses no threat. They know darn well. They have to do is stop Derek Henry. They had eight, nine guys on the line. He made a couple of good passes. That’s it.
Nestor Aparicio 08:05
Well, backup quarterbacks only that certainly I saw Mariota looked okay for a week with the command, right?
Leonard Raskin 08:12
But no, you got to have like, got to have effort, but you got to have effort. They had none.
Nestor Aparicio 08:16
Well, I think the offensive line of defensive that they’re getting beat at the point of attack. So badly.
Leonard Raskin 08:21
Yeah, line were starters. They just played like so, no good. It was terrible.
Nestor Aparicio 08:29
Yeah, yeah. I mean, very easy, and file Rosa is regressed, terrible.
Leonard Raskin 08:36
So, so it was time to go home. It was time to go home. So, yeah, left, came home, watched the end of the Eagles game, which was quite stunning. And then
Nestor Aparicio 08:52
watch the Eagles lost the bills law, and nobody goes 17, right, right.
Leonard Raskin 08:56
Say, then watch New England. Watch New England beat up the bills, which was, well, they beat them up, but they won, and it was something else. Now there’s no more undefeated teams. The dolphins of 72 can have their champagne. I don’t know how many of them are left, but whoever it is, they can have their champagne, and it’s good. You said. You said something earlier made me think you said, we’re not gonna What did you say? We’re not gonna go till it gets better, till times get better, till times get better. And I was thinking
Nestor Aparicio 09:25
that was a place in Dundalk. It was the sign. It said, till times get better, dollar beers, you know, there you go. I’m talking about, you know,
Leonard Raskin 09:33
that’s I was thinking about the guy you’ll remember, I don’t, you remember these things, who sat up on his roof when the Orioles were open on the roof? Yeah? Reminded me of that somebody’s up on the roof. Yeah, yeah, right to the Ravens win a game. There’s gonna be a dude on the roof who’s gonna listen to the radio and become a something. It ain’t gonna
Nestor Aparicio 09:53
be me. So, by the way, Leonard Raskin is here. Tell me what you do, managing money and all that number. Get back to our sports fandom, and I want to go back to goof on the roof. I think
Leonard Raskin 10:04
that’s important, right? So, so we are. We are everything money, Raskin global, been in business 30 going on 39 years. It is also my birthday week, the 12th, next Sunday against the Rams. I will not have a happy birthday. You like to have the Christopher
Nestor Aparicio 10:23
Columbus thing? I have the John Wooden That’s right, Dwight, the Eisenhower
Leonard Raskin 10:27
thing. So we are everything money. We help people understand how to manage their cash flow, understand how to save money, how much to save, how to invest money properly so they don’t lose it. How to protect their wealth, how to enjoy it. And yesterday, Sunday, was not enjoyable. Can’t help it there that was just not enjoyable. And then pass it on. Make sure that the things you do with your money benefit you, your family, your community, charities that you care about, things that you care about. And then when you go, it goes to the places you want, the people you want, and the way you want. That’s what we’re all about. We do everything money, and we’ve been helping people do it for going on 39
Nestor Aparicio 11:09
years. So I have a couple of celebrity birthdays that share my birthday, Stacy Keebler, my former intern, an actress and wrestler. You know, she October 14, and I ran into one of my birthday mates at living classrooms foundation at maritime magic. So you speak about giving money and having a couple dollars too much and being charitable, my friend Securio threw down on Friday night as the lead sponsor maritime magic. I’ve been going to maritime magic for 20 years. Brian billick’s always been a big part. Our partner with James Bond down there and all the good stuff that they do in the city. Thomas Dolby, he’s going on tour. He’s playing RAM said, my goodness, I run into Dolby. Dolby and I are, like, having a wing ding, and we’re talking and we’re talking music. And he so, anyway, I love Tom Dolby. His birthday is next week. My birthday is next week. All right, so listen, got to get this out for you because, because, like, I think of you as dealing with business people money. You are required at all times to have Fiduciary Trust. Yes, you have to be sober, alert, awake, responsible.
Leonard Raskin 12:15
You’re interest of the person accountable,
Nestor Aparicio 12:19
right? You’re accountable. You see something. You say something, right? Absolutely, you don’t. You don’t do the old point in the other direction, like the Scarecrow, and say somebody else’s fault. You don’t say what they say. Remember, Chico the man, not my job, not my job, not my job. Everything is everything. So, okay, so accountability. Where are you on the Ravens? Accountability thing, top to bottom. And I’m going to take you backwards here, because John Harbaugh and I had a little titty tat last week in regard to how female reporters should be treated inside of their locker room, how humans should be treated inside of the locker room. And I happen to be a human last I checked, even if I am Venezuelan and Hispanic. And you know, I only get half a vote these days, but I was born a church home hospital if they come and look for my little card. So I would say accountability. In regard to the owner, who hasn’t appeared in public in almost a decade, in regard to everything that happened after Ray Rice, in regard to punching his wife in a glass elevator, in regard to Justin Tucker, blaming the reporter, shaming the female reporter, saying none of that happened, and now sitting on a 10 game suspension, by the way, he’s got come back, right? Yeah, you saw Pella Cerro sharing his video that he’s kicking. He’s gonna play ball, just like we said he was gonna play ball. All these massage therapists are all lying. They’re all just hags who
Leonard Raskin 13:42
are lying. The league didn’t say so, but they’re gonna give him his second
Nestor Aparicio 13:45
the league gave him 10 games and that, and they only gave Rasheed rice six. Did you see what Rashi Rice did? They gave Tucker 10? Okay, so all that being said, the pass rusher who isn’t Mike Green, who, you know you watched him run around the other day that allegations in college didn’t matter. They drafted him. Ben Cleveland goes out, allegedly drinking and driving, allegedly a lot. They give him money and they resign him, and he’s not even on the field. The guy that acted out last week in the locker room in regard to a female reporter and being taken aback that she would say that they lack accountability, which was the only charge, which is they run out the back door, which is what Mark Andrews did in Buffalo. So I would just say Leonard accountability. What is it you expect of the Ravens from bashati to Sashi Brown, who threw me out before he met me to Chad steel, who gets more face time than any executive other than that security guy the league band from the Eagles, big Dom, you know, Chad’s like the big Dom, big Chad of the you know. So hanging around Chad is what I call him. So I like. For me, the accountability of these executives that I make famous, the head coach, the general manager who treated your friend right, your radio guy, the media guy that goes and asks questions you know intimately. You’ve seen all the text. A lot of people see the text now because I wanted people to know what a fraud I think John Harbaugh is. But all that being said, I’ve never called for John Harbaugh’s firing, and I’m not calling for it now. I’ve never been a fire the head coach guy. As a matter of fact, the last head coach is my business partner. So let’s, let’s not play. I mean, I texted Marvin Lewis the other day. Barry Trotz comes on. He’s going to the MF and Hall of Fame in Toronto, right? So, like, I don’t have a human problem. I don’t have. Why am I thrown out? Why? Why are they mistreating media people to this to this day? Why have they have no accountability for Justin Tucker? They have no accountability for their president, team, President who’s never been asked a real question, and he boxed me out of an event that that you sponsor with dug in the smarts to the CE not smart CEO CEO club of Baltimore, like all of this stuff that you’ve been subjected to, that I’ve presented to you in black and white, and now, all of a sudden, the head coach thinks I hate him in his words, not mine. I don’t use the word hate, especially not in modern world like I I’m holding them accountable from the outside, watching an absolutely empty stadium on my television on Sunday and thinking, oh my god, what a terrible look for the owner. I wonder what the owner’s thinking. I wonder what the team President’s thinking. I wonder what Kevin rocklets, who’s out selling all of these sponsorships to all of the people who don’t buy sponsorships with me, because I’m too harsh on the Ravens. Had somebody say that to me on Friday night. Had a man of God say to me, I’m too harsh on Friday night in regard to,
Leonard Raskin 16:59
well, it’s a different any of this different world. It’s a different world. There the accountability, I think so. So we can argue over whom it hits and where it matters, and we’ve had these discussions, and there’s no reason to go into depth of either when it comes to our country, but I think it starts in in the culture that we live in right now, that people don’t want to see facts. I say to clients, often, Nestor, when people come to me and they say, Well, I heard or somebody said, or this is what I what I thought, or I read on the internet. Yeah, absolutely. My God, I read on Facebook. Look, I’ll tell you a quick story, and then we’ll come back to the point. My mother had been having a little health stuff. I hope she’s a little scare. She’s great. She’s doing great. I like her more than you, incidentally, but, but she needed to have to have a PET scan. So the thing is, you go to find out when you don’t know, and I don’t care how old you are, medical procedure, scary, you know, they say the only minor surgeries on somebody else.
Nestor Aparicio 18:16
I’m having a colonoscopy in six, and I’m bragging about it because I’m finally doing what I got
Leonard Raskin 18:22
to do. Time she calls me one evening because I’ve had that in the past. She calls me one evening to tell me she’s thinking about canceling the PET scan. I said, why? Well, you know how the world works when you speak in the world today, this thing’s always listening, right? And it picked it up, and it showed PET scan in her Facebook feed. Now she’s not doing a ton on Facebook, but she scrolls through she listens to us every now it’s gonna show up on my Facebook feed, because she’s right out loud, right? And and so it shows up, and there’s this guy talking about how you shouldn’t have them, how bad they are for you. What this does to your you know, from a nuclear standpoint. So she thinks she’s going to cancel it. I said to her, stop listening to Facebook for medical advice.
Nestor Aparicio 19:11
So and Robert Kennedy, by the way, too, don’t listen to him.
Leonard Raskin 19:15
I have people coming again. We can go all over. I have people come to me and they say, Well, I didn’t hear that, or I read it on the internet, or whatever else, and accountability of the facts is hard to push through when opinion and and hiding is so loud.
Nestor Aparicio 19:33
Well, in the old days, you just say, look it up. And now you can’t.
Leonard Raskin 19:37
Have zero financial credentials, are able to give advice without, well, like these crypto creeps, right? Yeah, yeah, without any accountability whatsoever. Look Tom Brady and whoever the hell else it was, Wahlberg or whatever I don’t remember on the Super Bowl commercials. What is it? Four? Options follow favor the bold buy crypto, and then that guy’s what Tom, who’s in on that too? Yeah, they went down hard because the guy was a crook, and people were losing fortunes. And people say to me, why don’t we invest in that? And I say, Well, if you want to listen to them about your money, you do that. But Bernie Madoff’s out there right backs are always every day there’s another one. And here we are in sports. You can say Trump is the most miserable, unaccountable president ever. I can say Biden was a crook and the most unaccountable family of criminal enterprise ever. And it doesn’t really matter. Here’s what matters. None of the press digs into any of it anymore. Bought and paid for media across the board. Either side of the aisle doesn’t matter. And guess what? The NFL wants it that way. You know that they bought the NFL Network at ESPN. They’re combined up.
Nestor Aparicio 20:56
Oh, I was in a two decade long so I was not seen it.
Leonard Raskin 20:59
I’ve witnessed the game Sunday, Nestor, you were home. I want to ask you a question, because I didn’t see any of this. Another subject, same thing. Did Fox Sports mention? Mark Sanchez, do you know?
Nestor Aparicio 21:10
Oh, yeah, very much so they were, I didn’t see all of those were mentioning that they wanted him to do well, and yes, very much
Leonard Raskin 21:19
so, but accountable for what he did well, or that they wanted him to be okay. Allegedly Did, did, right? I mean, that’s what we say about I think
Nestor Aparicio 21:31
that story unfolded from victim to perpetrator over 36 hours, okay. But I also think with his life in peril, yes, you know,
Leonard Raskin 21:41
and I don’t know what they said. I don’t know what was said. I was just glad I didn’t know that they said anything. So I was not home for that. But the the NFL is an ESPN that bought the NFL Network, the NFL Network that bought part of ESPN, whatever we talked about, it hard questions aren’t something they want to answer. So accountability in the press
Nestor Aparicio 22:01
conference. Well, the accountability happens when you walk your ass out of the stadium and leave the team there to bake and play in front of 450 people at the end, all other dressed in red behind, yeah, behind the Texas bench like so the fans abandoned the team in the fourth quarter on Sunday and basically, basically moon the team literally, just literally pulled their pants down and said, Here, here’s your empty Stadium. This is what you’ve earned on a Sunday. That’s a bitter pill, even for guys making millions of dollars.
Leonard Raskin 22:32
I think it should be. I think they should have looked up, looked around. This is not Baltimore effort. And as a result, they got not Baltimore applause. Hardball was booed. I hear when he walked off the stadium ground. I wasn’t there. I don’t know that I boo the man, but I didn’t boo the team. I just left. It was terrible.
Nestor Aparicio 22:53
I didn’t boo him. I invited him to breakfast with my wife. Me him and Chad steel him. And we can live stream, and he can tell my audience, you and my wife, that he had nothing to do with this, and chat, can not and and then stand up in front of my world and say, this is, this is why you’re you’re not here. Be accountable. Be accountable with it, not some of it. Be accountable for Justin Tucker. Be accountable for the fact that your owners know where. Be accountable for the fact that stadium emptied out. Be accountable.
Leonard Raskin 23:23
Ask you the question. Let me ask you a question, because I don’t know this answer at all. How? How many owners other than Jerry Jones, show up? A lot. I’m just curious. I don’t know
Nestor Aparicio 23:34
less every day, because the profits are more every day, right? That’s my point. You know when they show up, when they’re David Rubenstein and he’s trying to get something off the ground here, kissing everybody’s ass to get your money to get a skybox, and then they evaporate. That’s not the that’s not the Civic trust, that’s not the way the
Leonard Raskin 23:51
marriage works, but that’s not the way it is anymore. Oh, okay, so we’ve lowered our bar. Then, No, I’m asking you, because I don’t know. We’ve lowered
Nestor Aparicio 24:00
our bar. Shotty has lowered his own bar for the promises he made 25 years ago when he said he was going to be an accountable owner, and this was going to be a community franchise that wasn’t going to do things like have running backs punch their wife in a mouth in an elevator, in a glass elevator, and then hide the videotape and lie about it, or have a kicker out a decade ago allegedly harassing women in massage parlors, and the league finds him 10 games suspended, but the team just punches pilots the whole thing, in regard to all sorts of things that I’m intimately familiar about, in regard to my own status as a media member and who and who can’t ask questions on behalf of w, N, S, T, M, I, F, C, C, license and my media entity that’s been here for three and a half decades.
Leonard Raskin 24:49
I get it. I get it. And so that was my question. My only question about Steve was, I don’t know the tenor of owners. I just know Jerry Jones is the general manager.
Nestor Aparicio 24:59
Steve. And for me, the last time I was in a room with him, near him, I wasn’t a room. No, no,
Leonard Raskin 25:04
I’m not. I’m not arguing that point. My only point is our other owners, similarly disposed. I don’t know the the ownership circumstance other than they want to be seen,
Nestor Aparicio 25:15
circumstances that you own the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, Maryland, and you took $600 million of our money to kick people out of the press box, to kick the band away from the field, to sell more tickets, to make more money, to put Sashi brown not in front of it, to have to have organized questions at the welcoming press conference that I held my hand up like Arnold friggin horse shack, not like Epstein, by the way, but by My arms are up, oh, like Vinnie Bob Marino, and it is. It’s Mickey Mouse, dude, I’m telling you from the inside Leonard, it’s been Mickey Mouse, and now it’s on the field, and the best players aren’t there, and the consumer confidence in the defense
Leonard Raskin 26:02
that will is a problem, yes, and then the the stands will stay empty, and people will stop coming, and people won’t renew their seats, they’ll lose their PSLs. By the way, the Orioles have that problem right now, big time. That’s right. Well, they did something. I don’t know what they did their fans. They pissed Yeah, they did something crazy. They pissed off the people that really by 13. Yeah, they heard. They heard in my head, I don’t know what, but I haven’t seen it, because I’m not a holder. But yeah, they did something dreadful, apparently, and people are not happy about it.
Nestor Aparicio 26:38
And there’s, and there’s no accountability to answer for it, you know, saying, like, there’s literally right nobody to ask questions, and they’re not stepping forward to say, let’s, let’s do a take two on the new Rubenstein arroghetti ownership. Maybe we got this wrong, making a bobble out of ourself.
Leonard Raskin 26:57
Hey, you never know. Yeah, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 26:58
not like you saw you got Rubenstein getting picketed. Right? A week and a half, he didn’t
Leonard Raskin 27:03
get, he didn’t get picketed. He got, he got, what’s the word? I don’t even know what that word is. Yeah, there was a formal luncheon where he was a speaker, a panelist, something, and Glenn youngkin, and there were plants in the audience that got in, somehow these people got in at like a half a dozen tables, all dressed up in their Sunday finest and and often toasts, one after another, stood up and just started crushing them about, and none of it
Nestor Aparicio 27:36
was about the Orioles. It was all business dealings, owning 78 businesses that destroy the Earth, fossil
Leonard Raskin 27:44
fuel, all kinds of things. He owns a company that’s an investment firm, private equity firm, and he’s destroying the world. But it was quite amazing that these people found their way in, is Nobodies, and then stood up, heckled them. Heckled them. That’s what it was. They didn’t pick it up. They heckled them, and they were summarily, one by one, escorted out. But as soon as one was escorted out, another stood up. It was quite interesting.
Nestor Aparicio 28:12
Yeah, I shared it on Twitter, but that, you know, but with the Nazi that owns Twitter, you know, he didn’t reshare it. So now you can go see the Madison Square Garden thing. The video is there for you. So it’s real. It’s not AI Leonard Raskin is here. He is Raskin global. He left the game on Sunday. Now I did, most importantly, are you going back next week
Leonard Raskin 28:33
for punishment? For punishment to
Nestor Aparicio 28:37
change in a way. I mean, look, we could talk about this. We’re blue in the face and I can hold Okay, so here’s what I want to see. Countable is, here’s
Leonard Raskin 28:43
what I want to see as a fan. As a fan, I I don’t expect that they’re going to come out and romp the Rams. I don’t think that’s going to happen. What I do expect is a good football game. I expect effort. I expect an offense that looks like they’re trying to score. I expect a defense that looks like they’re trying to stop the scoring. I expect good effort at a well played game, and if they lose by three or six or seven or 10, that’s okay, but if it is 24 to 344, to nothing, whatever I’ll be I’ll be home early for that one too. Now, here’s, here’s the funny, by the way,
Nestor Aparicio 29:31
there’s seven and a half point underdog at home. At home. They were two and a half point favorite in Kansas City last week, right? That’s about a 13, you know.
Leonard Raskin 29:44
So I’ll give you two things real quick. You know what’s crazy, they’re still favored to win the division.
Leonard Raskin 29:54
Pittsburgh twice, right? And they got to play Cleveland one more, and the Bengals. And the other thing. Is, if they get Lamar back after the buy, they’re gonna say, gave her in like every seven out of eight, everything, everything, like they’re playing some really large right? So, so they got the Rams to fight, and then who knows, but I’ll tell you this just a quick aside. Totally different. I loved 44 I think it was to three the Ohio State Buckeyes over Minnesota on Saturday night.
Nestor Aparicio 30:29
See, I was in pasta santimonium, watching the Terps lose that game to Washington.
Leonard Raskin 30:36
Terrible. They played so well, and then they forgot how to play.
Nestor Aparicio 30:39
And then I was in there watching, it. I was watching the Blue Jays beat up on a Yankees. Not that
Leonard Raskin 30:44
13 to seven. Love that. Loving it. I want to see an all Blue World Series. I want to see the Dodgers and the Jays.
Nestor Aparicio 30:53
Oh, so that’s American Canadian. That’s
Leonard Raskin 30:56
good. Look. The Canadians haven’t been in the Stanley Cup final forever. Let’s at least have them in the World Series.
Nestor Aparicio 31:04
Alright, so let’s talk for one minute. Since you manage money, by the way, Leonard Raskin is here and the American dream, I just got to tell you this, because, like, I have a little bit of money, and I can do little things that I want to do, and you’re the guy that manages my money. I’m not retiring to lay anytime soon. But there come little bucket list things that when they become available and inexpensive, and I’m doing, I’m doing one of them this week for me and one for my wife, but, but in saying that at some point on Sunday afternoon, well actually Saturday afternoon, Getty Lee did Yes, open for Sportsnet in Canada’s, yeah, Blue Jays coverage. He did the the two minute little thing he walks by the Canadian flag, and the Blue Jays thing talks about how much he loves baseball, right? And, okay, go blue jays, you know? I mean, right? So, yep. So Kenny announces that he is signing his baseball book. It’s called 72 stories. You can look at, right? He’s got a baseball ball. Yep, yep. He’s signing at the Kansas City Negro Baseball museum that, if you’ve never been It’s fun, right? It’s attached to the jazz museum. It’s fantastic. Is this Kansas City, Kansas? It’s Saturday. It’s this Saturday. He announced it, like, Friday, two days, three days ago, right? I can’t, I am on a plane, and I’m trying to, like, and it’s gonna cost, like, 500 bucks to go to Kansas City to do it. And I just, I’m not gonna do it. But like, if I were Steve bisha, if I were John Harbaugh, if I were Eric Decosta, if I just had too much money and didn’t know what to do with it. I would go to Kansas City this weekend and have Getty Lee like sign my baseball book and be a whole fanboy, because I got nothing left. Unless he’s going back out on the road with Alex, and they’re gonna pick up Matt Cameron, they’re gonna go play some rush.
Leonard Raskin 32:55
That’d be great. How about rush goes back out? We’re going right. We’ll be there. I’ll be there. No doubt about if, how about if Toronto beats the jankies? Right, right. Then, then you go up next round to Toronto and you have him sign it there. He’ll do it. He’ll do it. Go to the
Nestor Aparicio 33:20
same room with him on opening day. And yeah, Luke will attest to this that, you know, I was in the stadium, and I couldn’t be afraid to talk to him, where you couldn’t get to him, because those seats behind home plate sits in right? And he’s with his grandson. And you know, and you know, and like, I know, if I approach Getty Getty, would say, because he knows me, a little bit
Leonard Raskin 33:42
of first row seats. Speaking of first row seats, let’s wrap with this. The Ravens back to that moved a whole bunch of season ticket holders in the end zone to put in these under the stadium boxes with paid for by the taxpayers of the new white beautiful right on the field. End Zone seats.
Nestor Aparicio 34:03
Those are the Jerry’s world seats. He was the first witch trying to put that in. Which to
Leonard Raskin 34:07
date. Again, I don’t know if people just aren’t coming, but no one’s sitting there. Beginning of the game doesn’t mean it doesn’t mean end of the game. Beginning of the game, they’re empty. They’re completely well, the
Nestor Aparicio 34:19
word on the Orioles throwing everyone out of the Jim Henneman press box, right? And they’re remodeling all that, some new Yeah, they’re putting in that thing. Yeah, it’s meant for your most, your best clients, Leonard, you know, Raskin, well, they got to be willing to pay for that. I don’t know who’s I don’t know this target audience is. I don’t either. Who is your I asked Chad steel when you see who’s a real media member, if Nestor is not, you know, I’m saying like, who? Who the people that are already buying your club boxes and buying your kicking everybody out of the 50 yard line and moving them up to the Kevin Byrne little box? And kicking John Zieman and the whole band out of the end zone and saying, we’re going to serve $48 cocktails down there and have $3,000 game day experiences. Where are these customers? Where are they?
Leonard Raskin 35:13
I don’t know, because how about
Nestor Aparicio 35:14
you take care of the guy that’s been buying tickets for 30 years in the upper deck and bought your seats? How about you take care of those people? Those people don’t matter anymore. And those people, on Sunday, walked out of the state, I’m telling you, man, watching TV.
Leonard Raskin 35:26
You know what you’re seeing, how empty it was like I said, when will they notice? They’ll notice when the seat seats aren’t sold. But TV revenue so huge, it doesn’t matter. Look, look the Rams, right? They’re coming to town. I was watching their game, and the 40 Niners took over their stadium.
Nestor Aparicio 35:46
Well, the Chargers have no fans. I’m talking about the Rams team out there, right? So, like, they have two teams out there and three times, right?
Leonard Raskin 35:55
Neither of them have fans. If they’re into the Super Bowl, they’re that’s it. Nobody cares.
Nestor Aparicio 36:01
Well, Baltimore is a different kind of place for that life, and I agree. I dedicated my life to telling their story. I’m still telling their story. And the head coach, all he can write me is, I don’t know why you hate me so much. That’s all he can write So, John, I don’t hate you. I’m holding you accountable because you’re the coach of the team, and this is what I do, right? And I always got along famously. Even the guys who thought they hated me, like Davey Johnson and Johnny Oates fell in love with me in the end. So in the end, I’m still here. I’m holding all of you accountable for the fact that Leonard and son walked out of the stadium on an 80 degree day, and the stadium was barren, like, I mean, empty.
Leonard Raskin 36:44
It wasn’t full to start, it wasn’t full to start, and it was emptier at half and barren by the end of the third quarter. I stayed to the end of the third quarter. I gave him my all the chance to come back, to do something, to stop Houston and to score, and I just didn’t see it. Didn’t see the effort at the end of the third quarter, I said, Let’s go. It’s enough.
Nestor Aparicio 37:07
Yeah, well, I know why I don’t go to give them money. I mean, they get me out, literally, in front of all of you, in front of the whole world, they threw me out. That’s why I’m not sitting in my seat. And incidentally, I wouldn’t have left early. I mean, I just, I’m not a leave early guy, really. Traffic now is different. I live in Taos, and maybe I think about it different.
Leonard Raskin 37:27
Traffic was traffic’s no big deal. It’s nothing. Well, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 37:31
something. When they at 1215, at night, when they win by a field goal, 29 to 28 on a Monday night game, and 72,000 people were leaving Sure, which it was that way for 25
Leonard Raskin 37:42
years, right? Absolutely. Well, now they’re about to hit 30, right? 30 years of age, yes, and they’re about to hit 30 and they’re feeling 60. There you go. They look 60. They look
Nestor Aparicio 37:57
they look Jaguar. If somehow they get this back to six and six or seven and seven,
Leonard Raskin 38:01
we’ll say they pulled it off
Nestor Aparicio 38:03
somehow. I’m going to be here monitoring it. And your coach of the year. If you go 10 and seven and win the division the way, Vegas still thinks you’re winning the division.
Leonard Raskin 38:12
John, that’s right, they still, they still have him at the top. That’s the
Nestor Aparicio 38:16
fair and balanced attack that I give to show that I don’t hate and by the way, I’ve never called for his firing. Steve’s never firing him,
Leonard Raskin 38:24
right? I don’t know that. I don’t know
Nestor Aparicio 38:27
Well, Mark mask, you wrote about in The Washington Post today, just, is it a job for life? I don’t know. Fair question.
Leonard Raskin 38:34
Fair question. Who do you get? I don’t know. There’s lots of people out there. So there’s
Nestor Aparicio 38:39
lots of people out there that handle money, but Leonard does it. Leonard does it responsibly. Leonard’s not gonna leave your financial gamer. I can do all these sports things. Leonard Raskin is out there. Raskin global. You can find them out at the front of Baltimore positive. I will see you next week, and hope we got better times at birthday next week, so we’ll settle sir. Yes, sir. Amen. We’ll have peach cake. All right. I am Nestor. We are W NSTA, 1570 Towson, Baltimore, we never stop talking Baltimore positive.
