Sure, Luke Jones talked about the lousy baseball over the weekend and the four-game sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards. But Nestor lost his mind in this one about the lack of respect this new ownership group had regarding “honoring” the surviving members of legendary 1966 Orioles World Series on their 60th anniversary. Imagine a guy named “Aparicio” living in Baltimore losing his freaking mind over the indignity of the whole shoddy performance? When is this nightmare season over?
The discussion assessed the Baltimore Orioles’ failed season, organizational shortcomings, and poorly publicized 1966 championship-team celebration.
Baseball Outlook
- The Orioles were swept by Boston and are under .500, with only a small mathematical chance of reaching the playoffs.
- Luke said the team appears stuck between contention and a full rebuild, with two playoff appearances and no postseason wins under the current baseball-operations regime.
- Open question: Why should ownership trust the current regime to develop the farm system more effectively after eight years?
Organizational Concerns
- The $5 million acquisition of Luis Robert Jr. produced only three games before a hamstring injury, while attendance was weak during the Boston series.
- Both participants questioned whether ownership will make meaningful changes, particularly with a likely baseball lockout affecting the offseason.
- Open question: Will ownership change the baseball-operations leadership or maintain the status quo?
History And Fans
- The 60th-anniversary celebration of the 1966 Orioles was viewed as rushed, poorly communicated, and insufficiently respectful to the team’s legacy and fans.
- Luke suggested a more formal event, better publicity, and fan-oriented memorabilia or programming.
- Host the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas’ main bar in Dundalk on Friday and honor Uncle Mike. (@Nestor Aparicio)
- Invite Vaughner onto the show and have him discuss the 25th-anniversary Turn Back the Clock Day celebration at Memorial Stadium. (@Nestor Aparicio)
Orioles Season
- Reaction to the Boston sweep and the team’s diminishing playoff odds.
- Debate over the direction of the organization, Mike Elias, and the farm system.
- Discussion of Luis Robert Jr.’s injury and attendance figures as signs of poor results and weak fan engagement.
Ownership And Leadership
- Questions about whether David Rubenstein’s group will replace or retain the current baseball-operations leadership.
- Possible impact of a pending lockout on offseason decision-making.
- Broader criticism of communication, accountability, and community connection.
1966 Orioles Celebration
- Complaints that the 60th-anniversary event was announced too late and lacked sufficient ceremony.
- Specific concerns about Eddie Watt being cut off during the broadcast and the absence of meaningful fan giveaways or programming.
- Comparison with better-organized prior celebrations and proposed improvements for future historical events.
Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are WNST AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. It’s Baltimore positive. Hey, hey, it’s football season, but we’re going to talk about baseball first. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland Lottery. We have the Maryland Crab Cake Tour on Friday. I don’t think I’m going to talk football or baseball on Friday. I think I’m going to talk about our 28th anniversary and all this cool music stuff that we’re throwing out this week, including the hottest band in the world, Kiss, which will be number 28 on the countdown. All that brought to you by friends at the Maryland Lottery. I have the Kiss Face Bird. We have the Raven scratch-offs. We’re going to have these all month long. We’re going to be at State Fair next week, two weeks from now. Excuse me. We’re also going to be at Pizza John’s later in the month. We’re going to be back at Koco’s next month. I was there over the weekend having a delicious Greek salad, a crab cake to go. Our friends at GBMC have put us out on the road. They have great things going on over there too. And I’ve been talking about some cool stuff with GBMC that we’re going to employ here in football season. And of course, our friends at Farnham and Derma-they are the comfort guys, and Luke Jones was not very comfortable during the four-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox. Did you do three of those games or two? How many of those you did? You did two, right? Red Sox.
Luke Jones 1:12
No, I did three of them. You did three. Thursday, Friday. I did take off on Saturday, and now that we’re football season, can I play
Nestor Aparicio 1:19
the role of psychologist here? I want to be like Dr. Melfi. How did it make you feel?
Luke Jones 1:25
I mean, done. I was trying to think of something a little more eloquent to say, and I was just like, done. And I mean, it’s what I wrote Sunday, late Sunday night, as I just said, like none of this is good enough. This hasn’t been good enough for a long time. They were the only success they had had this past week was making anyone who started to buy in and believe into this look really, really foolish, including two guys I
Nestor Aparicio 1:53
know on AM radio. Yeah, I mean,
Luke Jones 1:56
I said it to you, and I made the apology late last week where I said I’m really sorry that I said that this team was starting to grow on me, but it’s just-it’s exhausting. Like this season has just been exhausting. It really has been. Like if you’re, and I don’t mean that in a and not in a
Nestor Aparicio 2:12
fun way,
Luke Jones 2:13
right? I don’t and I and I don’t mean that in a woe is me. Oh, I get to cover baseball for a living thing, dude. It’s like having a kid that’s
Nestor Aparicio 2:19
your child that you don’t really like, but you have to figure it out. Oh, you know what I mean. You have to figure it out.
Luke Jones 2:25
Touch that one, but but but I would just say that it’s just you see something, and you at least see glimpses and fleeting moments, fleeting periods where it can be better. But by and large, it’s just not, and that’s where it’s just so frustrating. And you know the Colton Cowser catch, and I mean, you and I literally in real time a week ago, we were talking about them getting back to 500. We were talking about the Colton Cowser play. Everyone was talking about the Colton Cowser play. I mean, ESPN that barely even talks about baseball at this point in time, was talking about the Colton Kauser play and that the fact that the Baltimore Orioles had gotten back to 500 and to just completely face plant right right after that, like not even a buffer, just immediately. It’s just it’s demoralizing. It’s one of those things where again you just feel done, I think as a fan, and I think you try to look at this thing in the big picture. And what are you really excited about moving forward? Assuming, assuming, and maybe they will prove us otherwise. But I’m making the assumption that nothing’s going to change in this regard, but assuming it’s the same head of baseball operations and Michaelias and the same regime in place and and and all of that, what exactly are you pointing to right now to get all that excited about? Now, it doesn’t mean it’s 100 loss, terrible, beyond reproach, worst product you’ve ever seen. I mean, it hasn’t been that the last two years, even. But are are they building anything special, right? Can you look at the farm system now? And yeah, the farm system rankings are moving back up there because that, in large part, because they’ve sold the last two trade deadlines and all of that. But is there really any confidence or hope that they’re going to do a better job with a good farm system this next time around. When it was such a a fleeting two year, okay, two years, two playoff appearances, and then it just stopped seemingly overnight. And that’s where you look at it, and it just it feels very demoralizing. It it feels very difficult to look at this thing and try to present a strong argument beyond. Well, the wild card picture might not be very good next year, right, or the year after that, right? But but this idea, you know, three years ago, you could sell me on the idea that they were really building something special, some. That had a chance to not only win a World Series but maybe be really good for an extended period of time, and when that goes away as quickly as that did, like I just think the level of trust isn’t there. So, look, they won on Labor Day. They remembered how to draw some walks, and Cleveland certainly helped in that way, what what’s crazy is there’s still a mathematical chance, small as it might be at this point. But you know they’re up, they’re playing Cleveland, they’re playing Toronto. I wouldn’t be shocked if they have at least one last mini run in them. But again, it goes back to for what, right? Does it mean they’re going to make it? If they would make it by some miracle, would you have any confidence that they’re going to make any kind of a meaningful run? And that’s where I go back to the question I just asked: Where is this thing going? And is there any reason whatsoever to believe that it’s anything special on the horizon? And that’s where I just look at this thing and I just say no. And if that’s the answer, then what are you doing, continuing to move forward with Michaelias and this current regime that has had eight years to do this, and it hasn’t been all bad, but the results are what they are: two playoff playoff appearances, zero playoff wins, and now they’re back into this period or this current state where they’re just kind of stuck in between. They’re not good enough to actually like be in the playoffs or be contending for a division or anything like that. But they’re not so bad where it’s like, all right, it’s the you know you’re going to get the number one pick or anything like that, right?
Luke Jones 6:37
So you’re just stuck in between, which is really the worst place to be, and and it’s honestly where they spent a large portion of those 14 straight years of losing from 98 through 2011. They didn’t have that many years where they were like 95 plus loss awful. There were plenty of years in there where it was like, ah, you know, 74 and 88. Not not the worst team in baseball, but certainly not anywhere close to contention. And you know, in this year of all years, where the bar is so low, so low to be the third wild card. I mean, again, you look at it whether it’s going to be Cleveland, whether it’s going to be Toronto, Texas, or even if the Orioles have one last miracle run in here with them, like it might be a team that’s 82 and 80. Yeah, they’re very good, though. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 7:26
that’s not the barometer we’re looking at here. You just need to be good for two weeks. So they, but they haven’t been good enough to even be in that position at this. Did they get swept at home over the week? They hadn’t been good. They needed to be good this month. I mean, you and I. It’s been a couple days since we got together. Six in
Luke Jones 7:39
September.
Nestor Aparicio 7:40
By the way, Luke Jones is here. He’s Baltimore. Luke, we’re cutting through this. We’re gonna get the football. I swear. I don’t. I don’t know how many more of these, you know, requiem for a lost season we’ll have. But I guess the reality that’s hitting me, and I’ve been sharing this out on my Facebook, is Kurt Badenhausen talking about franchise values, sharing my my conversation with Evan Drellick about the strike that’s coming, or the lockout, or the what? Because that’s the next story. Because they’re going to play a few more baseball games here. They’re going to win a couple. They beat Cleveland for a day. Great. I mean, I guess. I mean, who knows? By Saturday, maybe they won five in a row again, and we have to talk about them Monday morning instead of talking about the Ravens feeding the Colts 31 to 16 or whatever it’s going to be on Sunday, right? But in a general sense, I want them to go away. You know what I mean? Like I’m ready to do this music. I’m ready. Yeah, kick, kick the football. Let’s go. Let’s let’s. I mean, we play in Melbourne tonight, or Sydney, or Seattle, or what time’s the game? Wednesday night football, Thursday night football, Friday night football, college football. Let’s play football. I mean, this is-I don’t know, man. My wife’s been out of town over the weekend, visiting with her mom. Happy birthday to her mom, and Labor Day for everybody celebrating on a holiday. I sat and watched all weekend. I mean, I’ve been here working all week. Like, I sat here and watched Eddie Murray, and I saw Eddie Watt. By the way, when did they announce that ’66 reunion? Can I? Let’s get onto something really important because, like, I came home in the first inning, and Boob’s out there, and Eddie Watt. My name’s Aparicio, and I’m thinking, I’ll be even if they hated me. I’m the only Louis descendant here. They don’t need to honor me, but let me know what’s going on for crying out loud. Mark Fine. I mean, come on, man. Like, I, I don’t. There’s nobody there. Why did? Why even bother to honor them if you like? You’re not going to give me a chance to wear my ’66 Palmer jersey and come out and know about it. Just let me know about it. I mean, just the Zayflowers thing the other night in the in the splat. Like, what are they doing?
Luke Jones 9:52
I’ll be honest with the 1966 60th anniversary celebration. I. I like to think I’m pretty on top of things, right? I’m not perfect. I, I’ll get things wrong. Like, do you not know
Nestor Aparicio 10:06
about it either? Really,
Luke Jones 10:07
but I did not know about that. Know that that was happening, and maybe I missed something else. But I did not. There was not somebody must
Nestor Aparicio 10:14
have woken Katie Griggs up in June and said, “Hey, do you know it’s a 60th anniversary? Like, I don’t know. I mean,
Luke Jones 10:22
yeah. I don’t know if it was June. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 10:24
right,
Luke Jones 10:24
right. The first time I definitively saw anything about it. So what the Orioles do? They send out a a press release that’s called “This Week at the Yard” at ahead of every home stand. A press release
Nestor Aparicio 10:38
to media people like you, but not in the in the in the
Luke Jones 10:41
email,
Nestor Aparicio 10:41
but
Luke Jones 10:42
like it it was sent out as
Nestor Aparicio 10:44
it was because they hate me. They don’t send me an email. It’s just absurd. I need to make fun of it because this is what happens when I don’t. I I need to make fun of it because my name’s Aparicio and he’s the oldest living Hall of Famer, and it’s a 1966 team, and I’m sitting here on the radio for the 35th year, and they pretend that the people that listen to this don’t exist. I mean, come on, man! It’s the 66 Orioles. It means something to me. It means something to you because it meant something to your dad. Like so. Anyway, go. It’s just. It’s just.
Luke Jones 11:18
No, I’m. I’m trying to answer. It’s piss poor either
Nestor Aparicio 11:21
way, but go ahead.
Luke Jones 11:22
I did not see anything until Wednesday. Now maybe there was an email. Like I’m on the Orioles like email. I should ask Eddie Watt when
Nestor Aparicio 11:31
he found out about it because that’s really probably when you know what I mean. When they called Eddie Watt, that was the day that they were like, “Let’s do this, because it’s not hard to get booged and and and and I was just gonna say I mean I’m
Luke Jones 11:42
sure I’m sure they what whenever they decided to do it whether they made it out put it out there for public consumption or or not I’m sure they said okay well let’s look at the TV schedule for Palmer when they’re gonna be in town poor but yeah I mean Brett Bader’s been
Nestor Aparicio 11:57
running around there for 35 years Angelos ignored the 20th the 25th. the 30th, the 35th, the 40th. Mike Gibbons had to come on here, and I mean, this is when Flanagan was alive. I mean, we’re going way back here. That Angelos didn’t want to pay for my cousin to fly in from Venezuela. Yeah, I mean, like, like that’s what this is before January built the statues or any. It’s just but it’s 2026 and they’re still getting this wrong. I mean, literally, they can’t even get their own history right. They can’t even treat me like a human being, and my name’s Aparicio, and all I’ve ever wanted to do was love him. Eddie Watt gets him. I haven’t seen Eddie Watton since I stood behind the batting cage in 1986 at the 20th anniversary with Bob Mazel and got drunk with my cousin down at the Belvedere. That was 40 years ago, by the way.
Luke Jones 12:56
I would see. I would actually push back and say that was actually in the past. That was something that, not talking about any specific team or specific celebration, but just those celebrations in general. I would actually push back and say that those were some of the few things that they actually seemed to do relatively well relative to other things. But yeah, it was just something that was. It felt very look.
Nestor Aparicio 13:21
They threw Eddie Watt out of the broadcast. They they cut him off in the commercial, and he just disappeared. And he like had something to say. He was so thrilled that like, I just,
Luke Jones 13:32
I mean, the the one thing or the one thing I will look here. The reality of it is, when you’re talking about the 60th anniversary of a team, there aren’t many guys left. I mean, I’m I’m not trying to be. I’m just stating a fact with that. But so I understand it might be something that ends up being a little more understated, right? Whether you have three guys come in, whether you you know whether you are able to get a few more guys to come out that are still with us. I mean, think about it. Six a 60th anniversary team. You could have been 25 years old with the Baltimore Orioles in 1966, and you’re 85 now. So it speaks to. I mean, we know Frank’s gone. We know Brooks is gone, right? So, but
Nestor Aparicio 14:13
this isn’t for them, by the way. And I’m going to interrupt you because you’re not of the right age. Because I I am, and I speak to people of that age, and I see the way Michael Aleska writes about that era, and I’m telling you, dude, you’re you’re selling short that everybody’s short. No, no, no, that everybody’s got to be 85 because I’m 57, and I was born in 16 years. But anybody older might have been inclined to be a part
Speaker 1 14:43
of
Nestor Aparicio 14:44
it. You’re saying it’s understated. No, unless
Luke Jones 14:46
can I can I finish my point? We’ve talked plenty about this. I said it’s understated because so many of the individuals are gone. So like, yes, celebrate the guys that are there, and I agree. If you’re going to do it, make a bigger deal out of it. But I’m. I understand you’re not going to roll out 20 members of the 1966 Baltimore Orioles because 20 members of the 1966 Orioles aren’t left. But and this is where I agree with you. If you are going to do it, then yeah, plan something that’s a little more formal. I
Nestor Aparicio 15:18
don’t know, dude. It’s personal for me. Let me let me be an a hole today as we start the football season because it was personal for you. You put words in my mouth because you didn’t let me finish my point. You made it sound like I was saying it’s not a big deal at all. No, it was it was a no. You’re saying if you’re 25 and you’re 85, that is my point. My point is there’s plenty of people in their 60s and 70s that were eight, 910, 12 years old that would like to come out and see Louis on the scoreboard, even if they can’t fly him in and he’s not well enough. And Dick Gordon said and all that. I’m speaking on behalf of my family here in regard to 1966 and being the only guy in the room. And I wound up finding out about it in the second inning, and I own a radio station that’s dedicated to them, and you work for me, and you didn’t find out till Wednesday. And for me to call it half-assed is to be kind to it. I called it piss poor. I’m not going to
Luke Jones 16:13
disagree with your point. I was just, yeah, I was speaking more so. And that’s on behalf
Nestor Aparicio 16:17
of them getting swept over the weekend, and we’re talking about this instead. And you and I are fighting. We should be like we got to go beat the Colts. The only thing I’m fighting about is you’re
Luke Jones 16:26
not letting me talk about it because the only point I was trying to make was I understand that when you don’t have 20 members still with us and there’s only a select few, whatever you do might need to be something that you zero in a little more formally, and maybe it maybe the the solution was to treat it like the Orioles Hall of Fame weekend, where have a luncheon for the living members that are there if they want to come in on Friday afternoon, have a luncheon with the Orioles advocates, and then do something that’s a little. I mean, I’m laughing
Nestor Aparicio 16:57
because you’re five minutes into thinking about this, and you’ve already given a better idea than anything that they cobbled together last week that we’re talking about afterward that nobody knew about, which is this is 66 Orioles, like
Luke Jones 17:12
oh, and part of the issue is also like it also goes back to all this team has is to celebrate its past, right? I mean, fair enough. They they did Eddie Murray the the 30th anniversary of Eddie’s 500th on Sunday, which
Nestor Aparicio 17:23
I thought like they could have thrown Louis’s family 10 grand and made some boujae bobble out of him and given it. You know what I mean? Like literally, that’s the game they. Well, and that was the other, and that was the other thing
Luke Jones 17:32
too. Like there was no giveaway with it. Like you could have done a pin, you could have done a T-shirt, something like that. Something. It very much came across an is a tone deaf operation. No, it came across as something they forgot about, and then they got to I don’t know when, maybe maybe June, maybe July. You know, you can’t plan something. Well, you know, I would text Mark
Nestor Aparicio 17:52
Fine and ask him on behalf of the organization to come explain it, but you can’t. So that you know, that’s the part of it. You know, we can sit here and criticize. This makes me an a-hole, you know, yelling about it on the radio the day after instead of any of them being human in any way. It’s just, it’s insane, dude. It’s insane this far into this. But I would just,
Luke Jones 18:15
and I don’t want to, because we
Nestor Aparicio 18:17
go back and talk about the bad baseball. I actually do want to talk about the bad baseball team
Luke Jones 18:21
a little bit, but my final point on it, like for example, I know the Orioles when they put out their promotions and giveaways list, the Eddie Murray thing had been announced of what it was way back, right? I I don’t know if it was like it was on the date.
Nestor Aparicio 18:38
It was on the right date, right about the run, right? Exactly,
Luke Jones 18:41
that had been talked about. A press release was sent out August 20th. I’m looking at it in my inbox right now. As far as what they were doing with Eddie, said Cal was going to be there. You know, it wasn’t anything over the top, but it was a nice little ceremony they did. They had they had the kids lined up on the orange carpet. They had Eddie walk down. Cal said a few words, which I thought was good because Eddie’s not going to say a whole lot about himself. Yeah, man, and and I would say this far into it. I thought that was nicely. Eddie was my guy, you know. Eddie
Nestor Aparicio 19:07
was my guy, and that appealed to me. But and I wanted to watch it. I wanted to hear what he said because he doesn’t say much. I’ve spent time. I mean, I I like you can’t not love Eddie Murray this far in. I mean, what has Eddie Murray ever done to embarrass anybody or anything other than the things that were done to him 40 years ago to embarrass him? So, like in a general sense, Eddie’s Eddie’s lived the life and and walked the right way. Kerry Murray Nature Center over on the west side of town for his mother. Like I’m an Eddie. I just want to say that because I don’t get to talk about Eddie much, but Eddie was much for me. Eddie, I would love to sit here and talk to Eddie if Eddie would ever sit and talk to me. It’s not his style or whatever, but I but he talk talks to other people. He talked to Cal Ripken’s kid. So you know what I mean. Like if if Eddie ever wanted to sit and talk about me taking the bus out there with my dad and how many times I was hoarse the next day from yelling Eddie in that stadium and how it brings hair on the back of my neck. Think about that, like I’m an OG, dude. Like I don’t sluff this stuff off. So when I get, quite frankly, shitty about the 66 Orioles because they’ve been whatever story you’re telling about all this that I finally allowed you to spit out about any of it, it’s unacceptable. You know, it’s just unacceptable. I’m not saying they did a good job with it. I’m what the the only point I was trying to make is, I understand when you have something
Luke Jones 20:30
that happened long enough ago where so many members of that team are no longer with us. I do understand the idea of wanting to strike the right tone, right? You you want to make it, but if you’re going to do it, do do it right. I make sure it’s something that the fans know about. Make sure it’s something where you give any players who are physically able to be with you every opportunity to join. Every but the 30 players on the field, it just there aren’t 30
Nestor Aparicio 21:01
guys left. The idea isn’t about Eddie Watt or Boog or Jim Palmer or my cousin or Dick Hall or any of the descendants of any of the none of that. The idea is your fans, Katie Griggs, who has no clue, David Rubenstein who’s oh 66 Oral on my team. I own the team. Oh, we forgot about them. Oh, I’m embarrassed by the team. I mean, it’s it’s Magoosh stuff, and and and I I just like this is about everyone I know, everyone who’s ever listened to you or me. Probably not on YouTube because it trends a little younger out there. But listening on the radio, following along, every person with a little bit of gray in their hair more than I, and I shave some of it out. Every person I know who’s even a little bit older than me, even a little bit, a little bit older than me, still walking, plenty of money. They got a boat. They’re at the beach. It’s Labor Day weekend. They love Eddie too, but the ’66 Orioles. I just think it doesn’t matter how many of them are alive or whatever you’re going to do. There’s a lot of us alive, me born in ’68, and everybody older than me. Everybody older than me doesn’t sound like the biggest subset, but it’s a lot of people. And you know when I feel it when I’m at an Oriole game, and I’m a young guy at an Oriole game at 58. When I go there on a sun on a Thursday afternoon, everybody’s 100 years old. So like they all would love to give love to the Orioles and the ’66 Orioles,
Luke Jones 22:45
man, it was just my my
Nestor Aparicio 22:46
dedicated reporter whom I pay professionally, and we’ve done this work for 35 years here, didn’t know about it until Wednesday.
Luke Jones 22:56
Yeah, there’s nothing in my inbox. I mean, in in contrast, the 50th 50th anniversary back in 2016, which that was. I know the Orioles wore throwback uniforms. I know there was a media availability. There was a press release and sent out about a month before it happened. Was that
Nestor Aparicio 23:16
like they gave the Palmer 66 jersey away, or maybe not? Might
Luke Jones 23:19
might be, but yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 23:21
maybe they go Brooks away or something. Boy, really good looking. That was
Luke Jones 23:24
something that was much more structured, well thought out, publicized. Well, Katie
Nestor Aparicio 23:32
Griggs and these people have only been running a team for three years now. So, but that’s
Luke Jones 23:36
but that’s where I look at it. It it really it came across as someone realized halfway through the summer, guys, it’s the 60th anniversary of the 1966 World Series team. We probably need to do something, and that’s how it came across. Yeah, right.
Luke Jones 23:53
And and yeah, they had three guys there. It was a about a three minute ceremony, and you know, it it was not a big deal at all. And
Nestor Aparicio 24:02
can I tell an Eddie Watt story before you? Sure. Well, you got to keep going.
Luke Jones 24:07
No, I was just and like I said, I’m. We’re going to get to the team. Well, but I’m I’m completely understanding of the idea that there aren’t many of those guys left. But when they are here, celebrate them. There’s plenty of
Nestor Aparicio 24:19
us left. Is my point. I no, but I want to come out. I I get that. At the same time, they should want to sell tickets. They should want to send the Aparicio family 25 grand and make a bobble out of Louis and give it out and do the same thing for Eddie Watt. I mean, like whatever. Then you did an Eddie Watt statue or a boob pub. I mean, but for crying out loud, to your point, it’s all they’ve got because we’ve done 15 minutes spatting about the 66 announcement or whatever. By the way, Eddie Watt. Can I tell one Eddie Watt story because it relates to my journalism? 1986. I’m 17 years old. It’s a summer. It’s June at 86, and the six. 66 Orioles are having a reunion at Memorial Stadium, and they had a workout on a Saturday. They were going to play. They were literally playing an old-timers game. Okay, so I get the age on these guys. I guess you know 40s. You know at the time, maybe early 50s at the time for most of the players in in 1986, and on that Saturday afternoon, I went out to the ballpark as a media member to attend practice, and it was really just like a press conference because all the players were alive then. To your point, and Mojabowski’s given reporters the hot foot in the in the dugout. You know what I mean. Like it’s a shtick on a Saturday afternoon for Chris Thomas and Vince Bagley to come out and interview them, so it gets on the 5o’clock news that they sell some tickets for the old timers game that begins at 1230. So get there early on Sunday, and you know Louis’s going to come out and swing the bat, and you know like all that. Brooks is going to field the ground ball and Brooks and Louis are going to play together, and they’re going to throw the ball to Boog, and it’s 1986. You’re two, three, whatever. You were two. So I get down there on Saturday afternoon, and I’m on the field at Memorial Stadium. You and I are kind of jaded. It’s a big deal to be on the field at Memorial Stadium when you’re 17 in 1986, so the only time I’d ever been on the field there in my life might have been when I won hit pitch hit and run, and I came and I whiffed. I was terrible at Memorial. I I I stunk, but I won a pitch hit and run competition at Patterson Park when I was like 10, 11, and I went out and I actually got the stand on the field, and I choked up and I, I stunk. But this is the next time I think I was on the field at Memorial Stadium, and I’m there behind the cage, and Eddie Watt, Dick Hall. I mean, name any of the 66 Orioles at the time. I mean, I don’t want to say the Steve Barbers and the Phoebus’s and the McNally was alive. He was there, you know. Quayer wasn’t on the team, but probably in there. But either way, and they’re taking BP. So Brooks has got his helmet on, and Brooks is 10 years from retirement. So Brooks is in his late 40s at the time, and Brooks was probably still playing in his old timer Cracker Jack games down at RFK Stadium in that era anyway, hitting home runs off Luke Appling, hitting home runs off of Bob Feller. You can Google all this, kids. But I’m behind the cage, and I’ll never forget this, Luke. I’m 17 years old, and I played baseball. Not high school because I wasn’t good enough to make my team because we won the state championship. We had a really good team, but I played a lot, a lot, a lot of baseball when I was 1011, 1213, 1415, I saw pony league pitching. I saw high school pitching. I covered high school sports. I was involved in all of that, and I went out behind that batting cage and Eddie Watt, who my dad maligned. I mean, Eddie Watt had a little had some postseason, you know, issues. Also, was a very good relief pitcher. But Eddie Watt, like every relief pitcher up and down, my dad was anti Eddie Watt, just because of postseason failures.
Nestor Aparicio 28:17
So I didn’t know much about Eddie Watt. His 1971 baseball card was kind of cool. You know what I mean? Like I never really, I don’t remember Eddie Watt as a player. He was kind of gone right before I got involved. If he gave me like John Jefferson or Ross Grimsley, I’m I’m I’m good with all that. But like a step before that, um, so Eddie Watt’s pitching BP to like Louis and I’m trying to think of who else is on the team: Davy Johnson, Bruce Powell, Kurt Bleffery. Trying to think of the guys that are around the cage: Paul Blair. So they’re all taking BP, and Eddie Watts zipping them in, zipping them in. And I sat behind the cage, and Eddie Watt was throwing in the ’80s, I mean, Eddie Watt was bringing the ball, and I had never seen a ball thrown that hard in my life. Like I’m 17 years old watching a 50 year old man pitch, and I had never been on a field at a major league baseball game, and I’m watching old timers throw baseballs, and I knew I had no prayer hitting when I was 17, and at that point, I’m like, these guys are pretty special. These pitchers. So I, I would say to you, seeing Eddie Watt in Little Eddie Watt there telling stories and getting cut off the other night, I got a real soft spot for Eddie Watt, dude, because of that day and that and I got drunk with Louis all night at the Belvedere. I’ve told that story before too. Louis sent me down to the bar to buy beer, and I was 17. But he’s from Venezuela; he didn’t understand that. The law did. The guy at the Al Bar said no comprende. But that that day was a seminal moment in my life because I thought to myself, “Man, Major League pitching. I’m watching a 40.” Eight-year-old version of a washed-up pitcher, and I’m standing in the cage, and I can’t even see the ball. So that was my little life lesson. So there, I got to tell my Eddie Watt story that I’ve never told 20 years ago with you.
Luke Jones 30:10
There you go. Like I said, I mean, if if you’re going to do something, I would love to know Eddie Watt. If I
Nestor Aparicio 30:17
had a press pass the other night, I would have walked up to Eddie Watt. I would have taken pictures with him. It would have been a big effing deal to me. It would be a big deal to me if Eddie Watt called the show this week. You know what I mean? Like I’m being serious. It’d be like a rock star coming on if Eddie Watt called my show. That’s how. So, so when I’m chippy and I apologize for cutting you off 12 times and being a jerk, but like the 66 Orioles being shat upon, I thought that was over with when Angelos died, because he did plenty of that on the 66 Orioles, really, and I remember it all because I was here for all of it. Let’s get on to the team, dude. I’m sorry, I’m I I don’t get a chance to talk about the 66 Orioles because they don’t give me a chance. So I want to tell my Eddie Watts stories because I’ve worked hard for my radio station to tell their stories. No, that’s fine. I mean, I I I don’t. Where do we want to go to now? Like, I want to go to football, buddy. I’m going to give you as much oxygen as you want, having witnessed four bad baseball games
Luke Jones 31:10
over the weekend. Let let me throw out a couple things, especially as we’re talking about the state of the organization and ownership and things that they aren’t doing well that they need to be doing. I mean, the Zay Flowers thing. I don’t know exactly what happened there, other than there was very much an expectation among fans who bought tickets for that section that he was going to be the guest splasher. Now the Bird Bath has a bank sponsorship that is not the same bank sponsorship that Zay Flowers is a part of. So I think that’s probably where the breakdown ended up being. But you, long story short, you ended up having a lot of people who apparently spent a sizeable amount of money for tickets in that section, thinking Zay Flowers was going to be a guest splasher and was not. But you know, a couple things that kind of stuck out for me over the course of this weekend, beyond the fact that they were swept, and you know, the state of the wild card race being what it is, the fact now that even after a win on Monday, they they need to go 11 and six just to finish 500, even to win 82 or 83 games, you’re talking about a 12 and 5, 13 and 4 finish that isn’t likely for any team, let alone talking about the Baltimore Orioles doing that specifically. Although I will throw out, they’re playing Cleveland, they’re playing Toronto over these last few weeks. So, like teams directly ahead of them, they have opportunities. Will they do it? I’m not holding my breath. No, I don’t think they’re going to. But as we’re as we go back to like the big picture kind of stuff, talking about Mike Elias, talking about where this franchise is, a couple things kind of stood out to me. You and I didn’t give a whole lot of oxygen to the fact that they claimed Luis Robert Jr. off waivers. That that ended up being a $5 million investment, they got what three games out of him, and he hurt his hamstring. Is
Nestor Aparicio 33:04
that good business? Well, I’m most asking, you know, at a trade deadline where like taking on money six weeks ago to get more at bats and things like that, like they dumped some money. They dumped a lot of money, so yeah, yeah, there’s still a very much a net gain for ownership. So hearing Michaelias go on what was it SiriusXM or MLB Network or whatever and praising ownership like give me a break you you you guys dump I think it was $30 million at the trade deadline so that I was unmoved by that anytime you say give me a break about them it’s basically you you appealing to how dishonest they are and we get so used to it. I guess that’s the hardest part of all of this is to sit here with a straight face most days, and they would honestly say, “Well, of course we didn’t forget the 66 Oros. I mean, we called Eddie Watt last Tuesday. You know, like they’ll just we cover two cover-up organizations. We’re about to get into football season. I mean, the Zay Flowers thing-just seeing him get honored is makes me itch in a lot of ways, but but and then they didn’t pay him enough to go squirt the people. I guess. I mean, what else am I gonna think? I mean, maybe I’m wrong, but probably not wrong. They probably could have given him a little honorarium, the 10 grand or 20 grand to go out there and squirt people for a half an hour. I don’t know. I I don’t I don’t know what the price of squirting is at this point. Although I did find the letters when they sported me last week, and that made me real happy all over again. 23 years later, but I think about them in in this way for this week and say their relevance and this pending off season and the trouble ahead. I would literally say to you, how much do you want to talk about them the next two or three weeks? Because once it’s over, it’s really going to be over, right? Like they’re they’re not going to spend any money, do anything. But this 5 million they spent seems kind of dumb. I think they would have pat themselves on the back about it. That’s cool, but it’s sort of like they’ll be doing everything they can do to nitpick. You know, pinch paper clips in the off season and lay staff off because there’s no tickets to sell. Like there’s no Sarasota. You know, like all of the. It’s just going to be a sea of awfulness that they’re not even in control of. Like, right? I can’t even blame this on Mark Fine or Katie Griggs or David. But in a general sense, they’ve signed up for this and inherited this, and they’re going splat into the wall on a weekend when I’m mad at them for not honoring a 66 team. You know, everybody’s mad at them for bad baseball. And even when they spend $5 million on a player, he goes on the eye. I mean, they’re just it’s a cursed season to some degree, right? I mean, what else can we say?
Luke Jones 35:39
Yeah, there’s been bad fortune mixed in. There’s no doubt, but just to go back to the point I was trying to make, when you’re looking at this, and if you’re looking at this from a fan perspective, in terms of Michaelias and this baseball operations, right? Putting aside ownership, Katie Griggs, the business side, all those types of things that have their own issues, but if I were to lay out beyond the lack of success in terms of wins and losses over the last couple years, but if I were going to lay out a scenario that would actually move ownership to start looking at Michaelias differently over the last week, you you know you you granted a $5 million investment and a player got hurt three games in and whether Luis Roberts able to come back the last week of September I mean we’ll see right I mean apparently it’s a low grain strain whatever but point is $5 million when you’re talking about what the buyout is for the option next year and what he was you know the prorated portion of his salary, that’s a pretty substantial investment that just went splat, right? There’s a reason he
Nestor Aparicio 36:48
was available too, right? Should we say that? Sure. Yeah,
Luke Jones 36:51
but but there was also a reason why there was you know Tyler O’Neill’s hurt and the Luis Robert. There’s also a scenario where he goes on a heater for two weeks and helps them get the final wild card spot, but obviously ownership doesn’t like when an investment goes belly up, especially that quickly, right? Whether that was Michaelia’s fault, you know, he obviously wasn’t expecting him to strain his hamstring. But Luis Robert has had a history, missed a lot of time even earlier this year. So can you imagine saying to one of these
Nestor Aparicio 37:18
cats, “I bought you a flower field for $5 million, and you show up the next day, and all the flowers are dead. Yeah, it got
Luke Jones 37:25
torched. So there’s that, and then I will say this, and you know me, I’m not, I’m not someone that’s big on talking about attendance. Not not because I’m not aware of it, but because in many in many cases it can be disingenuous. You know, you get the well. You should go out and support the team, even though at the end of the day, it’s well. Would you expect someone to go to a restaurant that serves mediocre food time after time after time? No, right. So, but I thought it was very telling in terms of what the temperature is with the fan base that on a Thursday and a Friday of Labor Day weekend, and I get it, kids are back in school before Labor Day these days in most cases, right? So, so it’s not a full-blown summer night when you’re talking about a Thursday night. But Thursday against the Red Sox, 19,000 people. Friday against the Red Sox, 19,000 people. Saturday, where they had a Ravens giveaway, they did 32,000. That’s even with the giveaway of a Zay Flowers Orioles jersey. You know that purple and you know kind of a as giveaways go, kind of a neat little crossover kind of thing that they do from time to time, and then Sunday, 27,000. Okay, Labor Day afternoon, gorgeous day, right? Wasn’t hot, 21,612. If I’m ownership and I’m looking at those numbers on the heels of a $5 million investment you just granted Michaelias to make in a player for three and a half weeks, four weeks. Those are the kind of things that, if you’re looking at an ownership group, and look, David Rubenstein six weeks ago, the quote was, “Couldn’t be more pleased with Michaelias, right? But I look at those events. If anything is going to move the needle in the direction of making more wholesale changes, that’s what-that’s something that at least would make me take notice of. Am I holding my breath for that? No, I-I think they’re going to-I think they’re going to stand pat. I think they’re going to maintain the status quo in large part because of the pending lockout as well, and I we we’ve laid that out. If I’m being objective about it, no, it’s not ideal to change general managers and your front office as you’re staring at a work stoppage that’s all but guaranteed to wipe out at least the off season, right? Let alone whether any real work that a general.
Nestor Aparicio 40:00
Manager is going to do in the off season. That’s is going to be neutered. I mean, you know,
Luke Jones 40:06
okay, you can work on infrastructure and stuff like that, but like that’s that’s a really challenging scenario for any team, any team, regardless. You talk about
Nestor Aparicio 40:14
what COVID did to the world. Baseball’s about to go through its own COVID.
Luke Jones 40:18
Oh, I mean, they’re going to they’re going to wear their
Nestor Aparicio 40:19
own masks.
Luke Jones 40:20
But baseball went through that, right? I mean, they had a minor league system completely, or a season completely canceled, right? So, oh
Nestor Aparicio 40:26
my watch!
Luke Jones 40:27
But but I would but I would just say I did find that those attendance numbers and the Luis Robert thing specifically. That hey, you know, you you you you throw Mike the hey, here’s five $5 million. That’s okay. Let’s go do it. We just saved a bunch at the trade deadline. If you believe this team can make a run, and then boom, the guy gets hurt three games in-you know-certainly not a good look for Michaelias, right? With his bosses, I would say. So, do I think that changes things? No. But again, if I’m laying out a scenario, and I don’t know-I don’t know what David Rubenstein and Michael Aragetti are thinking behind closed doors. I don’t. I don’t know what Cal Ripken truly thinks about. And we never will, by
Nestor Aparicio 41:07
the way.
Luke Jones 41:07
But I’m just saying, I think those things were at least some interesting things to note from this long weekend. Rather than what speaks for itself is being a team that’s under 500 now needs a a heck of a finish to even get to 500, and okay, mathematically, I looked at it. You know, as you and I are speaking Tuesday after after the the Labor Day win over Cleveland, I think Fangrafts has them at 5% for the playoffs. I think ESPN has them at like 4.5% I mean, is there a non-zero chance left? Yes, of course there is because they play these teams directly. But beyond that, I do find you know this weekend to be illuminating. That I mean, Gunner Henderson had some words after the game that inspired no one. Right? We haven’t brought that up. I mean, I don’t know if what they say even matters anymore. I’m way more interested in what they do than what they say. Yeah, I mean it’s just it’s not a good product. Period. This is not good enough, especially considering where it looked like it was going two or three years ago. And you know, Michaelias is going to spend a lot of time, whether we’re talking the day after the season ends or whenever he might talk over the course of the off season, whenever they do start playing baseball again in 2027, because it’ll happen at some point. You know, sports not going to shut down forever, but they’re going to talk a lot about their farm system being revamped and the fact that they have a bigger, a better farm system again, and you know, or they’re their fifth or fourth. Well, they gave a whole season away, but but I would just say, what exactly makes you feel like they’re going to do a better job with it this time around? Why why do they get another mulligan? It’s been eight years. The fact that the Orioles have barely hung around in this piss poor wild card race that is going to reward some team that’s barely going to be above 500, and the fact that they very much, barring a miracle finish here, are going to be on the outside looking in, even for that, man, that’s not what Mike Elias was selling people on 456, years ago. It’ not even close. It’s a failure. It’s a failure. Yeah, yeah. We can point to things that he’s done well, or things that were good, and there are. There’s always nuance. The Blaze Alexander trade was great. Does that mean that he gets a pass then for the team not being good enough overall? No. So we can point to that. They the Adley Rutschman trade. They got good value. I I’m the first one to say that, right? You know me. I I was talking about trading Adley Rutschman three months ago. Rogers was making
Nestor Aparicio 43:41
Starks, right? So you know, like I mean,
Luke Jones 43:43
Trevor Rogers, go go re-sign him, man. I mean, as much as Kyle Bradish has faded down the stretch, Trevor Rogers still pitching really well, right? But man, you can look at the good and the bad. There’s not enough good here to outweigh how badly this has gone over the last couple years. There’s not to mention
Nestor Aparicio 44:00
firing your manager and hiding for four days. The lack of community, just a lack of leadership in general from Rubenstein, Arigetti, Griggs, Masson, Bader, but I’m trying to focus on Albernaz, just all of it. The whole thing speaks to me. I don’t know. I can’t identify anybody who’s sitting in a seat anywhere, other than maybe Ben McDonald, that I can look at and say, and and even even he’s regressed, even he’s tired of it. He’s ready for this to be over with too. So is Palmer. I mean, Palmer.
Luke Jones 44:38
That’s just exhausting. Palmer might be calling
Nestor Aparicio 44:40
his last games this month, you know what I mean. Like if they’re going to take a strike next year, they’ve cut him back. He’s in his. I mean, like I feel like we we might be getting to the end with Jim just wanting to do it.
Luke Jones 44:51
I mean, he’s in his early 80s. Maybe he’ll go sitting
Nestor Aparicio 44:53
in Anaheim and hang out with them for a weekend next year or something, or meet him at Dodger Stadium or something. Like I guess. Yes, they won’t play there next year. They’ll play here, right? So, but whatever. I mean, like we don’t know they were gonna have a season next. Are you done? Because you and I fought here. I want to apologize publicly about the 66 thing. But like, but like,
Luke Jones 45:14
no, I just the 66
Nestor Aparicio 45:15
Orioles, man. Like, I, I am. I, I just, I, I I came in and I honest to God, Luke, I said to myself, is Angelo still running this shit show? I mean, really, is it like
Luke Jones 45:30
the future was way better than the 60th? And then I threw it out on social
Nestor Aparicio 45:34
media, and I thought maybe I was just a dumb old guy, and I missed some commercials that they ran in the middle of the night in Colorado, you know what I mean. Like maybe, maybe I didn’t watch as much baseball in Sacramento as maybe I thought, and I I saw a lot of Eddie Murray, dude. I knew it was Eddie Murray weekend. Eddie Murray, Eddie Murray, Eddie Murray. I didn’t see anything about Six Six Orioles. So yeah,
Luke Jones 45:54
I didn’t see anything until like like I said, middle like Tuesday or Wednesday of last week. And again, the the only thing that I was just trying to point out is I understand there’s a delicate balance when you’re talking about a team that so many of the players are no longer with us that you want to figure out the right way to do it. But if you’re going to do it and you should do it, it should be a way bigger deal than than it was, right? And it it just felt very dude. If everybody on the team
Nestor Aparicio 46:21
is dead, you bring out their kids. You know what I mean. You make it. You fly a flag. For those of us, it means something too. That’s all. That’s that’s it.
Luke Jones 46:31
And I will still say, and because you told a story about a memory, I’ll I’ll give you the memory that I’ve I’ve talked about it on the air before. But my first recollection of the Orioles doing any kind of a celebration was the 25th anniversary of the 66 team. It was Turn Back the Clock Day at Memorial Stadium. They wore the 1966 World Series uniforms. Mike Devroman, right, and Greg Olson. Yes, against the Minnesota Twins, and he wanted to
Nestor Aparicio 46:57
burn those jerseys. I
Luke Jones 46:58
think he actually threw everything away after the game, if I recall. But yeah, they had a four to three lead against the Twins, who ended up winning the World Series that year. And he threw three wild pitches. He gave up. I think he made an error. Also, he gave up a home run. So, but a four three lead turned into an eight to four loss. And
Nestor Aparicio 47:18
it’s too early in the morning for me to text Otter right now. Invite him on the show. But
Luke Jones 47:22
I, I remember that day, and again, I was I was not quite. I was seven years old, going on eight. Right, I was seven and a half years old at that point in time. It was like I think it was May or June of that season. It was earlier in that, but you know that that year meant so much for people because it was the last year at the old stadium, and for a kid like me who, you know, I didn’t have any recollection of the ’83 Orioles, let alone the ’66. But, but to to be able to see them in the throwback uniforms and how fun that was, I think they did like throwback prices, all that kind of stuff that day, and to see that. But then the ’60th, you know, Rick Vaughn and
Nestor Aparicio 48:00
and Charles Steinberg ran that promotion, just so you know. So when I get Vaughner on, you know, I’ll have him talk about that because that wasn’t that was an ugly day, a very memorable day at the end of Memorial Stadium. It was last year Jeff last game. I
Luke Jones 48:13
mean, like you know, but the Orioles came back in that game and they they had a lead, and Greg Olson just.
Nestor Aparicio 48:18
It’s funny you remember this all these years later. I was at the All Star Game last month in Philly. I was up on the club level in left field where the auxiliary press was, and they had a bobblehead room like they had in L.A. at Dodger Stadium, which was really cool. And I know you love bobbleheads, so you would have loved it. It was all the Philly fanatic bobbleheads and different, but they had baseball cards that were giant, you know, displays, and this is not in the bougie club level. This is in the outdoor area, out sort of grandstand area, and they had a 1971 Frank Lucchese card. He played on the Phillies, or maybe he’s a coachman. I don’t either way. It was a card, and Frank Lucchese. When I was your age at that point, seven years old, I was the Sunday afternoon crown gasoline when you were junior Oriole. You put your little ticket into the gasoline pump at at Gate e5, right next to where they sold the bobbleheads, next to the in Memorial Stadium, and I I was chosen as a kid on a Sunday afternoon to be the kid that swept the bases. Have I ever told you this story? I, I believe so. But go keep keep going. So remember it exactly. I got picked on a Sunday, 1975 76. Okay, so Lucasy may have been a coach or a man. Maybe he’s the manager of the 71 fight. Either way, so he’s the third base coach of the Texas Rangers. This is like Toby Hurrah, you know. Campy Campanaris may have been there by then, you know. It’s like Rangers. I’m trying to think like Jeff Burrows, Tom Grieve, Jim Sunberg. Anyway, I come out to sweep third base. I think Brooks had to been the third baseman, and maybe it was Frank Baker on a Sunday afternoon, or I don’t think the Senses was here yet. Maybe, but either way, I went out to third base, and they gave me a black, a orange broom with the black bristles, the same one that the witch rides on when they sweep somebody? You know the Oriole real or I had that broom for 20 years of my childhood. I got it from the Orioles. It was an orange and black broom for crying out loud that I hadn’t done that. It was awesome, but I went out to third base, Little Nestor, and I’m sweeping, and Frank Lucchese chased me out into center field to like make everybody laugh in the stadium. So you know these little memories you have when you’re a kid. You don’t forget. You don’t forget turn back the clock day when when the otter gets roughed up when you’re seven years old, right?
Luke Jones 50:49
Yeah, I mean, so so yeah. Thinking of the contrast of that to how it was just such a nothing thing that they threw together that shouldn’t have been that, right? Like I said, my point wasn’t that don’t do anything because all those guys are gone. My point is, I think you have to have put a little more thought into it, and it just felt a very. They did it because it’s something they felt like, oh, we have to check this off, right? And that’s what it felt like. It felt like something they just checked off when it should have been a bigger deal. Throwback uniforms, have a giveaway, have you know, have a a luncheon for the Orioles advocates in the same way they do Hall of Fame weekend every year. You know, like don’t cut Eddie
Nestor Aparicio 51:27
Wad off in the in the fourth inning when he’s tall. Yeah, I mean,
Luke Jones 51:30
I I didn’t know anything about that, but but yeah, I mean, and and I understand like Jim Palmer’s around a lot, but to your point, Jim’s also in his 80s. I I don’t Jim’s a gift. Whether he wants to do Orioles games much longer or not is only something he and his family can decide. But the point is, it’s probably not going to be much longer. So yeah, when you have these guys around, you know, Boog Powell. Like I thought, Boog looked, you know, he’s a little thinner, but like Boog looked like in really he was in really good shape. He did good. Yeah, that was great. He was great. So, like, you don’t, but you don’t know his look. Look, none of us know when our expiration date’s going to be on this earth, right? That’s just the truth. So, when you have an opportunity to celebrate something like that for an organization that hasn’t had a whole lot to celebrate for four decades now,
Nestor Aparicio 52:18
yeah, Boog almost made me cry, dude. When Boot said, Boot said, if you’d have told me 60 years ago that I’d still be here to celebrate, I would have said I’d done something. You know what I mean? I’m like, I mean, my good, I mean, my goodness makes me want to buy a barbecue
Luke Jones 52:32
sandwich. Meaning, I joked with someone in the press box. I said, Boot came up as an outfielder. You think he could help them out right now? I mean, considering the state of their outfield, I mean, like, yeah, but but no, like it. It’s something that should have been a bigger deal, and just the fact that no one knew about it, the fact that there was nothing about it, very much came across as this came across on someone’s desk of, oh, by the way, it’s the 60th anniversary of the 1966 World World Series champions. We should probably do a little something for them at least, and yeah. So I mean, it’s just that was just one part of what was just a complete failure of a weekend for this franchise, and you know probably at this not you know I mean they’ve they’ve got a minute chance left, and that’s all it is, and yeah I think everyone’s exhausted to going back to kind of what I said at the beginning, it just feels like, you know, let let’s get this over with, right? I mean, that’s what it feels like at this point in time. No one is having fun with this team at this point in time. If you are, I question what what are you comparing it to? If if it’s still a fun thing, because this has not been a fun season.
Nestor Aparicio 53:40
And on the next episode of Get Off My Lawn, we will discuss the history of the Baltimore Colts and the Indianapolis Colts. I got Ravens scratch offs. We’re gonna have at Costas in. Don’t go to Timonium looking for me Friday. I’m gonna be at the main bar down at Dundalk. We’re gonna honor Uncle Mike. It’s been a really tough time at Costas with losing family members the last two years. So I’m sending my heart out to them. I’m going to have a crab cake fried on Friday, just to anger my doctors at GBMC because they are sponsoring the show as well. So I need to let them know that I still need a hospital. Our friends at Farnham and Durham are certainly are there. If this heat gets to the next couple days, a man, they’re going to be mad at me. I turned my AC off over the weekend, I open the windows 62 in the morning. Fernander are there for you to keep you comfortable at 410 367777. They’re the comfort guys of keeping us comfortable around here. I’m wearing my Costas. I’m done yelling about Eddie Watt and the 66 Orioles and telling old guy stories, except for every rock and roll story I’ve ever told in my life. We’re telling for our 28th anniversary out at Baltimore, positive. I’m ready for some football. He’s Luke. I’m Nestor. Football ahead, and plenty of it. Baltimore at Indianapolis. Let’s get it on.
