We’re all watching the Baltimore Orioles and trying to figure out the salary cap, labor and the trade machinations of Mike Elias. Meanwhile, our pal Zach Dermer is just trying to introduce his kids to the game. Our HVAC and plumbing friend at The Comfort Guys joins Nestor at Costas Timonium on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to talk Birdland summer problems and the rules of the game.
Nestor Aparicio and Zach Dermer discussed the Orioles’ summer struggles, including recent losses and the need for improvements at the trading deadline. They highlighted the importance of acquiring bullpen arms and outfielders. Zach shared his experience teaching his six-year-old son about baseball, including understanding pitch counts. They also touched on the HVAC business, emphasizing the importance of timely system replacements to avoid higher costs in the future. Nestor mentioned his personal experiences with HVAC repairs and the importance of community involvement, including supporting local businesses and events.
Orioles Summer Problems and Trading Deadline
- Nestor Aparicio and Zach Dermer discuss the Orioles’ recent struggles, including a 14-6 loss and a 7-6 win.
- Nestor mentions the importance of the trading deadline and the need for the Orioles to make moves to improve their team.
- Zach Dermer expresses frustration with the team’s performance and the need for better defense and pitching.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the potential moves the Orioles might make at the trading deadline, including acquiring bullpen arms and outfielders.
HVAC Business and Personal Insights
- Zach Dermer talks about the challenges of working in the HVAC business, especially during extreme weather conditions.
- Nestor and Zach share personal anecdotes about their families and their experiences with HVAC and baseball.
- Zach mentions the importance of being prepared for the upcoming HVAC season, despite the current mild weather.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of maintaining HVAC systems and the benefits of doing so before the peak season.
Teaching Kids Baseball and Personal Stories
- Zach Dermer shares how he teaches his six-year-old son, Trey, about baseball, including understanding pitch counts and player names.
- Nestor recounts a story about teaching his wife, who is an engineer, how to keep score at baseball games.
- Zach and Nestor discuss the challenges of balancing work and family life, including attending baseball games with young children.
- Zach talks about the importance of teaching kids about numbers and statistics in baseball.
Orioles Management and Future Plans
- Nestor and Zach discuss the future of the Orioles’ management, including the potential for changes in the front office.
- Nestor expresses skepticism about the current management’s ability to turn the team around and mentions the need for new leadership.
- Zach talks about the importance of having a motivated and engaged manager to lead the team.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the potential impact of the upcoming labor negotiations on the Orioles and other MLB teams.
Personal Reflections and Community Involvement
- Nestor shares personal reflections on his family and his experiences with baseball and media.
- Zach talks about his involvement in the community and his commitment to providing quality HVAC services.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of supporting local businesses and community initiatives.
- Zach mentions the challenges of running a family business and the importance of maintaining a strong work-life balance.
HVAC Tips and Customer Service
- Zach provides tips for maintaining HVAC systems and the importance of regular maintenance.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of customer service and building trust with clients.
- Zach talks about the challenges of dealing with emergency HVAC issues and the importance of being prepared.
- Nestor shares a personal story about a recent HVAC emergency and the importance of having a reliable service provider.
Baltimore Community and Local Events
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of supporting local events and businesses in Baltimore.
- Zach talks about the impact of the Maryland Lottery and other sponsors on the local community.
- Nestor shares his experiences attending local events and the importance of community engagement.
- Zach mentions the upcoming Maryland Crab Cake Tour and the importance of promoting local culture and traditions.
Political and Social Issues in Baltimore
- Nestor and Zach discuss the political landscape in Baltimore and the importance of community involvement.
- Zach talks about his involvement in local politics and his commitment to making a difference in the community.
- Nestor shares his thoughts on the challenges facing Baltimore and the importance of addressing social and economic issues.
- Zach mentions the importance of supporting local candidates and promoting transparency in government.
Personal Anecdotes and Humor
- Nestor and Zach share personal anecdotes and humor, including stories about their families and experiences.
- Zach talks about the importance of maintaining a sense of humor and staying positive in challenging situations.
- Nestor shares a story about a recent trip to Minnesota and the importance of having a good sense of humor.
- Zach and Nestor discuss the challenges of balancing work and personal life and the importance of finding humor in everyday situations.
Final Thoughts and Future Plans
- Nestor and Zach discuss their future plans and the importance of staying connected with the community.
- Zach talks about the importance of providing quality HVAC services and building strong relationships with clients.
- Nestor shares his thoughts on the future of the Orioles and the importance of supporting local sports teams.
- Zach and Nestor discuss the importance of community involvement and supporting local businesses and events.
Nestor Aparicio 0:00
Welcome home. We are WNST AM 1570 Task Baltimore. We call it Baltimore positive. I I think I’m gonna call it senioritis here before I get out. Trying to get my levels together. We’re Costas in Timonium. This is Maryland Crab Cake Tour. It’s presented by the Maryland Lottery. I’ve given a bunch of tickets out here, including the Tark over here. So I hope we get $20,000 winners here. Our friends at GBMC put us on the road, and this guy and his family, family off camera, dads, granddads, and they continue to put you up to being on this show. Zach Dermer’s here. He is a you’re a comfort guy amongst comfort guys.
Zach Dermer 0:39
That is right, and I’m the most introverted out of us all, but my old man is over there.
Nestor Aparicio 0:43
I’ve noticed this about your introversion. I’m trying to get you out of this, but the hardest thing to do in the world is to make an introvert an extrovert, or to make an extrovert an introvert. True. You know how do you make me an introvert? Duct tape, right about here.
Zach Dermer 0:58
Okay, that’s the only. And there are people
Nestor Aparicio 1:00
among us who have tried to talk, including recently. How are you? Happy summer to you, man.
Zach Dermer 1:05
Yeah, it’s it’s flying by. What’s it? Last couple days of July here. Look, you do. You’re
Nestor Aparicio 1:11
in the HVAC business, and like the date, you’re like a snow plower waiting for the blizzard, right? 100% Like 103 degree day, really sloppy, awful days. That’s when you need to comfort, guys. You show up over here, Dad. People, everybody’s off today. Jay’s running around. We’re gonna get him on. And you’re like, not busy today. And I’m like, yeah. My wife went for a walk at 6:15 this morning and tweeted how beautiful it was. How love. Yeah, this San Diego weather is not good for HVAC.
Zach Dermer 1:44
No, it’s it’s not. But hey, we’ll take it. It’s great golf weather, walking weather, anything but HVAC. But you know, it’s not even August yet. August is you’re a
Nestor Aparicio 1:52
little bit like the tax man. You know you’re going to get.
Zach Dermer 1:54
Oh, it’s yeah. It’s just a matter. It’s going to break. Exactly. Just like yeah, Fourth of July weekend a month ago, it hadn’t been that hot up to that point that it got just 100 degrees. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 2:03
just going to talk sports with you instead. Then that’s fine for me. Yeah,
Zach Dermer 2:06
it’s a little. Now look, the
Nestor Aparicio 2:07
trading deadline’s Monday. If we talk about the trading deadline, anything that happens after that, you’re on the hook for. But I will say that you were texting me yesterday when the Orioles were a getting their ass kicked, b trying to climb back in it, and then it’s a good thing you’re not active on social media because you would embarrass yourself in that sort of an environment. But you’re all orangeed up. I didn’t wear my orange today. I wore my purple today, and I still got grief from old man stays off the set, giving me grief about wearing my flowered purple shirt today. But I mean, purple and orange, orange and purple. Tis the season. Tis the
Zach Dermer 2:44
season. Hey, best that’s one of the year yesterday. Obviously, if it went the other way, could have been the worst loss of the season. I mean, worst couple losses in a row, anyways. With the 14 and zero Tuesday night, which I didn’t watch. Yeah, I didn’t watch it. Like the kids go to bed like 730. I usually fire up. Getty Lee, 14 to nothing. Getty Lee 14 six seven nothing. Yeah, not gonna watch. But then yesterday day game, just unbelievable. The fact that we somehow eke that one out. Yeah, if you can’t make a run after that.
Nestor Aparicio 3:16
Did you see the defense in that game?
Zach Dermer 3:18
That was the best one. I mean, Pete Alonso get Leo Divas and send field. I don’t know what they need at the trade deadline. Look, they want to talk
Nestor Aparicio 3:27
sports, but let me equate this. By the way, Zach Dermer here from Farn and Dermer. I’m trying to get my levels together, and there’s something about like me shouting or not shouting that makes things terrible here. Anyway, we’re gonna watch the game anyway, right? Like we’re going to believe. I’ll be watching the games next week, and they know this about me, right? I can’t even begin to say like if they throw the towel in this weekend, and I was a guy. Well, they should sell. They, I’m pretty convinced after talking to Rosenthal and Kerchin and Buster, that like next year nothing’s going to be normal about next year. So if you’re going to go for it, you got minor league assets, and you’re the general manager going to get fired anyway. Like to me, they’re gonna they’re gonna do something this weekend to try to make the team better next week. I think, and Money Bags is probably that guy too. He probably did his one. He didn’t buy this at 78 to like worry about next year. No, I don’t say
Zach Dermer 4:27
he didn’t spend 155 million on P to just throw it in the towel just because they’re two games back. I mean that’s just because baseball, the American League’s so mediocre. But
Nestor Aparicio 4:35
take advantage of it. Yeah,
Zach Dermer 4:36
they’re close. I hear
Nestor Aparicio 4:37
some of your competitors are mediocre. What are they happy with that? Yeah,
Zach Dermer 4:39
mediocre at best. But
Nestor Aparicio 4:41
I hope your HVAC, and this is very serious business, that you do HVAC better than they do defense. You
Zach Dermer 4:46
certainly do. I mean, that’s just that’s all I have to say. But that’s,
Nestor Aparicio 4:49
I mean, it’s the small stuff, and it it makes a huge difference. Obviously, the product in the field has been terrible. It’s the small stuff that we do that sets us apart from these big, huge PE back. Now that I know that, like I met your your family and the kind of family you’re from, you’re you’re kind of taught the fundamentals and the right way to do things. Why is it? I mean, I got a salad from the Kitchener Acosta’s. It’s the same salad I’ve been getting, very consistent. I got a crab cake. I got mine fried. You got yours broiled, bougie. Don’t tell my GBMC sponsors. I got to fry it again. I keep, I keep admitting to my sins on the air. You know, on tape, worse. But I, the baseball thing to me, the extension and this part of it were like, are you going to be relevant in August when the football thing happens, this is my 28th anniversary this week, so I’m celebrating a little bit. 28 years. I’m trying to think of how many years in September the Orioles have made us pay attention to them, waiting for the Ravens, and the Ravens played September 13th this year, it’s like later than it’s ever been, right? So I just want there to be that conversion of like baseball meets football, and you had Pastor Oli on this week. He is sideways about how they spent six years not competing, not even trying, knowing in just throwing it away, knowing last December there would be no September this year, when you get into this environment where you have a new owner, Angelos is dead. We have all these young players stunk for a long time. There’s a strike now. Like all these things happening, like if they’re going to put their foot down and really try to make up five or six games so they can win 87 games, so we can have playoff baseball here in October. I want them to do that.
Zach Dermer 6:44
Might as well do it. Make it more interesting for fans. Maybe they can fill the seats a little bit more. Maybe not. F
Nestor Aparicio 6:51
them draft picks is what I say.
Zach Dermer 6:52
Yeah, except I mean, live for today. I mean, play and win.
Nestor Aparicio 6:56
Smoke them while you got them.
Zach Dermer 6:57
Yeah. I mean, hey,
Nestor Aparicio 6:58
I’ll use. I put that in my AI and try to work that out. Yeah, I
Zach Dermer 7:00
mean they’re in it, so they might as well go for it. Yeah, but you don’t
Nestor Aparicio 7:03
have any hope that they’re going to win the World Series.
Zach Dermer 7:05
Maybe a false offense. I mean, Gunner Henderson, if he gets hot, you never know. He’s obviously been below par for all the season, pretty much. Jackson Holiday’s playing well castle on
Nestor Aparicio 7:18
three different positions. If we
Zach Dermer 7:20
get a catcher back. I mean, it’s kind of it’s gonna be hard. One or both, though, or you know, Chad Tromp. I mean, they’re you don’t expect them to be good, but they need to be at least adequate.
Nestor Aparicio 7:30
They got to get a bullpen on next week.
Zach Dermer 7:32
Yeah, I mean that’s held together. I mean, yesterday need more. You need more. There’s never enough arms, and well, that’s
Nestor Aparicio 7:40
where everybody’s gonna get fleeced this weekend.
Zach Dermer 7:43
Yeah, I mean, I
Nestor Aparicio 7:44
saw Andrew Miller last week up in Philadelphia running around. I’m thinking that’s exactly the kind of fleecing that if you’ve got a difference maker in the bullpen right now, I’d feel a little better about the seventh, eighth inning. I mean, especially with Helsley being out, right? Like Helsley’s not coming. They need, if you believe, if you believe they needed that in March, you have to believe that now, right? Because you’re going to win.
Zach Dermer 8:07
That’s for sure. I mean, Tyler Wallace has been a bright spot. He’s looked really, really nice the past couple outings.
Nestor Aparicio 8:15
Yeah,
Zach Dermer 8:16
yes, what was good? Rico. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 8:18
a Cano guy. I’m always Cano.
Zach Dermer 8:20
We just keep seeing some reports that he might be a trade option. Why would we get rid of him when that’s an area that we need to? Well, I
Nestor Aparicio 8:28
mean, here’s a question for next year, and this is really like I guess at the crux for them. Elias’s philosophy has been to I’m not just going to get a rental. I want to get somebody that’s going to pitch me next year, and I’m not going to give up a lot to get a Jack Flaherty to rent. We’re going to see what scruples were for a rental because he’s not signing a deal. For me, the notion that they are going to tear something down to pick, like Rogers as an example, I don’t know how you replace him in the rotation to think like you’re getting something back for him that would look like a center fielder, as an example. Like I don’t know the there’s 30 teams out there with contracts everywhere. You rarely see an is for an is, and Luke pointed out Phillies made a trade the other you know like there have been major league players for major league players. So to say, well, would you deal Adley Rutschman right now for another team’s player that would be in our lineup next year that wouldn’t be a catcher because you’d say, well, we’ll commit to Basio and we’re not going to sign Ruchman anyway, and this is where we are. Would you say that about Rodgers if you could get two bullpen arms that would be bullpen arms for next year and an outfielder, and you put Taylor Ward in that deal. Like getting creative with it, I’m making up a. I’m making up a deal, but I don’t know that it’s going to be bullpen arm for some double A guy I’ve never heard of.
Zach Dermer 9:53
It might be something off the walls that we, you know, don’t even think of. I think getting
Nestor Aparicio 9:57
good bullpen arm is going to be expensive this week. Yeah. That that’s the thing that everybody’s going to be looking for, and there aren’t a whole lot of teams to fleece.
Zach Dermer 10:04
No, Mason Miller. I mean, that sort of gives me a center
Nestor Aparicio 10:08
fielder for Cano right now. I might have to think about that because I’m thinking about like what I’m using every day, and then all of a sudden you make another deal to get a different arm that you that you’ll have next year,
Zach Dermer 10:20
right? Well, I mean, this is the
Nestor Aparicio 10:23
level of creativity that Mike Elias sat on the air with me and brought his dailyness. He might be able to explain some of these things better to me, but in my own mind, I don’t think this is easy. I’m not. Yeah, yeah. There
Zach Dermer 10:34
teams all trying to, you know, get the best of them. And there’s contract, labor, war, all of that. Yeah, it makes a big, big difference than what these teams are doing now. Potentially making every team more aggressive this year, where maybe they’d sit back and maybe do next year. So if everybody’s going for it in 2026, just makes the pieces that we’re going to have to give up to get something better going to be more valuable.
Nestor Aparicio 11:00
Zach Dermer’s here. It’s Farmer Dermer. He is a comfort guy. We are comfortable here in the air-conditioned confines of Costas and Simonium. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery. I have the Raven scratch-offs to give away. I’ve given away a few. Hopefully, I got some winners here. I got to give you one too. This is number 32. O.J. Simpson. We’ll leave them. Eric Rhett, the manager. I mean, and the management, Elias and Albernaz, is there a part of you that really believes they are going to survive this and that they will be a playoff team this year, next year together? I’m talking about to me. The Elias thing is so curious because he wasn’t hired by these guys. He has survived two and a half years, nothing. I mean, you can say a few things went right. Corbin Burns for five minutes. You make a deal here. The Leoty Taveras signing. What? Yeah, fine. I’ll hear all of that. But in totality, this is a failure. We use the same word, failure. Oh,
Zach Dermer 11:57
it has been. There’s no doubt about it. Yeah, Halburn has been his first year, it certainly hasn’t been great. I mean, I don’t know to get rid of him after one year. Maybe they give him another shot. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 12:12
not in love with it. I’m not in love with any part of it. I’m not in love with what I hear in the press conferences. His demeanor doesn’t help me sell the game at all. Doesn’t look happy to be here. Doesn’t feel that doesn’t feel like there’s. I want to hear his best motivational speech. I don’t know what that is. I hear the baseball philosophy or a guarded version of it because I feel like he’s not comfortable presenting to the media. I wonder how comfortable he is presenting to to players. I wonder what he and Basio said to each other that got them sideways, which clearly happened. So just the paranoia of all the organization and the losing and the mistreatment of people, including me and Jim Palmer, I’ll say, and Kevin Brown, I’ll say, and yeah, yeah. I mean, just on and on and on. I’m trying to find a level of confidence for them to take the microphone here, and it’s what I said to the Whistler and Rubenstein and Arigati. If they give me an audience at all, I would say what Buster Olney said, which is they lost trust. And even though we watch them and we love baseball, we don’t really don’t believe in what’s going on.
Zach Dermer 13:14
No, not at all. I mean, and they spent a lot of money. Oh, they’ve spent a lot for us not to
Nestor Aparicio 13:19
believe in.
Zach Dermer 13:19
Signing these guys, Bradish, Baz, Masaya. They’re spending this money. Need to start winning.
Nestor Aparicio 13:26
But that’s Anderson Holiday Watchmen, right?
Zach Dermer 13:28
Yeah. Well, that’s that’s the problem. Yeah. These guys that are supposed to be superstars, they need to play with superstars. And I think Albernaz maybe, yeah, to put your mind in the mind of a head coach is maybe difficult. I think his expectation was maybe this would be easier. Maybe he thought, “Hey, this team is stacked. We’re going to be great. Probably didn’t anticipate all the injuries. You watch the
Nestor Aparicio 13:50
pretty girl from the other dugout and say, “I want that player and that player and that player, and that player is hitting 220. Yeah, everyone wanted Adley Rutschman, right? Like every. I even said the other day, I’m like, if if they wanted Scouble two years ago, they could have had Scouble the last two years. Think about what that would have meant for their pitching. All they would have had to do was send Holiday over there to crochet.
Zach Dermer 14:11
Right. I mean, so this is when
Nestor Aparicio 14:15
you’re talking about the trade deadline and assets and the valuation of that asset and time of service and arbitration and money and weighing all of that and they all stick it into the computers because they’re smart guys. They come out of it and say, “Well, Scouble two years ago would have been a higher risk, or crochet higher risk at that point to trade a holiday that kind of a piece off, but then holiday has to blurry out because Scoubel’s is not a might be.
Zach Dermer 14:48
Scobel is the real deal. He’s 22 years old, so hopefully he will be, but you never know what you have until they’re here and performing the way they’re supposed. But the
Nestor Aparicio 14:58
Watchman and Anderson thing, those guys, those. Guys didn’t flash. I’m a superstar for three weeks or a month, or Kobe Mayo hitting a couple of home runs or whatever. Rutchman was a game changer for the franchise, and Henderson was better than him quietly and younger, that made it look like the ceiling was to the moon, and now I can’t get him to field a ground ball. Two
Zach Dermer 15:19
years later, and it’s like, what happened to these players? Is that a talent? The talent was already developed. So what? What’s the issue? Why are they underperforming? Was it just people
Nestor Aparicio 15:32
wonder this about my radio show lately? You know, they’re like, why is he underperforming?
Zach Dermer 15:35
Yeah, or was he just overperforming for a short, you know, for 30 for 28 years? Yeah, exactly. No, but these guys, Gunner. But
Nestor Aparicio 15:43
once you have it, you have it. I think right. Once you learn how to play the piano, and I know baseball doesn’t work that way, but I have rarely seen a 21-year-old prodigy look the way Gunnar Henderson did. And then, yeah. Well, Chris Davis. I mean, we’re putting him in the Hall of Fame here this week. That apparently had something to do with a medication, like literally. I just couldn’t
Zach Dermer 16:06
see the ball or whatever.
Nestor Aparicio 16:08
And I don’t understand that, although I’ve lost my focus at various points, and I’ve been inebriated, and I’ve been heartbroken. And you know, after my mom died, my dad, I, you know, I know about all of that, that you can take to, and with Rutchman, I think part of it was physical, you know, not being been physically banged up and injured. But with Gunnar Henderson, this is a curious case.
Zach Dermer 16:31
The demeanor of Gunnar does not look great. The frustration has really come to the surface, and get both out in the field when he boxes the ball, strikes out, strikes out looking all the time. It just seems frozen. It’s just he needs to get that strider back, whatever. I want
Nestor Aparicio 16:48
to get Tony Robb. Maybe if I spend a little time with Gunnar, I could I could fire him up. Cal can fire him up. Who sees?
Zach Dermer 16:53
Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 16:54
What do you think of Ripkins thing in all this? Because I mean, you’re you’re an HVAC guy. You’re a big fan of the team. You’re watching the outside. You see him behind on the plate. You hear his kid doing podcast. His kid’s got a better seat at the All Star game than I do. I like Ryan. You know, I kid. I kid him. He kids me. Trust me. He asked me if when a foul ball came up in the auxiliary, if I was gonna go after the ball, and I’m like, dude, my name’s Aparicio. I’m gonna play it. I’m gonna play it. I’m gonna play. I’m gonna play it. You know what I mean? So anyway, touche Ryan Rip. I wasn’t born with the physical skills and the ability, and that same look that Cal Ripken has on his bubblegum card in 1982. But what do you make of Cal? Is it involvement? Because even Buster this week and some of the guests I had, Evan Drelick, like he’s going to be their wild card when it comes time to fire Elias. Right? He’s going to be the guy. Cal’s going to bless the next game, or they’re going to pitch it that way. But the whole problem I see with both of these franchises right now is they’re so into pitching bouja to the world that there’s no authenticity. Did you see Harbaugh’s act with the Giants last week?
Zach Dermer 18:10
Yeah, that was that was pretty pub. I
Nestor Aparicio 18:11
mean, it’s pathetic.
Zach Dermer 18:12
There’s zero. It just
Nestor Aparicio 18:15
and now Sashi Brown’s out with with a shovel with Julian Jones and and Klaus Meyer, and I’m wondering, I pay taxes here. Do you live in the county? What’s it costing me? Just don’t bullshit me. Just come out and tell me what I’m giving a billionaire. That’s all. That’s what it is. What am I giving a billionaire to to house millionaires who may or may not be sober, may or not may or not be taking massage therapists here and doing all sorts of untoward things that they never admit to. So I just think so much is given to these people and expected of them, but I think there’s a level of trust that if you’re going to say Cal Ripkins in front of this, then get Cal Ripken to sit here with me and be involved in front of it. Let’s go. I’d love to hear that Cal Ripken’s really involved and in front of it and has something to say and has something an hour with me on analytics and bring his kid with him, making the junior assistant to the general manager. Whatever they’re going to do, just do it well and don’t lie to me and don’t make babble ads about your owner and don’t ban legitimate media and like
Zach Dermer 19:13
be decent people. Face
Nestor Aparicio 19:14
off. Let’s go. Maybe the
Zach Dermer 19:16
seats will be filled in the stance.
Nestor Aparicio 19:18
Well, I wanted that for the last two and a half years. So do you.
Zach Dermer 19:21
Yeah, of course.
Nestor Aparicio 19:22
You don’t buy tickets. I don’t buy tickets.
Zach Dermer 19:23
So do. I mean, it’s just it is a little bit of a hassle down there. Don’t give me that. The product isn’t. I mean, if we were better, if we were 10 games in in the lead. All right, dude. Yeah, I would be going. I mean, but
Nestor Aparicio 19:36
they deal Rutchman for Scoubol on Sunday, and Scoubol is starting next week. Yeah,
Zach Dermer 19:41
I’m gonna. Well, I’m gonna be away at the beach next week, but
Nestor Aparicio 19:44
you’ll watch.
Zach Dermer 19:45
I’ll definitely watch. No, all right. Well, I and I am a fan.
Nestor Aparicio 19:49
What gets you to the game at this point? I mean, I keep asking this of people who have enough money to sponsor me. Thank you very much, Zach Dermer here for Farm to Derma. That offset. But I mean, you have enough money to go. I have enough money tonight to afford a 12-dollar ticket over the weekend. Or Phillies are in town; it’s 40 bucks. I could enter, yell, throw cheesesteaks at them, and pretzels. I know why I don’t do it, and part of it-and it really isn’t me being a jerk. Or part of it is the game is better on TV, and I’ve been saying that for about four months now. And I’m going to harp on that because that strike zone on TV. I’ve been to five, well, four baseball games. I went opening day. I went Arizona afternoon game, 100 degrees. I went the split doubleheader Astros. You went to the second game, and then I went to the All Star game. I left the All Star game in the second inning. Don’t tell anybody. And I got on the subway, and I got back to my hotel room. I missed the third and fourth inning. I got back to my hotel room in the bottom of the fourth. I missed two innings, and the game was on TV. I had watched the game from my perch above Ryan Ripken, behind Ryan Ripken, in the auxiliary press box in the back of left field, and it’s a boring game. You can’t well right now the television version, and this is not my jam. They had everybody mic’d up. The hitters are mic’d up. The pitchers are mic’d up. The catchers are mic’d up. The umpires got the like. They’ve done all of these experiential existential things that are made for television. That when I got home and I had a 4 a.m. train, but when I got back to my hotel room in Center City, Philly, I don’t recommend it after dark. They say that about Baltimore. So Philly’s in town this weekend. F them. So I love Philly. You know I love you. I got back to my room, and I was compelled by the game on television far more than it was the first two innings. And I’m talking about a $500 ticket. Thank you, Major League Baseball. Happy to be there. All of that. But I watched two innings at the stadium, and I watched four innings at home.
Zach Dermer 21:55
Profit is good on TV. And on
Nestor Aparicio 21:57
TV, they’re trying harder. Yeah, that’s all. So that’s one of the things that really, even if Katie Briggs called me today, Mark Fine apologized, and Don Rovac admitted that I know more people in Baltimore than he does, and that Cal Ripken would say to them, “Dude, let Nestor in. We’re being idiots here. Because Cal should say that. His son should say that. His ex-wife should say that. Everyone should say that. But nonetheless, talking the other side of the room, everybody should say that. So, to me, if they called me and invited me back, I literally there might be nights where I literally would go down and do the pregame, and at 6o’clock when they’re serving the hot dogs or trying to charge me 15 bucks for the cold cut that day, I would get in the car, and I would want to go home because I want to spend my evening with Ben McDonald or Jim Palmer.
Zach Dermer 22:44
Yep. Oh, I mean they make it extremely entertaining those guys. Right. So they really do. So I’m making
Nestor Aparicio 22:49
the case to keep you at home. Yeah.
Zach Dermer 22:50
I mean I don’t build one partially because with the kids and my oldest, you’ll be six in September. So if we go on a weeknight, it’s not fun for you. I mean he enjoys it, but we’ll watch three, four innings, go to the playground, and then by like 9o’clock, that’s bedtime.
Nestor Aparicio 23:04
Six year old.
Zach Dermer 23:05
He’ll be six in September. All right, so I got a two year old and a baby, so it’s like. All
Nestor Aparicio 23:09
right, let’s talk about the six year old. Yeah, what does he know about baseball?
Zach Dermer 23:13
He knows a lot, and he’s actually phenomenal with numbers. So like, he understands counts and pitch counts.
Nestor Aparicio 23:21
I was that kid. Keep going.
Zach Dermer 23:23
He just likes numbers.
Nestor Aparicio 23:24
So he can name if he were sitting here right now and I mic’d him. Unlike his grandfather that wanted him on the show, if I mic him and I said, “What’s his name? Trey. Trey. All right, Trey. Who’s your favorite Oriole? He would say.
Zach Dermer 23:37
He would say Gunnar. And I would say,
Nestor Aparicio 23:39
but oh, maybe people. But I’d say, who were some of your other favorites?
Zach Dermer 23:42
Yeah, and he would just name the roster. 456, players that he’d named. All right, watched yesterday. You know, the game was a one buck game, so it ended. I guess close to 445 with the 12 innings, something like that.
Nestor Aparicio 23:55
He watched it all.
Zach Dermer 23:56
Well, no. So I was at Murph in the office, Kevin’s home, until 420, whatever. Seven to seven right about that. Okay, well that was actually when it was nine to seven, and then Rico gave up. Oh okay, so I was on my way home listening to 98 rock, listening to radio. It felt bad. It felt good. It felt awful. It felt worse. I was like, oh, got to turn this on. It’s nine to nine. It’s the 11th inning at this point, and we watched, and it was entertaining. He enjoyed it, and obviously the outcome was great.
Nestor Aparicio 24:22
What does he not understand? Because baseball’s complicated, and the reason I say I always tell the story about my Swedish girlfriend, I had a Swedish girlfriend in New York 30 years ago, turn of century, loved her, still loved her. She’s over in Sweden. She didn’t know anything about baseball, and I took her to a Yankee Red Sox game, like it was like a Clemens Pedro June night tenant race 2000. I got married in three. So this is 2000 2001. So the Red Sox didn’t want anything, right? They’re at Yankee Stadium, about to get their ass kicked for the 10,000th time, and I’ve got this pretty Swedish. She looked like Britt Eckling, still does, which is not a bad way to look at. Preston knows that, so I took her to Yankee Stadium, and she had never been to a Yankee game. She’s in New York. She was she was an opère, which is how all young Scandinavian women get here. So I took her to the game. She’s so excited to be there, and now we’re there, and she’s beautiful, and I’ve got a crush on her. We’re sitting there, and she’s like, and her anguish was perfect. So I can’t do the broken. She didn’t have a Swedish accent or anything. She said, “Explain to me like how this works, and I’m like, “A ball, an out. I mean, I could say to her like that the gray teams, the Boston team, and she knew of the Yankees grand jury. She lived in New York, you know. But I, I just always remember how confusing that was to try to cheat someone, even an adult. Yeah, you like who wanted to learn. She really wanted to learn. She giggled a lot because she was confused as hell. Why do they? And the questions are: Why do they run that way? Why does the ball get hit on the ground and they have to throw it? Why does the ball? Like I’m just literally like I’m wondering if I meet your six-year-old kid. You’d have favorite players, but I’m sure these are nightly questions for Dad, right?
Zach Dermer 26:06
Concept of extra innings was kind of new, because usually if it’s a weeknight game, okay, and he’s falling asleep when the game’s over. See, I afternoon game in the 12th inning. See,
Nestor Aparicio 26:16
I didn’t, I didn’t grow up all bougie in Randallstown like you. I grew up in Dundalk, and
Zach Dermer 26:20
my dad grew up in Randallstown.
Nestor Aparicio 26:22
Where’d you grow up? Even more bougie. So, did you have a duck fin bowling lane within walking distance of your house? Bougie.
Zach Dermer 26:29
Whoa.
Nestor Aparicio 26:30
Okay. So the way the way I was taught innings was frames of bowling.
Zach Dermer 26:37
I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 26:38
you gotta learn something. Makes sense. True. Truly, a ton dog. education on how to learn baseball. Now I will say this: in all, with all love for my wife and respect for my wife, when I met her in 2003, was the year that the Yankees got their ass kicked by the Red Sox. We were at Yankee Stadium that night with Shonda Schilling and Curt Schilling when Johnny Damon hit the home run in Game Seven at the ALCS. We were like 12, right? Yeah, I mean, it feels like five minutes ago to me, but it was 20 years ago. My wife, when I met her, she went to the same high school with Mike Flanagan, so obviously there was an incredible friendship between all of us. But my wife wanted to learn how to keep score when we met because she saw me in the press. I was still in the media then. I was in the press box, and I had my press notes, and I would bring the press notes out. And you know, my wife recording, we’re in love, we’re newlyweds. I’m a media guy. We’re at the ballpark. I had press notes that had a scorecard. My wife is an engineer, so she’s trying to figure stuff out all the time, and she saw me keeping score, and I said to her, “I’ll teach you how to keep score. So I’m a year or two into my marriage. My Swedish girlfriend did not get this far. I don’t think she, to this day, I don’t think she knows the difference between a ball and a strike. But my wife loved the Red Sox, loved the Celtics, went to Bruins games. My wife’s 40, you know, didn’t know football as well, like football. I really had to educate her hardcore, and that was Monday night football. Every Monday night, I taught her football using stop, remote control, what a left tackle is, what a center is, what a guard is, what third down is, what passing. Like I taught her football, and I love that. I love doing that with her. But baseball, she came out of the box, loving baseball, but had never kept score. And I’m not kidding you. This is true for those of you who love my wife and know that she’s alive and well. Everybody asks. Went into Costa Stunt Dog the other day. Woman I’ve known all my life came up. Hi, Jen. How are you? Jen goes down. We order crabs. I went over to visit with her and have a beer. And the first thing she does is, and I’m like, look at her, she’s fine, you know. But people do that too. So my wife swear to God, this is before free the birds because we used to love sitting in the outfield in Section 388, where I did free the birds. That was not a gimmick. That’s I like sitting out there. You know why? Same reason I like TV. I could see the strike zone. I needed. I needed to go to center field, and I didn’t like those bleachers seats. They’re hot. Yeah. The left field upper deck. My dad had long passed away at that point. He’d been gone probably dozen years. I love sitting in the bleachers because where I sat with my dad, I’ll get emotional talking about it, you know, whatever. But I could see the strike zone. I’ll never forget this. I I left my wife to her own volition before a game. I’m still a media member. I think Lee Mazili was the manager to give you some example of where we were. I went down the locker room, visit with Flanagan, Melvin Moore, Brian Roberts, whoever was on the team, and I made my wife meet me in the upper deck. And we lived downtown. She walked from work. Flanagan left her a ticket or whatever, probably behind her own plate. But I’m like, we don’t sit there. We don’t sit 388. We see the strike zone. And she met me up there. True story about my wife and her family when I. Went up in the section. You have a white shoe on. She was wearing white shoes. She had her pen out. She was keeping score on her shoe.
Zach Dermer 30:11
It’s dedication right there.
Nestor Aparicio 30:12
Waiting for me to get the press notes out in the second inning.
Zach Dermer 30:16
Pretty impressive. Does she still keep score? Well, it’s on
Nestor Aparicio 30:18
the scoreboard now. You look up the score. It’s on your phone too.
Zach Dermer 30:21
Yeah, you still see people keeping score though. It’s always interesting. You see maybe one every 10 sections.
Nestor Aparicio 30:27
You teach your kid to keep score. That’s what I’m
Zach Dermer 30:28
gonna point out. But
Nestor Aparicio 30:31
your kid’s never gonna touch a pencil or a pen.
Zach Dermer 30:35
Hopefully, doesn’t. No, man, I don’t even know how to. I would
Speaker 1 30:38
be so.
Zach Dermer 30:39
I mean, it’s it’s totally. God bless
Nestor Aparicio 30:40
your dad and you, because if I were him instead of you, and you’re like, what are the other kids’ names here? Six, two, and zero. Go ahead.
Zach Dermer 30:48
Yeah, Trey is my oldest. Five, and Jack is two. Jack three, two. Diapers
Nestor Aparicio 30:52
or pee peeing? What are we doing?
Zach Dermer 30:53
No diapers. Very
Nestor Aparicio 30:54
important if I’m babysitting. No kidding.
Zach Dermer 30:55
No diapers. And
Nestor Aparicio 30:56
how’s the little one peeing?
Zach Dermer 30:57
My little one is in in a diaper. Although, I would not know.
Nestor Aparicio 31:03
I would poop my pants before the little one if I had to. Like I don’t know where to begin with kids. And Luke and these guys, oh, you’re great with kids. I’m like, it’s because if I had to teach them the value of cursive writing or the value of conjugating a verb when you have AI that will do it for you, I don’t know. I’m I’m an old man. Yeah,
Zach Dermer 31:23
the way information comes to it, it’s just things are so different. So I don’t I don’t know what that’s going to look like with school with our kids. But well, I hope your kid loves baseball because he’s sport loves numbers, which is it’s exciting.
Nestor Aparicio 31:37
Why would give them a number 410-367-7777? The comfort guys, Zach Dermer is my pal. He is his family sponsors us. If you need HVAC, AC, plumbing, please do it because they get a new house in Westminster, and I’m trying to build a new wing. And they’re trying to get me to a second Rush concert this week. So we’re all in this together here at Costasinda getting everybody here at Timonium. I was in Dundalk the other day for my my mom’s. It’s a big week around here. My my wedding anniversary was last Saturday, 23 years. My my mom’s birthday was the 26th, and Brandy’s birthday. Hi, Brandy. She watches our cat, my rugby companion. And so my mom’s birthday was Sunday, so we celebrated that. Now, now my maternal mother who birthed me, her birthday is Monday, which is august 3, and august 3 is my cat’s ninth birthday, Nala. But it’s also the 28th anniversary of WNST. So parents
Zach Dermer 32:31
are august 4 anniversary.
Nestor Aparicio 32:32
Nice. How many years is that? Long enough to have you.
Zach Dermer 32:36
Yeah, and
Nestor Aparicio 32:37
other ones like you.
Zach Dermer 32:38
Yep. Exactly. How
Nestor Aparicio 32:39
many brothers and sisters you got?
Zach Dermer 32:39
I have two sisters, so one older and one younger.
Nestor Aparicio 32:42
Do they do HVAC or no?
Zach Dermer 32:43
They do not. They should. But
Nestor Aparicio 32:46
how did you get stuck doing this? I always knew I was going to be doing it. You got a crab cake out of the
Zach Dermer 32:51
day. Well, exactly. But I, my dad always, I was at the office at an early age, just just interested in it.
Nestor Aparicio 32:57
So when you were 10 years old, were you like crawling in holes looking for.
Zach Dermer 33:01
I mean, obviously, I was at the office looking at tools and stuff like that. My grandfather Frank, you met him. We’ll get him one sometime.
Nestor Aparicio 33:07
Was he hands on?
Zach Dermer 33:08
Oh, very much so. And he’ll take you to a customer. We were so
Nestor Aparicio 33:13
lucky when I was a kid with our HVAC, mr. Voles, Jim Volz, who actually bought my Venezuelan father’s house on Bank Street. He moved into the neighborhood, and he had a blue Sears truck, and he was the guy. He was the refrigerator. He was their repairman, you know, Maytag, whatever their thing was, right? And he was down the street. And mr. Volz, I love you, like and Pat, his wife, and their kids. Whenever we had an issue, mr. V would come up, and we bought the plan, and he would come up, but he would moonlight, and I get off around. He was a very studious man. He spoke impeccably. I think their family was from Michigan, so he had a different accent that I always thought was was elegant. You know, he he didn’t he didn’t talk like we did, Dan. I’ll be over tomorrow. I’ll be over tomorrow to fix that AC. You know, he didn’t have that. He was very. We’ll be there. Very proper. Very proper. And his son Jim is very proper as well. So yeah. So mr. V will come by and and take care of us. So we were lucky to have like I didn’t I didn’t need you or need to know a guy like you. But everybody needs a guy like
Zach Dermer 34:14
you. Yeah. No, absolutely. Everybody. You need somebody you can count on. That’s that’s where we come in. And one thing before we shut off the air, a lot of people show this time of year about to approach August. Obviously, August on typically. I hope not. It’s been mod for Luke.
Nestor Aparicio 34:29
I hope not. Yeah, I hope not. He’ll
Zach Dermer 34:30
be sweating his tail off. But
Nestor Aparicio 34:32
well, you did get a chirp breeze nicer game out there. He can wear
Zach Dermer 34:34
that. Absolutely. But no, I mean this time of year, a lot of people, if their air conditioners give them issues and they’re thinking about replacing their system, they may take them. Hey, I’ll worry about this next year. I understand, obviously, the mindset is makes sense. We’re saving money until next year, but that system that put off now in August-it’s fritzing. Well, yes, but next April, it’s only going to cost you more. There’s local utility incentives that are available now. They may not. Next next spring, so saving a couple bucks now. You maybe
Nestor Aparicio 35:04
all right. Be square with me right now. My system’s a dozen years old. It’s not my mine’s five years old, but let’s say it’s 12 to 15 years old. Sure. And I’ve had you out, and I’ve done the thing, and I see the dust, and I know how long it’s been, and it’s what’s eight grand, six grand, 10 grand. What am I looking at? Just in a general,
Zach Dermer 35:21
eight to 14. Eight to 14. Okay. All right. Yeah. It’s it’s it’s
Nestor Aparicio 35:25
it’s it’s a third of a car. All right. It’s eight or 10. It is what it is, right? Whatever your hat, 810, 12, whatever the number is, right? How much money it’s going to save you every month? 25 bucks, 50 bucks, because you’re going to get a new system right off the bat because it’s going to be more efficient. Okay. So I’m not doing the sales thing here. I’m I’m literally doing the all right.
Zach Dermer 35:42
The math it does. My
Nestor Aparicio 35:43
issue’s half broke, and you’re coming out now. The repair is going to cost me 1100 14 whatever it is. Something’s broken. I’m sweating my nuts off, and and and I trust you. I love you. Sean’s over. You’re being legitimate. Like, dude, the part 650. The labor’s another eight. It’s gonna take us four hours, whatever. Whatever the numbers are, right? You look at it and you’re like, all right. So the 1400. How long am I? I’m gonna look Sean or you and say, like, am I good? Am I good for a couple, three, five years here, maybe? And you’d say, well, you’ve had a system eight to 10 years, maybe 1618, years. You know, you’re waiting into this, like. But you’re going to say to them, “We’ll repair it, and you’re going to have AC in two hours. It’s going to be 1200, 1415, whatever, 750, whatever it’s going to be, right? Light, heavy, whatever it is. There’s a tube, there’s a thing, whatever. I’m 57. I’ve had a few of you in my basement. I’ve had you in my basement recently. I’m going to let you tell that story because it’s it happened on April Fool’s Day, but it wasn’t nearly as funny as my lock and forest thing was. Certainly not for my wife. I mean, I was in Minnesota. I wasn’t fluff. I was freezing my ass off, but I saw Springsteen. So when you come out, that’s a moment of truth for every every customer’s been there with whatever that device is, whether it was the old television, the refrigerator, the whatever. Repairman Schneider’s at the door. Your dad gets that. I know you never watch One Day at a Time. By the way, my boy John Allen opened it for Mammoth, son of Valerie Bertinelli, this week up in Pennsylvania. So get on that Johnny A. Opening for Eddie Van Halen’s kid. That’s Valerie Bertinelli’s son. Valerie Bertinelli was the one that called Schneider when stuff broke in the house. Okay, you got it.
Zach Dermer 37:22
Yep, got it.
Nestor Aparicio 37:23
One, I’ll sing the “One Day at a Time” song for you a little later on. Anyway, these kids, I can’t even drop proper. You know, Tim Kerchard said to me the other day, the only thing he knows is baseball and 1960 sitcoms, literally. So I’m trying to work one day at a time, late 70s, early 80s. Like start giving good times to you, Laverne and Shirley, happy days.
Zach Dermer 37:44
That’s way before my time. I had a kid that went to college.
Nestor Aparicio 37:48
I met a kid that went to college in Boulder, Colorado, and didn’t know that Mork and Mindy, that there’s a house there. He said to me, “What is Mork? You know what Mork is? I
Zach Dermer 37:58
do not.
Nestor Aparicio 38:00
What did the old man teach you? Age fact. How
Zach Dermer 38:03
to plunge a toilet. You know, when I was 40. Teach me when we looked on. But we
Nestor Aparicio 38:10
are. It’s a moment of truth for every person that they’ve got a guy that looks like Schneider. He’s up to his balls and this and that and tools and and something’s broken and you’re sweating and your wife’s home. So you got a six-year-old, a two-year-old, a little one. Grandpop’s golfing. We can’t find Jay. Nobody can babysit. Everybody’s sweating, and it’s like she gets on the phone and calls you at the office. Let’s pretend you’re not HVAC, and says,
Zach Dermer 38:36
“Dude, this is either
Nestor Aparicio 38:39
$10,600 for the new system, or this is going to be 1450 right now. What do I do? No one ever knows.
Zach Dermer 38:47
No, it’s it’s really hard to know the right answer. But more often than not, I mean, obviously, it’s easy for me to say. Well, upsell me into the new unit
Nestor Aparicio 38:55
because they’re like, percentage off. You’re going to save some money every month on your on your like. You probably have treatment for all that, saying this thing’s costing you $380 a month in PG. I’m telling you, if you put the system, it’s going to go to 310. Like you’re going to get 60 even more. Really?
Zach Dermer 39:11
Yeah. I mean, depending on how old the system is, obviously, if you have a 10 year old system and you replace it, it’s not a crazy difference. Okay. A lot of people have a 25 year old system. It’s going to be a significant cost savings that warranties for you know you replace the system you’re locked in with the warranty so you don’t have to worry about a repair for the next 10 years. Yeah, if you’re repairing that system every single year, spend warranty
Nestor Aparicio 39:32
means once a year you come out and give me a give me checkup from the neck up. Well,
Zach Dermer 39:35
yeah, I mean that’s maintenance, which kind of plays with the warranty. Warranty meaning the unit stops working. Things happen. You call us and come out. Doesn’t cost you, as opposed to. And no offense to mr.
Nestor Aparicio 39:46
Voles, who I loved, but this is better than the Sears plan was. I would say. Well, my dad would always get that when we with the with the. Are you old enough to remember carbon paper? All right, all right. I’m in Mega Show because we all. Was on a carbon paper, little Sears thing at the top, and you had didn’t even have 800 numbers. You had to collect the golden ring. It ain’t no golden ring no more. You heard my East Point stuff this week. Oh man, my East Point stuff this week just stuff. Stuff when they shut down the mall. No
Zach Dermer 40:16
numbers.
Nestor Aparicio 40:16
You’ll never have them all, you young guys. Zach Dermer’s here. He is one of the comfort guys saved my dairy, really my wife’s feet, and really her her her. But it really happened like by her closet. I was really concerned about like her ish, my stuff too. But I hang my Robert Klan shirts up like Jay, you know. So I did that. You know, I had it. But we had a flood, and and my wife like our a thing happened, and it was six in the morning. I’m in Minnesota. It was cold out. It was April Fool’s Day. It was no joke. And you were your guy was there about like 730. She turned the water off. We learned that’s another thing. Learn where your water is, man. Learn. It’s
Zach Dermer 40:55
going to save you. Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 40:57
I’m no Schneider, but I learned how to turn my water off. But I mean, you do plumbing too, but but I guess my point is like, people call you, they don’t do what the hell we tell them to do, which is call now, set up a little appointment, make sure it’s fine, make sure you have all the Preston you need. I know you don’t put Preston, but make sure you have all the stuff you need to put in there, right? I don’t know what I’m doing.
Zach Dermer 41:18
No, and most people don’t. I mean, they
Nestor Aparicio 41:20
anybody’s ever listened to me, he knows I don’t know what I’m doing. I have to trust you.
Zach Dermer 41:25
Yeah, well, that’s where we come in, and we’ll take care of it. And that’s most people don’t think about stuff until the crap’s out. How many
Nestor Aparicio 41:32
people out there like air conditioning in need? Show a hand, right? I
Zach Dermer 41:36
mean,
Nestor Aparicio 41:37
410 367777. We can talk Ravens, man. Thanks for sponsorship.
Zach Dermer 41:42
Absolutely. I got
Nestor Aparicio 41:44
I got Pat Dyer here. He’s running for Baltimore County Executive. Big stuff on the Republican side for all you Republicans out there. This will be for you. And I’ll have some tough pointed questions about running the county. And I really do want to know where all the Ravens money is going for. Why we’re funding a billionaire in the county and the city and the state. It’d
Zach Dermer 42:01
be nice to know.
Nestor Aparicio 42:02
Yeah,
Zach Dermer 42:03
some answers to come.
Nestor Aparicio 42:05
Well, if I were really a media member of the media, I’d probably be allowed to ask. But ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All they brought to you by the man in the lottery. I do love the Ravens. And are you a Kiss for Face guy? If you don’t like that one, that’s
Zach Dermer 42:18
all right. I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 42:19
who didn’t grow up on Kiss?
Zach Dermer 42:20
No.
Nestor Aparicio 42:20
The fifth member kiss right there, the Ravensburg. I had the Raven scratch off Skidway. We had a lucky batch thus far. We’re gonna get Koco’s on the 26th of August. I’m working out a date with State Fair. Evan and Keith are on vacation next week. I want to do a breakfast show over in Catonsville. Also, want to do an afternoon show at Fishmonger’s Daughter, which everybody’s enjoying. Get such great reports from over in Catonsville on that as well. We’re here at Costas and Timonium, not to be confused with Costas and Dundalk, where they have steamed crabs. Here they just have delicious fried crab cakes. I didn’t say that. GBMC sponsored us. I swear it was broiled. There’s no evidence here at the OTB that I had a fried crab cake. I did mix in a salad though, didn’t I?
Zach Dermer 42:58
You got to get your greens. I didn’t even have creamy
Nestor Aparicio 43:00
salad and good buttermilk dressing. I went straight like Greek dressing.
Zach Dermer 43:03
It did good. It’s all about balance. I took some of
Nestor Aparicio 43:06
the feta cheese off.
Zach Dermer 43:07
Making mindful decisions. So
Nestor Aparicio 43:10
these Greek people out here, they feed me, man. They give me that. Let your booty grow. They get oh my god, you know. You met you met Pete.
Zach Dermer 43:18
Yeah. Good guy. Nick wants to feed me more,
Nestor Aparicio 43:21
so a tradition continued. I want to give Costa’s family a little love. I went over for my mom’s birthday for crabs. Don’t get me crying at the bar because I’m. I just want to say this out loud because mr. Costas is looking. He’s staring at me over here. If I open the shade, he’s big as life over on the wall over here, and he passed away a year and a half ago. This is his vision, his dream. So on my mom’s birthday, and I have 100 pictures of my mom at Costa’s with fried crab cakes, which is why she’s probably not alive anymore. But she was 98 when she died. She lived alone. I had a picture with two crab cakes in front of her because one won and up.
Zach Dermer 43:54
Love yourself. And
Nestor Aparicio 43:55
two buds. She didn’t want Bud Light. She went straight Bud that day. Corona on special occasions. That was Mother’s Day with the line, but I went over Costas, and my wife and I ordered six crabs, the big ones, because it was his birthday, right? So we got the big crabs. My wife, she gets one crab in, and the New Hampshire comes out. You know this is gross, right? Rather a cake. Like you ain’t from around here, huh? So we, she did two, I did four. We had some food. We had a corner of the cob. She ordered a beer, I ordered a beer, and I was driving because that’s she drives over, I drive back. That’s where we do things, and so she can drink, and I’m good because I don’t drink much. But I look up, and Matt’s got two fresh beers in front of me, on the house, complimented mr. Kozis, because he always gave us beer we didn’t want. That’s part of the tradition of going to Dundon. He he would ask me, you know what? You what you drink? And he knew what I would drink as he was in front of me, and he would bring me one when I said. No, no, not driving. He’d come by, wink at me, he’d tap the beer, and he would slide it to me, like the Baltimore County police wouldn’t see if I got pulled over. So the tradition continued on Sunday at the at the bar. So we were there. I took a sip of the second beer to honor him. It was colder than than the backwash I had left, and I had I had schmutz all over my hands, you know. Costas in, go down there for the crabs and dug off. They and ask the you don’t eat crabs.
Zach Dermer 45:30
I’m gonna do something.
Nestor Aparicio 45:32
What is the Baltimore thing to say anytime you get crabs? People say, how were they? How were the crabs? Heavy. Of course they were heavy. They were Koco’s. What am I saying? They were delicious, and the first time I had crabs all year. So, my boot, my bougie hands. I should make the excuse. I’m trying to learn how to play the guitar, but I’m not. I wish I were trying to learn how to play my AI. My clones’ hands did. All right, we’re gonna talk politics and Baltimore County And Republican, Democrat, and East Side, West Side, and I don’t know. Pat Dyer’s here. He’s running for Baltimore County executive. Also, Luke Jones and Alan McCallum are here. They’re running for a better baseball team, and we will be here to talk some baseball. Alan lost his mom last week, so much love to Alan. Whatever you do, keep the cheese away from Alan. He doesn’t like cheese. He’s weird. I am Nestor. He is Zach. They are the Comfort Guys. 410 367777. Find them at Farnin and Dermer and the Comfort Guys. GBMC for putting me out on the road. I really didn’t need a fried crab cake today, but I did. Mixed in a salad, and we’re gonna come back with more. Number 32 for you, and your dad is gonna get. You know what I was gonna I’ll give him 30 Eddie Murray Eddie Murray 33 for him now you know what I’m gonna do here for Pat Dyer I’m gonna see how much he really what kind of real Baltimore guy he really is I’m gonna give him number 34 for Wild Bill Haney is that good or for Storm Davis who just went into the Oriole Hall of Fame back from no he was in Chris Storm Davis went in this week, right? Yeah. Who’s Stormy Chris?
Zach Dermer 47:02
I think the third. All the
Nestor Aparicio 47:03
Davises went in, right? They’re Tommy Davis. Anybody other Davises? I’m trying to think of Orio Davises. Oh, Eric Davis. 10. Any other Davises? Tommy Davis was the first designated hitter in Oriole history in 1973. His first year was a baseball fan.
Zach Dermer 47:19
Way back,
Nestor Aparicio 47:20
kids born in 1991. We were born in 1991, celebrating our 35th year on the air. It is our 28th anniversary on Monday, and I’m taking the day off to spend the day with Getty Lee and Alex Lifeson. I feel like Ferris Bueller. Back for more. It’s Baltimore Positive.
