It’s always a pleasure to reconvene to talk sports with our old ballpark reporter and Skipjacks’ hockey goon squad pal Howard Scher of Duct Doctors on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Even though Stanley Cup season is here, this one from Greenmount Station in Hampstead is a deep dive on the Orioles’ last-place reality – on and off the field – and the continued support of Baltimore sports fans over five decades of awfulness.
Nestor Aparicio and Howard Scher discuss the Baltimore Orioles’ current struggles, noting the team’s 12 games under .500 and last place standing. They reflect on the perfect storm of bad pitching, hitting, and defense that led to the manager’s firing. Howard suggests a retooling strategy similar to the Capitals’ approach. They also discuss the potential of young players like Jackson Holliday and Adley Rutschman, comparing them to past prospects. The conversation shifts to the NFL, with Howard expressing skepticism about Justin Tucker’s future due to a scandal. Howard also promotes his air duct cleaning business, Duct Doctors.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Orioles reality, Baltimore sports, Howard Scher, Duct Doctors, pitching issues, defense problems, manager firing, trade deadline, young stars, prospect bloom, ownership decisions, Justin Tucker, NFL scandal, air duct cleaning.
SPEAKERS
Howard Scher, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 task Baltimore. We are a Baltimore positive. We are positively here at Green mount station sign above me says so in the back televisions everywhere I can touch the OTB here on my right side, touch the North Carroll Athletic Hall of Fame. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I have these scratch offs here the Back to the Future scratch offs. This guy saw Back to the Future one, Back to the Future two. Probably drove to DeLorean. He is one of my recurring figures in my life, even without headphone headset, amp sound. Howard share is here. He is currently a duck doctor, but was once my compadre in the middle concourse of the Baltimore Civic Center at the Baltimore municipal ruins, as Phil Jackman would call it back in the day, as a Baltimore skip Jax fan. And when times are dark, when the team’s in last place, when I need someone to talk to. I call Howard.
Howard Scher 01:03
How are you, man, thank you. Good. How are you? Thanks for having me. You
Nestor Aparicio 01:07
know, I put this together today, and, you know, I got my my scratch off, gonna give these out in the bar. And we were in, like the little club room over here, next to the OTB and the North Carroll Hall of Fame and beautiful Hampstead. And I looked at the calendar when the Orioles schedule came out, and I’m like, they got an afternoon game here in April. I’m gonna go to Costas. Got an afternoon game here June. Oh, look, they’re playing a three o’clock game on a Thursday in spring in Hampstead, in a great sports bar, right where you OTB the whole deal. And I’m like, they’re playing the mariners. You know, it’ll be five games over 500 by then. Pitching got to figure it all out. But there’ll be three games out of first place. It’ll just be a meaningful game, not they’ve won eight out of 10 and five in a row, but they’re mired a dozen games under 500 last place. So that’s not really what I had in mind here, I don’t know. Man, I’m Baltimore positive. And you and I have known each other 40 years. You fly in a different circle of I hung out with you on opening day with your your hooligans, who bought me some really nice, expensive drinks in the Canadian province. Yes, I was with you one opening day and his spirits were so bright. And it was all like, if I would have told you, and I probably said to you, dude, I’m doing the show up at Hampstead in June. Once you come do the show to be right in the middle Stanley Cup, it’ll be great. We’ll hang out. We’ll get a beer, we’ll get crab delicious crab cake. It’s the crab cake tour. If I would have told you that they were last, like what I could not have conf, I would have bet grows would have lost whatever he’s
Howard Scher 02:47
got in this position. I mean, it was literally the perfect storm of everything going wrong to get them where they are today, bad pitching, bad hitting, bad defense, everything. I mean, they looked like a last place team for two months. They got the manager fired, got the manager fired. And, I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 03:12
they’re playing better baseball as we sit here, right? I mean, right. Like, who knows? We’re all laughing about this in August. I I’m doing this 27th anniversary. I’m going to my 27 favorite places to eat. Oh, in August, my favorite things to eat? Yeah, not places, but literally, dishes, literally. Oh, okay, the things that I don’t put on social media every day. Every time I go get an egg custard, Snowball, I don’t share it, you know what I mean, right? So I’m gonna, I’ve put together the lists, because you’re always trying to get me, like, best hockey games you ever saw, best Oreo gay, you know, like it’s best list. Best Food is what I’m doing, yeah. And if in August, I’m out on this tour, and I’m at Coco’s, eating the coconut shrimp that I think I’ve shared with you, or am at cost this, eating the Oysters Rockefeller, that’s delicious, and they’re like in something that feels like a pennant race. I will stand stunned that you could go 18 games under 500 and still somehow have us talk about them in a pennant race while the ravens are playing preseason football. I I would find that very hard to believe, given the first two months in the body of
Howard Scher 04:26
work, I think you need to approach the rest of the season similar to what the caps did two years ago. They made some trades at the trade deadline, sold off some pieces, brought in a couple pieces of new blood, kind of retooled on the fly, and the caps want to make of the playoffs. That year squeaked in at the very end. Not that I think the Orioles are going to make the playoffs this year. That would be a stretch, but it could happen. And but I think the I Love,
Nestor Aparicio 04:51
we’re three minutes in already, the optimist, it could happen. It’s all I want to hear. It could happen.
Howard Scher 04:56
Could happen. Anything could happen. Anything could happen. But. It’s not likely, but I still think they’re a well built team. I think in a lot of ways, they have a lot of good young stars, and I think a couple of key pieces will make a big difference for there’s
Nestor Aparicio 05:12
nothing worse than when prospects don’t bloom in any sport, whether like you and our old guys, right. Look, we were skip Jax fans, right, yes, whether it was a Jeff Green law or Reggie Savage, right, right, or a Steve Sefton or, god bless the late great Sean Simpson, right, yes, like, whatever that is that allows Lamar Jackson to be looked over and passed over, and Ray Lewis to be looked over and passed over, or Joe, even Joe Flacco at that level, to win Super Bowls, whatever that is that gets you there, and the promise of Matt leaders, right And the disappointment of rocky Coppinger or Jeffrey Hammonds or, I don’t know, pick, any baseball draft pick here for 30 years, they never worked out. So to think that every Colton cows or every Jackson holiday, every Jordan westburg, every Heston cursed at every Kirby mayo, every Norby, every Kyle Stowers that they’re all going to at least middle out and be a BJ sur Hoff or a nick mark a guess, be a really good occasional all star, 12 year, 15 year baseball player. Hall of pretty decent, you know, Hall of Major League Baseball. 270, hitter, hit 1520, bombs. Do it for a decade? Adam Jones, you know, on the better end of that, right there’s a lot of money to be made. There’s a lot of validity to say that Matt leaders was this, or think Marquez was that, but neither one went to the Hall of Fame, and they were first round draft picks, and we expected, we needed that out of them, like we need that out of gunner Henderson, right now we need that at Adley rutgerman. And as that Matt Weiner’s thing becomes starts as he’s going to be Johnny Bench. He’s going to be Yogi Berra. He’s going to be Maurer with power to he’s going to be Terry Kennedy. You’re Dave Duncan, or whatever, Rick Dempsey. And Rick Dempsey, you know, played 23 years in the big league, four years, dude, in between all of that, there’s the expectation at this point that begats, all seven of those guys aren’t going to the Hall of Fame, right? They’re just not,
Howard Scher 07:31
yeah. You know, sometimes I wonder, does the AAA manager pick up the phone ever and call the general manager? The general manager calls the AAA manager and says, hey, you’ve got that guy down there, Samuel basayo, who’s hitting unbelievably in Norfolk, like does he call him and the manager gets on and says he’s going to crush pitching down here, but he’s never going to be able to hit it in the big leagues. Do they have that conversation? I’ve
Nestor Aparicio 07:56
had that conversation one time with it. And if I give it away, it’s probably statute limitations. Is okay, who was the Dodger? Use the Al Diaz. Yes, the Cuban. Use the LDS. I had a and all you young old timers out there, you know who you are. You can do the math on who told me this, because you would know, because it’s modern, and my relationships with hippies from Sparrows Point go back 40 years, but I was told by someone who knew who was not on the major league team, who said, Now, just said, Now, right? Like, saw him at double A and just, yeah, saw enough of it, and just said, nah. Like, told me that very early on, you know, within the first year after the deal, because it’s Machado deal. Now also maybe that same person said to me that Dean Kramer, he could be a number three starter. Yeah, he might make it, because he was in the deal too, right? So, but he
Howard Scher 09:05
has didn’t come in Machado deal. Did I say that? Yeah, it wasn’t. He was. He was in the deal before that. I don’t know. I feel like he was not part of it. Okay, keep going. I don’t know. It’s, it’s relevant to Google that. Yeah, Google it, but use
Nestor Aparicio 09:19
Neil Diaz was the right guy. Is the player I’m talking about, right? Somebody looked at him at buoy and and said to me, no, I don’t care what he does, just it’s not, it’s not going to
Howard Scher 09:30
get it at those lower levels. And Heston started to turn around, turn it around, let’s say Hester care staff. But is there somebody at triple A who says he’s going to hit 320 let’s say down here, but he’s not gonna be able to hit 200 in the big leagues, and by the time they’ve got a triple A? Or do they just not advance them all the way to triple A, because they know they’re not going to make it? Or do they advance them and they try to hone their skills? You know what? I mean, I feel like there’s
Nestor Aparicio 09:52
always, right, see, I’m not seven years ago. Okay, well, that’s what I don’t I mean, right? July 18. Diaz was traded to the Orioles along with bravik valor, Dean Kramer, Rylan Bannon and Zach pop. What a great name that is. Zach pop. He had a good year in exchange for Manny Machado. So what really came out of that is whatever Dean Kramer is, because use now Diaz was not like but he was, he was just gonna be a star piece. Yeah, he was the piece. And somebody looked at that and said that that may play for 33 home runs in Norfolk, but that’s right, that’s not going to play in the big
Howard Scher 10:26
leagues. So I you know, yes, but you want to hit on as many as you can. So if you hit on 80% and 20% fail
Nestor Aparicio 10:33
a hell of a rate, correct? 80s, 80s. And
Howard Scher 10:36
I gotta tell you, the last the true prospects the Oriole brought up over the last couple years, most of them have done what you expected them to do, until
Nestor Aparicio 10:43
they don’t with Richmond, well, until they get hurt like Rodriguez, or they get hurt like Bradish, or which is a pitching thing, and that’s a whole different thing. But you know, westbergs coming back, I to me, and I’ve watched them all, and this is the old man in me. Westburg, for me, might be the best of all of them. Well, a lot of people are saying that, right, like for me, he might be the BJ sur Hoff that I’m never going to have to pay him 50 million a year. He’s going to be a guy that I’m going to pay him 20 million a year in the next five years. He’s going to hit me 280 18 bombs, 22 he’s going to play 140 games. I don’t know about the pliability or, you know, he’s had weird injuries at this point. I do know that when I talked to Luke about ruchman, dude, we’re getting concerned. This is the meat of the this is the meat of his 26 year to age. 2627 28 like, I don’t know, man,
Howard Scher 11:42
I think there it’s fair to be concerned. I think he’s still an important part of the team. He, you know, the franchise sort of turned when he came. You said, Oh, before you said, Richmond, I get it, but I was just, you did pick it a triple A guy, but Richmond started hit. If you look at his peripheral stats, they’ve been like his expected batting average, or whatever they call. That stat has been higher than his numbers have proven his actual batting average. So I think there’s some hope maybe he’s not going to be what you think he is. So maybe you don’t extend him. Maybe he’s not the guy you extend. Maybe you try to extend gunner and Westberg, or maybe you
Nestor Aparicio 12:19
anybody that’s Boris has is like, right? In my mind, it’ll be shocking if I get a wn text Baltimore positive says, Orioles extend Boris client X, I shocked me. I know for any, I agree for any of those guys and Richmond’s in a spot. Now, that’s weird. Henderson’s in a little bit of a weird spot. I mean, it’s like the stock market. What’s what they do you buy? What day do you sell? I don’t know. You know, when do you quit on Kobe mayo? When do you give Jackson holiday the 500 million? Because I’ll tell you this right now. And you know what I’m talking about. By the way, Howard shares here, my pal, my sports. By your first were you the first Camden Yards reporter? Second was Tom cap and you and Alan, but you were,
Howard Scher 13:02
I was before Alan, I believe, but after Tom and after Tom, I think, yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 13:06
So you like, 9493 Did you know Cheeto Martinez as an example? Yes,
Howard Scher 13:11
you did. So that was, yeah, it was around that time. So
Nestor Aparicio 13:15
you’ve been with me 33 years on the radio. That’s all correct, dude. I mean, correct. We’re still here. We got delicious crab cakes. Station. When Luke and I talk about these pieces individually and these players, two years ago today, everyone would have wanted to give Richmond, though whatever it is, 300 million for whatever it is, right? A year ago today, everyone would have wanted to give Henderson a year and a half ago, everyone would have said, braddish, right? 20 million a year. Five years. Let’s go. Let’s do that this time last year, Corbin burns loves it here in Baltimore, were in first place. Corbin, will you take 200 million? Yes, let’s do it. So dude, if I ever joked around with Rubenstein, because he’ll never sit next to me the Whistler and just I’ve thrown the towel in on a lot of things with them, and we’ll get to that after we have these crab cakes. Okay, but if I ever had any sense of humor about all of it, and because Bucha used to say, every day I get email they want to fire the coach. You want to fire me? Fire like we’ve all spent Mr. Rubenstein’s money, right? Yes, right. And the guy who really spent it didn’t do a great job of spending it
Howard Scher 14:34
right. The off season was not great. Morton, look down the
Nestor Aparicio 14:37
list, so, but spending that big banana and Elias is hesitancy to go 200 million deep on anybody right now is prescient for now, until you lose them and you get used now Diaz at the end, because you give away these guys for a bag of baseball, or you do give Corbin
Howard Scher 14:56
burns 200 million, and then you find out he’s 17. Tommy John three months into the season, which we don’t know yet, but he shut down with elbow issues. So well, the Orioles
Nestor Aparicio 15:05
didn’t sign the guy from the Blue Jays, and they signed Kent Richards, the guy that couldn’t pitch, and now they got from the
Howard Scher 15:11
Blue Jays like, right? I know it’s, it’s hit or miss, but you’re playing back around. We all play Monday morning quarterback, and this is, this is the business. But the question is, did Elias sit in that front office and tell John Angelos before David Rubenstein that there’s no way I’m paying Adley, extending Adley, because he’s not going to be what we think
Nestor Aparicio 15:30
he’s going to be. Well, they have the money now, this time, two years ago, different story. But
Howard Scher 15:35
I’m saying, Did, did Elias know that Adley is not the guy they’re going to want to extend? You know, we don’t know that. We’re not privy to those conversations.
Nestor Aparicio 15:44
They didn’t. I bet it changes, like our opinions could, because the stock market chain, it could, right? I mean, I bet there are state opinions inside that organization, on Kobe mayo, yes, and on Heston curse that there are scouts that said he can scout to say he can’t, but if you drafted him first, he must right in this way, right now, in last place. Rushman, let’s go, you know, or besides those coming, and if Elias gets fired, and I’m not going to break on this, we got delicious food here. We’re Greenmount station giving out the Back to the Future scratch. Also the Maryland lottery with Howard. You know, this is a very, very tender time where I had Maury brown on this week covers the business of baseball for Forbes. He’s out in the Pacific Northwest Seattle. He’s like, Hey, man, mariners could use Ryan o’hern, you know, but mariners might give you a pitcher, give you something out of their system for Ryan O’Hearn. And hey, Sugano, looks like he could be a piece. So we’re really at that weird spot. While I was driving up here today, I was listening to Luke and I talking about Mancini and Lopez being dealt a couple of summers ago, right? Not that far off. We’re at that point now where this productivity is certain players, and nobody’s off limits to me, other than probably holiday and Henderson, right now, maybe Richmond, right?
Howard Scher 17:04
I agree with you. I don’t think Richmond’s untouchable just because they have another catcher at AAA who’s really good and, or hopefully he’s going to be really good. And I think if it depends what you get for him, if you’re going to get a hall, I mean, if you’re going to get, like, a Juan Soto return for him, then you’re going to trade him. I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 17:22
I don’t know, the Red Sox get crochet, singing maneuver, scuba was very available that if you would have gotten creative last year, if you really wanted, you could have had him. Yeah, it may, it may have taken a cowser and a, you know, or even holiday, you know, I don’t know. But, like, scuba for holiday, I don’t know, give me, give me a guy who’s going to take the ball every fifth day, because without Jim Palmer, you’re not winning without pitching. I They’re not winning
Howard Scher 17:47
the batch you want. I also get where Elias is coming from. And he didn’t say these words, but his fear was he throws 300 million at Google or at crochet, and then they blow their elbow out. I mean, crochet had Tommy John already. So, I mean, yes, I know you have to take it. I
Nestor Aparicio 18:03
worry every day about Lamar Jackson, of course, is Pinky Winky toe, but at some point you got to get him. 50 million minutes say you got to have him. You got to have a quarterback,
Howard Scher 18:11
agreed. But you know, if you ask me, the core players now, and I know everybody’s saying, oh, Hern got the most value and all this stuff, I still think Cedric’s the first one to go. I think he’s the most expendable of that group right now, because you have cows or they can play center. Dylan Carlson has
Nestor Aparicio 18:26
done a nice job win with him, then it’s time to get rid of right there’s teams that need center field. I mean, like effluent. I mean, this team could really go into the crap or worse in August and September, if the my the mind, eye and who knows? Rubenstein didn’t hire Mike Elias. Rubenstein didn’t know anything about baseball, and he’s going to hire the next baseball guy, or he, and solely he, with Cal Ripken or whatever. Are going to decide whether Mike Elias is the guy or not. Mike Elias is going to pick the next set of vegetables. Yeah, July 13, he’s going to draft, and he’s going to be the trade deadline guy, maneuvering whoever they use the LD as his are, yeah, in this hall and like. So then after that, you’re going to throw them out with the bathwater October 1 and go get Dave Dombrowski or the next Pat Gillick or the next genius. Or you’re going to hire Cal to run the team, ability to manage it. You know? I mean, I who knows what they’re gonna do, and I this guy’s already made a bobble head of himself. I Dude, there’s no there’s no rails up on the gutters of good ideas and bad ideas for this organization. He gave a bobble head out of himself. Show me an owner in the history of sports that’s done that in the first year. Yeah,
Howard Scher 19:45
I don’t know. I would love to hear the I’d love to hear the back conversation to that. Did he go to them and say, I want to Bob? I don’t know. I don’t care. Did somebody say, you walk around, you shake hands, you’re part of the crowd. Maybe we should make a bobble head for fun. I don’t know. It was weird. I’m not going to. It wasn’t.
Nestor Aparicio 20:00
But all this is weird. The general manager fired the manager on Preakness Saturday morning and hid for three and a half days and was found in the dugout in Milwaukee on Tuesday night that that’s not come on, dude, you own duck doctors. I mean, if I bring Chris over here from agreement, he fires employed by a fax on Tuesday the May, the main person everybody sees at the front door, yeah, and decides to show up Tuesday in a different time zone to talk about it. I mean, come on, man. I mean, this is basics of emotional intelligence. Did not have a good look. None of it has a good look. None of it. How Jim Palmer doesn’t just treat it doesn’t have a good look, cutting his games. What about this has gotten better in the last year? That’s a question I have for ownership, for leadership, for management, they fired the manager, they blamed it on him, but they had to make a change on the field. I’m just talking about the whole banana, a bird land of what’s promised, what’s delivered. The television brought just all of it. There’s a new guy responsible for it, and it doesn’t feel dissimilar to the dysfunction of firing a manager on a Saturday morning and hiding until Tuesday night. Dan Duquette wouldn’t have done that. Andy McPhail wouldn’t have done that. I agree. Nobody, no general manager I’ve ever met. I had Barry Trotz on Barry Trotz wouldn’t have done
Howard Scher 21:22
that. Okay, how do we know that Rubenstein didn’t go to Elias and said, in the finance world, we make these announcements and then we wait a couple days for things to settle down. That’s not the baseball world. I know I’m not disagreeing with you, but I’m just saying that we don’t
Nestor Aparicio 21:36
know funeral homes and we’re not doing that. There’s a lot of stories, a
Howard Scher 21:39
lot of things that we don’t know that have gone into all this. And that’s where the questions, well, this is
Nestor Aparicio 21:44
where, when they throw the media out, we don’t find out, right? No questions. We’ll do Justin Tucker in our next segment, right?
Howard Scher 21:49
I mean, that’s a prime example.
Nestor Aparicio 21:52
I don’t know. Man, you start skated on the outside of the media because you’re like a little bit of a media whore to begin with. You like media. You consume all this. You watch the McAfee show. You’re huge sports fan. You were in it with me for a minute. I’m your blood brother. I’ve been in it forever. You’ve had friends marry in and out of it, and people you know it’s not good when there’s no oversight, whether it’s the president united states and checks and balances, or whether it’s your company and you’re managing duck doctors, or I’m managing W, N, S T, in some bizarre fashion that doesn’t serve your customers, however your customers are. That’s really what it’s about. When you get sideways with your employees, or when I did, they would always think they like in my business had my face on. It’s about you. Man, no, dude, it’s about it. It’s about the business. It’s about it, and then the customers, it’s about it, the business, and them, the people who support it. Because humans have to support this, unless we’re dealing in livestock here, right, like little, right? And the humans that have been involved in this just all the way through. I am so perplexed at all of it. I waited all these years for a new owner to come along, and I thought, Man, this the only thing I see are back slaps and hats being thrown out and commercials and like nothing that’s tangible to what’s important.
Howard Scher 23:26
I’m going to play devil’s ad. Please do because
Nestor Aparicio 23:27
you’re a ticket buyer.
Howard Scher 23:30
We’re one year, let’s say, roughly into the Rubenstein era. He’s learning on the job. This is a different job than the finances we just talked about. He’s learning on the job the hard way as an owner, right? As an owner, you can attest to this. There are certain things you do, and then you look back on and go, You know what? There’s a better way to do that. Oh, if you make a change, sure, and you’re in a different position, because you don’t have people banging down your door. You’re not paying people millions to work for. You don’t have an owner oversee as overseeing you, because you are the owner. But that front office there, their system worked up until the second half of last year, until
Nestor Aparicio 24:12
he couldn’t make trades and couldn’t acquire pro personnel. Okay? He’s a great Scout, right? The Ravens have Eric Decosta, who runs it all, but ran college scouting, but coquinas has been so strong at the pro personnel that when they look to say, Who do the Mets have in their system, there’s no way for Elias to be on that. But that would be his strength. His strength would be evaluating young talent and getting that pipeline. It has not been his strength, acquiring the jack Flaherty’s and the right, that has not, that really hasn’t been his strength. No, it has not been his strength. I’m not gonna that’s not what he ever did in his career, right? But so, okay, so two, he was a different kind of Chef, right?
Howard Scher 24:56
Yes, yes. So two points, I think that I’m. To first go to the ravens, and I’m going to pick on EDC for a second. And I think he low integrity, human I think look at the way he drafted wide receivers for years. Look at the organization the way they drafted him for years. They obviously sat down and said, We’re drafting the wrong people to be wide receivers. Why? And they changed on the fly, and they wound up with Bateman. They wound up with flowers. And I think that they’ve kind of turned the corner on that a little bit. We
Nestor Aparicio 25:27
have to believe they were taking shots on Perryman. I mean, they knew how bright, but they weren’t
Howard Scher 25:31
drafting the right guys for a reason. They were looking for something that wasn’t going to make these guys successful, or something that was going to make them successful.
Nestor Aparicio 25:38
And they changed everything. Perryman got drafted under Flacco. It was the Lamar system that if I’m writing Purple Rain three, and I’m not, it would be the night that they drafted Lamar and said, All right, if he’s the North Star, the entire system of the kinds of wide receivers, the kinds of tight ends, what Patrick card would represent in that what I always said the missing ingredient was, was Derrick Henry, right? Not a running back. Agreed. I always said it was Derrick Henry. They went out last year. They steamrolled teams in that way. But there’s a flowers thing. He’s a completely different kind of wide receiver than anything they would have done with Joe Flacco. Same thing with Hollywood Brown. Completely different kind of wide receiver, target in an offense that shifty with a quarterback that’s got the best legs in the history of the game. I mean, they’ve drafted different kinds of athletic offensive lineman, so ideologically, I think Eric would stand up and say, well, our system changed, which made us change, how the kinds of wide receivers we got and therefore and with this quarterback,
Howard Scher 26:53
but they still changed. They still changed. Yeah, that’s my point. They changed
Nestor Aparicio 26:58
the whole system. They gave the whole operation. They changed the ideology. I mean, come on, dude, I harbor was calling it a revolution back in 19 when it was working. Remember when they run the erector set around and they’re running Flacco his offense, with Lamar as quarterback, and nobody could figure out what the hell to do, and Lamar was just basically running with the football, yes, right, literally, right. Like until the chargers, pagano his brother, brought that 92 defense in Yeah, and beat him right and frustrated him, and they’re still trying to figure that out. The Orioles now have this catcher, this one one in free fall. They have this shortstop, third baseman, a beast in Henderson that we’re trying to figure out, is he going to be a nice player, or is he going to be an MVP candidate? Holiday went from he’s too young, he doesn’t shave, to, my God, he might be Joe Morgan, you know, right? But he might also be a shortstop, correct? And gunner Henderson might be a third baseman, and Jordan westburg might be a second baseman, but we don’t know that.
Howard Scher 27:59
I guess my point is, is that up until the season, or, let’s say, the All Star break last year, Elias was a god in this town. We’re not even a year removed yet, and he and everybody’s ready to kick him out the door, let’s, let’s see what happens.
Nestor Aparicio 28:13
I was manager of the year, and he finally, I know, and then hit for three and a half days.
Howard Scher 28:17
Okay, fine, but I’m just saying that, like you gotta give somebody a chance to say the
Nestor Aparicio 28:23
leftist I laugh out loud. I don’t know what as reporter. I don’t want to make of it.
Howard Scher 28:27
Yeah, well, I don’t think anybody does. I mean, there’s maybe a guy inside the warehouse, a reporter that has insight, but no, I
Nestor Aparicio 28:33
mean fire Brandon hides like just, you know, changing the window dressing. But
Howard Scher 28:37
I think you had to do that. Who was it? The Bruins quite a few years ago. How did the win? Since they fired him? So, right? It’s like it looks like a stroke of genius. What team was? It was the Bruins five, six years ago. There was an NHL team that was like struggling all year in March. They fired and they fired the coach late in the year, and then they won the Stanley Cup.
Nestor Aparicio 28:54
Trots. Trots almost got fired in March of that year, right? Right? And then won the cup three months later, yeah. So there was a movement afoot, the fire, Barry trousse in March. Sometimes
Howard Scher 29:02
you just need to make a change for the sake of making a change. And you take a guy and you say to a guy like ruchman, you know what? If the manager can be fired, you can be traded, or you can be sent down, or you can be benched. And it kind of wakes people up. I believe that especially young guys. I’m not talking about guys like Soto, who are getting $700 million a year, who he doesn’t care what happens around them, you know, he
Nestor Aparicio 29:25
he’s ideally you sign guys that do care about what happens, right? I mean, and I think these guys did get their manager fired for better or worse, whether they liked them or not. And anybody outside of O’Hearn Mullins and holiday maybe Brian Baker for a minute, Batista being able to come back from the injuries sustained. But like all of these names that I brought up, other than those names, are moving spare parts toward trying to say who’s going to be on the playoff team next year, not this year. I this right, yes,
Howard Scher 29:56
but I personally, if I’m the owner, I let a lie. See it through. You could always fire him. Next May, next June. Dude,
Nestor Aparicio 30:05
I’m not in the fire. Mike Elias camp, I’m in the be more professional. Top to bottom camp. Top the Katie Griggs, Rubenstein Ripken, if you’re in or you’re out, or you’re getting paid to sit behind home plate, you making decisions are you like, come on. You mean like you guys are the the mind eye of the franchise at this point. Yes, you know that the franchise is Rubenstein and Eric Eddie and the money bags in the hot dog race. The mind eye is the whistler who is maneuvering all of this as the Kevin Byrne around Rubenstein that whistled the national anthem last year and and then there’s Katie Griggs and everything that happens over there, from Latino night to me being banned on Latino night, right? Like, literally, right, like, and the Birdland membership, and what they’re doing for fans, and texting fans at nine in the morning and saying, Hey, we’re playing a game at four today, not six.
Howard Scher 30:57
What? Well, I that’s actually MLB. I think they said MLB ultimately decides that stuff
Nestor Aparicio 31:06
that’s doing this like it doesn’t. I know that. But by the way, when’s a Justin Tucker investigation coming, that’s another one of those. Yeah, right. Not my department. We push that off the headquarters. Man, what a convenient, what a what a lousy, lame, just all the way around, but show some accountability both franchises. You’re never going
Howard Scher 31:26
to see accountability on that, because if they take accountability for it, they’re going to lose draft picks. They’re going to be fine. They’re going to be everything else because they knew so they’re never going to take accountability. They’re going to play stupid forever, and that’s it. Howard
Nestor Aparicio 31:37
share is here, our crab cakes are getting cold. We’re at Green mount station, we are in beautiful Hampstead Carroll County. I’m gonna be talking about Carroll County Youth a little later on. I’m looking forward to that. I’m gonna be talking about LinkedIn local with Melody Baron, who I saw give a speech about her sports fan. She’s Philadelphia sports fan. So this is not gonna go well. And also, David Richardson’s gonna be here to talk about right? Horse racing, OTB, bowling. Do you have a bowling alley next door? And it’s before you leave here, walk into the bowling alley and tell me that hump and Howie and nasty Nestor wouldn’t want to bring Critics Choice. DJ, in there to DJ, a Taylor Swift dance party in there on a Friday night. Does it compare to pin land? It’s better than pin Okay, and that’s saying. That says something, hey, right? I am Nestor. We’re up here doing the Maryland crab cake to all, presented by our friends at the Maryland lottery. Howie, oh, look at that. You got into honor the great Luis Aparicio, number 11. You get number 11. Back to the Future. We’re gonna stick around. We’re gonna do another a segment around here. I think we’re gonna do some football. We do football next is okay? You have done with baseball, yeah, anything else you want to give in
Howard Scher 32:45
baseball? I always got time for baseball. All right, you got to go. You want
Nestor Aparicio 32:49
to say anything about the football team before I let you go? You already dropped the mic on the Tucker thing. You’re you’ve already indicted the franchise so
Howard Scher 32:56
well, I mean, who am I? I’m just speculating.
Nestor Aparicio 33:00
You’re on camera, you’re on Mike right now, you can either deny it or not. You knew someone involved in in this situation, indirectly, yes, and you knew about it before the story at the banner, when you saw it in the headline, you had heard
Howard Scher 33:18
with this 24 hours, I had confirmation, okay,
Nestor Aparicio 33:24
among about a dozen people that approached me within that time frame and said, Yeah, I Yeah. I got, I know people who are the ladies and who are, you know, like, yeah, so anyway, yeah. I mean, listen, it’s, it’s already been forgotten, right? Like, it’s unbelievable how quickly the news cycle will work. Now, if Tucker wants to bring this back up when he signs or whatever, they probably have all lawyered this out and said, you know, Justin, whenever you catch on with the Giants or whatever, probably that’s the time we’re we should all do this all at once, instead of, I talkers indicted the journalist, he’s indicted the women. He’s like,
Howard Scher 34:06
I think that’s why he’s going to Texas or somewhere, and is going to live on a ranch in the middle of nowhere. I think he’s never going to kick again. I think he’s never going to kick again. I think he’s going to ride off into the sunset, because I think it’s the smart thing for him to do. He does not need or want to be in the spotlight, take his millions and go, Wow,
Nestor Aparicio 34:22
you have a whole different See, I’ve met that kid so like, I think he’s gonna go kick for someone and be defiant and say none of this ever, ever, ever happened.
Howard Scher 34:32
Well, that’s what he said. I think he gets the treatment from the NFL. He’s for five
Nestor Aparicio 34:37
months. He’s first person you should apologize to. Is Julie sharper and her family and her kids and, yeah, and her bosses and anybody like me that reported it, I think
Howard Scher 34:47
he knows. I mean, you know if you’re guilty or not. Ego putting ego aside. I think you know if you’re guilty. And I
Nestor Aparicio 34:54
think if you know there’s some dark people. I mean, yeah, but I you know dark sold people. And. Saying like you
Howard Scher 35:00
just but the NFL has to believe the NFL. Look
Nestor Aparicio 35:03
at the guy running the country. I mean, it’s farcical that anybody would believe this, but it’s here. It’s true. And when he’s up, it feels like he believes it. It
35:13
does. It does.
Nestor Aparicio 35:16
I’d like to think he said, If I wrote the magic marker, MS, one, three on my knuckles, that they would want to put me in a Honduran prison, right, if I did that, like, literally, if I did that, or if I did that, to support a Venezuelan who’s in a Honduran prison, that that would make me put me off in some concentration camp, you know? Yeah, right. It’s saying, Yeah, saying what people are willing to believe, what they’re willing to forget, which is why every good lawyer who touched me in that period of time, and I had a half a dozen on because I was calling everybody, they’re like, if Justin Tucker or my client, I would have told him, throw yourself on the mercy of the court, apologize for all of it, say you were young and stupid and do the rest of your career in servicing battered women massage therapists being on the right side, look away. Michael Vick did, or whatever. Ray Rice turn his like that person, right? And image Yes, you get one chance to fix that, but attack the reporters and Nestor is going to eat your ass for lunch the rest of your life,
Howard Scher 36:20
right? So, right, but how about I get what you’re saying, but I still think the NFL knows, and I think tusker, Tucker knows everything. And I think Tucker knows that. That’s why I think he’s done I could be wrong. We can bet a scratch off on it if you want. I can’t
Nestor Aparicio 36:34
bet you scratch off, but I can bet you two Fried crab cakes here. Cream out. That’s fine. I don’t think he kicks it. You know what? I want to bet you? I want to bet you a deep Eddie Orange Crush. Fine, because there it’s now the state drink, and it’s delicious, okay? And it goes with crab cakes, perfect. All right. Howard shares, my friend, tell me about duck doctors. You suck ducks for a living professionally. And that’s ducks with a T, not with a K, correct?
Howard Scher 36:56
We are air duct cleaning and dry event cleaning specialist located right here in the areas where our headquarters are. We service
Nestor Aparicio 37:04
everywhere, integrity, quality, right? My friend, we strive for one
Howard Scher 37:09
thing, and that’s to be the best and that’s best customer service, best job we do just
Nestor Aparicio 37:14
about everything. I don’t want to put Justin Tucker with you and row Fauci, but that’s why he’s going to kick again, because he’s gonna have to be just what you said, that the hockey competitor in you and I met you, not that you played hockey your whole life. You’re competitive as hell. It’s why you shouldn’t gamble, like just, if I ever played pickleball, I play with you, but I’m never playing pickleball, but like the competitor and you seem we’re going to be the best. Yeah, that’s why Justin Tucker’s got kicking in. I just want to say that because I know how thank
Howard Scher 37:41
you for hearing me. I’m not competitive at all. Right? Thank you. I appreciate the comparison. No, I’m just saying I know I like a good massage.
Nestor Aparicio 37:53
Can I ask you this, how many people have put their hands on your body in a massage? You’re 55 years old, right? A lot,
Howard Scher 38:00
dozens upon not inappropriately.
Nestor Aparicio 38:02
Know that I’m saying Correct? Well, if you’ve been getting massage, yeah, if you’re a massage person, yes, right, I would think my numbers well north of 50, maybe up on 100 Vegas, here, beaches, here, right, Caribbean, on a boat, somewhere, wherever. But you know, my trusted massage therapy, I have two trusted massage therapists, male and female here, yeah, that have worked on my body for 20 years, as well as a reflexologist, as well as I get pins acupuncture. Hi, Rhonda, so I’ve been to this I’ve told the story. I place in you. I go to New York a lot because I like to walk around. It’s flat, and I can eat anything I want, do, whatever I want to do, let my hair out. And there’s a place in Chinatown there that’s a great massage place. To look it up. It’s 4.9 stars. Got 12,000 reviews. It’s a businessman, executive thing, hot stones, the whole deal, and it’s inexpensive against like,
Howard Scher 39:01
yeah, what? I probably been there. I’ve done a couple in Chinatown. So
Nestor Aparicio 39:06
if I were to go there and play the hanky panky game, I am just assuming one of the dudes from James Bond, Man with the Golden Gun, with the sumo suit, comes and kicks my ass for as long as he wants. Totally agree it’s on the second floor. Probably drags my ass in whatever direction he felt necessary, right down the steps in my underwear, out the door, holding my mangled Visa card. Yeah, and the cop would be waiting for me right out on Canal Street, and it’s Canal Street for sure. So so there would be no soup dumplings to go afterwards. Yeah, there would be no shink shop here. There would be no Peking duck. There would just be Nestor and Howard getting their ass beat in. Lower Chinatown, am I right or am I wrong? You
Howard Scher 40:02
have to have just enough wrong with you and big cohornis to go ahead and think that it’s okay to do what he did. Correct.
Nestor Aparicio 40:12
All right. Bottom line, that’s why I bring you out. Tell everybody how to find your duck doctors. Talk doctor. Tell them what’s wrong in their ducks that they need to get done on
Howard Scher 40:19
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Nestor Aparicio 40:45
mine. I knew mine hadn’t been done in like 15 years, and you said the
Howard Scher 40:49
air felt crisper afterwards 100% it smells, does? Yeah, it makes a difference. So find us. Www, dot ducked, the UCT doctor, spelled out, dmv.com, give us call 800-955-1275
Nestor Aparicio 41:03
if you know me, you know Howard, right? I mean, if you find me, you can find Howard. All right, we’re out of Green Mountain station. I’m gonna find these crab cakes. They’ve been sitting there too long. I gave Howie number 11. Number 12 is going to David, I think when he gets here. Let’s I love doing the show up here. I love the crab cake up here. I would eat it on camera, but I’d make a mess. But trust me, they look good. Somewhere over Hampstead, there’s them crab cakes. I’m gonna go get them back for more. We’re Hampstead at Greenmount station. It is the Maryland crab cake Tour presented by the Maryland lottery, curio wellness and our friends at Liberty, pure solutions. You.
