Paid Advertisement

baseball season

Arts and Entertainment, Business, C-Suite, Community, Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Local, Marketing, Maryland Lottery, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Ravens, Sports, Sports News

Fall fun, purple winners and new games

As the Home Run Riches seasons winds up and the Ravens scratch-off season kicks into full gear, Senior Advisor John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings Nestor into October ready to win and learn about some new games and ways to win.

New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro joins Nestor to share stories of sports passion and friendship with late Ernie Accorsi

We’re not the only ones who loved the late, great Ernie Accorsi. His roots in Hershey and love of Baltimore sports and his journey through Art Modell’s Browns in Cleveland to the Giants of New York and George Young led him to New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro, who joins Nestor to share stories of their mutual sports passion and friendship with one of the greatest guys we ever met…

Arts and Entertainment, Baltimore Positive Classic, Business, C-Suite, Community, Featured, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Local, Local, More Sports, National, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Ravens, Remember That Time, Sports, Sports News, WNST Classic

The loss of Ernie Accorsi and what he meant to us in Baltimore

We’re not the only ones who loved the late, great Ernie Accorsi. His roots in Hershey and love of Baltimore sports and his journey through Art Modell’s Browns in Cleveland to the Giants of New York and George Young led him to New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro, who joins Nestor to share stories of their mutual sports passion and friendship with one of the greatest guys we ever met…

Featured, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Local, Luke Jones, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

What’s next for Orioles and Elias when this train wreck season ends?

As the baseball season winds down and the Orioles continue to flop at the bottom end of a weak AL Wild Card chase, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss all of the pending baseball issues in Birdland and question why in the world Mike Elias would be allowed to continue to run the operation.

Arts and Entertainment, Business, C-Suite, Community, Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Local, Marketing, Maryland Lottery, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Ravens, Sports, Sports News, Technology

Scratching off a new Ravens season with big purple prizes

Are you ready for football season? Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery helps Nestor roll out a new season of Ravens scratchoffs and big purple prizes on and off the field as we welcome the boys back onto the field for the fall.

Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to wrap up World Cup marathon and talk about summer savings and doings

The old people among us have been hearing all of our lives about how soccer was the biggest sport in the world and that it would soon own the American youth and soul. Well, we’re not quite there but Leonard Raskin and Nestor admit to the World Cup lure and draw and ability to enrapture our country – well, at least until the real football season begins next week.

Business, C-Suite, Featured, Journalism & Media, Leonard Raskin, Local, Local, Marketing, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

Soccer (finally) put a kick into America culture for a month

The old people among us have been hearing all of our lives about how soccer was the biggest sport in the world and that it would soon own the American youth and soul. Well, we’re not quite there but Leonard Raskin and Nestor admit to the World Cup lure and draw and ability to enrapture our country – well, at least until the real football season begins next week.

Casper Wells joins Howard Scher and Luke for summer baseball huddle on Orioles and MLB progress

What’s it like to hit a home run off Andy Pettite at Yankee Stadium on Mother’s Day after your mom asks you to hit one? Let our pal and former MLB player Casper Wells tell you his best baseball party story as summer baseball chatter heats up with Howard Scher and Luke Jones in a summer huddle about the Orioles and progress at Greenmount Station on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Arts and Entertainment, Baltimore Positive Classic, Business, C-Suite, Celebrities, Community, Crab Cake Tour, Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Local, Marketing, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Remember That Time, Sports, Sports News

The enduring power of telling the kids about the time you hit that home run at Yankee Stadium

What’s it like to hit a home run off Andy Pettite at Yankee Stadium on Mother’s Day after your mom asks you to hit one? Let our pal and former MLB player Casper Wells tell you his best baseball party story as summer baseball chatter heats up with Howard Scher and Luke Jones in a summer huddle about the Orioles and progress at Greenmount Station on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

Author Tim Wendel returns to rock some music talk and baseball lore with Nestor as seasons change

After knowing author and longtime baseball insider Tim Wendel over four decades, Nestor finds out that before all of the fiction there were the facts about being a rock music critic in the early 1980s in Buffalo. The newspaper reporter journey to a sequel to Rebel Falls, our favorite Writer in Residence returns from Virginia to rock some music talk and baseball lore with Nestor as the seasons change and the game changes even more than we realize.

Arts and Entertainment, Authors and Books, Business, Education, Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Marketing, More Sports, Music, Music Classic, National, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Remember That Time, Sports, Sports News

Serving post High Heat baseball life, rock music and fiction with author Tim Wendel

After knowing author and longtime baseball insider Tim Wendel over four decades, Nestor finds out that before all of the fiction there were the facts about being a rock music critic in the early 1980s in Buffalo. The newspaper reporter journey to a sequel to Rebel Falls, our favorite Writer in Residence returns from Virginia to rock some music talk and baseball lore with Nestor as the seasons change and the game changes even more than we realize.

Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Luke Jones, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

What will neon lights and radiating bats of New York mean for Orioles in The Bronx?

It’s showtime on Broadway for the up-and-down Baltimore Orioles as four games in The Bronx with the Pinestripers will test their mettle for a spring awakening. Luke Jones and Nestor preview the Birds big weekend and a bright lights series with the Yankees in New York. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of…

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss Orioles Magic of Monday comeback win over Diamondbacks at Camden Yards

“Every night there’s a different star, that’s the magic of Orioles baseball…” It’s not every night that the Baltimore Orioles will battle back from a 7-1 deficit to win but when they do, it makes baseball fun again at Camden Yards. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the old-school Orioles Magic of Monday night’s comeback win over Diamondbacks and the star power of Jeremiah Jackson and Pete Alonso to make an early-season memory for Birds fans.

Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Luke Jones, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

A little Monday night Orioles Magic at The Yard

“Every night there’s a different star, that’s the magic of Orioles baseball…” It’s not every night that the Baltimore Orioles will battle back from a 7-1 deficit to win but when they do, it makes baseball fun again at Camden Yards. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the old-school Orioles Magic of Monday night’s comeback win over Diamondbacks and the star power of Jeremiah Jackson and Pete Alonso to make an early-season memory for Birds fans.

Mark Mussina joins Nestor to discuss umpiring, the strike zone and new ABS rules in MLB

Our all-time favorite brother-of-a-Hall-of-Famer Mark Mussina returns to begin another baseball season but this one has been greatly altered – and improved – by “the system” getting the calls right. Moose joins Nestor to discuss umpiring, the strike zone and the new ABS rules in MLB and why it’s quickly become hailed as one of the greatest improvements in the game in a generation.

Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, More Sports, National, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Remember That Time, Sports, Sports News

Mussina: Pitching in on why the new ABS rules in MLB make sense

Our all-time favorite brother-of-a-Hall-of-Famer Mark Mussina returns to begin another baseball season but this one has been greatly altered – and improved – by “the system” getting the calls right. Moose joins Nestor to discuss umpiring, the strike zone and the new ABS rules in MLB and why it’s quickly become hailed as one of the greatest improvements in the game in a generation.

Arts and Entertainment, Baltimore Positive Classic, Business, C-Suite, Community, Crab Cake Tour, Featured, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Local, Local, Marketing, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Remember That Time, Sports, Sports News, Technology

Saving those precious videotape memories and making even more digitally

Our pal and longtime video producer Gregg Landry of Towson Transfers returns to discuss using your spring cleaning to save all of those essential memories locked on paper and videotape and old media formats and getting your history modernized right here locally.

Sports business professor Marty Conway joins Nestor to discuss all Orioles realities with stadium, revenue, labor and downtown Baltimore future


With all of the uncertainty with Major League Baseball labor and media, it’s a pivotal year for the leadership of the sport – on and off the field. Our sports business professor Marty Conway drops by for a primer on the state of MLB and what it means for David Rubenstein and Michael Arougheti in trying to heal and grow the shrinking state of the Baltimore Orioles brand locally.

Business, C-Suite, Education, Featured, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Local, Local, Marketing, More Sports, National, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News, Technology

What’s next step for Orioles ownership to grow brand and revenue at Camden Yards?

With all of the uncertainty with Major League Baseball labor and media, it’s a pivotal year for the leadership of the sport – on and off the field. Our sports business professor Marty Conway drops by for a primer on the state of MLB and what it means for David Rubenstein and Michael Arougheti in trying to heal and grow the shrinking state of the Baltimore Orioles brand locally.

Arts and Entertainment, Business, C-Suite, Featured, Local, Local, Marketing, Maryland Lottery, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Sports, Sports News

Winners dig the long ball for riches

Every time the Baltimore Orioles hit a home run this season, the Maryland Lottery will be giving away cash to lucky winners of the Home Run Riches grand prize, which can also score you the suite life if you hit it big! John Martin of Maryland Lottery discusses spring promotions and a 4-million winner with Nestor as we move toward Opening Day in the Charm City.

Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the complicated complications of MLB labor situation and Orioles role

We’re all excited about the possibilities of the 2026 MLB season but the clouds of labor war are percolating even in spring training. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the complicated complications of six decades of Major League Baseball labor history and the bubbling situation for a salary cap. And what will the role of the new Baltimore Orioles ownership be in the looming dogfight?

Business, C-Suite, Featured, Journalism & Media, Leadership, Local, Local, Luke Jones, Marketing, More Sports, National, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

As MLB moves toward inevitable labor war, where do Orioles fit into the battle?

We’re all excited about the possibilities of the 2026 MLB season but the clouds of labor war are percolating even in spring training. Luke Jones and Nestor discuss the complicated complications of six decades of Major League Baseball labor history and the bubbling situation for a salary cap. And what will the role of the new Baltimore Orioles ownership be in the looming dogfight?

Arts and Entertainment, Business, C-Suite, Featured, Local, Local, Marketing, Maryland Lottery, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Ravens, Sports, Sports News

Doubling up on the original numbers

Big winners report in daily at the Maryland Lottery headquarters but it’s always fun when it’s a million dollars on the Eastern Shore in a fun winner scratch-off person with a perfect plan. Executive Director John Martin returns to update us on all things spring and winning ahead for the lucky ones.

Arts and Entertainment, Business, C-Suite, Featured, Journalism & Media, Leonard Raskin, Local, Local, More Sports, National, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

Judging the Olympics so far…

Judge not lest ye be judged unless you’re in the Olympics and judges play a key role every time America looks up to the five rings of justice. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the early part of the Milan Olympic dreams and the Orioles’ winter hopes as spring has sprung in Sarasota for baseball in Baltimore.

Business, Featured, Journalism & Media, Local, Marketing, More Sports, Nestor Aparicio, News, Orioles, Sports, Sports News

Have the Orioles improved enough this offseason?

As the Birdland Caravan heats up and the Ravens keep the purple drama in the news, we quietly await baseball season and spring training with a long catch-up with our longtime Orioles historian Allen McCallum, who joins Nestor to discuss the offseason acquisitions of Mike Elias, the improvement of Pete Alonso and the pitching that Craig Albernaz will need to compete in a stacked AL East.

Scroll to Top
Verified by MonsterInsights