Yankees beat writer Pete Caldera of The Bergen Record talks all things of the summer winds of an amazing baseball pennant race in the American League East – and singing Sinatra show tunes off Broadway with Nestor at Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor J. Aparicio, Pete Caldera
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home we are W n s t, just Baltimore. Baltimore positive. We are positively here. One of my favorite places. It’s what’s new, but it feels old. And we’ve been here about three months. The new Lexington market families move from about 40 yards to the north of here to the south. We’re down here at the new Lexington market. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I will have some Maliki seven scratch offs to give away. And I’ve got great guest Luke’s gonna be coming by today. It’s all star game week. Yankees are in town. It’s not often that I get to meet people who’ve been on my show. AB I said the damy probably 20 times. And I may be more than that over the last 15 years. Since I came back on the air pekao Dara has covered the New York Yankees for 24 years. According to your LinkedIn it says 2000 is that right? Yeah,
Pete Caldera 00:51
I guess this would be your 24 Wow. Wow. All right. So
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:55
how many championships just took maybe one or two right? i Oh,
Pete Caldera 01:00
nine? Was Was it? That’s it? Yeah. Yeah. My first year on the beat, it was the they went to the Oh, three World Series against the Marlins. And yeah, oh nine and a lot of ALCS losses and it’s been way too long for most people in New York. I’ll say that.
Nestor J. Aparicio 01:19
Well. I mean, you have a great gig that you you sing standards like my friends slim Makati, who was in town the other day over at Lescol us a shout out to Tim camp and, and slim, but I want to talk some music with you at some point. My Vibe with you and Luke’s gonna come by and we’re gonna talk more trading deadline and like, Yeah, but like the gig of covering baseball. I covered baseball from 1986 until Angelo’s threw me out no seven. So I had 21 years where I was in and out of the locker room at the old Yankee Stadium, Fenway couple pennant races playoff games, I was looking down the right field line from the former auxilary press box at Yankee Stadium. When I saw Jeffrey Mayer’s arms go over the Whiz sign in the right field wall. I was 15 yards away down the line. I’m like He reached over. So so all of this being said, I have not been afforded a media credential by the Orioles. But other teams credential me I get around a little bit. I’ve been in the new Yankee Stadium as a media member. How has it changed? Because I mean, I’ve been out of it for 16 years, they allow my Caucasian employee, famously, Luke Jones to have a press pass, you’ll be there today. But I haven’t been around it. Cover the Yankees was always much more of an ecosystem, especially when you guys would show up here, you would bring this contingent that would take over the whole third base side of the press box. Yeah,
Pete Caldera 02:41
yeah. You see, I mean, it’s a lot. It is a lot different. I mean, the coverage is different. The the media is different. You know, as newspapers have kind of, you know, faded back or become a digital entities. That’s all changed. Yeah, I used to see, when we came to Baltimore, and especially, it didn’t matter if the orals were good or bad or the Yankees were down or not. But they usually were up that you would, you would see the the New York Daily News and The New York Post and news day and the times bring not just their beat writer, but a columnist, and maybe one of the daily tabloids would have a feature writer to or a sidebar guy. Now you’re lucky if you get one entity that that’s along for the ride on the road. And sometimes when you’re at Yankee Stadium, and a team from a smaller market comes in they bring nobody literally right it’s it’s a ghost town up there sometimes. So it’s that that part of the that that aspect of the job has changed a lot. Yeah, used to seeing all these all these great guys, I used to, you know, grow up reading all the column lists and things like that, and you don’t see those guys anymore. You
Nestor J. Aparicio 03:50
know, I had Rick telander on this week because he played the Cubs earlier in the week. And I worked out in Chicago at the turn of the century when I was syndicated. So you know, just I’ve been in every stadium I’ve been I’ve been everywhere man like, you know, Johnny Cash. I just, I’ve seen this change dramatically with Team websites. And look, man, I’m not I don’t call them fake reporters, but they’re kind of fake reporters because they really are under the arm of whether it’s yes network what whoever they worked for. The press conferences aren’t nearly like here, certainly never what they were in New York, but tough questions. And you know what I’d like for Carol on last year for like, just tough questions. I mean, I saw they threw Howard Escott out in Philadelphia, and I known Howard for I don’t know what happened there. But they want less tough questions, and they want more in house. And sort of the industry’s played into that a little bit. I mean, on the Ravens side when the Ravens came here in 96. I have a picture of me in San Diego, around Ted March abroad in 1997 and accounted like 16 Traveling Baltimore people and an NFL game 25 years ago. Now there’s two there’s two and used to be the sun would send to photographers, right? And then we would play at Yankee Stadium is the same thing. Baltimore media would travel, make those kinds of subway trips, train trips, easy getting the car kind of trips, what how often do you travel? You got to have less?
Pete Caldera 05:16
Yeah, less I used to probably before the pandemic, it was almost everywhere all the time. And now it’s scaled back it but you know, and certainly, I’m not alone in that in that distinction. There are other beat writers that certainly travel less. And it’s, I think it’s part of the wider landscape of where the business is at now. And, and, frankly, bottom lines of, of companies, but whenever
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:44
you have a Japanese player, there’s a whole contingent there too. Right? Well, that’s changes everything as well as I remember,
Pete Caldera 05:49
I miss having a miss Hara talk on the team, because it was it was fun to have the Japanese press there. And, and, and it was a lot of pressure. I mean, I’m old enough to have covered most of Matt suis career too. And we’re happy to having to watch him go through, you know, not only the, you know, our questions, and then the Japanese press, but you know, basically do everything twice and do it in such a kind and gentle and informative way. Because he had a great personality and Tanaka was much the same. And
Nestor J. Aparicio 06:22
you want to know, though? No, no, I
Pete Caldera 06:24
wasn’t around for a Robbo. I mean, it’s an interesting dynamic going on in Los Angeles with with Otani that, you know, we’re there trying to get him to talk. I mean, he doesn’t, he doesn’t provide that access and as much and then each row was so the club allows each row was was fun to cover because he was he was he had so much to say about his opinions. And you brought it out of him. It was a real fun interview. And, and he had obviously, he’s one of the greatest players that we’ve seen combined last 50 years. Yeah. And, and but he was he was very accessible. As was met souI as was Tanaka. And those were those were interesting guys to cover. They had lots, they had a lot to offer. Pick
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:15
out the arrows here. He covers a baseball but the New York Yankees we’re gonna hold that against him for the burger record. I’ve never met him because I haven’t had press pass in 17 years a lot. Luke sits in there. Yeah, I mean, and I love talking baseball with smart people. Especially. I love the music angle on your gig. And we’ll get to the like on the field. But the all star game. How many of those have you covered because I I covered maybe 1617 all star games? You know, through the course of years, I’ve covered
Pete Caldera 07:39
three. Okay, tour in New York. The one at the last I covered both of those the stadium. The first one at Citi Field and what was it 2013? Yes. And then the only other one I covered and it probably jinx me for the rest of the it was the one in Milwaukee that went 15 innings that was never intended that what Joe Torre had to go to bed ceiling and say I’m out of pitchers. And then and then what spiraled out of that was that MLB created that you know that ridiculous? Who wins the all star game has the home field advantage to make it this worst thing in the world. Yeah, this one counts in the World Series, which was all sorts of ridiculous. And you know, hey, you You’re old enough to remember as I am when when the Austin when we were kids, all star game was huge. And I grew up. I was a giant Mets fan. In an era when the Mets were
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:33
horrendous sending no one brainpool wants that I
Pete Caldera 08:37
was going John stones. John Stearns is our all star like for three straight years. We got Lee Mozilla one time. You know, that’s, and I look forward to that because and the other part of that was you know, this was the this was before ESPN before MLB Network before all the highlights you saw. This was one this week in baseball was was you know a point when you were a kid because that’s the only time he got to see the highlights are
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:02
the same age that you went to Australia and a little 55 Right. Exactly.
Pete Caldera 09:06
Yeah, great late 50s. So I am yeah, I am of that era that I can’t believe you recovering baseball 86 I was a sophomore in college watching the Mets won the world. I
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:17
left the game early. Okay. I left the game early when Dykstra hit the homerun.
Pete Caldera 09:23
Oh my god, I was.
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:28
I was I was in the upper deck at Shea Stadium when he hit that home run on Major Deegan that’s on your side. Wherever Grand Central Parkway, Queens, whatever the hell it was. That’s where you pick Kildare is here and we’re talking to baseball. It’s so it’s all star game week. And the thing about Baltimore and you coming down here for all of the years and you mentioned a lot more bad than good here. Certainly right. Yankees fans always traveling. What do you make of the resurrection of the Orioles franchise in a way where games sold out tomorrow now they’ll always be yanked He’s fans there. But coming to Baltimore after the fourth of July before the all star break and the Orioles are in first place, with some of the best talent in the sport, with this arsenal of loaded minor league possibilities in the trading deadline. My last name is Aparicio. I get it this honest, you know, I’ve been doing this since the beginning, right? I and I’ve been on the radio 33 Baseball seasons now uncovered, really sports here for 41 years. Now, my 41st summer as a professional journalist here. I’ve never seen anything like it because the trajectory of where this could go over the next three to five years. As new ownership. Cal Ripken is involved. They have very, very capable baseball people, all the missing ingredients, that you will come down here and say, What happened to this place? Because that went on for anybody our age to about those bad Mets teams of the 70s. I wondered what that would be like, and now I’ve lived it for most of the last 30 I
Pete Caldera 10:59
think it’s great, you know, well, listen, it’s a great fan base. First of all, it’s it’s one of the jewel destination ballparks in the country. They deserve to have a winner here all the time. A competitive team. And you know, it was disheartening. You know, personally, when you would come down here and you know, the Yankees were the Yankees and the Orioles. Were having a down year and it how many times that I right? It felt like Yankee Stadium south. Here when when the Yankees would play because that’s, that’s how it was. You’d get 20,000 people in the stands and sound like 17,000 We’re Yeah, we come to
Nestor J. Aparicio 11:38
what a guy from Jersey or New York guy would say a baseball town. Yep. And the baseball is gone. You know? Yeah. I don’t think you can envision going to St. Louis at this point. And not seeing the lights turned on in that way, even in places like Cincinnati where it hasn’t been great. But the people have still stayed there and corps supported. This thing was so and then this thing got divided to I mean, the Washington part of this and the mass and part of this and the Washington success. You know, the fact that they’ve had a parade down there and played playoff games really coming from Raven side versus whatever they’re called the football team down there this week. And the capitals have had great success with a legendary, you know, iconic athlete and eventually in the last two decades, we’re feeling we’re going into the beginning of that with rutschman and Henderson and it’s all signs that this is that cow Eddie era again for baseball people
Pete Caldera 12:33
yeah and can you sustain it that’s that’s the other thing we’ve seen the Orioles go through these you know these up phases and then you know the kind of peters out and I would hate to see that but I listened you how load of the orals when you’ve got mail on holiday. Not even up here right now. And they’re two of the biggest
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:55
or they do double. We’ll do that with Luke a little bit later. But it really is an incredible cupboard when I’ve been on this radio station for 26 years. At trading deadlines year after year. We’re like, well, we got Keegan Aiken we’ve got Dylan Bundy but we’d never want to give him away. He’s the only top 100 arm we have, you know. And that goes back to Rocky carpenter and Alex that show it for you guys. Right. Those are some names. Yeah. But every year this has been part of it. Because every year whether you’re a buyer or a seller, you’re involved in the trading even when you stink. You’re involved in the trading deadline. Except we stunk so bad. We didn’t even have you know, beyond the random BJ surhoff the trade away at the trading deadline. We didn’t even have that sort of involvement. And now it’s all hands on deck. The Yankees are nervous. We’re in first place. You’re mentioned in Mayo. And these guys that haven’t even gotten here yet. And we’re trying to figure out Mullins. Hey, Santander is going to the All Star game now trying to figure out Matteo when you race around the edges. But then there’s like Hayes who was an all star last year and Mullins who was a 3030 guy and these are the guys that are getting pushed. I mean, we took the scrap heap from the Yankees last year got 250 pretty good at bats but the Yankees paid for that’s unusual that
Pete Caldera 14:10
is it is and then no I’ll be very interested to see what the what the Orioles do here at the deadline because obviously the they’ve got some pitching needs you you know how they’ve been able to you know cobble it together with the rotation they have has been very impressive. But then of course burns at the top is I mean that was a bold move and an unnecessary one to make before the season began. But you know it seems like a lot of these contenders obviously need they’re in the market for the same thing. bullpen help obviously for the Yankees that’s that’s the number one priority right now because you know they do have five healthy starters in their rotation they’re gonna get Clark Schmitt back at some point in August. Maybe you transition Louise heel to a multi inning bullpen role, possibly. They haven’t talked about Not that at least not publicly, but it’s an option. They have to shore up their bullpen. But yeah, I’m but I’ll be very interested to see what the Orioles are willing to give up. I would think that they would, if there’s a bold move they can make, based on how good that team was last year, and how disappointed it was to have that shorter playoff run that, you know,
Nestor J. Aparicio 15:21
they went got Jack Flaherty last year is gonna be a thing, right? So, buyer beware at all these trading course. I mean, you’re old school like me, man, you know, you make these deals. And as Lucas pointed out, he may do that, again, when he gets here. They win the World Series, it’s going to be because of Henderson and rutschman. Oil and burns and robbery, the guys they’ve already got are going to be the reason they win the World Series. It’s not going to be specifically because of middle relief, or specifically because they can improve upon a third starter. But I mean, they’ve for as good as they’ve been, and as deep as they are. Bradish means wells, then you throw Batista in and what he represented last year for them, this is an on if you would have said to me, the day after they lost to the Rangers that this is where they would sit from a health perspective. I’d say they’re a 500 team. Yeah. And bordering on disappointment and to your point, they’ve managed to get these innings out of Suarez they managed to get mileage at Irwin urban at this point. So I would say and we’re always afraid of the big bang and the Yankees come off the bus and they got the pinstripes and the you know, they got Aaron judge and Soto I always think that there’s this you’re always worried about the Yankees stocking Yeah,
Pete Caldera 16:36
but the you know, the swagger incompetence factor? Certainly in the Orioles of it’s on the oral side right now. You know, they’ve beaten this team with five out of seven loads so far.
Nestor J. Aparicio 16:49
He beat down the last time they got together. Yeah, and bad blood.
Pete Caldera 16:52
Yes. I mean, I mean, last game. I mean, the Yankees were using a catcher to pitch the last inning right? It was such a blog. And three out of four of the orals one here after when the Yankees came in the first time in late April early May. Listen, the Orioles are not afraid of anybody, at least of all the Yankees because they’ve had their number. So you know that I don’t use any intimidation factor going there.
Nestor J. Aparicio 17:21
You know, which is unusual. First time in your professional career.
Pete Caldera 17:25
Judges judge and SOTA was Soto but you know this you know that there’s a lot of places you can pitch in that line up and get out right now and right now. Judge is one of them he’s he’s coming in here and you know, kind of this is want to say it’s not a slump but it’s a slide and you know, he did have a rough April read it he was hitting under 200 before like may 2 and then got on that incredible historic run you know winning the player the month of May winning the player month of June I mean, he was on that 62 plus home run pace again two and hitting 300 Plus and you know, contributing defensively in centerfield right now he’s a it’s an a bit of a slide he’s teaching more to get them off his feet. You may see him DH twice in this series with with Grisham playing in centerfield so they’re trying to do some things right now it seems like to get judge back on track but yeah, this is a this is certainly a Yankee lineup you can you can navigate right now
Nestor J. Aparicio 18:32
he can our is here he sings to everybody out there about your incredible moonlighting is what I would call your moonlighters once you are in a big city up there and got
Pete Caldera 18:43
my little sidelight there. Yeah, it’s a it’s a lot of fun. I’ve always loved Sinatra, that big band music and you know and all those great singers Tony Bennett and Bobby Darren and not Cole and Mel Torme a. That was That’s my musics always has been my music.
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:02
So were my Van Halen belt. You know today, but I love all that music too. Right? Because I have I love Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck is offshoots of all of that. Lou Rawls is widely played in my in my car. Well,
Pete Caldera 19:14
yeah, and I grew up in a household that if you can imagine this, my mom was the big Sinatra fan and Perry Como and all those great singers of the 40s and 50s. My dad is an opera fan. So every every more every Saturday morning, he’s blasting live from the Met. And I grew up with that and then I became got an appreciation of that too. I don’t know a word they’re saying but, but I
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:42
saw these beautiful Italian
Pete Caldera 19:45
verdient Puccini is it’s it’s excellent. And now I’ve got to go to the opera with my dad in the last few years to which is even greater but yeah, so I had interesting whole musical grounding and That’s the music I kind of gravitated towards at least was the one I found all my course
Nestor J. Aparicio 20:05
Harry Connick once told me when I interviewed him 35 years ago. Yeah, good music. Good.
Pete Caldera 20:09
Good news. Well, there’s, well, there’s only two, right? It’s good and bad. It’s good or bad, right? So yeah, so then, then I remember my mom allowed me to take a lot of her Sinatra albums to college with me and I trance put them on cassette tape right on transfer that transferred one that did record a deal with words a lot, right? So so then I had them and I had those tapes in my car is listening to my car. And then, of course, you sing along with him, too. And then you go to a karaoke night or two or a piano bar, and somebody tells you hey, you sounds pretty cool. Once you get with a Yeah, blowing in once you get with a band or something, well, who gets with a band in the, you know, in this era, but I, you live in New York City, you can find these they’re doing this music? So yeah,
Nestor J. Aparicio 20:59
I remember going to go with this then. Oh, this is in your adulthood? Yeah, very much. Yeah.
Pete Caldera 21:06
So about 2005 or six.
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:08
So you’re at a college covering the Yankees. And this is something that kind of became a fun thing for
Pete Caldera 21:12
you. Oh, yeah. This was a yeah, this was definitely just the, you know, just
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:17
I mean, that Michael Buble play at the Chicago All Star Game 2003. Yeah. Does that sound right? Three. It was three, because two was Milwaukee. The three three was Chicago All Star game? Yeah. Whoo. Bleh. I met him in the hotel lobby. I saw him in the celebrity, whatever. I barely knew who he was super nice guy, like, unbelievably personable dude. And then he’s become like, 21 years later, this big star. I saw him get interviewed by Dan, rather than on that show. He was sort of discovered by Trudeau like, and there was, there’s a whole yeah, there’s a whole thing about it. But no one believed that his music he would say I would go to like, they would look at me and say, Sorry, kid, nobody’s gonna buy this music. Right. Right. are playing it on the radio 1005 When you’re trying to do this, Boo Blaze, kind of like make it but I even looked at him. I’m like, You’re a nice kid. And I liked Sinatra. But who’s gonna buy this? You know, right. I know, Sinatra is dead. But this is sort of a little thing. And he’s become the modern the next thing. Right.
Pete Caldera 22:24
And you mentioned Harry Connick kind of before him. He was always compared to Sinatra, but sort of unfairly. Sinatra wasn’t not a musician could play piano and sing or do that he could, you know, the greatest interpreter of American popular music is all Frank was right. But, but you
Nestor J. Aparicio 22:43
haven’t seen one for my baby one for the road, just right. I mean, there’s a whole there’s the top hat, the whole deal. It’s
Pete Caldera 22:49
acting. It’s theatrical. Right. But, of course, I mean, we could go in a whole hour about, you know, all the great things that Sinatra can do that no one else has ever do, and can never do again, musically. But you know, but but those guys Yeah, I mean, that. Certainly boo bleh and and Connick I was so iconic live and never saw boomplay live but let’s obviously listen to a lot of his stuff. He played
Nestor J. Aparicio 23:17
the gala but he played the gala in 2003. At the Yeah, he played it was in the the big thing in Chicago. Park is Sorry, I wasn’t there. Yeah, push now I was he. He played but nobody knew. He was playing the cop Michael bubble. But who
Pete Caldera 23:34
is this? Yeah, some nice kid from Canada who’s got a nice voice. But that’s it. But right who’s doing this? This music? Well. There’s a show that’s been playing in in New York every it’s been going on for for 20 plus years at the Carnegie club on West 56th Street every night to shows just Sinatra, a singer with a big band. And I went up to the I used to watch the show come to the show a lot. And first Carrie Hoffman was the singer with the standard woodwind orchestra. And after him it Steven Magglio who’s still there doing a great job singing with Stan’s orchestra. But I don’t know
Nestor J. Aparicio 24:13
when I’m in Manhattan on a Tuesday night. I can go to this place Saturday night Saturday. It’s only only Saturday. Okay. Yeah.
Pete Caldera 24:18
So, so I so I got in contact with Stan Rubin, the bandleader and I said, you know, if your singer ever needs a night off, I think I can do this stuff. And not only did he take my call, he auditioned me and so I have been for the last 15 years kind of Stephens backup. The three or four times he takes a night off from the Sinatra show, I’ll sing with the big band, which is great, but now once a month, on Friday, when you see with a big band, how big is a big Well, it’s it’s 11 pieces at the comedy club because it’s really a not a music venue. Sure, it’s it’s a cigar bar. And, but when when we play it other venue use bigger venues like swing 46 For instance, it’s a 14 piece band and the and the orchestra is there on there. Oh, man, I
Nestor J. Aparicio 25:07
bet they’re getting after what some brass, right it
Pete Caldera 25:09
sounds. It’s like come see up. It’s like being in front of a. It’s like driving a Ferrari or something. It’s like that the power of that engine behind you is? Well,
Nestor J. Aparicio 25:21
I mean, who thinks karaoke and I sang in a band? Yeah, I have a local band buddies mine, Ron Weston, cultivate and they play. I went out last year, and they wanted me to sit in and sing a song. Yeah. And I’m like, I don’t even know the guys in the band’s name, right. And they just insisted that I do this alarm song called strength. In other words, I could sing it. And I got up, I did it. But there was something about the power of the beat of the drum. Like I just got up on a whim with a band to do it. And there’s something different with a band than there is singing to a click track or singing. Karaoke. There’s a there’s a there’s a power involved in that
Pete Caldera 25:56
it is and oh, it’s always, always live musicians always used live musicians. Yeah, that’s it. But I I’ve heard Sinatra say numerous times, in interviews, and throughout his career that there was nothing he loves better than singing in front of a live nightclub audience and that, and that’s the kind of thing we try to create or recreate on those Friday nights when you got your nights already you’re doing or? Yeah, I’ll be there on July 19. I’ll be there again. I think August 22.
Nestor J. Aparicio 26:30
Summer months? He’s up in the Catskills. Is that what’s going on? Well, this is just the
Pete Caldera 26:34
Fridays with the small band. Oh, okay. I haven’t gotten a friday saturday yet that I know of. In fact, the last Saturday I think I did was the was back in January, okay. With with that, but but I like, I really like doing the small band stuff, just as well, because, you know, it’s, it’s kind of like, for you Sinatra, fishes, and autos out there, the 1962 World Tour Sinatra did. He went everywhere, one summer. And he just took a sextet with him, and they shrunk down all those great Nelson Riddle. And Billy made arrangements they did with the big man and just did it with a sextet. And it was phenomenal. And it was, it was such pure singing because it was, you know, and Sinatra always said, and I’ll always remember him saying that he was right. You know, you’re, you’re you’re part of the orchestra and he grew up in an orchestra. Obviously, he started with the Tommy Dorsey started with Harry James and then went to the Tommy Dorsey band. He learned how to be a musician with an orchestra. He learned how to be a musician in the band, and that’s at best what you’re trying to do as a singer. Your your your horn in the orchestra.
Nestor J. Aparicio 27:43
Love this speak out errors here for the Bergen record. I’m gonna break. We’re not gonna talk any Sinatra with you. i This is my resident baseball nerd. He’s, he’s going to talk analytics. We’re going to talk trades. If you mentioned win loss records. He gets upset with me at all this team’s win loss record for teams. Only thing that matters is I finally met Pete 30 minutes ago. We’re gonna get him crab cake. We’re down here fade these Maryland lottery. He’s got us going. Jiffy Lube, multi cares, got us out on the road, as well as Liberty pure solutions, making our water crystal clear. And I never met Pete. And like Hindi. He hadn’t been over here. So but this is the first time like 20 years I’ve been having this guy on the radio show. We’re in first place. It’s July. So I mean, yeah, I could have had you at any point and it never would have been this kind of we have a real baseball conversations. I’d love to talk Sinatra. Favorite Sinatra song. You got one? Oh,
Pete Caldera 28:41
you know the favorite one I love singing right now and it’s with the big band is cold porters in the still of the night with a Johnny Mandel arrangement that goes a lot of great places. And it’s well it’s Cole Porter.
Nestor J. Aparicio 28:52
Did you send in the clowns do
Pete Caldera 28:54
you do I don’t do that one. That’s a great Sinatra. Love that songs.
Nestor J. Aparicio 28:58
There you go. That’s one of his favorites. Yeah,
Pete Caldera 29:01
listen, as you mentioned one from my baby. That’s, I mean, no one else but Frank.
Nestor J. Aparicio 29:06
I love summer when two great
Pete Caldera 29:08
songs. Yeah, someone’s a great song. The Way You Look Tonight, you can’t go wrong with anything called Porter. You know, I’ve got you under my skin with a great the greatest arrangement ever written Nelson riddles arrangement for that song and at 56 from songs for swinging lovers. As we all can
Nestor J. Aparicio 29:25
tell he’s introduced the songs you know? Yes. Tell me about the band people it’ll be harder if he killed airs and we’re gonna get a crab cake. We’re down here families. At some point. I’m gonna you know what I got my lottery tickets and they’re in my bag and I put my bag over here. I just want to hold them up because I’ve actually got some PacMan stew I brought some I have a stack of Gold Rush sevens and we’re gonna get you know, you are of legal age, even though you know your New York resident or Jersey wherever they they house you folks up there. We’re gonna have these to giveaway here. We’re also gonna be taking the Maryland crab cakes. We’re back out on the road next month, and the oyster tour begins the day the Ravens season begins. We’re doing 26 Next oysters 26 different ways and 26 different days in September because it has an IR and we do ours and oysters and the oyster recovery which I’m doing over here as well back for more for families. Luke is going to join us on the set. We’re gonna talk some baseball All Star Game Yankees and down peak caldera. My guest from the Bergen record back for more downtown Lexington market stay with us.
