It’s been two decades of incredible dominance from the moment Alex Ovechkin joined the Washington Capitals. After scoring the magic 900th goal, Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the inevitable end of his run of greatness and the beginning of another NHL season.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Baltimore Ravens’ current season, highlighting their recent three-game winning streak and their path to potentially finishing 9-2. They noted the Ravens’ upcoming games against Cleveland and the Jets, emphasizing the unpredictability of NFL games. They also compared the NFL’s schedule fairness to MLB’s, where top teams often face tougher schedules. Additionally, they touched on Ovechkin’s recent milestone of scoring his 900th goal and the dynamics of the NHL, including the longevity of players like Ovechkin and Crosby. Nestor shared his personal history with hockey, particularly his support for Barry Trotz and the Nashville Predators.
Ravens’ Season Outlook and Recent Wins
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the Ravens’ current season, highlighting their recent wins and the stumbles of other teams like the Steelers and Bills.
- Leonard Raskin mentions the Ravens’ three-game winning streak and their path to a potential nine-win season.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the difficulty of upcoming games against Cleveland and the Jets, comparing it to Buffalo’s recent struggles.
- Leonard emphasizes the unpredictability of NFL games, using examples like Miami’s unexpected wins.
Comparing NFL and MLB Schedules
- Nestor Aparicio draws a parallel between the NFL’s schedule and MLB’s, noting the fairness of the NFL’s system.
- Leonard Raskin explains how the NFL schedule is designed to help struggling teams, making games more competitive.
- They discuss the challenges faced by teams like New England, who started poorly but are now performing well.
- Leonard highlights the importance of coaching, using examples like Tomlin in Pittsburgh and the issues with the Aaron Rodgers phenomenon.
Ravens’ Body Language and Player Performance
- Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss the body language of Ravens players, particularly Lamar Jackson and Justin Jefferson.
- Leonard criticizes Jefferson’s body language and performance during a game against the Vikings.
- They talk about the importance of player maturity and how it affects team dynamics.
- Nestor mentions the Ravens’ upcoming division games and the importance of winning these matches.
Ravens’ Division Games and Playoff Scenarios
- Leonard Raskin and Nestor Aparicio discuss the significance of the Ravens’ five remaining division games.
- They consider the possibility of the Ravens winning the division and the implications for their playoff seeding.
- Leonard emphasizes the importance of winning the division to secure a home game in the playoffs.
- They discuss the potential challenges of playing on the road in the playoffs and the importance of winning division games.
Ovechkin’s 900th Goal and NHL Dynamics
- Leonard Raskin talks about Ovechkin’s recent milestone of scoring his 900th goal.
- They discuss the longevity and success of Ovechkin, despite critics saying he’s too old.
- Leonard highlights the unique achievements of Ovechkin and the impact of his goals on the league.
- They touch on the NHL’s tradition of players staying with the same team for their entire career, using examples like Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby.
Nestor’s Personal Hockey Journey
- Nestor Aparicio shares his personal history with hockey, including his love for Barry Trotz and the Nashville Predators.
- He recounts his experiences attending Predators games and his relationship with Trotz.
- Nestor discusses his feelings after the Capitals won the Stanley Cup and how it affected his fandom.
- He expresses his desire to reconnect with hockey, despite his current disinterest in the Capitals.
Hockey Memories and Future Plans
- Nestor and Leonard reminisce about their favorite hockey memories, including games at the Baltimore Civic Center.
- Leonard shares his positive experiences attending hockey games and his admiration for the sport.
- Nestor talks about his plans to rekindle his love for hockey and possibly attend a game with Leonard.
- They discuss the excitement of watching live hockey and the unique atmosphere of different arenas.
Final Thoughts and Future Conversations
- Nestor and Leonard wrap up their discussion, expressing their enthusiasm for future conversations about sports.
- Leonard mentions his work managing money and his involvement with Raskin Global.
- Nestor talks about his work with WNST and his interest in AI and market analysis.
- They both look forward to continuing their discussions about sports, including hockey and the Ravens.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Ravens surge, Ovechkin goals, Maryland crab cake tour, NFL schedule, division games, coaching value, body language, playoff scenarios, hockey jerseys, Barry Trotz, NHL history, AI training, market analysis, Baltimore sports.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 towel, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive, positively coming at you with the Maryland crab cake tour, presented by the Maryland lottery. And lucky batch had some real winners last week at Cocos, including in the middle of the show when I got my little my little zapper out on the QR code, winner, winner, $20 we’re gonna be doing the Maryland crab cake tour, some new locations after Thanksgiving, but before Christmas, some holiday visits, including with some of our sponsors and friends, including this guy who’s showing me out on the Maryland crab cake tour, but didn’t make it to Coco’s last week on Wednesday, or down to Pizza John’s on Friday. We had just great conversations about a lot of Orioles, lot of offseason stuff, but Leonard Raskin, of course, managing money out there, celebrating things last week, it was the crab feast in game seven this week. I’m sure it’s a vetchkin and his big goal. But certainly the biggest thing for me, and what I do for a living here former we never stop talking Baltimore sports is, hey the ravens, we have a real season here. All of a sudden, at the four and five, and I think more than that, seeing the Steelers stumble on Sunday night, seeing what happened to the bills. Hope springs fall, I guess here for the raiders in November, but, but there is a real season. It was a lot different here a
Leonard Raskin 01:14
month ago. Man, the leaves are falling in the divisions falling. So it’s it’s good. I was hoping the Colts would lose, just trying to balance out some of the teams ahead. But three in a row, three in a row we said. We said, three weeks ago, four weeks ago, we said they got to go nine and two. So they’re three and Oh, on the on the path to nine and two. And so now we’ve got what? Eight left? Yeah, well, six and two
Nestor Aparicio 01:41
8for me, with these three obviously winning on the road in Minnesota was not thought to be easy. We now look at Cleveland and the Jets and say, well, these are going to be easy games. That’s what buffalo thought.
Leonard Raskin 01:53
And Cleveland and the Cleveland the Jets at least, played each other hard, but, but, yeah, I don’t think anything’s easy. You can see that across the league everybody that thinks somebody’s easy. Next thing you know, you’re losing that game. Like you said, Look at look at Miami, where they won in one in six, one in seven, whatever they got their second win against buffalo. It’s ridiculous. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 02:19
when I talk about baseball with people. And I had, I’m going to have a lot of baseball conversations, because I had Greg Abel on last week. I had Ron Cassie from Baltimore, big baseball people, even John Hoey from the Y came on. We talked turkey trot, but we’re really talking about baseball that baseball so unfair, and it’s this time of the year where it’s like, Mr. Rubenstein has to spend this on that, but you’ll never catch the Yankees. You’ll never catch the Dodgers. This is really where the socialism of the NFL and everybody having the same amount of money, and it being punitive to the teams that do well and helpful to the teams that do poorly in the draft, that it does begat fair fights every
Leonard Raskin 02:56
week. Also, I think, also the other thing, other than your division, right? I mean, I don’t follow it exactly, because I’m not that in but other than your division, don’t last place teams play last place teams and first place teams play for you. Play a harder schedule based on your
8Nestor Aparicio 03:15
margins, based honors. It’s only three or four games, but it is.
Leonard Raskin 03:21
We’re playing Kansas City and we’re playing Buffalo and we’re playing, you know, the rams and Cleveland’s out there playing who, yeah, right, Atlanta and Houston and the Jets and whatever. Obviously, New England’s got a different team this year, but the schedule begets difficulty, I think for us, the difficulty was early. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 03:44
everything about it is is set up to assist the teams that did poorly in recent
Leonard Raskin 03:51
8steps right to step up and so we should have easier games. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. Nothing in this league is easy. But if you look at the scheduled coming, it should be easier. And across the board, we got to go, you know, six and two
Nestor Aparicio 04:10
well, like a team like New England that look like a lamb early on, now looks like they’re roaring like a lion.
Leonard Raskin 04:18
Well, they put themselves in a great position. You know, look, their coach is strong. I think anybody that didn’t think so was crazy. And it just it shows the value of coaching, doesn’t it? I mean, it absolutely points out what the value of coaching is. But then you look across the the state, there little bit up north, you look at Pittsburgh, and I don’t know, I think Tomlin is phenomenal. I think he’s as straight as they come. I think he’s a phenomenal coach, but he ain’t getting out of his guys what his guys have. I don’t know what you can’t say what’s going on there. I mean, I guess the Aaron Rodgers phenomenon is, is not what everybody thought it was. And. And the most expensive defense in the league, I think when I watch couple games of theirs, they’re playing like players instead of like a team, and that doesn’t bode well for
Nestor Aparicio 05:14
weird with the celebrations and the and the Me, me, me, and how WWE become when you watch red zone and see all the celebrations and all of that stuff, but you also see body language. And I don’t love lamar’s body language a lot of times, but man, that Vikings wide receiver Jefferson’s got all these television commercials. He’s great players in the Hall of pretty good boy. The whole body language on him all day. Sunday was I was kind of shocked as a fly in fan and seeing the whole afternoon of him getting targeted. By the way, that quarterback’s not good. That Vikings quarterback, I Oh, he’s,
8Leonard Raskin 05:51
he’s a rookie out of Michigan. You know, he won when they cheated. So it’s easy to win when you know the other teams plays before they come. Have to say that, as an Ohio State fan, they did get
Nestor Aparicio 06:05
you never get thrown off my show for calling the hardballs. Liars are changed because I was
Leonard Raskin 06:10
did, sanctioned, heavily fined. The only thing they didn’t do the NCAA didn’t do was take away their national championship. They took away scholarships. They find him a lot of money. They sanctioned their coaches. Mind you, they only made the coaches miss the games against nobody, but they they hit him hard. They said absolutely positively. They cheated, and they were caught, and they got big, ugly hit, and JJ McCarthy was the quarterback, so okay, he missed a lot of throws. That’s good for us. And I think just like you said about Lamar, we’ve talked about it when he gets down, when he has an upset about something early, it’s hard for him to put that away and come back and play in the game. And I think you saw with Jefferson, he he got shut down a little bit, and he got a little angry, and he wasn’t
Nestor Aparicio 07:01
8happy. I didn’t even seem competing. After interceptions, after interceptions, he throws his arms down to not tackle the guy. I’m like, Dude, that’s not a good look on tape. It’s just not. It’s a good look for us. Well, I mean, and it does speak to where the Ravens have been. And the body language of one in five, yep. And the body language and, you know, and Kyle Hamilton always has this maturity about him, yeah, when I see him, you know, front facing. And Luke speaks to this behind closed doors. But just what they’ve accomplished nothing at this point, but everything they want to accomplish is like literally sitting there
Leonard Raskin 07:37
in front of them, right in front of them. Look, we got, we got five games in the division, still five. You got Joe Flacco twice. You got Aaron Rodgers twice, and maybe shador Sanders next week, I don’t know. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 07:53
don’t say that. Don’t say that I’m having my Cleveland dudes on the show here this week. Don’t
Leonard Raskin 07:59
say that. Who’s gonna play?
8Nestor Aparicio 08:02
I mean, not bringing Joe back. No. Bernie Kosar is unavailable,
Leonard Raskin 08:06
right? I think, I think he’s out of the pocket. Vinny is golfing right now, right? Vinnie’s busy. So you got five, you got five division games, and I dare say, five winnable games. I think, I think the Bengals are still going to be tough. Well, that’s spicy.
Nestor Aparicio 08:21
You think you’re if they go five and, oh, the rest of the way in their own division, they win the right? But, I mean, that’s spicy to think,
Leonard Raskin 08:28
8Okay, so let’s say that’s where they let’s say that’s where they eat their two losses. You know, a
Nestor Aparicio 08:34
loss here, a loss there at Green Bay. New England’s coming here. They got
Leonard Raskin 08:38
other games. It’s going to be tough. It’s going to be tough. Look. You can’t. I always, like when people say, I always wonder where this language came from, right? You’re a master in the language. That’s what you do. Where did, where did the saying dig out of a hole come from? You can’t dig out of a hole. You got to climb out of a hole. Now, we can’t dig out of this hole. Yeah? Well, if you got a shovel, you ain’t going up. You’re just digging further.
Nestor Aparicio 09:01
Hadn’t thought of that, but you’ve just educated me, Leonard, that’s why you’re here. You’re here to educate me.
8Leonard Raskin 09:06
The one in five is a big hole, and you need a big ladder to get out of there. Shoot some ladders. I learned that Right, right. Five and five would be lovely, but you ain’t got nowhere yet. But the good news is the rest of the divisions coming back to us. So
Nestor Aparicio 09:20
the real question here is, you wear your lavender shirt. By the way, Leonard Raskin is here from Raskin global. He manages money in the American dream. You can find him at Raskin global.com also find him on the front of W NST and Baltimore positive, as always, um, the competition and looking at the field. And I’ve been doing some AI training here this weekend, so I’m getting myself up to speed and market analysis and all this, you always want to see where everybody else is, and when you look around the league, and not just the division, not just the conference, the entire league, there’s no super team, and that has come through now maybe the rams are emerging as a pretty good operation. The Eagles won last year. The Lions are going to be good. I mean, you. Feel about all that, but the bills, the chiefs and the Ravens, all the stock was down on all of them at one point or another in October, November. Right now, the stock’s down on buffalo, but they’re six and three, whole different position than four and five. But they’re chasing New England, and they’re going to play each other as well. So these divisions will sort themselves out. My question is, if the Ravens handle their business and win the division, it doesn’t matter whether they win 11 games, then nine. If they win the division, they’ll get a home game. Yes, that might be the booby prize of seeing Kansas City or Buffalo because they don’t win their division, A, B, you’d also look at it and say, if we’ve got to go to Indianapolis or Denver or Los Angeles to play his brother to be a road team in the playoffs for week two and three, because you better win your division. They have to win the division, no matter that. That’s their real playing this wild card game at 10 and seven and like getting me in crazy, that would be a bad scenario to be losing to the Steelers, because the Steelers the only other team that can win the division, at this point, win the division at any cost, at any race, whatever you have to do, then you get a home game. But the notion that, like you go to Denver and see Bo Nix, or go to Indianapolis, or that Kansas City or Buffalo would go to one of those places, right and knock them out. And now I still don’t want to see buffalo or Kansas City in the class here or there. The pathway feels different because of the emergence of these other teams,
Leonard Raskin 11:31
and because everybody has has been vulnerable on tape. Look, these guys are studying. There’s they’re looking for, how do we beat this team? And, you know, it’s interesting. I watched the talking heads a little bit here and there, but pre games and things like that, there’s some guys out there. I’ve been I’ve heard the Ravens aren’t going to lose another game. They say the ravens are not going to lose another game. Through the Super Bowl.
Nestor Aparicio 11:58
8They went to Minnesota. We’re four and a half point favorite cover, you know, like, that’s That’s right, how
Leonard Raskin 12:04
I think, I think the Vegas, they Vegas. I think we’re 64% chance to win the division right now. We were favored to win the division when we were two and five. It’s crazy. Yeah, I’m so convinced
Nestor Aparicio 12:17
they’re going to win the division, I wouldn’t bet on it, because I wouldn’t get long enough odds at this point.
Leonard Raskin 12:22
Right? That’s right, but two and five, it wasn’t even long. But who knows, time will tell, we got a couple big games that they should win, and you don’t want to take any of these games for granted. Ask buffalo. You got to take the Jets, you got to take the browns,
8Nestor Aparicio 12:39
when I’m having my last piece of pumpkin pie, two weeks from Thursday, they better be seven and four. And if they’re exactly right, you’re 75 sorry, 75 and if they’re seven and five, they’re in the cat birds position to do anything they want to do, which is win the division. They’re not going to be the one seed, I would think at this point, right? So, or the two seed, they’re not getting a buy, but they can’t get a home game, and then put themselves in a position to maybe get another home game if one of these other teams get tripped up. So that’s right, I don’t, I don’t look at their scenario and say they can’t win the Super Bowl, but I do look at the offensive line and say it’s not good enough. I do look at the pass rush and say they made it better last week, they got it better, and they’ve made the secondary better, and they’ve made the defense better by getting Kyle Hamilton up to the line of scrimmage, and they’ve gotten better by getting roquan Smith healthier, and I think Teddy Buchanan is coming. I think the young guys in the secondary, Starks and Wiggins and these guys there, there’s been some improvements, right? So seeing all of that and seeing that they’re going into a weaker part of the schedule. This is where they should be picking up a 10 point, the two touchdown victory, and they should be by Black Friday feeling like a team we’re talking about that nobody wants to see in January, that team that we’ve talked about for nine months, until they went one in five and started spitting up their lunch.
Leonard Raskin 13:58
That’s right now, let me ask you in game question while we’re on this conversation, okay, in game, go ahead. So I watched the game last series for the offense, Lamar, we’re under two minutes third down. I get it. We’re trying to win. We throw the ball incomplete a minute and 44 on the clock. Why? Why would they throw the ball there? Why would anybody not run the ball the team the Vikings had no timeouts. You left this kid with a minute and 44 and he almost did it. You could have done it
Nestor Aparicio 14:38
hardball. I mean, our ball is what you’re doing. I
Leonard Raskin 14:41
8don’t know who made the call. A hardball call, a Lamar checked out or something checked into something. I’m just thinking to myself, I’m just an idiot fan. It’s just not smart. Watching the game a minute and 44 they have no timeouts. We run the ball. We don’t get a first down. We play you play
Nestor Aparicio 14:59
the market and what. You do for on mitigating risk, right?
Leonard Raskin 15:02
Yeah, yes, a minute to go and we win the game because they ain’t scoring in a minute. You gave him a minute 44 the guy’s running around like he’s Lamar. He’s running for 30 yards. He’s running for 20 yards. I mean, my God, you gave him a minute and 44 to score. You could have given him a
Nestor Aparicio 15:19
minute and he pissed away good 3040, seconds, dirt in it, yeah, because
8Leonard Raskin 15:24
he was useless, but, but I don’t, I don’t get the play call there. I don’t understand when there’s time is of the essence. And time management,
Nestor Aparicio 15:33
a better quarterback would have beat would it put them in getting beat on Sunday, something bad would have happened if they would have done that against a more responsible trying to manage the clock better,
Leonard Raskin 15:42
or against the bills, or against the Chiefs mahomes. You know they’d come down and scored with a minute and 44 you have to leave the opponent as little opportunity as possible. Do you watch the New England games? You see any of the New England game? I did. So how about my boy, Henderson, right? O, H, boy, the Buckeyes are having a hell of a time in the league this year. But he, he
Nestor Aparicio 16:06
8used to be where I kicking the nuts and say, when they get paid enough, now they get paid enough. They do
Leonard Raskin 16:11
but, but he’s running for a touchdown, and he’s looking at the bench. Have you ever seen this in your life? Should I go bench? Should I score or not, and apparently they gave him a thumbs up, and he scored a touchdown his second of the day. But it was, it was crazy. I’ve never seen anything like that, but that’s the thing he he was at least thinking time situation, score. I don’t have it all, but I’m far enough ahead I can ask the coach, we
Nestor Aparicio 16:41
a guy in the middle of the game and in that circumstance, stays in bounds and has the opportunity to stop the clock and doesn’t How many times have we seen professional athletes in their 20s, in their 30s, make that mistake week after week, college, pro or, you know, whatever, college
Leonard Raskin 16:59
when they should have gone out, or go out when they should have stayed,
8Nestor Aparicio 17:03
and we blame the coaches, and we say coaches should have told them that game, sitting this situational management, all right, mitigating risk, right?
Leonard Raskin 17:11
You do that’s exactly right. The The goal is to get almost all of everything to win instead of a chance at something and hope
Nestor Aparicio 17:24
maximize all up. That’s what I’m doing with AI. By the way, I’m doing some AI learning letter asking this here, you said the word goal like and I’ve been doing goal setting all weekend. Here. I’m back into my Robins AI goal setting. But there’s only one goal that mattered, and that was a veteran, right? That’s a 900
Leonard Raskin 17:42
8goal. So, so he came out, he’s come out of the gate a little slow. The caps came out strong, then they kind of fell back a little bit. People, of course, from the outside, watching in. Unlike me, but like me, say, well, ovechkins, too old now. He needs to sit. He shouldn’t be on the power play. They’re not scoring, okay? They’re in a little drought. They got a couple guys hurt. They’ll kick it back up. But sure enough, he played his 15 100th game this week past, and he scored his 900th goal, which is, look, the record was unheard of. Now 900 so obviously now, every time he scores a goal, it’s a record, because he has the record that’s
Nestor Aparicio 18:29
50 goals a season for 18 seasons,
Leonard Raskin 18:32
unbelievable, unbelievable. And he’s 40 whatever, and and pumping in goals just 900 it’s a number that’s unfathomable. And you know, all the critics say, well, he’s old, he’s slow, whatever, but he now has, if you took his goals, I think the stat is only his goals, 3% of the league that ever played would have more points, or as many points as he has just in his goals at 900 it’s ridiculous, ridiculous. And past week, they had a great game. They lost, sadly, too many penalties. Wasn’t great officiating. But, you know, life goes on. They played Pittsburgh, and all the talk was Alex and Sid, you know, they came in the league together. They’ve played against each other now for all these years, both on the same team. They started
Nestor Aparicio 19:35
of the NHL, and it’s poorly of the NBA and some of the other sports that we can be at this point where guys could stay with a team their whole career, that that’s a benefit to the NHL. It really is.
8Leonard Raskin 19:48
Well, how about Conor McDavid in Edmonton? Did you have you seen his contract
Nestor Aparicio 19:53
stay in there? Right? Yeah, like
Leonard Raskin 19:56
nothing. He got nothing. He took nothing. He wants. Win a cup in Edmonton for Edmonton, and he said, I’m staying here. I’m playing here. And he took nothing and so that again, like you said, tribute to the league. It’s just amazing, but, but what’s stunning is to see Alex and Sid still go at it, not exactly like they’re 25 but pretty damn close, hard at each other, Alex. And then you also have, what’s his name for Pittsburgh? Oh, my God. Why can’t I think of his name? Crosby and Malkin. You got, if Getty Mullins played there forever in Pittsburgh, you know, you got these three guys that have been on the same teams their whole careers, and and unbelievable shine on the league, and just just amazing hockey and, and then there’s these kids in the league. Now, you got some new, young, fresh blood, and last two years, number one picture, leading the league in scoring.
Nestor Aparicio 21:07
8Just see Colorado and Anaheim. I By the way, I saw Colorado wearing the Quebec jerseys. I have to talk to some hockey people about that. And I got to get my boy Todd Radom back on. I just had him on talking about ugly uniforms. Recently. He wrote a whole book on hockey uniforms. He loves hockey uniforms, but I thought that was all tacky. I mean, and I’m a guy, or, you know, Derek Henry jersey,
Leonard Raskin 21:28
yeah, I’m trying to think they did it. Who were they playing that night? Whoever they played did the same thing. They were two teams that had moved to their respective cities, and they wore
Nestor Aparicio 21:39
the, I hope, Carolina one wearing Hartford Whalers jerseys at night. Were they?
Leonard Raskin 21:42
Whatever it was I might have been somebody was wearing against them the jersey of their lost last city. So they made it like a throwback thing. But boy, these uniforms, they change every week, by
8Nestor Aparicio 21:55
the way. And I would say this for people who aren’t in the NHL thing, and I’m not any longer. I’m like, it’s like talking auto racing to me when we talk hockey. I went to dinner with trots last week up in Philadelphia. By the way, I went to the Philly four seasons, not the one in the parking lot, the real the four, the one downtown, the one in written that four seasons, I went to with him, and I didn’t get confused and go to Jersey or anything. But, um, I I talked to him about hockey, and I’m around all hockey people because we’re literally into four seasons parking lot, and they’re right, predators, fans everywhere, because we’re in the hotel bar. And trot started talking hockey stuff with me, and I’m like, I don’t follow it anymore. She’s like, okay, okay, you know, I got it, and I’m out of it. But there was a point for me about a week and a half ago where I was rummaging through my closet, and I was like getting my putting my summer shirts away and getting my winter shirts out and in my closet. I have my sports stuff. So I have my Oreo Aparicio jersey, my white one, my orange one. I have my White Sox Aparicio, the cool looking one from 69 I have Oilers. I have my Dan pastorini, my Earl Campbell. I have my Tony Quinn jersey, right? I have my skip Jacks jersey. So, I mean, these are the jerseys that I did. These are my personal I got a dozen, a dozen, my nasty Raven stuff, and all of my Raven stuff, all of my Oriole stuff, my Palmers, like it’s in a box. It’s gonna wind up on eBay. It’s all my Raven stuff’s gonna wind up. Going to wind up getting eBay at some point. And I have, like, ridiculous amounts of, copious amounts of sellable Raven stuff on eBay. You can have the money when I give it, you can go do something with it. There you go, because you’re my money guy. Leonard Raskin, so I look and there it is. My first Nashville predator blue jersey from 1998 I bought that. I bought that at the mall in White Marsh when they were a franchise that nobody knew what they were, right, right? And I bought it to honor trotsey Because they had it there. I saw it. I’m like, I’m gonna buy that. That’s good looking. And then through all the years now we’re that franchise began in 1999 I had this conversation in the bar. So they’re 27 year old franchise at this point, and they change. They’ve never won a cop. They played hard. I was in Nashville for a minute last Thursday. They’re a sensation there. I mean, yes, predator stuff everywhere’s restaurant in the in the airport, like places packed narrow time the predators are real. Brand, real serious. Brand, good fan base and trotsey, back when they were not so good, and they were or 2022, years ago, 2021, 22 years ago, my wife and I got married, we went to Nashville, and I would always go to Nashville and go to games, try to leave the tickets. Fang fingers. I was a real predators fan. I traveled to see them. I’ve seen the predators play in 15 rinks in the league. I mean, literally, I’ve seen the predators play in Chicago, LA, Miami, Tampa, Philadelphia. I mean, I’ve seen the predators play in Detroit. I’ve seen the predators play a lot of places. My relationship with Barry. Is real, like I traveled for years and years. He made me a jersey. He made me a mustard when, when they brought the mustard jerseys in, right? He made me a gamer that says nasty on the back, and number one, it looks like a goalie jersey. Yeah, it’s big, and it’s padded, and it’s and it’s hanging real, and it’s been hanging, I haven’t put it on in, oh my god. I mean, I gave the predators up when he left in the caps kit, you know, like, right? We’re going back at least a decade, decade and a half, sure. And I got it out, and he’s now the president of team, and I’m thinking to myself, I gotta put that back on and go down to a hockey game in Nashville. Sometimes, absolutely I gotta do that. They’re a good crowd. I love hockey. Leonard, you know that I just want to, I’m even telling this story because, like, I have so much blood on the bricks with hockey, and because of the owns this and his prick kid, I just, I just once, they won the cup, and they did what they did to Barry, and they did what they did to me. I mean, I only know, like, I had one of the nastier conversations I’ve ever had with any human exactly, you know. Just spoke to me like I was a dog and and that was the end, and I was just sort of like, you know what? I don’t need to get in my car and go fight hockey. I don’t need to go. I went down New York Avenue two weeks ago to last week to go to the 930 club. First time I’ve been to 930 club 10 years, you know. And I drove into DC, and I said to my wife, I used to do this 1520, times a year ago to hockey games, my love for Barry trots and my thought that the capitals were Baltimore’s team, and I learned that they weren’t when they won the Stanley Cup and lied to me didn’t come and didn’t come after 50 years of support in the team. So if you see Ted Leone, just give him my both my middle fingers and on behalf of what he did the trots. But I, I, I looked at the hockey thing as a little bit of a time issue for me, like I’m not into the capitals, I’m not into the predators as much as I’m into Barry trots, but Right? Probably going to be a predators fan the rest of my life, because that’s the jersey that’s hanging downstairs. I don’t have an Ovechkin Jersey, and I like the veteran, and I like my time covering the team, other than the prick PR guy, the Russian PR guy that they had, it was a jerk all during trots is admitted. Like, I would always say to trots and like, what’s up with that guy? Same thing I would say to Billick about Chad steel. Like, Why is that guy got to be jerk? But nonetheless, the capitals, like, I love the capitals my whole life, yep. But I love hockey, so I’m trying to you’re one of my hockey friends. Drag Me To a game or something one day. There we go. I I’m ready to get in and be a hockey fan. I’m just not going to be a CAPS fan, that’s all. That’s how I don’t want to be a flyers fan or a Bears fan. But I love hockey. I miss going to games.
Leonard Raskin 27:38
Hershey bears have some, have some cool stuff, and they have some cool stuff on teddy bear night. You know, when they do the teddy bear he goes on teddy bear night, right? Well, you got to go tonight. They give you the free ticket for next year. Remember, that’s, that’s what it’s all about. Oh, hey, I’ll go to a Hershey Bears game anytime. Yeah, well, we’ll have to jump out there. All right. Did
Nestor Aparicio 27:58
you ever see a game at the old Hershey Park Arena, yeah? Oh, my god, yeah. Of course, that’s hockey, right? That’s the total hockey game, the best game you can name. It’s like when you used to go to a good skip Jacks game in the in the civic center. I ran into wrestling two weeks game at the Civic Center. You know who’s really disappointed wrestling? If you go up to Silver Spring mining company on pillar wrestling’s disappointed that I put the puck down. You know what I mean, so is Barry. I could feel Barry looked at me like, like, and he looked, he looked at me like he wanted to give me a kiss. You know he’s like, this, this is my game. Like, if I tell ubriaco I don’t watch hockey anymore. I mean, pass out. It’s gonna really upset him. Yeah, don’t share. Don’t share. I mean, I’ll leave you with this, because I know our windows short. You got to run. You’re doing money, and I’m doing radio UB. When I go back to being a 15 year old kid sitting in that little room at the Baltimore Civic Center with my notebook with him, and he looked at me and his whole thing, and this is to the love of my career and everything I’ve ever done 40 years, he looked at me. He’s like, I want to teach hockey. I want to teach you how it really works. And that’s how Marvin Lewis was. That’s how good people you want to teach me how money works, right? Like, literally, right? Like, that’s literally, and that’s out of trots and UBI out of respect to them, I’ve decided in this conversation that I’m going to come back to hockey for the love of hockey, but not for the pursuit of hockey. You know, I mean, you
Leonard Raskin 29:33
8go, just catch a good night where all the teams are playing, watch a couple great games. The sport is faster than ever. They’re bigger, they’re stronger, they’re tougher. The goal scoring is amazing. What these guys are doing is just unreal. I never had a bad time at a hockey game. I’ll be honest with you, and I’ve not I’ve gone to other cities to watch other teams. I did have one bad time at a hockey game, two bad times, well, when you lost the cup with. The red wings to the Red Wings. And when Pat LaFontaine scored in the middle of the night, two bad nights at the hockey game,
Nestor Aparicio 30:08
the craziest thing, dude is I’m such a hockey guy. And I go to Canada and like, all of this, and I know the game inside now, in the history of the game, all of that stuff. But like, I went to Philadelphia last week to see Brian Adams on the night when Pierre Robert died. And I’m in the hockey ring and I’m in a lower bowl seat, and all I could think about being in that arena and all the years of the spectrum, but I’m in that arena, and I’m thinking about Lindros getting a clock by Stevens. I’m thinking about being up on the roof when the caps eliminated the flyers with trots. I’m thinking about being in the front row seat that I had that Tony Seaman got me a front row seat for a CAPS flyers game where I was on the glass, beating on the glass, heckling the flyers just before gritty even existed, right? Like, yeah, nonsense. All right, you know, you got me talking about hockey in November. See how happy Leonard. It’s good stuff all those nights down in Tampa watching the dry ice off the ice. Leonard Raskin manages money at Raskin global. I manage Baltimore positive. Ai likes me. That’s all that matters. At this point, I’m going to AI school, so I’ll be checking in. I’ll be doing some more AI and some more happiness segments here. Now discover Tony Robbins again. He’s Leonard. I’m Nestor. We are W NST am 1570 to Baltimore. We’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us. Please. You.
