Kicking off our new Maryland Crab Cake Tour live at Faidley’s on Fridays at the new Lexington Market on Orioles home game afternoons, Luke Jones and Nestor discuss a long-awaited Baltimore Holliday at home with the new Action Jackson in the Charm City.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor J. Aparicio, Luke Jones
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:01
We are W NSG Taos. Baltimore. Baltimore positive we were positively here at fade lease. It’s it’s new. It’s beautiful. It’s delightful. Look, Jones joins me here. We’re gonna be here each and every Friday. I’m gonna have Maryland lottery scratch offs. The minute I get them out of my bag. I had PacMan scratch offs, but it’s baseball season Luke, we have new ownership. Cal Ripken is involved in ownership. All the young guns Rob Jackson holidays debuting Everything good is going on here this weekend. It’s good to have you Eurosonic crabcake, man. Yeah,
Luke Jones 00:34
it was crab cake was delicious. Thank you families for that, but so much excitement. I mean, I was thinking about it on my car ride down to downtown this afternoon and just thinking the draft is two weeks away. And the NFL Draft. Yeah. Right. And look, once that comes two weeks, you know, a couple Thursdays from now people be excited that that day will drown out whatever’s going on. I think the Orioles are off that night, actually. But there’s a lot of excitement for that when it comes. But in the meantime, I feel like everyone’s focused on baseball and specifically with Jackson holiday this weekend. First Friday night home game to kick off a three game set. It’s the Brewers Corbin burns going against his former team on Sunday. DL Hall. Today, by the way, there you go. 75. Burns Khichdi. DL Hall is going to pitch Saturday, Joey Ortiz should be in the Milwaukee lineup. So you have all these storylines, but oh, yeah, it comes back to Jackson holiday. And not just Jackson holiday. Jackson trio, one of the other 20 year old Jackson’s in Major League Baseball right now on the other side, and he’s off to a really good start. So there are so many for for a mid April, Siri can ask for more. The brewers are off to a good start. You know, they’re an interesting team, because I think when everyone saw the burns trade, your assumption is all right. I guess the brewers are rebuilding, but we still have a lot of really talented baseball players, including a couple former Oreo prospects that are now in the mix there. And I don’t think they consider themselves being written off whatsoever. They knew they weren’t going to sign Corbin burns long term. But I think they felt like okay, let’s make this move. But we still have a lot going for us. They signed Rhys Hoskins in the offseason as well, and they’re off to a decent start. So, you know, it’s mid April baseball, that the significance of the series itself as it pertains to the standings isn’t really there yet other than just won a 162 or three of 162. But now there’s, there’s some buzz, there’s definitely going to be some energy throughout the weekend, at the ballpark. And what more can you ask, I mean, the club’s off to a good start a sweep at Fenway Jackson holiday, I got it first couple games, it’s been a little rough, but he’s 20 years old. Let the kid just go out there and play and come up Pereira and a couple of weeks and see where he is at that point. But there’s just so much to be excited about as an Orioles fan at this point in time on the field, off the field, of course with new ownership. And I mean, it’s just you hear the sky’s the limit a lot in sports. I mean, that’s one of the more popular sports cliches talking about good teams. But the Orioles the possibilities do feel limitless right now for them as it pertains to what’s on the field. What’s coming off the field in terms of ownership and what all that’s going to entail that I think back to the good old days. And they always said it was great to be young and an Oriental. And I think that that’s true for the Orioles. But I think it’s especially true for this fan base after not a whole lot to write home about for really the last 40 years.
Nestor J. Aparicio 03:33
For me with this brewers thing and then like the AFL NFL thing, and how do you feel about not seeing the Yankees more not seeing it? Maybe some of the Red Sox reporters? Look, I grew up on the brewers. Man, my dad would take shorts he called well pitch and, you know, obviously, the sister less Connor was my guy don’t see these teams much. And when I see a team when Milwaukee and I think about corporate burns, if they can, well, they didn’t have the money to sign him. And I go back to this all we need to be a franchise that has the money to sign that kind of guy. Grayson Rodriguez might be that guy for sure. years from now. Right? Yeah, I
Luke Jones 04:07
mean, I look, there are two two factors at work here. And we talked about this when the Royals had gotten their payroll up to about the top 10 range in the Duke era, you know that there was a point where they got to that point, they’re spending money, there’s also spending it wisely and you want to be able to do both, right? You want to be in a position where yes, you’re going to be a team that that clearly values player development, whether it’s few, or whether it’s through the amateur draft, or the international market where the Orioles are starting to really make some hay there. But you also want to be in a position that when you draft and develop and bring these guys to the major leagues that you can then keep them for the long haul. That doesn’t mean you’re going to sign everyone that doesn’t mean you should sign everyone a couple years ago. People were talking about oh are the Oracle is going to extend Cedric Mullins or the Oracle is going to extend Trey man senior the Oracle is going to extend someone like Austin Hays and I The challenge right now and say that’s probably those probably wouldn’t be the best investments at this point in time. So the point is that Santander home run the other. Sure. And look, I’m not. I’m not saying that there aren’t scenarios where if some of that makes sense, but the point is, you’re not going to keep everyone there is going to be a certain amount of roster churn. And that’s healthy, you know, that. The Ravens I think, would still operate that way. Even if the salary cap was exponentially higher or non existent. I think there’s still something to be said for younger, cheaper, better. And you know, it was just a few weeks ago, you and I talked about this a lot. And I wasn’t the only one because Colin counters up top five pick just a few years ago, but there was a lot of talk in terms of how are the Orioles going to get him into the lineup when you have these three outfielders who had been here, we’re here when it was terrible. They were here to see the turnaround through in the case of Mullins and Hayes, two guys have been to all star games. How are you going to get Colton Couser into the lineup, and I just said, you have to be able to make it work because these guys get to triple A, and you talk all you want about a top farm system, well, you then need to integrate them, you then need to start to work them into the mix. And that doesn’t mean Austin Hayes’s buried now moving forward. Colton Couser could go for his next 20 We’re having a different conversation. Get
Nestor J. Aparicio 06:19
his way, my favorite Oriole early on right now. Right. But
Luke Jones 06:22
the point is, you have these great young players there. You know, we’ve talked a lot and we talked about this a lot. Last year when it came to the trade deadline. We talked about that inflection point, right? We’re at a point now talking about the Oreos, where you’ve had a team that’s won 100 won games been to the postseason won the Division last year. Fantastic, right? But we know that there’s more talent on the way and the reality is Nestor I’m not saying all those guys are going to be better not all those guys are even gonna pan out. But some of the guys that are playing in Norfolk right now are going to be better than guys that are playing ball in Baltimore right now. And they’re gonna be younger, they’re going to be cheaper. And yes, that still is going to matter regardless of new ownerships. So it’s all about a churn it’s all about kind of said there’s kind of miss Logicalis gotta go roster wants
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:08
feelings hurt feelings, and where the tree man see anything was me Houston turn players over down there early on, you know, some guys that were there in the beginning, weren’t there when they were piled diving after they cheated, I might add. But that’s gonna happen here. I don’t know if if they win a World Series this November, because it never happens in October. But when they win this October, and they go on a run, one of these guys are gonna be here. I don’t know who it is. I don’t know if they’ll do mountcastle, whether they would do Molins, whether they would do A’s. I get the vibe that the team will be constructed. As we sit here. It’s not even Tax Day. It’s not even April 14 yet. I can sit here and say six months is a long time in in a baseball season. Oh,
Luke Jones 07:53
boy. And even more. So just the trade deadline. I mean, that’s not even six months. That’s another, you know, three and a half months away. So yeah. And we look at this roster. And look, I talked a lot about the bullpen in the offseason. I’m not moving off of that. Although the bullpen has been very good early on and that’s great and that I never thought the bullpen was going to be bad. It’s just a matter of do you have enough guys that are going to handle high leverage when you don’t have Felix Batista coming through that bullpen door in the
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:18
night? Who you think the star is going to be and who it’s going to be? I mean, they picked the guy up yesterday. They did right? I mean, again, we keep going back to Fuji, and we keep going back to Coulomb. Right? Yeah, there’s your upside. There’s your downside. I mean, and also Cano Cano. Obviously, there’s your upside now as your downside of your upside, because he’s going to the Hall of Fame. If he was gonna do may, for the rest assure Sure.
Luke Jones 08:41
And no one and of course, he wasn’t gonna keep that up. But then it becomes Okay, we have a closer you have closer but then it’s a case of okay, is he going to be a legitimate, reliable eighth inning guy who can close games on occasion. Now he tried to close the game a few days back, it didn’t go so well. But that’s gonna happen to coulomb gave up a home run at Fenway on on a Thursday night. You know, you’re you’re going to have some of that. But in the meantime, and I think this is you pointed this out. I know a lot when we talked about this during spring training that, you know, Mike Elias, chances are things that we’re talking about that are potential concerns, potential pitfalls for them. He and the baseball ops department, they’re well aware, right? They’re looking at, you know, they’re running harder than the fan. They’re running the projections, they’re running the simulations in terms of okay, you know, we brought this guy in or this guy who pitch really well last year but we know how relievers year to year are very unreliable. There’s so much noise year to year, you know, for every Mariano Rivera, there’s 100 guys that have a really good season and then they’re terrible the following year, right. I mean, it’s, it’s just how it works. So I think he’s viewing it through the lens of we have plenty of capital, plenty of resources to go make moves when we need to. So let’s wait let’s evaluate with what we have. Our bullpen is not so bad or our rotation isn’t so bad that we’re not going to be right in the thick of things. At least so let’s evaluate. Let’s make sure that we’re not acquiring something that we don’t really need if someone emerges and is just unbelievable, like Felix Batista two or three years ago, and let’s evaluate and oh, yeah, that that reliever that was really good for the Cincinnati Reds last year. I’m just making that up. I’m not even sure. He might not be as good this year. So we acquire him in spring training, or we acquire him in April, and we might get our feelings hurt. So
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:26
well, the twins were looking at canola in June and saying what do we do? Yeah, yeah,
Luke Jones 10:29
I mean, look, I mean, canola, we talked about that a lot. Jorge Lopez, two years ago, I talked about that a lot in terms of, were you getting enough upside there and you end up have you have some pitching prospects, this was a genius in that deal. And there, but there’s another perfect example, Jorge Lopez, since that year, where he was an all star reliever, it’s gone sideways. For him. Again, relief pitching is just so noisy. It’s so noisy, that it’s so important, especially in this day, and age where starters aren’t going more than five or six innings in most cases. But at the same time, it’s really, really slippery trying to identify who’s going to be really good, who you should commit money to who you should commit multi year deals to, which is very few and far between. So you know, in the meantime, you have Keegan Aiken pitching really, really well for them in April. Now, is he going to keep that up? Is he going to be an eighth inning guy for them come June or July? History would say probably not. But maybe he will be. And then hey, you have another high leverage guy instead of a long reliever as he was projected to be. So the point is timbrels
Nestor J. Aparicio 11:34
gotta be good. Yeah, sure. You know, when Kimbrough comes into game in the ninth inning, he can’t he can’t be blown safe,
Luke Jones 11:40
no question, no question about it. At the same time, when they acquired him, when they signed him, they threw all their statistical models where they’re looking at all the different outcomes of what they think he’s going to be based on his age based on what is statistics were, what his biomechanics were last year, velocity, all those different things. None of those scenarios projected out to him being as good as what Felix Batista was last year. So the point was, this was always going to be an ensemble effort in terms of replacing someone like Batista. And by the way, even if Batista was healthy, he might not have been as dominant this year, as last year. Right. And again, that was that was the other part of it too, just the workload in general. So, you know, I mean, it’s it. It’s an open, it’s a living canvas, right. I mean, we talked about this a lot with the ravens, and we’ll get to football at some point in time in our conversation that, you know, Eric Decosta, at the pre draft luncheon this past week, said, we’re not preparing to play football in May. We’re preparing to play in September. And, you know, the Orioles aren’t preparing to play October baseball right now. They need to play well enough to get there. But there’s a lot of ongoing evaluation. And it brings it back to the point that you made that come August 2, you know, August 15, September, October, of course, yeah, this roster is gonna look different. And it might be some prospects that are down at triple A Norfolk being traded, or it might be an Austin Hays combined with a couple of prospects to go get a reliever or go get a starting, you know, whatever it would be. So
Nestor J. Aparicio 13:07
another number for starting pitcher, are they are they looking for something now? Bradish. And means you’re in a different category for this organization. First, they expect to win the World Series, they expect to win the division and they’re going to be competitive. They know these are two issues that they’re waiting on that and Kramer can hold some water and wells and you know, are the guys that they’ve been working with. But I’m trying to project into June and July saying all right means is no good or not good enough or
Luke Jones 13:39
isn’t healthy isn’t
Nestor J. Aparicio 13:43
Bradish takes the knife. Terrible things happen? That because you have to what’s the worst case scenario to prepare for the worst worst case scenario would be a major leaguer a key prospect and some other Delaware? River Valley mud? For a pitcher that would probably look like Tyler wells or Cole Irvin or somebody I owe Gibson? Kyle Gibson. Yeah, exactly. Well, yeah. Look, yes, the
Luke Jones 14:09
stock answer is you never have enough pitching. Right? I mean, we’re seeing what’s going on around baseball with, you know, the Tommy John epidemic that isn’t new to this year. I mean, it’s something that’s been ever increasing for a long time. I think it’s just magnified when you see how many big names have gone down this year. So yeah, I think you’re always going to be looking for starting pitching and because of what you just mentioned, me, John means is three rehab starts in I think he threw 60 pitches, his last time out for Norfolk. So he’s probably realistically two and a half weeks away, maybe Okay. Well, again, what does again, what does it look like though? How effective is he? What’s the velocity look like? Is his elbow feeling good as he recovering every fifth day? You know, means or, excuse me, Bradish he read or he joined single a Aberdeen first start was gonna get washed out there pitching right under
Nestor J. Aparicio 15:02
the knife. They’re not right. And look, I mean, in
Luke Jones 15:05
the case of means, my understanding and and as it’s been explained, you know, going back to the start of spring training, if you recall, everyone thought he was gonna be there number three starter in the Division Series and then Brandon Hyde announced, you know, he had some elbow soreness from the sim game that he threw, they shut him down. What they did was they basically shut him down for a couple months after that. And they just said, Look, you rehabbed you got back, you pitched well, in September, we’re not playing any more meaningful games for another five months, whatever it was going to be, we’re going to slow you down, we’re going to slow play, because we know you’re not going to come back in your first full year back from Tommy, John and throw 200 innings anyway. So let’s slow play you were going to start a little bit later, for the start of spring training, you started throwing progression, all that you’re not going to pitch in the spring, you’re not going to pitch the first three weeks of April, not really unlike what they did last year. I mean, little bit. I mean, he was still recovering. I mean, waiting on it, right. I mean, he was still on the recovery. And remember, he actually had he had a backer lat strain that kind of slowed them down to, you know, as he was getting closer and closer to pitching. So the point is, they said, This isn’t an April move, this isn’t a main move. This is a move for September and October. Again, this is a move for wanting you at your best later in the year. So it means his case, I don’t really think and again, you never know because it’s Tommy John surgery. And even though it’s a 90 plus percent return rate, it’s not 100%. But I don’t think there was a concern with him as much as how he’s feeling as much as just he’s just got to build up so and then we’ll see how he looks Bradish to me now is where it becomes interesting. He threw live batting practice, it’s gonna get on the Hill for Aberdeen at this point, competitive, legitimate professional baseball, albeit at a lower minor league level. How’s the elbow responding, then? How’s he feeling where it’s max effort, he’s thrown off his pitches to this point. So far, so good. It’s great. I mean, he could have been shut down the second week of March after the initial announcement and already be a month into Tommy John recovery. So he’s made it farther than I think a lot of people thought he might at this point. But to me, this is now where we say, Okay, how real is this? What’s the Velo look like? What what the pitches look like? How are you feeling? How’s the command command is often the thing to go before velocity when you’re talking about elbow and shoulder issues? So notes, so far, so good. But Long’s long answer to what your original question was? I think you’re definitely going to be looking for what would be rotational desk,
Nestor J. Aparicio 17:28
if we’re sitting here. When the Ravens kickoff September 12, they’ll kick off we’ll get the schedule next week, right? Yeah. Whenever they kick off to think that we can project what the rotation would be, and who’s in it, and how their pitching and how they’re going to feel in October, you better hope burns and Rodriguez sure are I mean, those right, and that you you’re playing, you know, 610 ball at that point, or you know, 590 ball, whatever you’re going to need to be to be that team. And who who, what is the rotation? I mean, I sent some flipline to you the other day about does that make Kramer the number four the number five, I’m assuming there’s a three man rotation in October, early going, and I’m assuming we know who the number one and two are. If they hold up who would the three in the four or the five be they’re not gonna go up four or five.
Luke Jones 18:18
I mean, four man rotation you do? What is your third?
Nestor J. Aparicio 18:21
And these other guys are there and you never hear from means again? You never hear from Bradish again this year. A cat with the bullpen? Can Can they went 92k Can they can they get to the forest? Yeah, right. Can they get to October and what kind of position are they going to be in? If what they have right now is all they have? I guess that’s what I’m saying. Yeah, if they’re gonna mean scuffled through four and five every night, and have Cramer be sort of a tweener. And even Rodriguez got beaten up early? Yeah. In Boston the other night?
Luke Jones 18:49
Nobody recovered pretty nicely. Yeah, rookie. Yes.
Nestor J. Aparicio 18:52
I mean, so we’re, we’re talking about the dude like, he’s Jim Palmer. Sure. He’s rookie,
Luke Jones 18:56
you know, and he’s been really good since the all star break last year. But
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:00
you really, were at the point where we were with with an early Missy, you’re relying on us, you’re lying on a young guy to be a top of the rotation guy for a team that’s not hoping to win expected to win. Yeah,
Luke Jones 19:14
I mean, I right. And that’s, that’s not a bad thing, right. I mean, he’s 24. Like,
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:19
he’s talking about this stuff down here with Pac Man tickets. Yeah. I’m talking about a contending team. You and me have a crappy they
Luke Jones 19:25
were contending last year. I mean, they were motors. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It’s it’s fun but but a lot of what you just laid out you know what? That’s most contenders other contenders other teams. I mean, look at the Astros now. I mean, first of all, they’re off to a bad start. new manager obviously. So you have the dusty effect. And a couple pitchers starting pitchers on the shelf now. I mean, it’s, it’s like a dicey for them. They’ll probably be okay. But, boy, you talked about the Orioles job rotation questions, just just the general ones we’ve had, you know, since the announcements about Bradish and means at the beginning of spring training, but You know, look at the Yankees, Gerrit Cole, I
Nestor J. Aparicio 20:02
was gonna say look at the Yankees. They got questions. I mean, why they haven’t won a World Series in 15 years. That’s the first thing. You’re
Luke Jones 20:07
right. Absolutely. 15 years, although I don’t want to hear about it after 40. But before going on 41 But, but that’s, that’s why I said, you know, in the same way that Ozzie Newsome said, you can never have too many corners. You can never have too many starting pitchers. I mean, it’s just the truth. And by the way, your premise, you said it about, you know, with Corbin burns and Grayson Rodriguez, but like, you want to keep these guys healthy in general. Like they’re already you know, went out on an extra day this week and that pushed Irvin to eighth day. Yeah. And with this guy, because they didn’t want to have Yeah, happen. Yeah, yeah. And you’re gonna do that for don’t really have a five man rotation, right? You have a four and a half. Really, with all these off days. You know, obviously, you get into the meat of the schedule, you have a little bit of less of that. So hide in general wants to give these guys an extra day when they can. They flipped burns and Ervin because they didn’t want burns gone a whole week because there were two off days right in between his turn. So, you know, I just think it’s, you know, Corbin as your number five. That’s not great. It’s not what they drew up over the offseason. Right. I mean, he would have been kind of more like 35 Exactly. Exactly. Was
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:12
the January Kramer’s there five Sure. Look for the weekend. Absolutely.
Luke Jones 21:16
And when we see how he’s pitched well, you know, he’s pitch really well. So you know, he started game three I’ll be it didn’t go well for I mean, I
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:24
talked to you a couple of weeks ago, I don’t remember where we were. We were somewhere and just about the the Atlanta Braves and having that sort of young, we’re going to compete, we’re gonna golf together. We’re gonna do crosswords together. We’re gonna fish together, we’re gonna compete together. We’re, you know, you got Monday, I got Tuesday, if you know, if you give up three on Monday, I gotta give up two on Tuesday, right like that? Well, and that kind of, and that’s what
Luke Jones 21:48
was fun about Corbin burns, who’s not young, he’s 29. You know, he’s young. He’s not old, but he’s not as young as these other guys. But Grayson Rodriguez. I mean, we talked to him after his first start, which was really, really effective. He said that, you know, burns talked a little bit of trash like it was playful competition, but it’s still competition to say, hey, I need to one up. But but but that’s what you have. And you bring in someone like Corbin burns to be what Kyle Gibson was last year only way better individually. And Gibson was better than what, you know what Jordan Lyles was the year before that. So this is like, version two or version three of that veteran presence. But oh, yeah, this guy won a Cy Young Award just a few years ago. So I mean, it’s exciting. It really is. And look, knock on wood cross your fingers say a little prayer. That guy stay healthy, because it’s a big part of it. You mentioned the Braves. I mean Spencer Strider, how amazingly talented he is. And now you know he’s hurt. You know, you’re seeing it across across baseball. So quarterback get hurt. Why do you need as much as this? Well, that quarterback goes down like that. That’s that’s one entity that it’s over baseball. It’s not like that, unless you have
Nestor J. Aparicio 22:53
down right now without a means and without a Bradish they would really pin a lot of trouble. Now, I mean, could they still be a wild card or something like that? Sure. That would be something they’d really have to go out and trade something of, they’d have to trade towels or to get a pitch you?
Luke Jones 23:05
Yeah, I mean, it would be? You would you wouldn’t have that guy that you say, Hey, here’s our game, one starter. I mean, you know, assuming Bradish doesn’t come back.
Nestor J. Aparicio 23:16
stupidly. And let
Luke Jones 23:18
me be clear, I don’t want to assume that paratus isn’t coming back. But let’s say he comes back. But we get a lesser version of Bradish than a year ago. Yeah. I mean, that wouldn’t be a good scenario for them. But that’s every team. Again, there are very few teams out there where they are looking at their top four starters and saying, Wow, we’re we have no questions whatsoever. We have no health concerns whatsoever, anything like that. So yeah, I mean, this team just, they have a lot going for them and it’s not perfect. But they I mean, it’s funny, I made the joke to my brother the other day, I was watching MLB Network on TV, and they have their show MLB Central, which has like Mark de Rosa has, you know, Robert Flores, Lauren shahadi. And they have now they have Sean Casey on some. It’s actually of those types of that genre of sports shows. I actually enjoy that one on like, very many out there. But I joke to my brother I said you know what, if this was Eddie team at the Orioles, you know what I’d be saying right now oh my gosh, all they do is talk about the Yankees or all they do is talk about the Braves or all they do is talk about the Dodgers. They’ve talked about the Orioles all week, like
Nestor J. Aparicio 24:23
all week Jackson. You talked about him being a dugout Fenway the other Yeah, I mean, Boston’s got a huge contingent of national media that are just like in that area. It was must see for media people in Boston on Wednesday. Like it’s gonna be musty here this weekend. Absolutely. Oh, there’s
Luke Jones 24:39
a lot of excitement there. And again, the Jackson holiday Jackson, cheerio, the storyline, the trade, storyline, all of this but when you have a 20 year old, that you’re calling up, and you know the scenario for this is different than Manny Machado had 11 years ago because that was such a very specific need that the Orioles had at that point in time. They don’t need Jackson Holliday right now. And I don’t say that in terms of, yes, he improves her upside. Yes, he’s better than
Nestor J. Aparicio 25:08
what they had, which means how convicted they were bring them up. But that’s the whole the whole idea
Luke Jones 25:12
of you’re bringing in this type of a talent at this age, this rapid of a development to augment a team that won 101 games last year. I mean, that is so exciting. I mean, when Machado got called up, you know, it was very surprising. But they had such a need at third base, because that Wilson betemit who couldn’t, you know, maybe maybe he would feel every other ground ball, you know, hit a little bit, but not so much that you could accept his defensive shortcomings. So Manny came up and the idea was, you know, we don’t need you to be a superstar, but we need you to play good third base. So I think from that standpoint, holiday, is that an advantage because he’s not being caught up and being placed in the three hole immediately or anything like that. He’s not in a position where they need him to carry them offensively. So that’s where I said, yeah, he’s struck out a little bit more than you’d like to see the first couple games and it’s looked a little choppy, there’s no doubt but that’s okay. In the meantime, they have eight other guys are putting out in their lineup that, you know, maybe not all of them are hitting, but a lot of them are hitting, and you know, you have all these guys that are established and you know, you’re you’re good with Jackson Holliday getting his feet wet. And, you know, if he goes over the weekend, I’m still not going to be panicking at that point in time. Just let him go out there and play,
Nestor J. Aparicio 26:36
but I’m just making sure I can give him a PacMan lottery ticket because
Luke Jones 26:39
he says he was gonna say he is 18 Yes, yeah. Okay. He’s 20 and married. Fully
Nestor J. Aparicio 26:46
20 year old kid even knows what Pac Man is? Or do you
Luke Jones 26:48
probably not know? Yeah, that’s actually a really That’s funny.
Nestor J. Aparicio 26:52
Did you play Pac Man? Yeah, I had,
Luke Jones 26:54
I had an Atari. I was thinking he was being young. But I had an Atari that said, You’re cool. I had an Atari that was a hand me down from my older cousin. I was always I was always the kid that got the video game system a couple years after it came out. So like Nintendo, when it went from Nintendo to Super Nintendo that’s when I got a Nintendo finally when it went from Sega Genesis to super Sega or whatever it was. That’s when I got a Sega Genesis. So
Nestor J. Aparicio 27:18
never had a gaming device when I was in. Yeah, I had baseball cards, Miss
Luke Jones 27:21
Pac Man who has the bow, right? You know? That’s actually I’ve
Nestor J. Aparicio 27:25
just said it’s a joke from Wayne’s World and prize but for this, where you get the big game, right, and I keep saying to John Martin, I played a Pac Man Machine over CFG Bank Arena a couple a couple of weeks ago, in their their vault room and they had a big machine and the joystick was sticky. You gotta get that joystick where it works a little joystick and get your blown up. If you know, bad joystick, bad game. Pac Man good game Mariela, we bring it to you here our friends at Liberty pure as well as Jiffy Lube. Balti care we’re failures is the new and improved Dare I say calking approve on a failures crabcake I don’t think it says right here Alan Richmond all others were forgotten. However the moment I tasted the big lump crab cake at John W fade the seafood so we’re gonna give a shout out to Nancy and Bill who are recovering but they’re gonna have a grand opening down here. We’re at the new Lexington market. Luke’s already had his first Lexington Market New Lexington market crabcake I had my second because I was hearing nobody deck one of us has a press credential. And one of us is under review right now we’ll let you know which one that is. But it’s when we get a great baseball here. Cal Ripken new ownership number seven Jackson holiday even a brewers I can get even for 1982 and get after Harvey’s wall bangers. I’ll come down to see us we’re gonna be here each and every Friday, two weeks from today. We’ll be here again. Sheila Dixon. Shannon Sneed, both running for public City office sub Shannon Sneed running for city council president of course Sheila Dixon, former mayor running for mayor again, we’ll be here a little later on. We got John Allen this week of a Keith Brewer this week talking about the 25th anniversary documentary, which is going to break into news. It’s coming out at 508. On April the 25th. Right before the NFL draft and the Ravens pick late in the night, give you half an hour to sit around and watch my crazy life story have really really good photos of Luke. Luke is very photogenic. He looks much younger than me in a lot of this. But I do look young in the beginning of this because I was young in the beginning of this 40 years into this 32 years into sports radio 26 years now into wn S T. And it’s the first time you sort of been live in downtown during pregame baseball. Glen Clark and I did something maybe 2012 with a team that decent and for a minute. We did a couple of things like on cross street, but there’s nobody down on cross street at two o’clock on a Friday 100 game right? I’m talking 15 years ago. I used to be at Hooters live 92 3456 to about 99 Ami, the first seven or eight years. I’d like to syndicate because then I couldn’t plan anything. I had no way to do the show who to write in 19 I in 2000 2001 we never really went back. I never did the show there again. It’s been 25 years. But it feels good to be downtown. Watching like at this hour it’s early here two o’clock, you know people are walking by see your random city connectors your hat. Yeah, dude, you’re gonna leave early because he’s got a press credential. And I’m going to be here talking to Sheila Dixon and Isha and see but by the time Sheila Dixon leaves here at five o’clock, Smith’s gonna be acids and elbows gonna be orange. She’s gonna be Jackson holiday, a lot of buzz. Yeah, and we’re three blocks from the ballpark. And I love these folks here and fade these into divine family. So Damon is gonna join us talking about the big move. They moved over here about three weeks ago, took 150 years to get here. They’re going to be opening a Gainesville, probably through the winter. I learned that today. So our friends and families, our friends at the Maryland lottery Lucas here, one more second. We’re gonna get some football in before it’s all over with as well. I am Nestor. He is Luke. We’re in Lexington market in the new phase. Please stay with us. Rabbits. Have fun down here talking baseball.
