“Every night there’s a different star, that’s the magic of Orioles baseball…” It’s not every night that the Baltimore Orioles will battle back from a 7-1 deficit to win but when they do, it makes baseball fun again at Camden Yards. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the old-school Orioles Magic of Monday night’s comeback win over Diamondbacks and the star power of Jeremiah Jackson and Pete Alonso to make an early-season memory for Birds fans.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the Baltimore Positive Maryland Crab Cake Tour stop at Costas Inn in Timonium on Thursday next week.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the Baltimore Positive Maryland Crab Cake Tour stop at Koco’s Pub in Towson on Thursday the 23rd before the NFL Draft.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the Baltimore Positive Maryland Crab Cake Tour stop at Pizza John’s in Essex on May 1.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the Baltimore Positive Maryland Crab Cake Tour stop at Planet Fitness in Timonium on May 7.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Participate in and lead the GBMC “Walk a Mile in Their Shoes” event on Friday at South Chapman at 4 pm.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring and distribute Maryland Treasures scratch-off tickets at the May 7 Planet Fitness Crab Cake Tour event.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Book and schedule Todd Radom as a guest on Friday’s show to discuss NFL and team uniform trends.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Prepare and record a future segment discussing the Orioles’ new city connect uniforms and the Cleveland Guardians’ brand switch.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Locate the recording of John Miller’s recent ballpark visit that was referenced during the show.
Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Upcoming Events
- Nestor Aparicio announces the Maryland crab cake tour, with events at Costas Inn, Koco’s Pub, Pizza John’s, and Planet Fitness.
- Nestor mentions a special event on Friday, “Walk a Mile in Their Shoes,” to support GBMC’s safe program for sexual assault and abuse awareness.
- Nestor discusses the weather and encourages listeners to join the walk.
- Nestor and Luke Jones discuss the Orioles’ recent win against the Diamondbacks, highlighting the team’s resilience and the memorable moments of the game.
Orioles’ Comeback Win Against Diamondbacks
- Luke Jones describes the game, mentioning Craig Albernaz getting hit by a line drive and the team falling behind 7-1.
- Nestor and Luke discuss Dean Kramer’s performance and the defensive errors that led to some of the runs.
- Nestor highlights the comeback, with the Orioles scoring eight unanswered runs to win the game.
- Nestor and Luke talk about the significance of the win and the positive impact on the team’s morale.
Jeremiah Jackson’s Performance and Role
- Luke Jones praises Jeremiah Jackson’s performance, noting his contributions at the plate and in the field.
- Nestor and Luke discuss Jackson’s versatility and his potential to play multiple positions if needed.
- Nestor compares Jackson’s performance to other minor league free agents who have surprised with their talent.
- Luke highlights Jackson’s power and defensive skills, emphasizing his importance to the team.
Orioles’ Injury Challenges and Team Dynamics
- Nestor and Luke discuss the Orioles’ current injury issues, including Craig Albernaz, Adley Rutschman, and Ryan Mountcastle.
- Luke mentions the team’s resilience in overcoming these challenges and the importance of staying healthy.
- Nestor and Luke talk about the impact of injuries on the team’s performance and the need for depth in the roster.
- Nestor reflects on the team’s ability to win games despite the adversity, highlighting the importance of teamwork and perseverance.
Managerial Style and Team Culture
- Nestor and Luke discuss the differences in managerial styles between Brandon Hyde and Craig Albernaz.
- Nestor praises Buck Showalter’s ability to manage the team and the media, comparing it to Albernaz’s more CEO-like approach.
- Luke notes the importance of the manager’s role in shaping the team’s culture and performance.
- Nestor and Luke reflect on the impact of the manager’s personality and leadership on the team’s dynamics.
Orioles’ Broadcast and Media Coverage
- Nestor criticizes the Orioles’ broadcast team, expressing frustration with the lack of access and opportunities to interview players.
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of good television production and the need for better presentation of the game.
- Luke defends the current broadcast team, noting their efforts to provide quality coverage despite challenges.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the need for better integration of media and player interactions to enhance the fan experience.
Ravens’ Upcoming Uniform Changes
- Nestor and Luke discuss the upcoming changes to the Ravens’ uniforms, expressing hope for a subtle and recognizable design.
- Luke shares his concerns about potential drastic changes and the importance of maintaining the team’s identity.
- Nestor and Luke reflect on past uniform changes and the impact on the team’s brand and fan base.
- Nestor and Luke discuss the importance of balancing innovation with tradition in the new uniform design.
Orioles’ Future Prospects and Player Development
- Nestor and Luke discuss the potential for players like Jeremiah Jackson, Kobe Mayo, and Jackson Holliday to contribute to the team’s success.
- Luke highlights the importance of player development and the need for depth in the roster.
- Nestor and Luke reflect on the team’s strategy for managing injuries and developing young talent.
- Nestor emphasizes the need for the team to continue winning games to secure a playoff spot and maintain momentum.
Orioles’ Injury Management and Player Performance
- Nestor and Luke discuss the impact of injuries on the team’s performance and the importance of player health.
- Luke highlights the need for the team to manage injuries effectively to avoid long-term issues.
- Nestor and Luke reflect on the team’s ability to adapt and perform well despite the challenges.
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of player contributions and the need for a balanced roster to succeed.
Orioles’ Team Dynamics and Player Interactions
- Nestor and Luke discuss the dynamics within the Orioles’ team, including player interactions and team chemistry.
- Luke highlights the importance of positive relationships and communication among players and staff.
- Nestor and Luke reflect on the impact of team dynamics on performance and morale.
- Nestor emphasizes the need for a supportive and cohesive team environment to achieve success.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Orioles comeback, Dean Kramer, Jeremiah Jackson, Craig Albernaz, Pete Alonso, Maryland crab cake tour, GBMC event, Baltimore positive, Orioles injuries, baseball season, team performance, fan engagement, Ravens branding, uniform changes.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Luke Jones
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T AM, 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively, getting the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. We will be at Costas Inn in Timonium on Thursday following, Thursday next week, the day of the draft, the 23rd we will not be in Pittsburgh, although I offered to take Luke. I will be at Koco’s Pub next Thursday, and then we will be at Pizza John’s on the first in Essex, and now on the seventh of May, we’re going to be at the Planet Fitness in Timonium. I’m looking forward to that. Got a special thing I’m doing that day. I want the Maryland treasures scratch off all four of them. It’s kind of it’s kind of neat with the art also our friends at GBMC, I am walking a mile in their shoes on Friday at South Chapman, 4pm join me in Towson, come walk support the folks over GBMC in their safe program for sexual assault and abuse and awareness for something we don’t talk about a lot around here. It’s happening this Friday. Get on out, and the weather is going to be splendiferous, and it’s going to exceed all expectations, all and maybe you might need the AC and if you do foreign and Derma are your people. Luke’s wearing the shirt He’s here now after a a rare night of serendipity where things just worked out on Monday night to be I guess if the team wins, it’s 92 games, as has been predicted by by yours truly, you’ll look back and say, hey, that’s one of those ones where, like, they got the fire started that night against the Diamondbacks, who are wearing their pajamas.
Luke Jones 01:36
It was memorable. I mean, it was one of those that, as we were standing in the post game clubhouse, waiting for Pete Alonso. I, one of the other reporters, mentioned that felt a little more like 2023 first half of 2024 I mean, let’s face it. First of all, Craig Albernaz gets hit with a line drive in the face and the dugout, and then they fall behind seven to one. And you know, Dean Kramer had his moments, but also gives up three home runs, right? I mean, it was up and down how the defense didn’t help him out that led to one of those home runs, you know, and two unearned runs with Gunner Henderson pulling Pete Alonso off the bag. But they fall behind seven to one. Albert Suarez gives up a home run. You’re thinking, okay, they’re just kind of gonna lose this game. Their managers hurt, in addition to all the other players who are hurt, that’s
Nestor Aparicio 02:26
four days in a row, by the way. And low
Luke Jones 02:29
and low and behold, they stage a comeback, and they score, what, eight unanswered runs. I mean, impressive.
Nestor Aparicio 02:37
He’s really impressive. You know, you know, seven to one every night. I was just gonna say, happened? Means that, you know, it goes to Todd McGraw, right? You gotta believe, right? And I don’t know that I believe that. I don’t know why I kept it on. It was, you know, eight o’clock on a, you know, an otherwise nondescript Monday night when the weather was finally nice and opened the windows and my cat was hanging out. And I don’t know, I stayed with it, you know, I stayed with it. And it got interesting quick, because they loaded the bases. And, you know, then I think of John Martin and Seth Elkin, because the Grand Slam is, you know, worth five grand. So I have a little bit of fun with my lottery promotion, with it in my own way. But, you know, ball jumped off the bat, and next thing you know, they’re back in the game. And then Alonzo plays the hero and on cue really, like, right, if you’re, if you’re writing a script of how this is going to go, you know, it’s been a good couple of days in Birdland.
Luke Jones 03:31
It has been, but, I mean, let’s give Jeremiah Jackson some oxygen here. I mean, this is someone that the Orioles brought in last year. You know, you look at minor league free agents and guys of that nature, where they’re kind of cast off. He played really well at triple A he was part of the post deadline 2025 Orioles, where they’re playing out the string. But at the same time, there are some guys that are getting some opportunities that you know very well, have a chance for next year, the year after that, and the Orioles traded Ramon Arias, obviously, they moved on from Jorge Mateo in the offseason, and Jeremiah Jackson was one of those guys that wasn’t handed a job in spring training by any means. But this is a guy that’s just gone out there and hit. I mean, he hit last August. He got himself on the radar with how he played last year down the stretch. And I mean, he’s got some power. I mean, you could see it. I mean, both of those home runs, no doubt about it. So he’s not a huge guy, but he’s big enough. He’s got pop in the bat. I think what, as much as we focused on the defensive struggles of this club. I think he’s played a really nice second base, and some of the defensive metrics bear that out
Nestor Aparicio 04:47
so and he’s also a guy that they can throw in the outfield and hide for a couple innings if they needed to, in a general sense that he’s an athlete, dude, everything we talked about with Kobe mayo, which is like, if you can hit. Hit the ball, we can figure out a place to play you as long even if you are a deficiency with the glove, if you can hit the ball, we’re going to put you in a lineup and on this team, especially at at this at this pace and race with no rushman, no westburg, no Holly. You know it’s on and on and on and on. No O’Neill. You know, the guy hits the ball, right? And I and you only wish that Mayo were hitting like that, or cows, or was hitting like that, or wherever it would be, but his defense, they’ll hide him. He’s fine, I mean, and versatile.
Luke Jones 05:34
Well, like, like I said, I mean, his defense at second has been good, you know? I mean, there, he wasn’t great in the outfield last year. I mean, by any means. And really it was the first time that he was kind of playing there in to an extended degree. So he’s been, I mean, you just said it for as much as we talk about the young core and prospects and draft picks and all that, he’s outperformed a lot of those guys going back to last August. So he’s been really good, and it’s been encouraging to see that. I mean, in the same way that we talked about Ramona RIAs, what five years ago, six years ago, whenever he emerged, Jorge Mateo, to a lesser extent, but certainly had his moments, but Jeremiah Jackson’s doing a nice job. And as much as Pete Alonso had the big moment in terms of the go ahead home run, and obviously being the centerpiece of their offseason and being on the big contract, I mean, it was Jeremiah Jackson who got them back in the game with a long Grand Slam. So reminds me a little bit of
Nestor Aparicio 06:36
loriano last year too. And sort of that, you know, not one of the guys that was drafted that is whatever, but you look up and it’s June, and he’s hitting 280 and he’s got 10 home run, and you’re like, all right, he’s doing better than Ryan mountcastle, doing better than the rest of these guys, and mount castle now injured as well. But I’m just thinking of like, other than gunner Henderson and the money they’ve spent on Pete Alonso, we do a lot of reaching around here. We do a lot of reaching beside breaking bats over his knee and like, like, it’s hard to do, it’s hard to do consistently for one year, one summer, one month, whatever, right? But all of these guys have had will beat up on the Ravens later, about their veterans that have made $100 million and have one in everyone playoff games, right? We talked about that a little bit with Minter. This is the other way around. This is like all of these underperforming or unavailable, injured, whatever it happens to be, or holes in their game that are so large that you wonder whether cows are will overcome that or not, but the guys that actually do it come from the side door, you know? I mean, Leo tovarez, you know what? I mean, like, names that we see him in the offseason. Like, where’s that guy getting? To bats. We got cows. There’s a first round draft pick, you know? And I don’t know. I mean even the ward thing, you think about where they’d be if we were running the team, he’d be screwing around with Grayson Rodriguez’s shoulder, you know? And Elias went for it and got a real major league player that’s been stood out in the first month of the season. And out of all of these young guys, we’re talking about Jeremiah Jackson, I don’t know, for the fifth month in a row, right? Literally, right?
Luke Jones 08:22
Oh. I mean, I don’t even
Nestor Aparicio 08:25
July last year, August
Luke Jones 08:26
last year, okay, um, he’s 26 he’s 26 just turned 26 right? So as much as you kind of focus on those other guys, and understandably so, I mean, Jeremiah Jackson was was in another organization hadn’t really gained any traction, right? And he comes to the Orioles, had a really good season in the miners last year to earn an opportunity after the trade deadline, when they sell off the pieces that they sold off. And he’s done nothing but take advantage, to the point where he made the club. And now you’re looking at it through the lens of he’s playing a really good second base, and Jackson holiday’s hand is still doesn’t seem like he’s ready. Craig Albernaz said this week that, or said on Monday prior to getting hit with the line drive, but he said he doesn’t expect him to be activated for the rest of this home stand. His rehab assignment is up later this week. So what that means in terms of the next step is a little unclear, to be determined, but in the meantime, and that’s not to say that you don’t want Jackson holiday back as soon as possible, Jeremiah Jackson’s doing a good job. I mean, he’s second base. We could talk a lot about third base and Kobe mayo, not 60
Nestor Aparicio 09:43
pick man, you know, like, this is one of those Elia specials where, like, I liked him, I would have drafted him. We can help him. We can bring him into our system. We can give him a glove, we can give him instruction. We can make him a better hitter. We can make him a better ball player. I Hey, man. You know, like, if Jackson holiday can come up at 318 and knocking 11 runs first, you know, 1520, games, perfect, right? I mean, that’s it’s been, it’s been production and winning a ball game, and all the things that Monday represented, for whatever that North Star of Hope for this to be a playoff team. It’s like, Hey, guys, remember that night we were losing seven one, and our manager took a line drive off his face, and Suarez is out there just trying to soak up innings, and we’re just trying to, like, get through it so we can get better weather on Tuesday. And then we loaded the bases in Grand Slam, and then Pete hits hits one. And then, like, it’s pretty memorable night. I mean, for the fans that were out there, I thought, like, all right, you know, this is what you How could you see anything better in April? If they were winning 10 to one in the fourth inning, you’d feel good about them slugging and pitching and the Trevor Rogers, you know, whatever that is, this is a different kind of adversity when you’re getting your ass kicked and you win a game like that, because that that I don’t know, it’s not easy to do.
Luke Jones 11:02
Yeah, I mean, it’s not something they did very often at all. Last year they did it a little bit at the end of the season, when they were already out of it, and they’re just playing out the string. Of course. You know, they had the kind of the miracle Come Back the Night that Yamamoto almost threw the no hitter. But they didn’t do those things last year. They didn’t do those things in the second half of 2024 right? 24 right, where things went sideways, and it just they really kind of regressed into this mediocre to bad outfit that they had been over the better part of the last year and a half. So to see this, to see the fact that, hey, let’s look at this in terms of baby steps. I mean, they weren’t even as much as two games over 500 last year, and they’re at two games over 500 I mean, that that speaks to it. The last time they were at 500 last year was the home opener. So it speaks to how badly things went so quickly for them. And let’s face it, I mean, they’re dealing with injuries right now. They’re dealing with as many injuries right now as they did last year. They’ve already
Nestor Aparicio 12:05
shown on that Monday before, the manager got hit in the face like
Luke Jones 12:10
it’s not it’s not something you like, but it is something you’re gonna have to deal with, and it is something you have to overcome if, and obviously they need to get healthier as the year goes on, in terms of getting some of these guys back, and they will, but you know you’re going to go through some adversity. You know that it’s not going to be smooth sailing for six months in a 162 game season, they’ve gone through a lot already. I mean, heck, they were swept in Pittsburgh, and look at how they played since then, winning six of seven and adding a comeback victory to the ledger, where I think it just makes everyone feel better. I think over the weekend, the fact that they won a series when they lost the first game, they find out that Adley rutsman is on the i l, Tyler O’Neal’s on the i l, Ryan mountcastle breaks his foot and is on the 60 day i L, right. I mean, that’s a lot to go through in a matter of a few days. It’s really easy to feel sorry for yourself during a baseball season, because you know day after day, like you have to go right back and play the next day. And sometimes that can help, but other times that can make things worse, where it really snowballs. So for them to show, yeah, for them to show what they’ve shown over the last week, I’m encouraged by that I’m not getting ahead of myself in the same way that if they got off to a bad start it still early, applies
Nestor Aparicio 13:27
to both teams do when God had injuries and finding ways to win when they’re losing seven to one, I mean, and
Luke Jones 13:34
let’s face it, I mean, it was a little cinematic that Craig Albernaz briefly returned to the dugout and gives Jeremiah Jackson a hug after he hits the Grand Slam. I mean, we didn’t even mention it. Jackson was the one who hit him right. It was his line drive. So that was definitely, and Jackson even said after the game it was, he admitted he was a little bit in a little bit of a fog for, I don’t know, 30 minutes after that happen because you know you’re making sure that he’s okay. And you know you don’t want anyone to take a line drive to the face like that. You’re worried about a concussion, broken jaw, whatever it is. But it sounds like Albernaz was doing well after the game, they’re going to get they were going to send them for a scan to make sure, you know, you got to make sure concussion all that.
Nestor Aparicio 14:19
I had a friend of mine get hit in the face with a baseball Chicago line drive. I mean, had facial recons. I mean, had to have sort of, like, was a real serious thing, yeah. I mean, you could say the Mookie Betts,
Luke Jones 14:31
no less. I mean, you could see on the replay. I mean, it got him good. I mean, he tried to get out of the way.
Nestor Aparicio 14:36
I mean, yeah, it’s dangerous. Man. Was a
Luke Jones 14:38
legit line drive. I mean, I mean, have there been harder line drives in the dugout?
Nestor Aparicio 14:42
Maybe, but the cool ball thing, and just, you know, just different things through the course of of history, can igliaro and just, you know, I mean, this is, yeah,
Luke Jones 14:51
this is why they, they put up the screens that they do, the netting that they do. I mean, even, even the dugouts,
Nestor Aparicio 14:56
remember things I noticed as, like an old guy, they. Goes once or twice a year to the ballpark. Cheerio gave me tickets two years ago, and I took my buddies. We set off the dugout against the Yankees. We heckled Soto and Aaron judge, not nearly as good as the chin music the other night when he hit the home run after getting, like, brushed back twice. But the first thing I noticed is the screen there that it’s such a different experience than my experience all of the years of heads up, don’t take a line drive and look, man, I I went to so many baseball games, sat in so many different places. Had balls landing around you, fans reaching over, giving contracts, screamers coming into the press box. Which? Man, I mean, that press box in the early 90s, I was there the night that it went into the television destroyed Ken Rosenthal’s laptop. You know, glass shattering. I mean, just there. It’s violent. A baseball coming at 90 miles an hour when you’re that far away. Down at that level, I got hit in the side of the head with a bat when I was a kid in little league or whatever, just like, and it always kind of freaked me out when I was down there watching BP during like, with Greg B Genie at the cage, or Chris oils back in the day, just and spring training too. How much activity is going on with bats and balls and gloves and fun goes and Cal senior out there hitting them and whatever. And there was an energy about it to not get hit with a line drive, or when the back came off the people, you know, you know, hey, you know, heads up, you know, like all that sort of thing. There’s no time for that in that dugout, man. It’s dangerous. What happened for Rob, long for, you know, any of them down there, it’s, you know, that the netting is a good thing, I guess, but it’s very noticeable to me when I go and I’m thinking, Oh, this kind of sucks looking through, you know, fishnet the whole game, literally, I think that every time I go, I’m like, let’s kind of, kind of like being in a golf cage or something in some weird way. And I guess I never thought about it even at hockey. I mean, I saw awful, awful, awful stuff happened with pubs 30 years ago and lawsuits, deaths, all the thing in Columbus. I mean, they have to do this, but there’s no protecting Rob long or Craig Albernaz Or anybody that’s in harm’s way of a line drive like that. There’s no time. And Ben McDonald spoke to it eloquently in that he sat in a lot of dugouts. He’s like, there’s no time, like, there’s no there’s no reaction time. You have to be on it, and you could still take it the wrong way.
Luke Jones 17:26
Yeah. I mean, that’s why they put up the screens, and even in front of the dugout, right? I mean, years ago, I mean, for years, the dugout was wide open, right? So guys would stand on
Nestor Aparicio 17:37
the front of the Can’t you, right? Yeah.
Luke Jones 17:38
I mean, it’s all of those examples, and I use this example, talking about it a lot at training camp, or, you know, with the Ravens. I mean not, not that there’s the level of danger standing on the sideline quite to that degree.
Nestor Aparicio 17:50
Well, there are knees and ankles and getting wiped out. But the point is,
Luke Jones 17:55
it’s a reminder of just how fast the game actually is, right? You watch it on TV, and you have no idea when you’re on the field or when you’re right on the sideline like that, or you’re right in the dugout. It is very fast, and there’s only so much reaction time, right?
Nestor Aparicio 18:13
Guys duck or move back out of a, you know, 88 mile an hour curve ball, and that’s not even, you know, the 103 that you can see. But like, you know, how fast the ball moves. And if you’ve been to a batting cage and just put, you know, put a heater on 80 and try to get your bat around on it, you’ll it’s, it’s amazing. It doesn’t happen more. That’s all I was gonna that’s all I say. And I say that from that backfield all of the years that I did this professionally, sitting in dugouts, doing a show back in the day that it it’s amazing. More bad stuff doesn’t happen with baseballs and bats. And you know, I saw bourgeois, great name, by the way, and he’s got my favorite number, 36 I’m going to get a I’m going to get a current Oriole, a be more city connect jersey. I can’t wait for the Ravens rebranding. I would get a bourgeois but he took that television out there for the pick offs. And I’m thinking that’s right in the area where, like, that television is going to take a baseball into the back, you know, just but I it’s a bit of a symphony, and I know you’re there early enough you experience it in a way that fans really don’t. I had that real experience as a young person to be out there during all of that. It baseball’s moved fast, man, and these guys throw hard, and the ball’s never straight. And I don’t know it’s weird,
Luke Jones 19:41
yeah, and it’s but it’s a big reason why they have the screens and all they have out there for batting practice, and they have the netting. And, I mean, let’s face it, in this day and age, when you look into a group of people, and 85% of them are looking like this, and I’m holding up my phone right now, you have to have that netting. I mean, you just have to. In this day and age. And I think I would say from my perspective, you know, and obviously the press box having moved now, so I have a slightly different perspective. You do get used to the netting? I mean, oh, you do. You’re I get used to it So, but, I mean, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 20:14
but when I went down there to the great seats that I have from curio Wendy bronfant, like I walked down. I mean, they’re right on the on deck circle for the visiting team, on third base side, right above the dugout, like, fourth row. And, like, the first thing I noticed was, Oh, I’m gonna watch the whole game through the net. It didn’t look like they’re on TV. You know what I mean, like, and I said I watched the other 161 on TV. Well, not the apple games, but you know where I am, but you know, Monday was memorable. Just back to that, and we’ll get on to Dean Kramer and all that Luke Jones is here. It’s all brought to you by Farnham Dermer. We had some post game sound from Pete Alonso as well. And, yeah, I mean, I hope Albernaz is okay, and I just, it’s dangerous, that’s all I’m going to say. Yeah, I think he is.
Luke Jones 21:03
I, in fact, I even noticed that his wife posted on Twitter said this guy back in the dugout with a like, a laughing emoji. I I would assume her having that reaction suggests that he’s going to be okay, right? I mean, they’ll check him out a little bit more just to be safe, but I’d be a little so based on kind of the the tone of some of the post game and all that. Be a little surprised if he’s not in the dugout Tuesday night. I mean, we’ll see. I mean, maybe, maybe the precautionary they keep them away for a day.
Nestor Aparicio 21:31
But dude, that time when Adam Jones inspired me to write the Peter principles, when I was on the field at Citi Field at the all star games, probably one of the last time, well, I’ve had press passes. I mean, I don’t know, but either way, I found myself on the field during the pre game of the all star game, or the work it was the game, I think, remembers the work at either way, and Adam Jones was playing catch with, you know, seven other all stars, and I’m in the base path, by the, maybe, by the the third base coaches box. And I just remembered five baseballs going this way, and these are all also like, and I’m still like, I’m my head’s a little ducky just being in there because they play catch at 65 miles an hour, right?
Luke Jones 22:19
Yeah, yeah. It’s like I said, I mean, it’s not the same game that you and I played as youth. It’s not the same game as
Nestor Aparicio 22:29
playing in high school. Brady Anderson would back me up. He literally would take his arm and shove me toward the dugout, you know,
Luke Jones 22:38
literally, yeah, it’s a, it’s a fast game, and these guys are the absolute best in the world at doing it, and even the worst players on the team are the best ones from their community or where they grew up, or wherever. I mean, it’s, it speaks to how fast the game is, and it also speaks to like, like you said. I mean, not to be fatalistic about it, or anything like that. But Monday night’s a reminder that some bad things can happen, you know, and not with anyone being negligent or anything. Sometimes bad things just happen, right? So, but fortunately, Albernaz seemed to be okay. You know, the picture the
Nestor Aparicio 23:16
big strawberry on his cheek was like, oh yeah.
Luke Jones 23:19
I mean, I figured he’s gonna help. He’ll have a heck of a bruise and some swelling, I’m sure. I mean, there’s little doubt about that, but still, it was kind of a wild scene, seeing him in the dugout, and kind of a cool moment.
Nestor Aparicio 23:30
You know, where wild night just all the way around. I mean, Kramer getting the start, getting beaten around a little bit, and Jeremiah, I mean, look, man, I could sing the Oriole magic song. So every night there’s a different star. That’s the magic of Oriole baseball, but the Alonzo moment for him to have a little bit of a moment. And look, I’ll get into Don rovac and Katie Griggs and Mark fine, and the fact that nobody’s at the ballpark, but it’s early in like, whatever. But those are the kind of nights that make people want to come back.
Luke Jones 24:02
Sure, sure. I mean, what they announced? I think 10,002 89 I mean, those folks who were in the ballpark, and probably a lot of those fans, are people who have partial season plans and season plans and what have you, but they don’t have a 13 game Sunday
Nestor Aparicio 24:15
plan anymore, trust me, yes,
Luke Jones 24:17
but I I always remember, I mean, it always stands out to me. Buck Showalter saying this years ago. I mean, this is probably his first full year as Orioles manager. And can’t remember if it was union night or so. It was a night where they had a huge crowd, like a crowd that was a little bit bigger than what you would expect given what the 2010 2011 era Orioles were right before they got good. But he always made the comment that you want to play well because you want them to come back. And it was just such a pragmatic I
Nestor Aparicio 24:49
was so Buck because he ran the diamond.
Luke Jones 24:50
He got it. I mean, he got it, like those parts of the game. He got really well. I mean, say what you want about buck in terms of, you know, Zach Britton in the wild card game. More, you know, the fact that buck would politic behind that.
Nestor Aparicio 25:03
I never really knew buck in that era in that way. You know, I don’t know cheated about Minter in this way, if these people don’t want to know me, f them, but Buck was one of those things like, that’s where the Peter thing really, you know, cost me. And I don’t feel as bad Adam Jones, if he wants to know me and call me, or, you know, any of Matt weeders and those guys that I and I dealt with some of them, and I met some of them. And I mean, Rodrigo Lopez lived in my building, so did Miguel Gonzalez. So like, I saw those guys, and I knew Miguel tahata, like those that era of player, but bucks pre and post game always had some level of Sparky Anderson wisdom that, you know, I don’t, I don’t the Albernaz, the it’s hard for me to get through his accent a little bit and just the the whole ball player, part of his persona, it’s a little bit Dan campbelly For me, right. As far as whether it’s really CEO ish, he doesn’t feel CEO ish at all. He feels like Rick Dempsey managing the team to me, and that’s cool. And you know, I would say this, in the modern era, we don’t know whether he’s really how much he’s managing and how much the computer’s managing, and Elias and all that. So it’s not like that. But I miss bucks wisdom, you know, part of selling me the game, selling me the game, you know, like I thought, Brian Roberts did a good job the other day, the WAGs guy, I don’t, you know, I don’t, I don’t listen enough when I’m in the car. Sometimes Hollander, you know, I, I’m a week and a half into this. But when the broadcaster good and when Ben’s on and Kevin Brown’s on and Jim Palmer’s on. That is now that we’ve had John Miller come through last weekend. I put those pictures up for you, by the way. I hope you saw those. I did. Miller, yeah, so I got to find the tape. I mean, I it feels like it may have eluded me a little bit, but I really Luke, I they’ve treated me like trash. You go to the ballpark, you’ve been doing this for 20 years. I’m blocked out. I’ve been doing this for 20 years. I’ve become very accustomed to watching it on television. I see the strike zone. I see the game better. I see the game differently than you do when you’re at the game, because you don’t hear them call the game the way I do. I see the presentation of what they’re trying to sell, and like the pretty girls and the dogs at the game, or the, you know, whatever they’re into, whatever hot dog they’re selling, or sponsor they’re pushing, or the whistler coming out and whistling and doing their thing. But my entire existence is not unlike your mother’s, which is my oral experiences watching them on TV and like so they need to make that good, right? And it’s it’s not great. It’s great because palm, Palmer, McDonald and and and brown are great. The rest of it is a work in motion on any given night, the pre game, post game, all of that, but that’s my whole lens on the game. So the manager is the star of the show, as we used to say around here when Billick ran the show, Paul Capel key, our general manager would say it’s like a presidential address when Billick speaks. Now, whether Minter ever gets to that point, I mean, Harbaugh was so full of puja that running his press conference, I programmed the radio station, and I look at it and say, you know, do I want 12 minutes of John Harbaugh bullshitting me on in morning drive? I’d rather just put Luke and I on, or put me on with Lee Steinberg, or put me on with Brian Adams guitarist, or Steve Miles, or any of the things where Laura Clary from GBMC, the things that are a part of our programming, the Albernaz part of their programming, not to sound too apprentice here, gotta get their numbers up. But dude, the only way they’re getting me to the ballpark, well, they’re not getting they need to be honest with me, because they’re not that’s going to get me to the ballpark, to get my credit card and get me there. It’s 80 degrees. I’d love to go down the night I saw it was like 14 bucks tonight, it was 35 bucks on Saturday night. That’s not an invitation to come to the ballpark when it’s 35 bucks. But I’m just saying I watched the television and how it’s presented at the pregame show, whether it’s Melanie Rob, whatever it’s, here’s what the manager had to say. And then Albernaz Does his couple of minutes.
Nestor Aparicio 29:27
This was a better television show when Buck was the manager. And I’m not saying like they need to make it a good television show. And Lord knows, we’re having the whole freaking country run that way, and the Ravens with their social media and their threads and all the Johnny Bravo that Michelle Andres is doing over there. I don’t follow the Orioles like Pollyanna online. What the bird whistle that last night? What the splash guys doing? I’m just not there. I’m at four hours a night of giving them my baseball time. Buck helps sell. All the game and that, you know, part of even my feelings for Albernaz, and that his wife is clever and she’s out on social media and whatever, that’s a good like, part of the hook of if they’re going to win, these personalities of Alonzo, waiting for the media well after the game Friday night, and being what feels to me to be a good guy in the presentation of him and of these players, I’ve seen Jackson spoken a lot because he’s winning ball games. It’s a television show. To me, that’s all I’m saying to a lot of people. It’s a television show, and that’s all i That’s my little soliloquy on a night when I watched it on television, so did everybody else, because there weren’t that many people, but you better hope to hell there were a lot of people watching on television. I mean, I gave Don rovac a free plug. I went out in the seventh inning and said, Hey, if you turned it off, turn it back on, because it’s fun and they’re winning. All of a sudden, if you turned it off at 815 turn it back on. It’s 845, whatever time it was. So I don’t know I’ve monolog a lot, but that’s my people ask me how I really feel. I sit here and watch it on TV every night, like everybody else. I just wanted to be good. It was good on Monday night. I’m glad I didn’t turn off my wife were here. She probably had some friggin America’s best talent. Greatest thing that dancing star, something reality, something because, like, seven one would have been an invitation with my wife. Here she was in Venice, Italy, not Florida. She would have had the remote, st, dude, seven one, I’d be like, yeah. FM, you know what I mean, like, literally, it’s easy to do. It really is and, yeah, yeah. I mean,
Luke Jones 31:41
I guess the only thing I would say in response is, I find Auburn has to be pretty interesting. I mean, I I think he’s knowledgeable. I I know a lot of people haven’t heard him extensively. I mean, sit
Nestor Aparicio 31:53
and talk to him. They don’t give me that opportunity. So I’m just saying, like lots of people, sit and talk for him, I get to know them. This is part of, hey, you’re running a baseball franchise here. You’re letting you in, not me in. You’re not letting him really sit and talk to people. My whole purview on him is the four and a half minutes Rob long feet, literally dude and and they might these guys up in the dugout, and they rob long chases him in the dugout after they hit Homer. It’s like, Oh, that’s weird to me, and superfluous, and certainly not putting any of them in their best light in that moment. And I certainly, I wouldn’t want that gig. Certainly wouldn’t want it for Rob long. I wouldn’t give that gig to you. I love you. And I wouldn’t say, go down and bug mount castle after he turned his ankle. Like, like, and we’re reporters. I just think I I’m telling you, dude, I’m never giving them a nickel. I’m gonna watch it on TV. I just want it to be really good. And it’s great when they win. It really is, but it’s but they’re doing the hard sell. I mean, they’re begging people for tickets and the bird land they I mean, all the commercials, it’s all there. Cal Ripken making commercials. David Rubenstein, whatever it is that gets people out to the ballpark, that kind of excitement on Monday. Man, you can’t buy it. I mean, it was just a really mad it was an Oreo magic night. I thought they have to win.
Luke Jones 33:15
And they won in dramatic fashion. And they’ve won six of seven, and it’s been good to see that. I mean, it’s, they’re, they’re off to a pretty solid start, when you consider everything that’s gone wrong in the midst of that solid start. And yeah, absolutely. And frankly, I’m not sure they’re going to be firing on, truly firing on all cylinders, to the level that they might be capable of for quite some time, given where they are health wise, but the more you win now, the fewer games you have to win come August and September, right? And that’s not to say you don’t have to win plenty of games in August and September, but
Nestor Aparicio 33:53
that’s how they’re going to get better. And there’s going to be a cavalry and that westburg is going to have it meaningful at bats in August. Jackson holiday is going to be hitting 274 at the All Star break, and by then have nine home runs and steal some bases and solidify things and but we could still be talking about Jeremiah Jackson.
Luke Jones 34:10
He could be. We could be talking about, I mean, I mean, at this point in time. I mean Jeremiah Jackson, I he’s playing second base for right now. We assume holiday is going to be back here at some point in the not too distant future. I mean, you know, I’m starting to have some questions about that, you know. But that said, even if Jordan Westberg comes back, is he going to be playing third base? So Jeremiah Jackson, he’s very much outplayed Kobe mayo,
Nestor Aparicio 34:37
manager, and knew everything what you used to be for Brandon Hyde, you know, I don’t care if the back your bubble gum card says, yeah. I mean, I drafted, I wasn’t here, you know. Like, dude, are you up for two or three hits tonight? Are you going to not boot the ball around? Are you going to throw to the right base? You know? And if you do that tonight, I’m giving you a chance to do that tomorrow, because I think they’re being managed that way. A they were last place team last year that six guys on the team from opening day. They’re trying to get all these guys back. Every curse that Mayo holiday, westburg guys haven’t contributed anything. I mean, literally haven’t contributed anything to this ball club right here, right now. For Craig Albernaz Jeremiah Jackson won him a game the other night.
Luke Jones 35:20
So, you know, like, Yeah, I mean, the one thing I’ll push back a little bit on that in in the sense that it’s still the same general manager in front office, and you even said it yourself, we all know that field manager, coaching staff, it’s, it’s, it’s more middle management than they run the show from a baseball standpoint, right? We understood,
Nestor Aparicio 35:41
I don’t know where the loyalty to Kobe Mayo would be if he’s 135 oh.
Luke Jones 35:44
I mean, I think that applies for anyone. I mean, right? Ultimately, you got to play, you got to perform, you’ve got to be like
Nestor Aparicio 35:50
Elias believes in all of these guys. That’s why they’re here.
Luke Jones 35:53
But I, but I would say this, you know, to and this would lend itself to what you were just suggesting. It is a fresh perspective. It’s fresh eyes on these guys. Something that Craig alberna Albernaz sees is some might not be something that you know Tony mancelino or Brandon Hyde thought, or you know Jason bourgeois as the first base coach in the outfield instructor, might be seeing something different that previous, you know, the previous regime didn’t see so, so, yeah, there’s, there’s some of that going on, but some of it’s also that, hey, it’s early, right? I mean, we’re just reaching mid April now, it’s a lot of baseball season left. There’s a lot of opportunity on the roster right now, when you consider they’ve had injuries everywhere. I mean, Zach Eflin in the rotation, okay? Dean Kramer comes back. Kramer didn’t pitch great on Monday night, right? I mean, miss some bats. I thought the splitter was good. Defense, let him down in terms of that third home run that he gave up. So it wasn’t an awful outing, but you want him to be better. But you also kind of think in the back of your mind, hey, even though the efflin injury stunk, they got to see Brandon young and Cade pub, which make a spot start early in the season. And both those guys did, well, that’s something that you hope will you know that plants some seeds for helping out later in the season. You know, whether it’s two weeks from now or two months?
Nestor Aparicio 37:13
Weird though, like the other day, I was listening to you and me in the car yesterday, we talked about it sort of like you don’t want them making too many starts, right? No. Well, it went well,
Luke Jones 37:23
right, and better
Nestor Aparicio 37:24
than Dean Kramer went, sure.
Luke Jones 37:27
And that’s where I saw some of the reaction that I saw on Twitter. I mean, for whatever reason, and I I don’t want to pick on Orioles fans here too much, because it’s not all Oreos fans. We’ve talked about it, though, like the lack of appreciation for Dean Kramer, and look, I’m not saying I would want Dean Kramer to start a playoff game for me. Let me be clear. I’m not saying he’s a number one, a number two, a number three, right? He’s a back half, back of the rotation kind of guy, but the complete lack of awareness of what he is and the value that he has been able to bring them over the last few years in terms of league average starter. And he posts up, led them in innings last year. And I get it. It was a lousy season last year. Everyone understands that. But the the idea, you know, because I saw some people questioning, why would the franchise bring, you know, why would the Orioles bring back Dean Kramer and option Kade Povich. It’s like, Wait, so we’re just going to judge Kate Povich off of albeit a really good start on Sunday, but Kate Povich was a below replacement level starting pitcher last year. Dean Kramer was their, their leader in innings, right? So like, let’s not lose our heads. I we always say it’s early, and we use, we generally say that to provide context for something that’s not good. But we also have to remember when you know, just like Jeremiah Jackson, great night on Monday night, continue to play him, by all means, especially because you’re not getting nearly as much with the bat with Kobe mayo or Blaze Alexander. The right reason he’s
Nestor Aparicio 39:01
in there is because of these, these injuries. That said my cat has visited. She show, she, she, she’s being a little reluctant, but she never does the show. So I just want to give her her FaceTime so. But the point is, you know,
Luke Jones 39:13
I’m guessing Jeremiah Jackson’s not going to bat 318, and have a 545, slugging percentage all year, but at the same time, he’s doing a nice job. And the thing with Kate Povich, because I saw some people ask, Well, why didn’t they put him in the bullpen? You don’t want to put him in the bullpen right now, maybe come August or September, if your rotation is solidified. Do you want Kade Povich? I mean, you want to have him. You want to have him stretched out. I mean, the last thing you want to do is put someone like him in the pen. He’s not getting his frequent work, and then suddenly you have two starters going the IL and you’re now trying to stretch out Kate pub, which again, and it’s, it’s way easier for a starter to transition to relief in season. It is way more difficult to do that in season where a reliever is suddenly getting stretched
Nestor Aparicio 40:05
out, and if he’s good enough, he’ll, you know, go down to Norfolk Exactly.
Luke Jones 40:09
Someone else will get hurt, or someone will be mediocre and need to go
Nestor Aparicio 40:12
to the pen. I mean, I play a rain out game.
Luke Jones 40:15
I had no problem how they handled that on Monday. You know, I want to see Dean
Nestor Aparicio 40:18
Kramer be better. We’re talking about 16 guys starting games for them last year, and every team in the league averages 10 or 11. I mean, we’re only up to seven, seven or eight now, right?
Luke Jones 40:29
We’re just getting the tax, you know, it’s Jackie Robinson day, you know, this week, and they’re already at eight starting pitchers. I mean, already at eight So, and that’s not to say that that that same pace is going
Nestor Aparicio 40:41
to continue, but, and there’s only one Tommy John surgery, right?
Luke Jones 40:45
Sure, sure. So, I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s brutal, and that’s why you need as many guys as you can kind of manage on your 40 man roster and have in your organization. And as I said to you, you know, for all the talk about, you know, whether we’re talking about Cade Povich or Brandon young guys like that. Keep in mind, they have Trey Gibson at triple A, they have Nestor Hermann at triple A, they have Levi wells at triple A. I am not saying that all of those guys are going to start games for them this year, but what I am saying those guys pitch well, those guys could find themselves in the conversation as the year goes on, and not necessarily to replace but maybe to replace somebody even maybe maybe performance wise, where you say, Man Trey Gibson’s pitching his tail off. We’ve got to get this guy in the mix here in Baltimore and help us out. So if that happens. That’s a good problem, right? For for all the injuries that they’ve had so far, it’d be nice to have a couple situations. You know Jeremiah Jackson. You know he’s playing a great second base Well, what about Jackson holiday? It’s like, Okay, what about Jackson holiday? First of all, he’s got to show he’s healthy and ready to go. But there are opportunities to put Jeremiah Jackson at third base, or, to your point, don’t really want to, I don’t think I’d necessarily want to see it, but he can play a corner outfield spot in a pinch. But the point is, he’s playing well enough where you’re starting to think about him in those terms, and that’s a good thing. That’s what you want. You want to have a situation where you’re not just looking for someone, anyone to fill a spot in the lineup or a position on the field. You want to have options. You know you want to have depth, not just inventory. Buck Showalter all always said that right there’s inventory, which you know you have inventory because you’re not going to play with an empty roster. But is that depth meaning guys that you can actually count on guys that are going to make positive contributions for you. And Jeremiah Jackson’s absolutely been for that, been that for them early on, and you know, like I said, it’s on the heels of him being one of those few guys that came up when they were playing out the string last year, and most people were, at that point, already paying attention to training camp and fake football in the preseason. Did all that, but he played well, and he did a nice job for himself, and he put himself in position to go to spring training and win a job, and he was able to do that. And you look at him now, he’s been one of their better players. You know, I’ll say this. He’s going to swing the bat like he did Monday night. He’s not gonna be hitting eighth much longer. You might need to move him up a couple spots in the order, but it’s been nice to see. And again, if you’re going to be one of those teams, to your point, 92 games, 90 games, whatever it is, if they’re going to be there, you’re
Nestor Aparicio 43:32
going to be buyer, not a seller, in
Luke Jones 43:35
12 you’re going to do all that. You need different contributions. It can’t just be Gunnar Henderson and Pete Alonso and Taylor Ward all year long, it’s going to have to be other guys, and hopefully some of the members of the young core, yes, but I will also say yeah, Jeremiah Jackson, just because he wasn’t anointed, that doesn’t mean that he’s not elevating his stature with the way that he’s playing, and certainly a huge night for him On Monday. And again, I felt good for him in the sense that he had to feel really bad initially, of what happened with hitting his manager in the dugout. So I thought that moment again, the the hug they had after the Grand Slam. He adds on the other the insurance with the second home run. Pretty cool night for Jeremiah Jackson and a very cool night for the Orioles, getting a win. And like I said, two games above 500 for the first time since the end of 2024 so it speaks to them being off to a better start this year and just how terrible last year was.
Nestor Aparicio 44:35
He says, pretty cool night. Our friends at Farland Durham are know some hot nights are coming here. This week’s gonna be in the 80s. Get your AC checked, because it’s that time of the year. I got the windows open. My kitty cat’s on my lap in the middle of our programming here, we’re going to be GBMC on Friday, walking a mile in their shoes. I’m looking forward to seeing a lot of folks asking me a beautiful afternoon, four o’clock on the south Chapman at GBMC. See, had a great conversation with Laura Clary as well as other nurses from the Safe program through the course of the year. It’s a big, big event. Come on out and support that. We’re doing the Maryland crab cake tour this week, on Thursday at Costas and Timonium. We will be at Koco’s Next Thursday, the 23rd before the NFL draft, and then on the first of May, back at Pizza John’s in Essex, and on the seventh of May at Planet Fitness in Timonium, I’m lining up guest I will have the Maryland treasures scratch offs to give away. Luke’s going to be down at the ballpark on these beautiful 80 Degree nights and 80 Degree afternoons for baseball. Then the birds are getting out of town here this weekend as well. And man, we got Kentucky Derby in a couple of weeks, and the freakness is a month away and the draft is a week away, Luke, before I break here, I just want to switch topics for one minute. Do you have any late leaks on this ravens branding thing, like flying b like, do you? Do you have any prediction as to what they’re trying because you’re the fashion around here? You know, we did an hour on it last week. But I’m just trying to see is, has there been a leak in any way that you know of
Luke Jones 46:05
i Not that I’ve seen in the past like I remember someone had tipped me off a couple years ago when they did the purple rising. You know that the alternate helmet they had, right? I someone had told me that that was coming, but
Nestor Aparicio 46:21
his face, yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
Luke Jones 46:23
But this has been, you know, I’m interested to see what it looks like. I’m a little, frankly, I’m a little uneasy, because, honestly, I I kind of like most of their branding as far as what their uniforms have looked like, right? I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 46:37
need to be fixed even, even the,
Luke Jones 46:38
even the alternate uniforms, you know, mustard pants, aside, even the alternate uniforms, like, for example, their color rush. I don’t love the color rush, but relative to what a lot of the teams had for their color rush uniforms, I thought, I thought they were fine, right? In the same way I was talking about the Oriole city connects, relative to a lot of other teams. I’m not offended by them, right? There. They’re fine. I can live with them. So, you know, I I said it to you the other day. I’d like this to be more subtle than anything, but I also look at, oh, you’re
Nestor Aparicio 47:12
expecting more hammer. You don’t expect to be a slight change, right? You’re expecting something more dramatic. I will say, I’m not, I don’t know, like I
Luke Jones 47:20
have no I mean, I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, it’s, I put it this way, I am fully expecting a couple alternate uniforms at the very least, that look very different. That’s what I’m thinking. I’m just hoping, when you’re talking about the traditional, conventional home uniform and away uniform, you know, your primary ones, let me get I’m hoping they’re not dramatically different.
Nestor Aparicio 47:42
They’re done wearing the uniform they were wearing. Like that’s going to be the hard part for me to say, Okay, you’re not going to look like Jamal Lewis or Ray Lewis or Ed Reed,
Luke Jones 47:55
or we don’t know that yet.
Nestor Aparicio 47:56
Lamar before, but Lamar doesn’t look like Lamar because Lamar has worn the gold thing that you know, Ray Lewis didn’t get all that. Neither did Ed Reed. They were more of the black on the purple. It was more black and white and purple at that point, not even the mustard pants that Justin Tucker got into. Or whenever, 1817, 1819, whenever that happened. And you were really offended by that I thought
Luke Jones 48:20
it was 2015 actually, and I remember that they were lousy that year, so it almost felt appropriate that that team wore those. But no, I I don’t know. Let me be clear, I don’t know. I’m hoping. My hope is that their purple jersey and their white jarsina, their regular home and their regular away. I’m hoping that is not completely changed that yeah, I’m
Nestor Aparicio 48:47
looking at those pictures again, you know, just from on the sidelines of that, the purple with the with the gold pants. I don’t know, I don’t hate it, but, I mean, yeah, I don’t love it. Now that I’m looking at it again, I don’t need, I don’t need them to wear it again. I hope whatever they put on looks great,
Luke Jones 49:02
that’s all, sure. And I will say this, even if this trends more drastic change, if nothing else, absolutely, please give us a number font that is still legible and readable. My biggest pet peeve with college football uniforms has been, you know, they go for something that looks really cool up close, and then, practically speaking, when you’re watching it on television or you’re in the stadium, you can’t read the numbers and they’re just it’s awful. So again, we’ll see. I’m hoping there are elements that stay the same, you know, if they want to tweak the shoulder patches or things like that, or tweak the font slightly, whatever, yeah, the night, they wore
Nestor Aparicio 49:53
the purple um kiss helmet, they wore the gold letters, right? So, you know, I. It doesn’t, it feels gimmicky. It doesn’t feel problem, sure.
Luke Jones 50:03
I mean, there’s, there’s always that. I mean, my goodness, you want to talk about gimmicky. I mean, look at the NBA on any given night where my it’s supposed the term is uniform, right? That that that lends itself to the idea of consistency, and it’s something recognizable, right? And everyone looks but my biggest pet peeve about what the NBA has become uniform wise, is you’ll tune in and there are nights where you’re not exactly sure which team is which in terms of what they’re wearing. And that’s just bad drama. That’s bad. So yeah, so we’ll see, yeah, yeah, oh, I’ll say this, just like the city connects. You look at young I see younger Ravens fans on Instagram or social media. They’re excited for this. I mean, they are players. Are excited for this. Doesn’t mean it’s gonna be good. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna, I’m going to like them, necessarily. But there are a lot of people excited for this. And like I said, I hope, I hope this is not a complete, you know, completely unrecognizable moving forward. But I also have seen Nike mess up enough.
Nestor Aparicio 51:10
Yeah, I’m not buying the jerseys these days. I, you know, I’ve moved past that point. Oh, yeah. I mean, I, you know, I’ve got a client either the old stuff that I like, that means something to me, a Super Bowl ring and, like, you know, whatever. But like, I’m not, yeah, I don’t know whether I’m going to feel closer associated with it in sort of the way that the Orioles never get away from the bird, whether it’s the, you know, the cartoon bird, or the ornithologically correct, or the peacock bird, you know, whatever it’s the bird. I don’t know what Sashi Bre I mean again, this goes back to the earlier part of this, when these executives hide from people like me, when all I’m is like, I’ve been here 50 years. I’ve been on the air 35 years, all I have are questions. I’m not bringing a gun or a knife. I literally on behalf of fans, explaining this in a way that’s not all Johnny bravoed up the way Sashi and moon and Chad are going to do that this week. I just hope whatever they put on looks doesn’t look like their pajamas. That’s all. So, yeah, I
Luke Jones 52:13
I want to see something that’s still recognizable. Like I said, Number Four can be font can be tweaked a little bit if you want to change the shield on the shoulder, to go back to the original bird with the outstretched wings that they had the first few years. You want to do a couple things like that. You want to bring the flying B logo back like anything like that. Cool to me, just I, I feel for a team that’s only been around for three decades, they’ve built a pretty cool, recognizable brand in terms of, like, their uniforms and all that that they’re teaching.
Nestor Aparicio 52:42
The Falcons and the Eagles have taken their uniforms in the worst direction. You know, they’re not even good. The Jets play around with theirs all the time. Eagles haven’t changed theirs
Luke Jones 52:52
that much, but some of the other teams, yeah. I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 52:54
the Eagles, there was that point where the Eagles and the Falcons, and I talked to Todd Radom, and I’ll have him on Friday, that they all went with this sleek it looked like it was all designed by the same person, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. And that’s part of it that I I hope that doesn’t look like corporate Raven. But then I think about how Sashi fits the suit. This is something that got homogenized, right? It’s not going to look like one of these city connect things. It’s going to look like somebody with a suit in Ivy League got a hold of it and like, I feel like it’s going to look corporate, not going to look cool. You know what I mean? Like, that’s fine. That’s how I feel. Like, if it’s going to edge in a direction, I’m more I’m hopeful, but I’m skeptical. Yeah, I
Luke Jones 53:41
think I’m in the same boat there. And look, the last thing you want is to put something out, and then you’re
Nestor Aparicio 53:46
putting something else out. Football team, they’ve had their chance to redo everything, and then what they’ve come up with has been right, but Snyder was a part of that Magic Johnson. Now this other terrible to the point drunk,
Luke Jones 53:59
it’s terrible to the point where they’re now, like, leaning back into, you know, they’re not changing their name back, I don’t think, despite what fan some fans won, but they’re leaning back into what their uniforms used to look like, which compared to what they’ve trotted out there the last three, four years. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, it’s, we’ll see what we’ll find out. I mean, we’re almost here for that. I mean, anyone listening who doesn’t care about uniforms just but it’s fine.
Nestor Aparicio 54:27
No, no, baseball segment, I just wanted
Luke Jones 54:30
they think we’re even bigger nerds than than they previously talked about
Nestor Aparicio 54:35
it at fadeleys the other day at length about how we feel. Like I have oiler blue on here, what the Titans have done, which is basically take the oiler jerseys and flop them down on dude. It’s gross. It’s gross, yeah, and I’m an oiler guy. It’s great. It has, it has
Luke Jones 54:51
nothing to do with the uniform itself. It’s a great look. It’s not their look. I mean, I just it’s this, you’re never going just like every time I see. To this day, and I didn’t live it. I’m I feel this way on behalf of my father and my grandparents and where, anytime I see the Indianapolis Colts trot out a throwback of any sort that just, you know, if you want to want to wear a throwback to the 1995 colts, that’s fine, but anything that they throw back with a nod to Johnny you or Lenny Moore, Raymond Berry, or art Donovan, or whoever. That’s just that. That’s a hard no and offensive look
Nestor Aparicio 55:29
at the Rams going to St Louis and putting all the LA names on the in the middle of the dome that they walked out of. So back to LA. Like creepy I was thinking about that was making my coffee this morning, how creepy some of these billionaires are. So at some point, Michael arroghetti will step up and be a part of the oral thing. But we did have some magic on Monday night. Luke and I have talked about that. We’re going to be talking about the magic of the new uniforms as well as the Cleveland guardians. There’s a whole other brand switch as well. There you go. He is Luke, I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.
