Our favorite shows are the ones where we bring folks who donโt know each other together under the same Baltimore Positive umbrella. The Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Kooperโs Tavern in Fells Point convened longtime NFL player agent Chad Wiestling and Dave Sheinin of The Washington Post, who live 12 blocks apart near Patterson Park, to discuss the business of football, the Orioles and people.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Dave Sheinin, Chad Wiestling
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are wnst tassel, Baltimore, Baltimore, positive. Weโre positively here in Fells Point. It is a beautiful music, sports, football weekend. We are down here at Cooperโs. Weโre going to be here today. Weโre having oysters every single day. Weโre having crab cakes. Today weโre looking for Springsteen and mills Lofgren and Mike McCready out the window, and Tommy Shaw, thereโs rock stars everywhere, but I have rock stars on the set. Dave shining from the Washington Post is going to hang around fresh back from the Olympics and a lot of baseball. And Chad weaseling from I always want to call it black label, Black Rock productions, but itโs black label like, like Johnny Walker, right? Absolutely agent to the stars. He a Terp and one of the biggest Oriole. We got 25 I want to make sure itโs Tony taters. I make sure we got it, got it going on here. You got pen and fever.
Chad Wiestling 00:51
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Thatโs why I wore it. So NFL
Nestor Aparicio 00:55
season, he comes in, you and I are like, talking about your kids swimming or whatever. And I, when I see an agent, theyโre all like Adam Schefter. They all got their head down like this, and theyโre just on their phone. How many players you have in the league right now?
Chad Wiestling 01:07
Currently, well, active or hurt
Nestor Aparicio 01:12
contract I
Chad Wiestling 01:12
got right now about 899, guys playing right now. Is that a lot? Itโs about, usually, what I what I carry. I mean, if I mean, itโs just me. So, you know, Iโm a boutique agency, so, you know, thatโs a good, good number for me. You know, 1012, is usually what I like to carry now, right?
Dave Sheinin 01:32
Yeah, you think about show me the money now, yeah, now, once
Chad Wiestling 01:35
again, you give me one of those quarterbacks. Yeah, you give me a Tom, right? Yeah, Iโll take one.
Nestor Aparicio 01:44
Joe Linda got Joe Flacco change his life? Yeah, absolutely. Do you all know each other like that? Yeah? Agent wise, yeah,
Chad Wiestling 01:50
yeah. I mean, Iโve been doing, Iโve been in this business for a few, 26 years, and plus, because I worked the Eagles and Raiders before that. So you know, 20, you know, 28 years Iโve been in this business. So if youโve been doing it a while, you know everybody. You know. And you know how it you know. You know how it works. And well, you
Nestor Aparicio 02:07
werenโt getting a hold of Eric tacos to do any negotiating with him last night between eight and 11 because he had a beer in his hand doing a Pearl Jam thing. He was rocking out, you know. But all of those, thatโs, thatโs who you negotiate. Thatโs your job. That you call Eric da Costa, if you have a player, Josh Jacobs would have been in play for the Ravens. That thatโs thatโs what you do for a living.
Chad Wiestling 02:28
Oh, yeah. 100% 100% and how involved it depends on the team, how involved the GM is. I mean, usually youโre dealing with the contract negotiator,
Nestor Aparicio 02:35
sure, the Pat Moriarty, or whoever that would be, right? Yeah. So
Chad Wiestling 02:38
the big players, though, thatโs when the only time, like, a cost is involved. You know, maybe you meet up with them at the Combine or whatever. But other than that, youโre dealing with contract negotiator 100% itโs
Nestor Aparicio 02:49
amazing. 33 years in this sports ecosystem, I have that have this friendship with Dave, whoโs covering the Olympics, Washington Post, baseball. I can talk sports with him all night, or music, and then, like youโve been in Canton all these years, and our relationship with Mike Collins and a friendship and and and representing play like itโs itโs an ecosystem, the sports Baltimore man, but itโs a sports ecosystem. Yeah, you know? Yeah. It takes an agent, it takes a player. It takes an Eric to cost. It takes a media member. It takes fans. It takes everybody. But for you, with Josh Jacobs, specifically, he brought him to me when heโs in Alabama, running back at the Super Bowl sit down. He became a real and you were a part of this when you did the show about a year and a half ago, with me, the running back position being sort of squeezed and screwed, right? And you represent that position. That is, I think you would say, undervalued, right? Oh yeah, 100% and the Raiders are gonna come in and play the Ravens this weekend with ravens this weekend without your guy. Weโll see how they do, because you were always saying they were a different team without
Chad Wiestling 03:47
your guy. Oh, yeah. I mean, once again, itโs early. Itโs early. So, you know, you start reading on Mondays and whatever, how they did last, last week. Of course, I took a little peek, you know, see how the Raiders did, yeah, you know, now you see some rumblings like, oh, they should have kept number number eight or 2828 and eight change the number eight, but
Nestor Aparicio 04:04
thatโs why I donโt recognize, yeah, no, number eight. Is that Aaron Rodgers, itโs a quarterback number whatโs he
Chad Wiestling 04:09
doing? Right? Right, right? So, you know, itโs, itโs the value of, you know, I was, I did a report, called me a couple weeks ago and was asking me about this specific question. It was like, when you get a player that can do all three things, you know, that can run, can catch, can pass, protect, you know, thereโs value. There is a three, you know, the three down back, you know. So thereโs value there. So what the teams like to do is like, ah, we like running back by committee, or and all this. Got to keep the value down when it comes to negotiating. Sure, you know which I get it, I understand. But it just, when you have a star player, like, itโs hard, you know, you got to pay them, got to pay them. And then when you donโt have them, youโre going to find
Nestor Aparicio 04:47
out, well, the ravens are going to find x they pay Derek Henry, right? I mean, the expectations and Luke and I talk about this, like, and I was always a Derek Henry guy. I thought from the beginning, if they would have made a trade for him two and a half years ago, to trading deadline, and this that money. Me, but they didnโt want to invest in the position, right? It wasnโt their philosophy to give a running back a lot of money and then that change, and thatโs where Luke just like, well, this wasnโt the way they did things forever. They wouldnโt have wanted your guy two years ago because they wouldnโt have wanted to pay him, and now they have him, and theyโre trying to figure this out, and theyโre running with this cheap offensive line, and now theyโre going to have to have to pay and however it goes with the Raiders, and youโll hear that next week, and weโll but just over the balance of the season, you find out what they value by what they spend. And the admission that to spend the money on Derrick Henry was maybe we didnโt get it right. Maybe, right.
Chad Wiestling 05:35
Yeah, yeah. I mean, hey, listen, I donโt represent Derrick Henry, but Iโve always been an advocate. I mean, that guyโs a stud, stud, even when I was talking, you know, with Josh Jacobs with teams, you know, when free agency was like, you know, Iโm comparing him to Barkley and all these other guys. And I always was like, you know, gotta get, you know, because
Nestor Aparicio 05:53
Derek Henryโs, yeah, absolutely. Well, see, Harb always says, Weโre not in comparison. But the whole business is a
Chad Wiestling 05:59
comparison. Thatโs what itโs like. Comparisons like
Nestor Aparicio 06:02
real estate, yeah,
Chad Wiestling 06:03
how good is, you know, how old is your guy? How old is my guy?
Nestor Aparicio 06:08
How is his knees, right?
Chad Wiestling 06:09
How many games has he missed? How
Dave Sheinin 06:10
much mileage is on his body? Well, thereโs
Nestor Aparicio 06:12
the Derek Henry argument, right? Was that an argument in Green Bay went with Josh, just mileage, even on a 20. Was 26 years old. 20
Chad Wiestling 06:21
I mean, 2626 heโs a kid. Yeah, yeah. You got to remember. I donโt know if I told a story, 5000 yards so far. How many yards he got in the league? No, over, yeah, almost 6000 yards.
Nestor Aparicio 06:31
I only looked him up, but Iโm just thinking, you know, funny story, though. I
Chad Wiestling 06:34
donโt know if I told you before, when I signed him out Alabama, you know, of course, you got to go train them. And we were training in Florida, so I go every time, you know, you got to train them. You got to, you know, give them money to live for a couple months prior to the to the draft. And you got to get them, you know, get them housing apartment in the car. Why go? You know, I sign him. He would go to the car. Couldnโt get him a rental car. Heโs 19. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 06:56
wow, right? Jackson holidays,
Chad Wiestling 06:58
like, hold, Iโm like, How old are you? And heโs, like, 19. I turn 20 in February, so, yeah, wow. You know, I took a chance. Obviously, it worked out, but I had to put it in my name, get the extra insurance for a couple months until he was 20. And in the state of Florida, you know, you can get a car when youโre floor, when the
Nestor Aparicio 07:15
only thing worse than being a journalist and dealing with Chad Steele and Greg Bader would be being, yeah, like, I what you do knowing these kids for years and years, trying to get them out to the barn. And I even wrote my letter to Eric DeCosta. How many players showed up drunk at my shows? Didnโt show up, didnโt call like your deal, and youโre dealing with a different generation. Youโve been doing this 26 years. Youโre your third generation of players. Your first group of players didnโt have an iPhone, they did, let alone Twitter and Instagram. And n, i L, youโre in the n, i L, world now, right? Oh, itโs
Chad Wiestling 07:46
a different game, different game, and it makes me think, like, like, getting too old, yeah? I mean, you know, because
Nestor Aparicio 07:53
that was our last segment, yeah, Iโm not even
Dave Sheinin 07:55
getting too old. But just like, do I still like this, right? You know, like, is this? Is this
Chad Wiestling 08:00
what I signed up? Yeah, Iโm such an Oriole fan. Iโm such a baseball fan. Oh, yeah, I donโt work there, right? Exactly? Enjoy the game. Yeah,
Dave Sheinin 08:07
this is great. You donโt know how the sausage is made in that one.
Nestor Aparicio 08:10
I donโt know if what you know about Daveโs background, but David, Iโve noticed your 25 years he covered the Orioles in the late 90s at the Washington Post after Mark masky, so we became friends his one of the women in his life was a friend of a friend of my partner, and, like, we just, and he sang opera back in the day, kind of, he was just opera singing journalist. Heโs a heโs a musician. So, but he lives in butcherโs Hill. You live on the other side of Patterson Park, like you guys live, yeah. But the baseball thing, youโre a football agent to the stars. Youโre this fancy schmancy sports writer, Olympic guy, but we all gather and watching the Orioles every night. Youโre not covering them anymore. They treat you didnโt not so well. They treated me, not so well, like all of that. And you like, you give them your you offer me tickets. Youโre the guy that says, Hey, you want to go to the game. Iโm going to go to a game with you at one point. What do you love about it, from being in the industry of sports and all of that and knowing what these kids are going through, but you love baseball?
Chad Wiestling 09:13
Yeah, you know, Iโve always been an Oriole fan, obviously, growing up and, you know, the good years and then bad years and very bad years. Why were you an Oriole fan? Where
09:21
did you grow up?
Chad Wiestling 09:22
You grow up? Grew up in Pennsylvania, but up by Hagerstown and Western Yeah, you
Nestor Aparicio 09:26
have a pet. You have a Pittsburgh accent. I
Chad Wiestling 09:28
got that South Central PA, but right on the Maryland border by hagers Iโm 10 miles from Hagerstown. Yeah, so, you know, people always give me some you know, your Western Maryland.
Dave Sheinin 09:36
You used to see guys coming through there. Oh, Hagerstown single a, yeah, yes. I
Nestor Aparicio 09:40
was so Blue Jays guys, right
Chad Wiestling 09:44
way back. Yeah, that was blue jays, and it was nationals, yeah. So now theyโre, now theyโre an independent league with the stadium, so, so, yeah, just was always, you know, an Oriole fan growing up from, you know, when, you know, in the 70s, and, you know, with the World Series and all that stuff. And then, of course, when Cal got there, Cal, you know. Cal was my favorite player growing up, you know. So just, yeah, just love coming down,
Nestor Aparicio 10:04
you know, NFL agent, it
Chad Wiestling 10:06
was a big, you know, big trip, family trip to come down, yeah, Memorial Park, yeah, you know, where your little league team would come down to Memorial Park for one game or something, you know, as a as a special night, you know, like Little League night or something. So it was, you know, it was, the funny thing is, where I grew up, which was basically Western, Western Maryland. It was like, but I technically was in Pennsylvania, and people like, Well, are you Philly fan or Eagle fan, or you steal or fan or fire fan? Iโm like, No, Iโm a Baltimore Colt and Baltimore, because there was no cable back then. So yeah, the rabbit ears. We were watching the DC, Baltimore stations, yeah. So you know, that doesnโt matter, but thatโs why I kind of grew up always with the what
Nestor Aparicio 10:44
is different when you grow up on the bus line going to Memorial Stadium in my town, I remember talking to Ben McDonald years ago, like he go to Louisiana. He only been to one
Dave Sheinin 10:52
major league baseball game in his life before he pitched. Yeah, heโs dad took him to the Astro. He tells you stories on the air sometimes, you know, thatโs a big excursion, though, from Louisiana. I mean, you know, yeah, well,
Nestor Aparicio 11:01
yeah, and I but I think your love and passion for it. I mean, what do you go to 3040, games? I mean, you go to a lot of games. I
Chad Wiestling 11:07
got a lot. I got a lot, yeah, as much as I can. Itโs just, itโs great because, you know, well, the lights
Nestor Aparicio 11:13
are on there. The last three years has been a different experience for all of us, right? Yeah. I mean, youโve been coming on the show for 20 years. For 10 years, we couldnโt even, I mean, we couldnโt even we had to talk about Angeles and how screwed up it was, not really, whether they had a chance or not. Then we could sit here today, and Iโm sure weโll do that, but like they can win the World Series next month. I mean, forget how bad itโs been lately in the bullpen this and injuries that. I mean, baseball gives you the ability to still believe even when itโs not, and especially with all these wild card teams getting in there, right? Oh
Dave Sheinin 11:41
yeah, itโs a crap shoe, man. Crap shoe, man, yeah, yeah. Itโs
Chad Wiestling 11:43
like, thereโs to me, and itโs always, itโs always been, and itโs grown as I got as Iโve gotten older. Thereโs nothing better than October baseball. I agree, especially when youโre when your teamโs in it, yeah, in the hunt, yeah. Nothing better look Super Bowls Iโve been on. We all have, like, you know, itโs like, yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 12:03
Have you been to World Series games? Yeah,
Chad Wiestling 12:05
yeah, yeah. Iโve gone a what I went to like, Houston, when they played, when they played the Dodgers one, yeah, in Houston, I went to one Boston, out to LA when the Dodgers played Boston,
Nestor Aparicio 12:19
yeah, I added it up. Iโve been to 47 World Series games. Wow. Iโve covered 42 or 43 you know, like since 93 from 93 to oh 506, I went every year, all the time. How many World Series games you cover? Oh
Dave Sheinin 12:35
god. I mean, every single one of them, from 98 to 2011 and then again, from 2016 to 22 I live by all of them. Yeah, I donโt know how many that is. Itโs probably 100 more. I donโt know. I have no idea. Does
Nestor Aparicio 12:53
that even mean anything to you anymore? Would you buy a ticket for World Series I was done, I tell you what, I spent $600 to go see the orals next. I mean, Iโm not, I mean, I mean, Iโm gonna watch more TV if they, if they donโt credential me professionally, Iโm not going, No, I
Dave Sheinin 13:05
would pay, I would pay to go to a World Series game now, now I will say that like baseball drove me out because the product, I think, got so bad a few years ago, before they made these changes, without long the shift and increasing the size of The bags to increase stolen bases. I was really down on the product. I couldnโt watch it anymore. You know, it was no action, strikeouts, home runs, walks. Theyโve started to bring it back. I think analytics did that, you know, for to a large degree, ruined the game. To some extent. Theyโve started. Theo Epstein moved into that role with MLB and changed some rules, and they brought back some of the action to it their pitch clock. I can watch it again now, but there was a couple of years there where I couldnโt do it. Itโs
Nestor Aparicio 13:48
amazing. I feel like Iโve watched a lot of baseball in my life as a professional time. I thought a lot about that with my declaration of time in the car, time in planes, just time dedicated to being at a ballpark, and whether I like it anymore or not. And when I go to Orio Park, I get treated like garbage by everyone except the fans. So when Iโm there, I donโt feel welcome. I havenโt felt welcome in forever, and itโs what I told the Rubenstein people. And Iโm like, you know, when I go, itโs not like, my wifeโs like, this isnโt joyful for you. And Iโm like, Well, no, because Iโve done it a million times. I mean, I love Springsteen, but I donโt want to go tonight. I saw him five days ago. Like, you know what I mean? Iโve seen Springsteen 100 times, and I love Springsteen, but Iโm going to sticks tonight. And Iโve seen them 100 times, but I havenโt seen them lately. So itโs just sort of like I went to three baseball games in April. Iโm good, Iโm good, and football is even more because I dedicated so much of weekends life, draft combine, owners meeting, Super Bowl, like all of that. And to just be sort of like, thrown out. Itโs sort of like, Okay, Iโll go see sticks tonight. Iโll go do more things. But I still love sports. I love the minute it starts to the minute it ends when the gameโs on. My wife will tell you. Like, Iโm a serious working professional, right? Like I sit there and I see the game differently and feel it differently, but I donโt feel like I need to participate 80 hours a week anymore in a way that, like baseball, for you was like,
Dave Sheinin 15:09
oh my god, yeah, itโs an everyday game. You
Nestor Aparicio 15:13
probably thought youโd never watch another game again.
Dave Sheinin 15:15
I know, I know. I love the games. I mean, seriously,
Chad Wiestling 15:19
you know football, thereโs 18 games. I mean, weeks? Yeah, footballโs
Nestor Aparicio 15:22
getting over saturated when theyโre playing, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, peacock and like all of that. Like, footballโs getting to the point where I miss games now and I donโt feel guilty about a
Chad Wiestling 15:32
second job to be able to watch the game. Well, the buffalo Did
Nestor Aparicio 15:36
you have a player on Thursday in the Buffalo
Chad Wiestling 15:37
dolphins game? No, nothing last night? No, I didnโt know
Nestor Aparicio 15:41
it was happening like I was in the pit and at Pearl Jam, and a guy went by me with an aqua number one jersey. And I thought for a minute it was a Warren Moon. I looked at it because it was dark and but it was, it was a tongue of a low a jersey, and heโs wearing and Iโm like, Pearl Jam doesnโt like that. Doesnโt like the way we wear it. Somebody had a Mookie Blaylock jersey on. I got that. Eddie gave him a tambourine because he had a Mookie. Wow, so, but I didnโt realize the game had happened. I didnโt really look at my phone, because itโs, you know, any better, singing alive. Why am I? Why am I looking at my phone? So I got home, and then I realized, oh, there was a game I missed it. Tonka below got hit in the head, and Iโm like, that would have been on Amazon Prime. Iโd had to sit here and watch it on my computer. Itโs lousy. You donโt need it. Thursday night football, every agent, every player, every mother of every player, should be against Thursday night football. Oh, yeah, all
Dave Sheinin 16:41
right. You gotta go, no, no, well, but before that, look, itโs 2024, man, you got to get Amazon Prime on your Smart TV. Man, you donโt have to watch it on your smart you look you look old, like us, but, but that doesnโt mean you canโt, like find a teenager to set up your TV so you can watch Amazon Prime on your screen and not have to go to the laptop. Iโm
Nestor Aparicio 17:03
gonna let you, let it go, and Iโm gonna leave you with you just said, find a 17. You ready? All right? Art, modell in, and I loved art. Everybody knows I loved art. When you would go up to art, the vaudeville and him, the red skeleton in him, you go up to art, heโs older, you know, kind of falling apart as a little Hey art, how you doing today? Feel like an 18 year old. Where are you gonna find one at this hour? Is that good?
Dave Sheinin 17:30
Wow, wow. Yeah. Color. Dirty old man jokes. No,
Nestor Aparicio 17:35
I saw Shannon sharp sack this week. Chad weaseling is here. He is the local agent to the stars. Donโt let his Tony taters jersey. I thought it might have been a Palmera. Thatโs why I was flipping around looking at it. Iโm like, fresh, you know,
Chad Wiestling 17:48
you got to just get
Nestor Aparicio 17:49
Palmers. The only athlete that ever threatened me, yeah? He came at me with a bat. I could see that off the X circle. He has that. Yeah? Davey Johnson, well, he didnโt really want to use it. He was just trying to, yeah. Davey Johnson, why? Bravado, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thatโs like, we could write that song power, power Maven and sports writer to the stars back from stad Olympic, and you didnโt bring me a damn Snoop Dogg pin.
Dave Sheinin 18:16
I never got one. I hit him.
Nestor Aparicio 18:17
Heโs over there first I hit him. Iโm like, Chinaโs over there. Give me a Snoop Dogg pin. I thought you at least. I thought youโd be I wasnโt. You people. I
Dave Sheinin 18:23
was in the same building with him one time, and it was for that stupid break dancing with Ray Gun, the Australian break dancing review with that. I was at that and he was there. He left early. I mean, I wish I could have but I never got a chance to, like, shake his hand and try to get one of those
Chad Wiestling 18:39
pins. Was that one of the best events that youโve ever seen in Olympics. It was so bad.
Dave Sheinin 18:43
It was maybe the worst. And Iโve seen some bad. I mean, it was terrible. I mean, it was like, laughable. Like, what are we doing?
Chad Wiestling 18:50
I couldnโt even believe. What are we doing, whether that particular performance, the whole thing in general, just break dancing. Like, seriously,
Dave Sheinin 18:57
whatโs going on? They did
Nestor Aparicio 18:59
synchronize swimming. I
Dave Sheinin 19:00
mean, everything that is athletics, dancing, everything is athletic, does not need to be in the Olympic parkour. Thatโs Yes, right? Exactly. Iโm not, Iโm not disputing that they are athletes, American Ninja or athletic. And Olympic sport does not belong in the Olympics. Yeah, get him out of here. Get
Nestor Aparicio 19:16
off my lawn to shine. All right, shines. Get kids swimming. Heโs got rock and roll to make. And what are you writing about these days? I just like, Oh,
Dave Sheinin 19:25
God, itโs a long project Iโm involved in now. Itโs, Iโll get into it next time. All
Nestor Aparicio 19:31
right, donโt be another crap. Dave shine and Chad Wiese, whoโs gonna stick around. He is the agent of the stars. We talk some baseball, some football and player safety and some other crap. Weโre at Cooperโs. Weโre Cooperโs pub and Fells Point. So I brought you by the Maryland lottery. I have gold rush sevens doublers to give away. I have Raven scratch offs coming soon. I promise. Todayโs day nine of the oyster tour. My oyster will be here at Cooperโs, and Iโm having a day 10 oyster with Marvin Lewis tomorrow down here at some point as the Raiders come through, oyster. Dollars a day, every day, for the oyster recovery partnership. All that brought to you by our friends at Liberty. Pure solutions. One 800 clean water. They keep my water clean well water. They do it better than anyone. Itโs why my skinโs glowing and Iโm so healthy. Iโm Nestor. We are wnst Back for more from Coopers and Fells Point. Stay with us. You.
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team, fells point, oriole, baltimore, oyster, grew, fan, nightSPEAKERSNestor
Aparicio, Dave Sheinin, Chad Wiestling Nestor Aparicio
00:00Welcome
home. We are wnst tassel, Baltimore, Baltimore, positive. Weโre positively here
in Fells Point. It is a beautiful music, sports, football weekend. We are down
here at Cooperโs. Weโre going to be here today. Weโre having oysters every
single day. Weโre having crab cakes. Today weโre looking for Springsteen and
mills Lofgren and Mike McCready out the window, and Tommy Shaw, thereโs rock
stars everywhere, but I have rock stars on the set. Dave shining from the
Washington Post is going to hang around fresh back from the Olympics and a lot
of baseball. And Chad weaseling from I always want to call it black label,
Black Rock productions, but itโs black label like, like Johnny Walker, right?
Absolutely agent to the stars. He a Terp and one of the biggest Oriole. We got
25 I want to make sure itโs Tony taters. I make sure we got it, got it going on
here. You got pen and fever. Chad Wiestling
00:51Oh yeah,
oh yeah. Thatโs why I wore it. So NFL Nestor Aparicio
00:55season,
he comes in, you and I are like, talking about your kids swimming or whatever.
And I, when I see an agent, theyโre all like Adam Schefter. They all got their
head down like this, and theyโre just on their phone. How many players you have
in the league right now? Chad Wiestling
01:07Currently,
well, active or hurt Nestor Aparicio
01:12contract
I Chad Wiestling
01:12got
right now about 899, guys playing right now. Is that a lot? Itโs about,
usually, what I what I carry. I mean, if I mean, itโs just me. So, you know,
Iโm a boutique agency, so, you know, thatโs a good, good number for me. You
know, 1012, is usually what I like to carry now, right? Dave Sheinin
01:32Yeah,
you think about show me the money now, yeah, now, once Chad Wiestling
01:35again,
you give me one of those quarterbacks. Yeah, you give me a Tom, right? Yeah,
Iโll take one. Nestor Aparicio
01:44Joe
Linda got Joe Flacco change his life? Yeah, absolutely. Do you all know each
other like that? Yeah? Agent wise, yeah, Chad Wiestling
01:50yeah. I
mean, Iโve been doing, Iโve been in this business for a few, 26 years, and
plus, because I worked the Eagles and Raiders before that. So you know, 20, you
know, 28 years Iโve been in this business. So if youโve been doing it a while,
you know everybody. You know. And you know how it you know. You know how it
works. And well, you Nestor Aparicio
02:07werenโt
getting a hold of Eric tacos to do any negotiating with him last night between
eight and 11 because he had a beer in his hand doing a Pearl Jam thing. He was
rocking out, you know. But all of those, thatโs, thatโs who you negotiate.
Thatโs your job. That you call Eric da Costa, if you have a player, Josh Jacobs
would have been in play for the Ravens. That thatโs thatโs what you do for a
living. Chad Wiestling
02:28Oh,
yeah. 100% 100% and how involved it depends on the team, how involved the GM
is. I mean, usually youโre dealing with the contract negotiator, Nestor Aparicio
02:35sure,
the Pat Moriarty, or whoever that would be, right? Yeah. So Chad Wiestling
02:38the big
players, though, thatโs when the only time, like, a cost is involved. You know,
maybe you meet up with them at the Combine or whatever. But other than that,
youโre dealing with contract negotiator 100% itโs Nestor Aparicio
02:49amazing.
33 years in this sports ecosystem, I have that have this friendship with Dave,
whoโs covering the Olympics, Washington Post, baseball. I can talk sports with
him all night, or music, and then, like youโve been in Canton all these years,
and our relationship with Mike Collins and a friendship and and and
representing play like itโs itโs an ecosystem, the sports Baltimore man, but
itโs a sports ecosystem. Yeah, you know? Yeah. It takes an agent, it takes a
player. It takes an Eric to cost. It takes a media member. It takes fans. It
takes everybody. But for you, with Josh Jacobs, specifically, he brought him to
me when heโs in Alabama, running back at the Super Bowl sit down. He became a
real and you were a part of this when you did the show about a year and a half
ago, with me, the running back position being sort of squeezed and screwed,
right? And you represent that position. That is, I think you would say,
undervalued, right? Oh yeah, 100% and the Raiders are gonna come in and play
the Ravens this weekend with ravens this weekend without your guy. Weโll see
how they do, because you were always saying they were a different team without Chad Wiestling
03:47your
guy. Oh, yeah. I mean, once again, itโs early. Itโs early. So, you know, you
start reading on Mondays and whatever, how they did last, last week. Of course,
I took a little peek, you know, see how the Raiders did, yeah, you know, now
you see some rumblings like, oh, they should have kept number number eight or
2828 and eight change the number eight, but Nestor Aparicio
04:04thatโs
why I donโt recognize, yeah, no, number eight. Is that Aaron Rodgers, itโs a
quarterback number whatโs he Chad Wiestling
04:09doing?
Right? Right, right? So, you know, itโs, itโs the value of, you know, I was, I
did a report, called me a couple weeks ago and was asking me about this
specific question. It was like, when you get a player that can do all three
things, you know, that can run, can catch, can pass, protect, you know, thereโs
value. There is a three, you know, the three down back, you know. So thereโs
value there. So what the teams like to do is like, ah, we like running back by
committee, or and all this. Got to keep the value down when it comes to
negotiating. Sure, you know which I get it, I understand. But it just, when you
have a star player, like, itโs hard, you know, you got to pay them, got to pay
them. And then when you donโt have them, youโre going to find Nestor Aparicio
04:47out,
well, the ravens are going to find x they pay Derek Henry, right? I mean, the
expectations and Luke and I talk about this, like, and I was always a Derek
Henry guy. I thought from the beginning, if they would have made a trade for
him two and a half years ago, to trading deadline, and this that money. Me, but
they didnโt want to invest in the position, right? It wasnโt their philosophy
to give a running back a lot of money and then that change, and thatโs where
Luke just like, well, this wasnโt the way they did things forever. They
wouldnโt have wanted your guy two years ago because they wouldnโt have wanted
to pay him, and now they have him, and theyโre trying to figure this out, and
theyโre running with this cheap offensive line, and now theyโre going to have
to have to pay and however it goes with the Raiders, and youโll hear that next
week, and weโll but just over the balance of the season, you find out what they
value by what they spend. And the admission that to spend the money on Derrick
Henry was maybe we didnโt get it right. Maybe, right. Chad Wiestling
05:35Yeah,
yeah. I mean, hey, listen, I donโt represent Derrick Henry, but Iโve always
been an advocate. I mean, that guyโs a stud, stud, even when I was talking, you
know, with Josh Jacobs with teams, you know, when free agency was like, you
know, Iโm comparing him to Barkley and all these other guys. And I always was
like, you know, gotta get, you know, because Nestor Aparicio
05:53Derek
Henryโs, yeah, absolutely. Well, see, Harb always says, Weโre not in
comparison. But the whole business is a Chad Wiestling
05:59comparison.
Thatโs what itโs like. Comparisons like Nestor Aparicio
06:02real
estate, yeah, Chad Wiestling
06:03how good
is, you know, how old is your guy? How old is my guy? Nestor Aparicio
06:08How is
his knees, right? Chad Wiestling
06:09How many
games has he missed? How Dave Sheinin
06:10much
mileage is on his body? Well, thereโs Nestor Aparicio
06:12the
Derek Henry argument, right? Was that an argument in Green Bay went with Josh,
just mileage, even on a 20. Was 26 years old. 20 Chad Wiestling
06:21I mean,
2626 heโs a kid. Yeah, yeah. You got to remember. I donโt know if I told a
story, 5000 yards so far. How many yards he got in the league? No, over, yeah,
almost 6000 yards. Nestor Aparicio
06:31I only
looked him up, but Iโm just thinking, you know, funny story, though. I Chad Wiestling
06:34donโt
know if I told you before, when I signed him out Alabama, you know, of course,
you got to go train them. And we were training in Florida, so I go every time,
you know, you got to train them. You got to, you know, give them money to live
for a couple months prior to the to the draft. And you got to get them, you
know, get them housing apartment in the car. Why go? You know, I sign him. He
would go to the car. Couldnโt get him a rental car. Heโs 19. Oh, Nestor Aparicio
06:56wow,
right? Jackson holidays, Chad Wiestling
06:58like,
hold, Iโm like, How old are you? And heโs, like, 19. I turn 20 in February, so,
yeah, wow. You know, I took a chance. Obviously, it worked out, but I had to
put it in my name, get the extra insurance for a couple months until he was 20.
And in the state of Florida, you know, you can get a car when youโre floor,
when the Nestor Aparicio
07:15only
thing worse than being a journalist and dealing with Chad Steele and Greg Bader
would be being, yeah, like, I what you do knowing these kids for years and
years, trying to get them out to the barn. And I even wrote my letter to Eric
DeCosta. How many players showed up drunk at my shows? Didnโt show up, didnโt
call like your deal, and youโre dealing with a different generation. Youโve
been doing this 26 years. Youโre your third generation of players. Your first
group of players didnโt have an iPhone, they did, let alone Twitter and
Instagram. And n, i L, youโre in the n, i L, world now, right? Oh, itโs Chad Wiestling
07:46a
different game, different game, and it makes me think, like, like, getting too
old, yeah? I mean, you know, because Nestor Aparicio
07:53that was
our last segment, yeah, Iโm not even Dave Sheinin
07:55getting
too old. But just like, do I still like this, right? You know, like, is this?
Is this Chad Wiestling
08:00what I
signed up? Yeah, Iโm such an Oriole fan. Iโm such a baseball fan. Oh, yeah, I
donโt work there, right? Exactly? Enjoy the game. Yeah, Dave Sheinin
08:07this is
great. You donโt know how the sausage is made in that one. Nestor Aparicio
08:10I donโt
know if what you know about Daveโs background, but David, Iโve noticed your 25
years he covered the Orioles in the late 90s at the Washington Post after Mark
masky, so we became friends his one of the women in his life was a friend of a
friend of my partner, and, like, we just, and he sang opera back in the day,
kind of, he was just opera singing journalist. Heโs a heโs a musician. So, but
he lives in butcherโs Hill. You live on the other side of Patterson Park, like
you guys live, yeah. But the baseball thing, youโre a football agent to the
stars. Youโre this fancy schmancy sports writer, Olympic guy, but we all gather
and watching the Orioles every night. Youโre not covering them anymore. They
treat you didnโt not so well. They treated me, not so well, like all of that.
And you like, you give them your you offer me tickets. Youโre the guy that
says, Hey, you want to go to the game. Iโm going to go to a game with you at
one point. What do you love about it, from being in the industry of sports and
all of that and knowing what these kids are going through, but you love
baseball? Chad Wiestling
09:13Yeah,
you know, Iโve always been an Oriole fan, obviously, growing up and, you know,
the good years and then bad years and very bad years. Why were you an Oriole
fan? Where 09:21did you
grow up? Chad Wiestling
09:22You grow
up? Grew up in Pennsylvania, but up by Hagerstown and Western Yeah, you Nestor Aparicio
09:26have a
pet. You have a Pittsburgh accent. I Chad Wiestling
09:28got that
South Central PA, but right on the Maryland border by hagers Iโm 10 miles from
Hagerstown. Yeah, so, you know, people always give me some you know, your
Western Maryland. Dave Sheinin
09:36You used
to see guys coming through there. Oh, Hagerstown single a, yeah, yes. I Nestor Aparicio
09:40was so
Blue Jays guys, right Chad Wiestling
09:44way
back. Yeah, that was blue jays, and it was nationals, yeah. So now theyโre, now
theyโre an independent league with the stadium, so, so, yeah, just was always,
you know, an Oriole fan growing up from, you know, when, you know, in the 70s,
and, you know, with the World Series and all that stuff. And then, of course,
when Cal got there, Cal, you know. Cal was my favorite player growing up, you
know. So just, yeah, just love coming down, Nestor Aparicio
10:04you
know, NFL agent, it Chad Wiestling
10:06was a
big, you know, big trip, family trip to come down, yeah, Memorial Park, yeah,
you know, where your little league team would come down to Memorial Park for
one game or something, you know, as a as a special night, you know, like Little
League night or something. So it was, you know, it was, the funny thing is,
where I grew up, which was basically Western, Western Maryland. It was like,
but I technically was in Pennsylvania, and people like, Well, are you Philly
fan or Eagle fan, or you steal or fan or fire fan? Iโm like, No, Iโm a
Baltimore Colt and Baltimore, because there was no cable back then. So yeah,
the rabbit ears. We were watching the DC, Baltimore stations, yeah. So you
know, that doesnโt matter, but thatโs why I kind of grew up always with the
what Nestor Aparicio
10:44is
different when you grow up on the bus line going to Memorial Stadium in my
town, I remember talking to Ben McDonald years ago, like he go to Louisiana. He
only been to one Dave Sheinin
10:52major
league baseball game in his life before he pitched. Yeah, heโs dad took him to
the Astro. He tells you stories on the air sometimes, you know, thatโs a big
excursion, though, from Louisiana. I mean, you know, yeah, well, Nestor Aparicio
11:01yeah,
and I but I think your love and passion for it. I mean, what do you go to 3040,
games? I mean, you go to a lot of games. I Chad Wiestling
11:07got a
lot. I got a lot, yeah, as much as I can. Itโs just, itโs great because, you
know, well, the lights Nestor Aparicio
11:13are on
there. The last three years has been a different experience for all of us,
right? Yeah. I mean, youโve been coming on the show for 20 years. For 10 years,
we couldnโt even, I mean, we couldnโt even we had to talk about Angeles and how
screwed up it was, not really, whether they had a chance or not. Then we could
sit here today, and Iโm sure weโll do that, but like they can win the World
Series next month. I mean, forget how bad itโs been lately in the bullpen this
and injuries that. I mean, baseball gives you the ability to still believe even
when itโs not, and especially with all these wild card teams getting in there,
right? Oh Dave Sheinin
11:41yeah,
itโs a crap shoe, man. Crap shoe, man, yeah, yeah. Itโs Chad Wiestling
11:43like,
thereโs to me, and itโs always, itโs always been, and itโs grown as I got as
Iโve gotten older. Thereโs nothing better than October baseball. I agree,
especially when youโre when your teamโs in it, yeah, in the hunt, yeah. Nothing
better look Super Bowls Iโve been on. We all have, like, you know, itโs like,
yeah. Nestor Aparicio
12:03Have you
been to World Series games? Yeah, Chad Wiestling
12:05yeah,
yeah. Iโve gone a what I went to like, Houston, when they played, when they
played the Dodgers one, yeah, in Houston, I went to one Boston, out to LA when
the Dodgers played Boston, Nestor Aparicio
12:19yeah, I
added it up. Iโve been to 47 World Series games. Wow. Iโve covered 42 or 43 you
know, like since 93 from 93 to oh 506, I went every year, all the time. How
many World Series games you cover? Oh Dave Sheinin
12:35god. I
mean, every single one of them, from 98 to 2011 and then again, from 2016 to 22
I live by all of them. Yeah, I donโt know how many that is. Itโs probably 100
more. I donโt know. I have no idea. Does Nestor Aparicio
12:53that
even mean anything to you anymore? Would you buy a ticket for World Series I
was done, I tell you what, I spent $600 to go see the orals next. I mean, Iโm
not, I mean, I mean, Iโm gonna watch more TV if they, if they donโt credential
me professionally, Iโm not going, No, I Dave Sheinin
13:05would
pay, I would pay to go to a World Series game now, now I will say that like
baseball drove me out because the product, I think, got so bad a few years ago,
before they made these changes, without long the shift and increasing the size
of The bags to increase stolen bases. I was really down on the product. I
couldnโt watch it anymore. You know, it was no action, strikeouts, home runs,
walks. Theyโve started to bring it back. I think analytics did that, you know,
for to a large degree, ruined the game. To some extent. Theyโve started. Theo
Epstein moved into that role with MLB and changed some rules, and they brought
back some of the action to it their pitch clock. I can watch it again now, but
there was a couple of years there where I couldnโt do it. Itโs Nestor Aparicio
13:48amazing.
I feel like Iโve watched a lot of baseball in my life as a professional time. I
thought a lot about that with my declaration of time in the car, time in
planes, just time dedicated to being at a ballpark, and whether I like it
anymore or not. And when I go to Orio Park, I get treated like garbage by
everyone except the fans. So when Iโm there, I donโt feel welcome. I havenโt
felt welcome in forever, and itโs what I told the Rubenstein people. And Iโm
like, you know, when I go, itโs not like, my wifeโs like, this isnโt joyful for
you. And Iโm like, Well, no, because Iโve done it a million times. I mean, I
love Springsteen, but I donโt want to go tonight. I saw him five days ago.
Like, you know what I mean? Iโve seen Springsteen 100 times, and I love
Springsteen, but Iโm going to sticks tonight. And Iโve seen them 100 times, but
I havenโt seen them lately. So itโs just sort of like I went to three baseball
games in April. Iโm good, Iโm good, and football is even more because I
dedicated so much of weekends life, draft combine, owners meeting, Super Bowl,
like all of that. And to just be sort of like, thrown out. Itโs sort of like,
Okay, Iโll go see sticks tonight. Iโll go do more things. But I still love
sports. I love the minute it starts to the minute it ends when the gameโs on.
My wife will tell you. Like, Iโm a serious working professional, right? Like I
sit there and I see the game differently and feel it differently, but I donโt
feel like I need to participate 80 hours a week anymore in a way that, like
baseball, for you was like, Dave Sheinin
15:09oh my
god, yeah, itโs an everyday game. You Nestor Aparicio
15:13probably
thought youโd never watch another game again. Dave Sheinin
15:15I know,
I know. I love the games. I mean, seriously, Chad Wiestling
15:19you know
football, thereโs 18 games. I mean, weeks? Yeah, footballโs Nestor Aparicio
15:22getting
over saturated when theyโre playing, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
peacock and like all of that. Like, footballโs getting to the point where I
miss games now and I donโt feel guilty about a Chad Wiestling
15:32second
job to be able to watch the game. Well, the buffalo Did Nestor Aparicio
15:36you have
a player on Thursday in the Buffalo Chad Wiestling
15:37dolphins
game? No, nothing last night? No, I didnโt know Nestor Aparicio
15:41it was
happening like I was in the pit and at Pearl Jam, and a guy went by me with an
aqua number one jersey. And I thought for a minute it was a Warren Moon. I
looked at it because it was dark and but it was, it was a tongue of a low a
jersey, and heโs wearing and Iโm like, Pearl Jam doesnโt like that. Doesnโt
like the way we wear it. Somebody had a Mookie Blaylock jersey on. I got that.
Eddie gave him a tambourine because he had a Mookie. Wow, so, but I didnโt
realize the game had happened. I didnโt really look at my phone, because itโs,
you know, any better, singing alive. Why am I? Why am I looking at my phone? So
I got home, and then I realized, oh, there was a game I missed it. Tonka below
got hit in the head, and Iโm like, that would have been on Amazon Prime. Iโd
had to sit here and watch it on my computer. Itโs lousy. You donโt need it.
Thursday night football, every agent, every player, every mother of every
player, should be against Thursday night football. Oh, yeah, all Dave Sheinin
16:41right.
You gotta go, no, no, well, but before that, look, itโs 2024, man, you got to
get Amazon Prime on your Smart TV. Man, you donโt have to watch it on your
smart you look you look old, like us, but, but that doesnโt mean you canโt,
like find a teenager to set up your TV so you can watch Amazon Prime on your
screen and not have to go to the laptop. Iโm Nestor Aparicio
17:03gonna
let you, let it go, and Iโm gonna leave you with you just said, find a 17. You
ready? All right? Art, modell in, and I loved art. Everybody knows I loved art.
When you would go up to art, the vaudeville and him, the red skeleton in him,
you go up to art, heโs older, you know, kind of falling apart as a little Hey
art, how you doing today? Feel like an 18 year old. Where are you gonna find
one at this hour? Is that good? Dave Sheinin
17:30Wow,
wow. Yeah. Color. Dirty old man jokes. No, Nestor Aparicio
17:35I saw
Shannon sharp sack this week. Chad weaseling is here. He is the local agent to
the stars. Donโt let his Tony taters jersey. I thought it might have been a
Palmera. Thatโs why I was flipping around looking at it. Iโm like, fresh, you
know, Chad Wiestling
17:48you got
to just get Nestor Aparicio
17:49Palmers.
The only athlete that ever threatened me, yeah? He came at me with a bat. I
could see that off the X circle. He has that. Yeah? Davey Johnson, well, he
didnโt really want to use it. He was just trying to, yeah. Davey Johnson, why?
Bravado, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thatโs like, we could write that song power,
power Maven and sports writer to the stars back from stad Olympic, and you
didnโt bring me a damn Snoop Dogg pin. Dave Sheinin
18:16I never
got one. I hit him. Nestor Aparicio
18:17Heโs
over there first I hit him. Iโm like, Chinaโs over there. Give me a Snoop Dogg
pin. I thought you at least. I thought youโd be I wasnโt. You people. I Dave Sheinin
18:23was in
the same building with him one time, and it was for that stupid break dancing
with Ray Gun, the Australian break dancing review with that. I was at that and
he was there. He left early. I mean, I wish I could have but I never got a
chance to, like, shake his hand and try to get one of those Chad Wiestling
18:39pins.
Was that one of the best events that youโve ever seen in Olympics. It was so
bad. Dave Sheinin
18:43It was
maybe the worst. And Iโve seen some bad. I mean, it was terrible. I mean, it
was like, laughable. Like, what are we doing? Chad Wiestling
18:50I
couldnโt even believe. What are we doing, whether that particular performance,
the whole thing in general, just break dancing. Like, seriously, Dave Sheinin
18:57whatโs
going on? They did Nestor Aparicio
18:59synchronize
swimming. I Dave Sheinin
19:00mean,
everything that is athletics, dancing, everything is athletic, does not need to
be in the Olympic parkour. Thatโs Yes, right? Exactly. Iโm not, Iโm not
disputing that they are athletes, American Ninja or athletic. And Olympic sport
does not belong in the Olympics. Yeah, get him out of here. Get Nestor Aparicio
19:16off my
lawn to shine. All right, shines. Get kids swimming. Heโs got rock and roll to
make. And what are you writing about these days? I just like, Oh, Dave Sheinin
19:25God,
itโs a long project Iโm involved in now. Itโs, Iโll get into it next time. All Nestor Aparicio
19:31right,
donโt be another crap. Dave shine and Chad Wiese, whoโs gonna stick around. He
is the agent of the stars. We talk some baseball, some football and player
safety and some other crap. Weโre at Cooperโs. Weโre Cooperโs pub and Fells
Point. So I brought you by the Maryland lottery. I have gold rush sevens
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