It’s time for the NBA and NHL Finals and summer championship glory for the winter sports. Leonard Raskin and Nestor take the temperature for the Washington Caps future with or without Alex Ovechkin and catch up on the sports world and how Las Vegas has caught up – on and off the ice.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss the upcoming Stanley Cup Finals, predicting the Carolina Hurricanes will likely win. They reminisce about past sports moments, including a 1996 game in Las Vegas. Leonard shares insights on financial planning, emphasizing the importance of life insurance, and recounts the tragic death of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch from pneumonia. They also touch on the Orioles’ season, expressing hope for a playoff run despite current struggles. The conversation concludes with plans for the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and a humorous exchange about crab soup preferences.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Restart and organize the Maryland Crab Cake Tour (bring the tour back on the road, coordinate sponsors and schedule events)
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Contact Coco’s to schedule a visit for cream-of-crab and coconut shrimp (set a specific date and confirm attendance)
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Create the new media kit and collect a testimonial from Leonard Raskin to include in the kit

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Summer Plans

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, sponsored by the Maryland Lottery, GBMC, and Farnon and Dermer.
• Nestor and Leonard Raskin discuss their summer plans, with Leonard mentioning his trip to Bethany, Delaware.
• Nestor shares his experience of growing a New York Knicks beard for the NBA finals and reminisces about attending a game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
• Leonard and Nestor discuss the Capitals’ performance and the potential impact of moving the team to Alexandria or Arlington.

Stanley Cup Finals and NHL Playoffs

• Nestor and Leonard discuss the Stanley Cup Finals, mentioning the Hurricanes’ strong performance and the Canadians’ fatigue from multiple overtime games.
• Leonard expresses a desire for a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup after 100 years but acknowledges the Hurricanes’ current advantage.
• They discuss the Avalanche’s consistent performance throughout the season and the Knights’ success in Las Vegas.
• Leonard mentions the Knights’ first-year loss to the Capitals in the Stanley Cup Finals and their current strong position.

Las Vegas and Sports Betting

• Nestor shares his experience of visiting Las Vegas in 1996, attending a game at Cashman Field, and the extreme heat during batting practice.
• Leonard and Nestor discuss the evolution of sports betting in Las Vegas, from being taboo to becoming a major industry.
• They talk about the impact of gambling on athletes and the increasing presence of sports betting in mainstream media.
• Leonard mentions the potential conflict of interest with athletes owning sports books and the growing acceptance of gambling in sports.

Gambling Addiction and Financial Planning

• Nestor and Leonard discuss the dangers of gambling addiction, particularly among young people, and the importance of financial planning.
• Leonard shares his experience with clients who gamble as a form of entertainment and the risks of escalating gambling habits.
• They talk about the availability of gambling options, including sports betting, horse racing, and stock trading, and the potential for addiction.
• Leonard emphasizes the importance of investing money wisely and the potential long-term impact of gambling on financial stability.

Orioles and MLB Season Outlook

• Nestor and Leonard discuss the Orioles’ current season, including injuries and the potential for a playoff run.
• They express frustration with the team’s performance and the need for better pitching and defense.
• Leonard mentions the importance of the upcoming homestand for the Orioles’ playoff chances.
• They discuss the potential trades and roster changes that could impact the team’s future.

Leonard Raskin’s Business and Personal Insights

• Leonard shares his approach to financial planning and the importance of addressing clients’ concerns about their financial security.
• He discusses the common fear of running out of money and the impact of a scarcity mentality on spending habits.
• Leonard emphasizes the importance of enjoying life and indulging in favorite foods, even as one ages.
• They discuss their favorite crab dishes and plan to visit Coco’s for coconut shrimp.

Memorable Sports Moments and Fan Experiences

• Nestor and Leonard reminisce about memorable sports moments, including the loudest crowd roars they have experienced.
• Leonard recalls the excitement of a playoff game at Memorial Stadium when Lowenstein got hurt and hit a home run.
• They discuss the energy and passion of hockey fans, particularly during playoff games.
• Leonard mentions the impact of the Montreal Canadiens’ home games on the city’s atmosphere.

Kyle Busch’s Passing and Life Insurance

• Leonard shares the story of Kyle Busch’s passing due to pneumonia and the importance of life insurance.
• He discusses the settlement Busch’s family received from a life insurance company and the lessons learned from Busch’s preparation.
• Leonard emphasizes the importance of taking care of one’s health and seeking medical attention when needed.
• They discuss the impact of untreated illnesses and the importance of having a comprehensive financial plan.

Final Thoughts and Future Plans

• Nestor and Leonard wrap up their conversation, discussing their plans for the future, including the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
• Leonard reiterates the importance of financial planning and the need to address clients’ concerns about their financial security.
• They express excitement about visiting Coco’s for coconut shrimp and other crab dishes.
• Nestor thanks Leonard for his insights and support, and they look forward to future discussions and events.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Stanley Cup, Orioles, Maryland Crab Cake Tour, Maryland Lottery, GBMC, Farnon and Dermer, hockey, gambling addiction, Kyle Busch, life insurance, Memorial Stadium, NASCAR, pneumonia, financial planning, Baltimore Positive.

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SPEAKERS

Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio, Speaker 1

Nestor Aparicio  00:02

Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We call this thing Baltimore Positive, positively into what is really summer now. It’s like 80 degrees. I don’t need two layers anymore, maybe one more day of that. We’re going to be getting the Maryland Crab Cake Tour back out on the road. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery, in conjunction with GBMC and Farnon and Dermer. They are the comfort guys, obviously. It is the sponsors that keep us going here, WNSD of Baltimore Positive to celebrate soon 28 years of serving folks, and folks like Leonard Raskin from Raskin Global. He was here, he was away, I was away, he was here. Then we had holiday and now it’s summertime and I’m assuming he’s how far across the Delaware border are you trying to make the tax escape Leonard a mile mile and a half out close

Leonard Raskin  00:50

they have to be you’ll have to be over the line but I’ll be down near Bethany

Nestor Aparicio  00:54

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I know you will how far from from the Maryland line you’re into Delaware there

Leonard Raskin  00:59

Bethany is a good a good read

Leonard Raskin  01:00

you’re

Nestor Aparicio  01:00

in. Yeah, you’re no Fenway. We’re way

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Leonard Raskin  01:02

in, yeah. No, no, no. Mile across to Hope. We’re in, we’re well in.

Nestor Aparicio  01:06

Well, it is summertime. It’s good to have you back on. And I listen, I’m thinking about you the other day, because, like, hockey’s happening, I’m growing my hot beard. I got a New York Knicks beard that I’m working on here as well, for the, for the finals. I was just in Vegas, where everything was Las Vegas, up and all that. Every time I look at that T-Mobile Arena out there, I think I had a night there once. Same thing with the Mandarin, the hotel, and that’s no longer the Mandarin, but um, Ovechkin, the caps, like where, where you were caps going long before there was an Ovechkin. Absolutely, I don’t think you’re going anywhere. I think the Leon’s family, even if they moved the team to Alexandria or Arlington, you would go with the Capitals, but

Leonard Raskin  01:50

be a Caps fan, just less home games.

Nestor Aparicio  01:52

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Yeah, I mean,

Leonard Raskin  01:54

that might be easier to get to than getting in and out of DC, you know?

Nestor Aparicio  01:57

I don’t know, I went for all the years when Trots was the coach that was four years, Eddie Crankovic, and I would go down into that. Never complained about the traffic, and I know you live a little further north of the Beltway. I was living downtown at that tower

Leonard Raskin  02:09

ride. It’s okay,

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Nestor Aparicio  02:10

I mean, the Flyers had their little run for a minute, but like this is where the juice takes over. It’s like Stanley Cup Finals coming up, right? Like, we’re

Leonard Raskin  02:18

there,

Leonard Raskin  02:18

they’re close, we’re close.

Nestor Aparicio  02:19

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It just always sucks when it’s like Florida and Edmonton or something, right? Like the Hurricanes are going to be.. it’s going to be Carolina invasive,

Leonard Raskin  02:28

likely most likely. That’s what it’s looking like right now. I thought Montreal had a shot. I think the fact that they had two game sevens that they had to win and a couple overtime games, it looks like they’re starting to wear down a little bit. The Hurricanes only have had to play 11 games, they swept the first two series, so it’s put them on a on a better footing once they got through that first game, where they had 10 days or 12 days off. They’re playing like they play all year, they’re they’re fast, they’re hard. It looks like they’re going to beat the Canadians, although I’d like to see a Canadian team finally win a cup after 100 years, but they’re not going to. It doesn’t seem.. and I thought for sure in the West the Avalanche were going to win. They’ve been the best team all year, highest scoring all

Leonard Raskin  03:17

year. I

Nestor Aparicio  03:17

have friends that are Avalanche fans, I have run them

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Leonard Raskin  03:21

up.

Nestor Aparicio  03:22

I don’t know anybody’s a Vegas Knights fan, but out in Las Vegas

Leonard Raskin  03:26

it’s crazy.

Nestor Aparicio  03:27

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Well, they were the first ones to plant the flag, right? So I was out in Vegas last week for the Maryland party with Bill Cole, and we talked to length about that, by the way, over at the Fishmonger’s Daughter on the Crab Cake Tour. You’ll check it out at Baltimore Positive, and we have brand new location out in Catonsville. Bill took me out to Vegas. I got to see the Font in Blue, brand new resort out there up the strip. Yeah, so you know I’m out there and thinking about the time, and I told Ryan Ripken about this. I ran into Ryan Ripken. We were having.. are you ready for this? This is a Bill Cole thing. You’re a diner, and you, you travel a little bit. Have you ever had.. I don’t want to sound too bougie here. Okay, this is not like this is.. this isn’t like, you know, escargot, or you know what? A little fish eggs, you know what’s little fish eggs?

Leonard Raskin  04:18

Caviar,

Nestor Aparicio  04:18

caviar, right? Or yeah, which it thinks potato soup, but anyways, um, anything that sounds French is good croissant, French

Leonard Raskin  04:25

fries,

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Leonard Raskin  04:25

French fries, French toast.

Nestor Aparicio  04:27

I had burnt

Nestor Aparicio  04:30

hot dog ends, burnt

Leonard Raskin  04:33

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what

Nestor Aparicio  04:35

in a restaurant. Ryan Ripken was involved with this, Bill Cole was involved with this, so nonetheless, I was telling Ryan Ripken over, over some burnt hot dog, I didn’t eat any of the burnt hot dog, and I was going with the Bank Bank

Leonard Raskin  04:47

sounds, so sound great. The

Nestor Aparicio  04:49

weather was horrible in Vegas, we were there, like it was the wind storm came 60 miles an hour, sand, dust, it was, it was terrible. So it was this night we were out, and we’re talking about the weather. In Vegas, and you know, Ryan’s always talking baseball, and his dad, this and that, right? And he talks about a million things, you know, right? But I said to him, I said, “Kid, let me tell you what. Where were you in 1995? And I’m thinking to myself, “Oh, I remember now, he’s a little pipsqueak, run around with his dad, right? And I said, “I was out here in 1996. It was 1996 June of 96 I was in Vegas, so it’s 30 years ago this week, and Phil Regan was the manager

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Leonard Raskin  05:27

of the O’s,

Nestor Aparicio  05:28

no, okay, of the Albuquerque Dukes,

Leonard Raskin  05:32

oh my goodness,

Nestor Aparicio  05:32

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they were the Dodgers farm team, and they were playing the Las Vegas Stars, then the the the farm team of the San Diego Padres, they had an Orioles pitcher, a guy named Mike Oaks was pitching for the Las Vegas, so I had people to visit, Regan invited me up to Cashman Field, Cashman Fields north of downtown, it’s the old ballpark where, like, the Ace played games there, like when I mean, they were there were a couple of major league games that were played at catchment field, home run derbies, different stuff like that, and I went up there, and it was 119 degrees,

Leonard Raskin  06:11

bad day

Nestor Aparicio  06:12

at 3o’clock in the afternoon when they were taking BP, and I’m thinking, like, they’ll never get a baseball team here, right, like, who would play here, and that. Well, they got domes for that, and I thought hockey in Las Vegas was not a blink or a glimmer of anyone’s eye. Anything in Vegas wasn’t a glimmer of anybody’s eye, because of the gambler.

Leonard Raskin  06:34

Gambling was the worst thing in the world, right? You couldn’t, you couldn’t even speak the words Las Vegas and sports together, they hated the sports books. Everything that was going on there was taboo. I mean, everybody knew that in horse racing and boxing there was betting, but short of that,

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Nestor Aparicio  06:52

Jimmy Degree talking about the intangibles, here

Leonard Raskin  06:56

that it was, it was just totally bad news. Now you got athletes owning sports books, you got ESPN with the network, you got Bet 365

Nestor Aparicio  07:09

more than that. We’re three years into this, Leonard, and everybody’s getting busted, right? Class A out in Cleveland, the wide receivers in the NFL, I mean, point shaving Otani’s personal assistant, personal assistant, whatever that word, his interpreter, and I know you’re very anti-gambling, very anti,

Leonard Raskin  07:31

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I think it’s dreadful.

Nestor Aparicio  07:33

Well, because you save money, but this was more about business and more about sports.

Leonard Raskin  07:37

Sure, sure, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  07:38

just how they

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Nestor Aparicio  07:39

now have three teams, the baseball team’s on its way. They’re building it like I marzy, and then watching the Las Vegas Stars, they’ve already won the cup, they’re about to maybe win the cup again, right?

Leonard Raskin  07:52

The Knights are right there.

Nestor Aparicio  07:54

So this Vegas thing, and you know, they

Leonard Raskin  07:56

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got

Leonard Raskin  07:58

their first year, they lost to the Caps in the final. Mike,

Nestor Aparicio  08:00

they’ve got Linder Bomb, they’ve got our center, they’ve got Tom Brady, and they let him just do whatever he wants to do. So maybe you want

Leonard Raskin  08:08

isn’t he, isn’t he part owner of the Raiders?

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Nestor Aparicio  08:10

He’s making all their offseason decisions,

Leonard Raskin  08:12

and he’s talking on TV about all the teams, he gets to scout everybody and talk about and meet with, meet with everybody. I’ll tell you what. Let me tell you a quick thing, and this I noticed the other night, and I don’t have confirmation of this, but I’m pretty sure on TNT, the NHL playoffs, between periods and after the game, pre and post game, they have their crew that sit and talk, you know, that the talking heads about the game every now and then they have a current head coach that’s out of the playoffs sitting with the crew talking, but I found it interesting, at least my view, so far post game when they had a player on to interview after the games, talk to the players. None of the current head coaches interview or talk to the current players. I think that might be a tampering thing.

Nestor Aparicio  09:16

They might be uncomfortable with it, or more than just in the contract. Yeah, maybe I’m saying one or the

Leonard Raskin  09:20

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other, but the current coaches don’t interview or talk to what

Nestor Aparicio  09:24

network is this TNT,

Leonard Raskin  09:27

and I didn’t.. I don’t know if it’s a thing, but it’s certainly a thing. I haven’t seen any of them ask a question to any of the current players during the interview sessions, which is kind of wild, but to the whole gambling thing, I mean, my goodness, these guys are on, they’re talking about everything that they’re seeing, everything. How does Tom Brady comment? He’s like a color commentary commentator for for the biggest network or the biggest games, and he’s part owner of the Raiders, and like you said, doing. Team stuff, I don’t get how that plays. I

Leonard Raskin  10:03

just don’t.

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Nestor Aparicio  10:04

Conflict of interest in the modern era is just not going to prosecute me for it. Then I’m just going to go with whatever impropriety is to say that

Leonard Raskin  10:15

you ain’t trying

Nestor Aparicio  10:15

that. They will allow me, right?

Leonard Raskin  10:17

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Right. And the gambling thing is just stunning to me. I mean, now you see the odds for, for the game, during the game they changed. During the game, you see the spread, or the what is it, the sucker bets, they used to call them, you know, Joe Smith getting a home run, and John Doe getting two doubles, and the parlays, and all this nonsense. I mean, I’m telling you, I look, if you want to gamble, God bless, go gamble, but there are a lot of people that have a problem gambling, and, and they throw away families and lives,

Nestor Aparicio  10:52

and we talk about this all the time, and one 800 gamblers, a number, I’ll do public service, because I am sponsored by the Maryland Lottery, and I do months of work, and with all of that on all of this now that it’s on the up and up and we’re out, I am, you know, and I talked to John about this. If you have a gambling problem, and listen, full disclosure here, right? Yeah, I’m a.. I don’t look like much, but I’m a dude’s dude, right? Like, I’ve owned an AM radio station, a sports talk radio station, and people would call here. I’ve employed many people who had gambling. If I wouldn’t call them addictions, I would call them as a, as their friend. Forget being an employer, I had concerns about them as human beings.

Nestor Aparicio  11:38

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  11:39

for how addicted. I don’t. there’s no other word to point spreads, and I mean, when I was in my 20s, I talked about sex and rock and roll and sports and music, and they only really talked about like what they were gambling on 30 years ago, I’m talking, yeah, and I’ve met people like that, and I think when I go to Vegas, I think of a guy that I once employed here who used to go out to Vegas on Thursday and stayed on Monday and just walk casino to casino to see where he could shave a half a point or a point where he could get the best value on a bed spread, and then he would sit in Vegas and collect his money on Monday morning, and fly back on Monday night, and if he had a hunch on this or a hunch on that, it was the one place he could go and bet on all the horses, right? Right, because he knew horses too, and he would, he was, he was a professional gambler, he would tell you that he was a professional gambler, and I think to myself, how many of those kinds of people, and his wife knew what he was on to, and God bless them all, and I still see him around to him every five years here, and I hope he’s well, and like all that, but I think in this modern era, the people I knew who were half-assed, I mean, one is, you know, I shouldn’t say that out loud, I’ve had former employees here who gambling was all they talked about, and then when it comes back online now with a phone, I really worry for them, and I also worry that it’s not like being drunk or stoned or dumb or even depressed, where you might wear it a little bit, you know, you may talk to people about your girlfriend dumping you, or about losing your job, that people would see signs of something if you were doing crazy things with money in your marriage, maybe you’re somebody would know, somebody would smell it on you one way, the gambling addiction thing is a thing that nobody knows, it is a very private thing. So, if you have a problem, one 800 gambler, as we’re talking about it, yeah. But I know you’re like you’re really concerned about, and you’re someone that tries to protect, you know, one of the best their future, right?

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Leonard Raskin  13:54

One of the things that concerns me about it is it starts younger and younger, like every other addiction, you don’t usually start gambling in your 30s, you start in your teenage years, you know, these kids that play poker at school, and then they pick on their phone, they’ll pick a race or they’ll pick a game, and then suddenly you win,

Nestor Aparicio  14:16

that’s the way it

Nestor Aparicio  14:17

was with you and me 30 years ago,

Leonard Raskin  14:19

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right? Right now it’s occupy trading,

Nestor Aparicio  14:20

it’s instant

Leonard Raskin  14:22

dopamine,

Leonard Raskin  14:23

right? It’s like stock trading, you know? You get that hit of a win, and you think you’re a stock trader, you think you’re a finance genius until you lose your money. We hope that people that want to do that, that want to trade, lose early, because maybe that pain takes you out of the game if you trade and you

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Nestor Aparicio  14:44

give their money to you or someone like you,

Leonard Raskin  14:46

invest right. Got it. Trade and hope it’s gambling, and so people that trade and win, they then go on to trade more and bigger because they believe they have a knack. Luck, or an ability, which, let’s face it, it’s luck. If it wasn’t luck, the casino’s size you talked about, the one you went to, that’s brand new, fresh, you know, the Lafontaine, and the whatever, the Venetian, and the Phoenician, the Venetian.

Nestor Aparicio  15:17

I like, I like when they call the nightclub excess, because the whole thing’s

Leonard Raskin  15:21

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excess.

Leonard Raskin  15:21

Yeah, exactly. The fact is that none of those houses were built on the backs of winners, except the owners. They’re the only winners. It doesn’t take much to look and see who makes all the money there, and so kids that start young get hooked in this, and they’ll tell you all about their wins, but they’re not telling you about their losses, and the amount of money you, you end up losing over time that could have been in my world saved, invested properly for your family, used to protect your family, grow wealth is just troubling, and that’s the thing, it’s it’s aimed at the young. It’s just like cigarettes, where alcohol

Nestor Aparicio  16:04

is, you know. Nobody ever brings you money and says, “Hey, I’ve been gambling in Vegas the last 20 years, take all the money I’ve won and invest this. Let’s

Leonard Raskin  16:11

do that. Hey, I do

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Nestor Aparicio  16:13

have thought about that,

Leonard Raskin  16:14

Leonard. You know, Nestor, I have had a couple clients who have told me that they are gamblers, and what they said to me was, these were these were intelligent gamblers. What they said was, look, people spend money on the Ravens, the Orioles, shows, concerts, whatever. I don’t do much of that. I don’t do any of that. It’s not my thing. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, it’s not my thing, but I’m gonna spend two grand a month gambling, and if I win, I win; if I lose, I lose. That’s my entertainment thing. Yeah, it’s my entertainment for the year, and that’s cool. When it gets to, I’m gonna spend two grand a month, and it becomes 10 grand a month, then you got a problem, but you got to have a brain about it, and young kids, you know, they’re not there, it’s just not there yet, and you can gamble on anything. Let’s face it, you can gamble on anything. This weekend past we had the Indy 500 the Coke 600 you can gamble on win place and show at the cars, you know, you can gamble on winners, you can gamble on all kinds of crazy.

Nestor Aparicio  17:25

I mean, the horse

Nestor Aparicio  17:25

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racing industry was designed around

Leonard Raskin  17:28

being a

Nestor Aparicio  17:29

sport of king and gambling 100 years ago, and like I would say this as a sports, and by the way, Leonard Raskin is Raskin Global started when I was talking about Vegas, because of hockey, and wondering whether a veteran was going to play again, like if you had the bet on that bet, would you bet that he’s going to play or not? For the

Leonard Raskin  17:47

one season,

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Nestor Aparicio  17:48

you think he’s coming back?

Leonard Raskin  17:49

No, I would bet I wouldn’t bet a lot, but I’d bet enough that if I won, it would be worth it to say he’s coming back for one more year.

Nestor Aparicio  17:57

The other weird thing about hockey is it’s like June 1, it starts again in eight weeks, if you watch the play again, right? I mean, it’s

Nestor Aparicio  18:03

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like he’s

Leonard Raskin  18:04

in Russia, he’s in Russia, hanging out with his friends,

Nestor Aparicio  18:06

he’ll do whatever Putin tells him to do,

Leonard Raskin  18:08

that’s exactly right. Who knows,

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Nestor Aparicio  18:12

politically, but you do agree that Putin controls good

Leonard Raskin  18:15

friends, they’re good friends, you know, he’s a good friend of his, so he’s over there hanging.

Nestor Aparicio  18:19

I do know the Russian government doesn’t work the way ours does. I get it, I

Leonard Raskin  18:22

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get it. So, I don’t know if he could tell him what to do, but, but I think if he wants him to stick around and play in Russia, so that Putin can score eight goals in a game while he’s playing with them, you know, he might. But I think he’ll be back for one more. I think the Caps have to show him, Leon’s has to show him in the next month or so, that he brought in one or two guys that they can make his last run,

Nestor Aparicio  18:45

so they can be the eight seat. You got at least PB eight,

Leonard Raskin  18:48

you got to get in, you got to get in. And if they can be good enough to get in and fight, then I think he’s back. If they don’t prove to him that there’s really a real, real shot at it, then I think he just goes off to drinking vodka in Russia, and stays over there, and gets fat.

Nestor Aparicio  19:03

You sound like Luke convincing me that the Orioles can be a playoff team, because they could. All the other American League teams stink, and

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Leonard Raskin  19:11

Yankees, you know,

Nestor Aparicio  19:13

six games under 500 doesn’t mean anything. With two games under 500 would get you in.

Leonard Raskin  19:16

Not yet, not yet. Look, you get a little bit of pitching back, you get some health. What are they having? Are they having the, the what’s his name, Westbrook, right?

Nestor Aparicio  19:27

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Westberg,

Leonard Raskin  19:28

Westberg.

Nestor Aparicio  19:28

He’s got Tommy

Leonard Raskin  19:29

John. He’s having the bobblehead this week, right? Because they didn’t know he was going to have Tommy John. It’s terrible. It’s terrible. You look at the number of players hurt. It’s crazy, but my goodness, to watch them play an extra inning game and pull out a miracle extra inning, scoring, I don’t know, 100 runs in the 11th, 12th, and 13th. It’s just kind of wild.

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Nestor Aparicio  19:52

You like the guy on second base?

Leonard Raskin  19:54

No, I hate it.

Nestor Aparicio  19:55

Yeah, I don’t either.

Leonard Raskin  19:56

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Hate

Nestor Aparicio  19:56

it. I know I don’t like it

Leonard Raskin  19:58

either. Hate it. Play the game, that’s why. See, there’s another thing you talk about: hockey, regular season, overtime, three on three. Why they want to get the games done, they want some excitement. Playoffs, five on five, overtime the way it should be. Well, then why you do it in the season one way and the playoffs another way, I don’t, I don’t buy it.

Nestor Aparicio  20:22

Well, you put a gun on second base, the first guy can bunt, he’s on third, then you have to hit a fly ball, and you got to run right,

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Leonard Raskin  20:27

so it’s

Leonard Raskin  20:27

just terrible. I don’t like it, I don’t like a man on second. Nope, if you, if you get a double, you get a man on second, it’s the oldest line in the world, right? You hit a home run, you start on third base.

Nestor Aparicio  20:38

I played a lot of wiffle ball in Rob DeBillius’s backyard when we were kids in the 70s, and we made up our own rules, you know. You catch it off the log cab and you can catching off anything was the rule. So, if it hit the basketball net and you caught it, it was, it was a fly. It was like, like hitting the roof, you know, like catching off the pool deck. We could catch the ball rolled on the pool deck and you went and grabbed it, it’s you’re out, if the, you know, so we had weird rules like that, but even I wouldn’t say put somebody on second baseman on

Leonard Raskin  21:08

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second base in the first inning. Why don’t you do it every inning? The

Nestor Aparicio  21:10

Manfred man,

Leonard Raskin  21:11

it’s stupid. I don’t like it. I think it’s stupid. I don’t mind the pitchers having to pitch to three batters. I think that’s okay, although it, you know, takes the manager a little bit out of that game, I’m more of a classic guy, but I do like the DH. So, what are you gonna

Nestor Aparicio  21:30

do? I’ve never really thought about what I’m a fuddy duddy about, about baseball, other than playing the game well, like bad, bad defense, bad pitching, guys that strike out 17 times every night, like

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Nestor Aparicio  21:43

everything,

Nestor Aparicio  21:44

everything the Orioles have been where they’ve been really awful.

Leonard Raskin  21:47

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  21:47

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can’t catch the ball, aren’t not just not hitting the ball, not putting it in play,

Leonard Raskin  21:52

right?

Nestor Aparicio  21:52

You get five home runs a game and strike out 16 times a game, you’re not an interesting team, not good, you know. And then the other part of that is the pitch, the art of pitching, you know what I mean. See, that goes three parts of the skill. Well, I mean, a five tool player,

Leonard Raskin  22:05

right? It’d be great. Did you see this guy from the Brewers, this pitcher who’s throwing the ball 103 He’s a starter, striking out everybody, he’s throwing the ball 102 103 How long is his arm going to last? Half a season, I mean,

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Nestor Aparicio  22:22

I think we wonder that about it. We saw Batista here, was it was unable, right? Right,

Leonard Raskin  22:26

right. I mean, this guy scares me. He’s a tall, skinny dude. He strikes out everybody, striking out 10, 1215, people a game, throwing 103 You can’t catch up to it, and he’s got a wicked 80 mile an hour slider, knock you out. And I saw him. I’m thinking, my God, this kid’s not gonna last. He’s gonna have his arms, gonna break, his shoulders gonna break, something’s gonna happen here. I hope not. I always see

Nestor Aparicio  22:51

those guys that throw over their bodies, and you know, they have all that torque, like Louis Tian with the torque, and I remember seeing Mike Messina’s toe, like he, when he take his shoes off, he had the ugliest feet ever, because of his push-off foot, he would always push off in the same spot. It is violent pitching. Pitching is like it looks so beautiful and majestic on the mound, but to see Brad Pennington unfurl at six foot seven, yeah. And throw, I mean, it there, there’s some.. there it is a violent thing you’re doing to your body, you know? Every time when you.. when even swinging can be violent too. Sure, Reggie Jackson, swinging yourself into a hole, and like all of that, but.. but pitching the torque on a shoulder,

Leonard Raskin  23:39

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Jackson Holiday, didn’t he break a bone in his hand.

Nestor Aparicio  23:43

Well, that was ham ate bone. Yes, that was that was

Leonard Raskin  23:46

in the wrist or something.

Nestor Aparicio  23:47

Yeah,

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Leonard Raskin  23:48

yeah. And then he couldn’t hit.

Nestor Aparicio  23:50

Now they got to play in third base, though,

Leonard Raskin  23:51

right?

Nestor Aparicio  23:52

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Even though he’s never played third base,

Leonard Raskin  23:53

I saw that because

Nestor Aparicio  23:54

the race

Nestor Aparicio  23:55

called on, they’re like, we’re gonna bump, we’re gonna bump, we’re gonna bump, we’re gonna bunt,

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Leonard Raskin  23:57

right?

Nestor Aparicio  23:58

We’re gonna make you field it,

Leonard Raskin  23:59

right? Well, he did all right. He’s doing all right, he’ll learn. He’s an athlete, he can play. I think he’s

Nestor Aparicio  24:04

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not one of my concerns, but he is the apple of my eye. Now that Henderson’s probably not going to be here,

Leonard Raskin  24:12

Ruchman, if

Nestor Aparicio  24:13

they’re in the can, Mike Elias, who should be fired by the way, he’s going to be the one trading. So I wrote that last week. Well, Luke and I, I mean 74,000 people have read it so far, but Luke and I got into it today about it, because Luke is like, dude, you can’t fire the general manager, you have a draft, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? And here was my business proposition on this, and maybe you agree, maybe you disagree. Yeah, he’s getting fired anyway, he’s the, he’s the old regime’s guy. They let him, they gave him a chance. He’s put him in last place twice. He’s pissed away all of their money and their fan base. Nobody’s going to the games. He’s getting fired. So, that being said, once you decide to fire him, fire him, right? And then make it up as you go along. Don’t let him run the draft. And be the one that’s going to deal Ruchman at the trading deadline, and maybe Henderson, if you feel like you’re not going to give Henderson $400 million then deal him july 30 and get five Jackson holidays for him, you know what I mean, like that’s what you need to do, you want Mike Elias doing that, and then you’re gonna go fire him october 10, and then Luke spit back, he’s like, well, you know, there’s got to be a work stoppage, and I’m like, and I’m like, well, I don’t know the right thing to do, but I think it’s the wrong thing to do. If you believe Michael, I, if Michael Araghetti already knows, because he’s more important than Rubenstein, anyway. Don’t tell anybody, but that’s true. He’s the one that knows baseball, Aragon, or thinks he knows baseball,

Leonard Raskin  25:41

right?

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Nestor Aparicio  25:41

He would say we need to do general manager, Dave. We’re getting more, let’s get a search committee. Let’s, they found Katie Griggs. Let’s, let’s call the Major League Baseball offices. Let’s call Cal Ripken. Let’s put him on the search. Let’s call Cal, um, Calvin Hills, kid, uh, Grant Hill. Let’s get him on the search committee,

Leonard Raskin  25:55

General Manager.

Nestor Aparicio  25:55

Let’s get Kurt, we’ll do the, we’ll do the interviews with Kurt Schmuck down at the UB, like those are all the names of people that were on the dais two years ago that were part of ownership and all that. If they’re going to fire Mike Elias, they should do it today and figure the rest of it out, because letting him make these key decisions, if he’s not really going to be the guy

Leonard Raskin  26:16

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he’s going to be here,

Nestor Aparicio  26:17

that’s what my thought was. And if they’re married to Mike Elias, God bless him. I’m not. I’m done now. I’m.. I am not a hater. I have not been critical of him. You were with me the time I met him, one of two times I ever met him. He lied to me that day, lied to.. he lied to me both times. I met him, but I’m not.. I’m not pound the flesh. I just don’t think he’s the answer, and I don’t think he’s the answer for the fan base right now. I think the fan base, my customers are uppity. If I’m the, if I’m the owner, and I think that they’re going to make that move, because I don’t think they’re going to get out of this. And I think this is a messy situation for the organization, empty seats, work stoppage coming last place, and they’re trying to sell truest club, and like all of this stuff with a team that’s really needs to get up over the next six weeks and play better baseball, or this is a lost year,

Leonard Raskin  27:07

they gotta, they gotta have a phenomenal homestand, this just this 10 days, this this period right now is really important.

Nestor Aparicio  27:15

Luke said seven three is what they needed

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Leonard Raskin  27:17

to do, I think that’s fair, at least.

Nestor Aparicio  27:20

All right, well, three out of four ain’t bad. Speaking,

Leonard Raskin  27:22

start not a bad start, but look who’s coming. You know it’s gonna be tough.

Nestor Aparicio  27:27

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Well, for Lena Raskin, tell me what you do this time of year. It’s summertime, people are evaluating things, kids are graduating, right? People, teachers have a little more time. Kids that have kids have a little more time. Kids are out of school, they’re going to camp, they’re doing this and that. I would think this is a breezy time to evaluate a little bit, and I know the weather gets a little better. It feels a little better than evaluating in November, December, around the holidays, when you’re sharp and dreary, right?

Leonard Raskin  27:54

Sure, the other thing is, you’ve probably got, you certainly have your taxes done, unless you’re an extender, in which case that’s fine, but you should know what’s going on.

Nestor Aparicio  28:01

You feel like you could breathe a little bit

Leonard Raskin  28:02

when you

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Leonard Raskin  28:03

tax your page. You sit down, you sit down, and you take an assessment. I had a meeting this morning with a gal that I worked with for a long time, and we went over, you know, she’s not sure how she’s doing. Here’s what I know people want to know about their money. They want to know I’m okay, I’m going to be okay. And no matter how much money you have, I’ve learned this. I’m doing this almost 40 years now. No matter how much money you have, for most people, they’re concerned they’re going to run out. Most people live sadly in our society, no matter how much money you have with a scarcity mentality, they’re concerned that tomorrow the bomb’s going to come, they’re going to lose all their money tomorrow, the market’s going to drop, they’re going to lose all their money tomorrow, something’s going to happen, and they’re not going to have enough, and as a result, people that have money don’t spend as much as you might think they do, because they’re worried that if they spend a little more, someday they’re going to run out, and that’s going to be a horrible day in their life, no matter how much they have. So it’s a good

Nestor Aparicio  29:12

when I’m 85 on my debt bed, I’m not going to be upset about the three grand I spent in Colombia,

Leonard Raskin  29:16

right?

Nestor Aparicio  29:17

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You know, America one that I won’t be thinking like I wish I had one more awful day on life support or one more nurse trying to take care of me when I’m 85 like it’s not that I’m not thinking of that, I’m 58 I’m not 16 making gambling, like we were talking about, like

Leonard Raskin  29:32

61 Matthew’s 24 and I’ve told him, if I hopefully I live a very long life, get to be very old, and and I’m not all with it, maybe I don’t know, but I’ve told him, as long as I can crack that sucker open, I want steam crabs at least once a week, no matter how old I am, I want crabs, or or if I can’t crack the crabs, I want Pappas crab cakes, I want to pound a back fin, I want. Something at least once a week, where I can taste that crab meat, because I believe inside my head I’m still going to be able to taste it, and I don’t care what it takes. I want crab meat, I want filet mignon, I want good food to the day I die. And if I can’t chew it, then put it in a milkshake. Yeah, I’m

Nestor Aparicio  30:17

thinking, I was thinking about this, like you can go to Coco’s and get their cream of crab soup, and chew it.

Leonard Raskin  30:22

There you go. That’s exactly right,

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Nestor Aparicio  30:24

which is one of the closest things to divine for me is Coco. Have you had Coco’s cream

Leonard Raskin  30:29

of crab?

Leonard Raskin  30:29

I have not. I have not. Well, do that.

Nestor Aparicio  30:31

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Yeah, let’s go

Leonard Raskin  30:33

on this schedule.

Nestor Aparicio  30:34

Now you know, my wife and I swear by Costa’s is Maryland. We prefer that, and I prefer the cream of crab at Coco’s, by okay, a wide margin, don’t tell anything. I’ll

Leonard Raskin  30:44

tell you,

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Nestor Aparicio  30:46

and if it were good for me, I’d eat it every day. My

Leonard Raskin  30:48

favorite cream of crab is Gibbies.

Nestor Aparicio  30:51

I don’t never had that. Timonium, all right.

Leonard Raskin  30:54

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And they have the honey, well, they’re only carry out. They used to have the restaurant, but they closed it. It’s now Riley’s Oysters in Padonia, but, but if you go to Gibbie’s carryout, York Road Timonium, not my sponsor, not yours, they have great bread, it’s a loaf of bread with honey butter baked in, you heat it up, and it’s divine, and their cream of crab soup is outstanding.

Nestor Aparicio  31:19

Listen, I have non-sponsors. I am.. I know you don’t remember this, but you were once not a sponsor, correct? And I.. and now you’re a sponsor, and you’ve been a sponsor, and I don’t even know why you’re a sponsor, but you remain a sponsor, and you can tell me when I do my new media kit, I’ll let you say something really nice for my testimonial, right? Exactly, but like the only way someone’s going to become a sponsor is for me to go and say hello

Leonard Raskin  31:45

to them and shake a hand, that’s right,

Nestor Aparicio  31:47

like so I’m giving a free plug here, and some people’s

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Leonard Raskin  31:51

cream of crab, so when do we do it? Got to do this, we got to get on the calendar,

Nestor Aparicio  31:55

show will be there next month, I gotta, I gotta hit, okay, okay, I’ll hit her, you’re coming to Coco’s, okay,

Leonard Raskin  32:00

okay, we’ll get a date.

Nestor Aparicio  32:00

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Do you like coconut shrimp as well?

Leonard Raskin  32:03

Oh, love it. Love it.

Nestor Aparicio  32:04

You’ve never had the coconut shrimp at Coco’s.

Leonard Raskin  32:06

I’ve never.

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Nestor Aparicio  32:07

What does Coco start with?

Leonard Raskin  32:10

I get it.

Nestor Aparicio  32:10

Coco,

Leonard Raskin  32:11

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I get it.

Nestor Aparicio  32:12

Coco not never been Coco.

Leonard Raskin  32:14

Never been.

Nestor Aparicio  32:15

It’s got raspberry jalapeno dipping sauce.

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Leonard Raskin  32:18

I’m all set.

Nestor Aparicio  32:20

All right, let’s make sure you didn’t dislike jalapenos.

Leonard Raskin  32:22

No, sounds delicious.

Nestor Aparicio  32:24

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Same stuff that they put on the on the waffles over at State Fair in case for a skinny guy who’s got an A one, you know, and I’m talking about cream of crab soup here, and whatever, but like I’m trying to get,

Leonard Raskin  32:37

I’m

Nestor Aparicio  32:38

trying to get bite your sons. All right, so last thing I wrote this down from the beginning of the conversation, because started with hockey. Yeah, you’re a hockey guy, and it’s Family Cup Week, and I’m growing a hockey beard, even though I just didn’t shave during the holiday. I’ve been working on this AI, and I’ve been working on a project, and pulling my hair out, and having fun with it. Do you remember where you were when you heard the loudest roar of a crowd, not pumping in the Jack White song or pumping in, you know, two live crew into a Memorial State, I, you know, even the O in Memorial Stadium, which was thunderous, we were kids with Wild Bill, or whatever, yeah, do you remember a roar of a crap? People will tell you the Delman Young double. Were you at the game that day?

Leonard Raskin  33:26

Yeah, yeah, I was. Okay,

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Nestor Aparicio  33:27

people would tell you at that game that they would remember that.

Leonard Raskin  33:31

Absolutely,

Nestor Aparicio  33:31

I’ve traveled a lot, I’ve been a million places. Like, I’m not putting concerts in this because John Allen Stan, the child’s played m3 three years ago, was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. It was just too loud, but from a fan standpoint,

Leonard Raskin  33:45

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yep,

Nestor Aparicio  33:45

you never forget it, right? Right, I was in the upper deck in Raleigh, North Carolina,

Leonard Raskin  33:52

okay,

Nestor Aparicio  33:52

at the Stanley Cup Finals of 2005 maybe it was the, it was the Calgary Flames were playing the Carolina Panthers, and I got hurricanes. They had just gotten there, kind of, sort of short at that time. And my cousin lives in Raleigh. His boy was a little boy then. His boy’s a grown ass. It was 22 years, right? So, you know, his boy’s 30 years old now, or whatever. But I have pictures of us, and I was in that rink, and I’d have to look the game up. I think it was game one or two, and it was one of those games where, like, the first three goals happened for the good guys or the bad guys. Then there were three others that came back – was three nothing, three another, four nothing. I’ve never heard a building all of these years later, louder than it was that moment, and maybe they had horn going off in the red lights and all the stuff that they do at a hockey game, but I remember that, and I’m thinking to myself, they go to the Stanley Cup finals because they’re on the cusp of doing that, whenever Carolina Hurricanes, I’ve been to several games down there, I went to a playoff game down there, had a girlfriend down there, great place. You know, maybe turn of the century, so I mean, I’ve been, I’ve seen the Eagles there, I’ve seen Bruce Springsteen play Stolen Car there, so, and point blank there, but so I’ve been to that building, and I don’t know what about it, but I remember a moment in time, and anytime I see the Carolina Hurricanes, and I see that little hurricane thing, I think, man, that would, that place was on fire 20 years ago for hockey in the triangle, and they’re gonna have a chance

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Leonard Raskin  35:24

coming again. It’s coming again. They’re at least coming back for game six, no matter what.

Nestor Aparicio  35:29

Where were

Leonard Raskin  35:29

you? Last

Nestor Aparicio  35:29

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thing you’ve ever remembered?

Leonard Raskin  35:30

Hold this, I can remember. It’s kind of odd, but I’m thinking back to 19, and you’ll know the year exactly, maybe early 80s. I’m thinking Memorial Stadium, right?

Nestor Aparicio  35:45

If you were underneath Memorial Stadium,

Leonard Raskin  35:48

and I’m talking about, remember the platoon Lowenstein Renekie,

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Nestor Aparicio  35:52

yeah,

Leonard Raskin  35:53

playoff game when Lowenstein got hurt, that was

Nestor Aparicio  35:59

that Lowenstein hit the home run. He had a

Leonard Raskin  36:02

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home run

Leonard Raskin  36:02

when he got hurt, and they were carrying him off.

Nestor Aparicio  36:04

Yeah, but that wasn’t a playoff game, that was regular season game

Leonard Raskin  36:07

regular season. I was at that game, and then he, you know, he did this. Yeah, the place went nuts. I think that’s the loudest I’ve heard Memorial Stadium when he jumped. You remember that, being real?

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Nestor Aparicio  36:19

I don’t know

Nestor Aparicio  36:20

whether it’s really loud. Hey, you and I at the Capitol Center, remember they always had that loud meter.

Leonard Raskin  36:25

Oh yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  36:25

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and when it would go to the third digit, caps games were really loud,

Leonard Raskin  36:30

absolutely in that building. Absolutely not so much in the new building, although they get, they get kind of crazy. But

Speaker 1  36:35

that’s the thing

Nestor Aparicio  36:35

about hockey, hockey gets loud like that.

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Leonard Raskin  36:38

Absolutely,

Leonard Raskin  36:38

it’s a, it’s a thing, if you, I imagine the Montreal Arena right now, they’re, they’re probably going crazy these nights in Montreal, for sure. That place hasn’t

Nestor Aparicio  36:49

seen, wouldn’t it?

Leonard Raskin  36:49

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That place, it would be great to see.

Nestor Aparicio  36:51

Well, seeing the Knicks fans added seventh and 34th the other night when they swept. I mean, I’ve been on that corner 1000 times, on that corner a week ago, and, and like seeing that, I mean, the Knicks, well, since the

Leonard Raskin  37:04

last century,

Nestor Aparicio  37:05

they have them once it’s pissed off my father

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Leonard Raskin  37:07

since the last century,

Nestor Aparicio  37:09

Willis Reed and Clyde

Leonard Raskin  37:11

Busher, right? What year was that?

Nestor Aparicio  37:13

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Bradley,

Leonard Raskin  37:14

that’s a long time ago.

Nestor Aparicio  37:16

I have a 1971 New York Knicks belt buckle, that’s probably about

Leonard Raskin  37:20

when they won last,

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Nestor Aparicio  37:21

I think it’s worth $6 maybe it’s worth seven now that they’re in the NBA finals. Letter Raskin is here, he manages money,

Leonard Raskin  37:27

Hall of Fame.

Nestor Aparicio  37:27

There you go, he is the American Dream guy. You can find him at a Raskin Global. Any advice, any party shot? You’re all good finals.

Leonard Raskin  37:34

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The only thing I would say, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention Kyle Busch, the passing of Kyle Busch in the NASCAR circuit, 41 years old, young guy, a lot of news. He was in the news a lot last year that you wouldn’t have known, or most people wouldn’t have known. He filed a lawsuit against a major life insurance company, claiming that there was fraud perpetrated against he and his wife, they paid millions of dollars of life insurance premiums and did not get what they were promised relative to the policy and its structure. As a result, they settled out of court, or in court, out of court. It’s a major multi million dollar settlement. Kyle Busch was somebody that was infamous for being rowdy, crazy, you know, fired up dude on the track. He was a winner’s winner. He won more races in NASCAR across the circus than anybody in history. Maybe nobody will ever touch that record. Who knows? 41 years old, married, two children, I think 11 and six or seven, his daughter, young. What I do know is Kyle prepared his family, even though that debacle happened, had I’m sure multi millions of dollars of life insurance to take care of his family. Think about this: a 41 year old man in the prime, prime, high prime of his career, with millions of dollars ahead of him to potentially earn, carried multi millions of dollars, 20, 3040, I don’t know the number, millions of dollars of life insurance to make sure that if he passed, because he thought it could happen in an accident, in a race to take care of his family, if and yet what took him out was pneumonia, I think. If I remember correctly, I think that was Jim Henson, same same thing. Didn’t see the doctor, didn’t get treated soon enough. Sadly, 41 an invincible race car driver, by the time he was treated, it had gone septic and his body shut down, and he died in 24 hours, you know. I had, I had bronchitis before I left for Europe. I went to the doctor, they prescribed me all kinds of stuff. They told me to be really careful going overseas.

Nestor Aparicio  39:51

You were

Nestor Aparicio  39:52

sick, dude. I talked worried about you. Yeah,

Leonard Raskin  39:54

I mean,

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Leonard Raskin  39:54

I was hacking up a half a lung, I know, and I was taking steroids, I was taking all kinds of medication, I was doing in. Inhaler, breathing all you know, every day, four times a day, and I think ain’t nothing to screw around with. The guy didn’t die on the racetrack, he died in a hospital bed, sadly, of untreated last phase, you know, last stage pneumonia. Really sad, really horrible. You got to take care of yourself, you know, us guys more than women, us guys, when we get sick, we don’t go to the doctor, it’s just a little thing, it’s a cold, we’ll get over it. When you’re hacking up blood, it’s not a little cold, you can’t get over it.

Nestor Aparicio  40:30

Well, you’re making a case for my partners at GBMC, and they got me in. I had a colonoscopy six months ago that I had talked on the air about for 25 years and never did, and then I got my, I got my blood, they pricked me up, and then the next day she wrote to me, she’s like, “Hey, I’m seeing some things I’m worried about, you want to lay off the fried food? I mean, it wasn’t a, you know, a slapping, more like, right, hey dude, you’re 57 don’t act like you’re 27

Leonard Raskin  40:54

that’s right,

Nestor Aparicio  40:54

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you know, and in the ensuing weeks I have now turned down French fries at Pizza John’s with gravy, twice. I have, like, literally, I started to do, I started to, like, change a little bit, just a little bit.

Leonard Raskin  41:08

But we’re going, whatever, in the morning, coconut shrimp, we’re doing that.

Nestor Aparicio  41:11

We are going to do that. I’m telling you right now, can she broil the coconut? I’m just making that up. Um, he has led a rascal, he’s rasping global in moderation for everything out there, including your gambling habits. If you have such our friends at the Maryland Lottery, give me the Maryland Treasure to give away. We’re gonna be doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. The aforementioned GBMC folks are part of that, as well as our friends at Farnham and Derby. They are the comfort guys. Hopefully, the weather will stay San Diego nice here for a couple of days. Just give me a couple of 7274 78 right before it rolls in here, and while that’s happening, make sure, like, you’re checking your life insurance and your policies, and knowing where your money is, you know where your HVAC is as well. With our friends at Farm and Dermer, I am Nestor, we are WNST AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. The Orioles will remain under 500 and I will remain unshaven. I’m not going to make that up. If I do that

Leonard Raskin  42:05

whole season,

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Nestor Aparicio  42:06

yeah, I’ll look like Big John Studd by October. Rip Van Winkle backs for more, 43 years, Baltimore positive, I.