It was quite a Sunday at Oakmont and the incredible story of J.J. Spaun but our investment insider Leonard Raskin found some parallels on the U.S. Open golf course this weekend with the way money should be handled. The power of par on the course and with your money.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed various topics, including the Maryland crab cake tour, which includes 17 events this summer. They mentioned the involvement of Councilman Julian Jones and Barry Williams. Leonard shared a story about a crab mallet with a beer opener. They reminisced about their youth in Baltimore, mentioning local hangouts and experiences. Leonard highlighted the importance of consistent investment performance, using golf as an analogy, emphasizing that most investors fail to outperform the market. They also touched on the Orioles’ performance and the upcoming Stanley Cup Finals.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland crab cake tour, Juneteenth, Maryland lottery, Back to the Future scratch offs, Leonard Raskin, American dream, golf, US Open, Oakmont, Will Zalatoris, investing, par, Baltimore positive, Randallstown, community events.
SPEAKERS
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Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:02
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 task of Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively getting, hopefully some better weather than we’ve had around here this week, Luke Jones will be out at mini camp all week long. We’ll have all the residue of Lamar Jackson throwing the ball around the Orioles at Steinbrenner field and then going to Yankee Stadium. So it is an active week as they try to walk the after they crawl, or crawl after they I don’t know, after they drown. I’m not sure what it is. We’re going to be doing the Maryland crab cake tour in Randallstown at the Y this week for Juneteenth, Councilman Julian Jones is going to be joining us. Why? President John Hoey, who’s been my longtime friend, I’ve been trying to bring the show there for a while. Barry Williams is going to come by and say hello. I’ve invited some other friends at dignitaries. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I have the Back to the Future scratch offs to give away. We’re gonna be doing that a lot. We have 17 crab cake tours this summer. And adding to it, just found out we’re going to be at readers and in Reisterstown later on in the month of 26 we’re going to be out in Eldersburg at 1623, with my pal Mike McKelvin telling some old Vince Bagley stories. Going to be at the Costas. And this is my public service announcement. I’m going to welcome Leonard Raskin on. Here’s my public service announcement. This is Leonard Raskin. Gave this to me. I have several. Some of them are more Jo stained, and I don’t mean John Ogden stain from various crab up things, but letter Raskin gave. This is a crab mallet with a beer opener, and it is pristine. It’s in mint condition, because these are difficult to obtain if you don’t have the the proper patent underneath of this patent pending Leonard, I would just say this If do not take this mallet to the cost. This into monium. They’re not doing crabs up there. It involves a whole different it’s a business story. The huge refrigeration system for crabs, right? You have no idea what I have down on North Point Road. It cost me ribbon band. It took me years to build. And then he’s like, crabs together, no crabs into monium. I know I’m doing a public service because you live up that way. Yeah. You need to take your Raskin mallet, crab mallet, which is very special because it has a beer opener to honor Mr. Costas. No doubt. You need to take the standard point Boulevard to the G the original. You need to go where I’m in the Hall of Fame. Done, dog, baby. There it is. There’s an old joke that Steve Miller, my editor at the sun, told me about kissing his girlfriend and Dundalk or Essex and involved the boot plan. I don’t know that’s a joke, and I’m not funny. Leonard Raskin is here. He’s not funny with your money. He’s following the American dream. Hey, I gotta ask you this, because folks don’t know this. But like in the real world, we talk sometimes when we do the show you are in, like, the Jersey Shore, right? I’ve never, ever been to stone Harbor, or any of those. Me, neither Belmar, any of like, I love it. I drove through there maybe once, chasing, like, go up to stone heart, stone pony up and up way up in Asbury Park. But like, I don’t know, the Jersey Shore, like Luke lives, breathes, eats, sleep, Max pizza in Wildwood. His family’s been in Wildwood a million years. I have been a Wildwood one time in the middle of the night, saw the rollercoaster. I’ve never been on the beach. I’ve never eaten anything and never been out of the car. Nope. Had
Leonard Raskin 03:16
a long, long, long, long time friends. You know, it’s, you know, the friends are longtime friends. When their kids are getting married. He, he, I was in his wedding. He was in our wedding. And you remember the birth of these children, is what you’re Oh, absolutely. Oh, I knew him when we were single. Yeah, we were in college together, so best friend since college. And did he like the peshmo too? Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. We’ve seen him already. We’ve seen him a few times together, actually. And used to, used to hang out at, here you go
Nestor Aparicio 03:49
for let me take you on a trip around the world and back to
8Leonard Raskin 03:53
at the depot on Charles Street. Nice signal, signal till four in the morning. I like it. I like it all the way end up, and then end up at the Double T. That was the the Friday night, Saturday morning,
Nestor Aparicio 04:06
we were talking about this back in the day, that we would go to bow hagers, and if we make a really pretty girl, the base the taker was right down the Little Italy, right? You know, just, just get some red sauce there. Get some, you know, all the little, literally, restaurants were open late in that era. Or, you know, you could say Denny’s is available by my house on Kane street.
Leonard Raskin 04:32
You go to hammer jack, so you go to hammer jacks, and you end up at Denny’s. I’m convinced nobody went to Denny’s. You ended up at Denny’s.
Nestor Aparicio 04:43
8Where else was there to go? Right?
Leonard Raskin 04:45
Miami, double T. You could
Nestor Aparicio 04:48
listen, I don’t want to, I don’t want to promote Jerry Richardson or any of the awful practice business practices of Denny’s, Lenny’s over the years. But I did eat a lot of Grand Slam. It was a place I went in the 90s, though, the one by the Kmart in North Point Boulevard, you know, right by East Point mall, like where I grew up. I remember
Leonard Raskin 05:07
go, you talk about crazy stories, crazy stories. I remember going, I don’t remember if it was, I think it was Denny’s. They they had like, a fruit bar back in the day.
8Nestor Aparicio 05:17
Dude, you’re a Bob, you’re a big boy, you’re a Chinese you’re the guy with the diameter. Remember, all I
Leonard Raskin 05:24
can remember is the middle of the night, 10 of us roll in, have a great big breakfast, and they had a fruit bar and and somebody dared me to just take the they had a whole pineapple, you know, on the fruit bar. This is
Nestor Aparicio 05:37
definitely Bob. Let’s take the pie. That’s how you you’re your big boy. You want to show your big boy? I took
Leonard Raskin 05:43
8the pineapple and we went outside and we we laughed. And, you know, stupid stuff, all
Nestor Aparicio 05:48
right, so I’m gonna tell one stupid story, then we’re gonna get the golf we’re gonna get the business. Oh, I did your new commercial. It’s just you talking about your business, which is real, sense, beautiful. So, yeah, I mean, that’s exactly what it should be. I’m in Vegas, yes, and I went to New York, by the way, Thursday, I walked 21 miles in New York, like, I, like, I walked 21 miles. I mean, like, I’m kind of, I drove around, I drove around stone harbor and went to a wedding. I pimp Planet Fitness, and I pimp it for a reason, right? So, um, so I, you know, I like walking. I’m a walker. When I go to Vegas. I walk. I went for the Mako thing. Yeah, this speaks a little bit not just to my finances and your frugality of my finances, or their perception of that, or how hungry I would be at midnight, or what I would want to eat and wear. Okay, but I’m gonna give you the whole story, because, like, this is so me. It’s so my whole I told my wife, I’m like Holden Caulfield, and she’s sorting. Do you know what that reference is when I make go ahead catch her in the Rye. So you didn’t read that in 10th grade. Did you not read catch on the rye? I
Leonard Raskin 06:50
didn’t read anything unless I absolutely had to, and I tried to find a way not to.
Nestor Aparicio 06:54
Can I give you a book to read because you gave me Fauci fiduci, yeah, to read Catcher in the Rye. I know the book, JD set. I know the greatest book. It’s my favorite book, right? Okay, so the protagonist, and you’ll when you get done with this, Google it. Just Google it the AI, go get the cliffs notes, and you might actually read probably what I studied and because it is a phenomenal book. So I have my inner Holden Caulfield. So on Thursday, I went to New York for 30 hours alone with nothing on my mind, like nowhere to go. I didn’t know that I would wind up in Chinatown getting a massage till my hip shirt at one o’clock. So I went. I didn’t know that I would wind up at Glengarry, Glen Ross for $54 in the balcony and wind up in the second row of the balcony center. I didn’t know that Kieran Culkin wasn’t going to show up that night. I was going to get the understudy, which really would have pissed you off as a Broadway guy. I know you and your wife, that’s her thing, you know. But I did get i Lenny was there from Lenny and squeaky Michael McKee and turned up to 11. So, I mean, they were Legendre Bob Odenkirk. So No, yeah, but Bill Burr was in, you know, very profane version of Bill Burr. And like, so I’m in Vegas, I see Sammy Hagar, and it’s a one end of the strip. You’ve been to Vegas, right? Yeah, of course. Okay, so Sammy Hagar is playing at at New York, New York, or over the park, right? Sure. Yep. I walked the whole strip. Oh, Mike. I shot a video at Bellagio at midnight, I’m walking by, and I had a couple of, you know, a couple of laggers, you know, I’m saying, Yeah, but I wasn’t cranked. I mean, I was, I’m not like that, you know, right? But, yeah, I had a couple of beers, and I was hungry, and I was a little more drunk than I was hungry, but I was hungry and I didn’t know what I wanted. It was a little chilly out because it was so, you know, like walking back with in the casino, past the burger, pass the pizza. Didn’t like the look of that. Didn’t want that, that place didn’t have good news that plays a country music. For God’s sake. I’m not going in there. And there’s chicks running around with nothing because it’s Friday night and it’s midnight and it’s, you know, it is what it is, right? Actually, sad it was Saturday night at midnight. So I get all the way down to the strip, and I went through the last casino where the wind, where I’m staying, yeah? And there was a rigatoni, like it was alive. I mean, yeah, wait, at midnight, it was happening, right? It was, but my body’s 3am and I’ve had a couple of beers. Okay, my body’s 3am this is on top of this. So I’m looking at the pretty girls, and people are gambling. It’s $50 minimums, all that going on, and the rigatoni was, like, 38 bucks, and I was gonna go down and sit down and whine, I probably would have spent 75 bucks. And then there, and I was, like, I was hungry, and I just kind of wanted it. Now, it’s kind of like, sort of want it now, you know? So I looked down on my app, and my hotel was, like two blocks away from the wind, a little little convention center place. It was very nice, actually, right? And I looked down and there was a, there was a Mexican joint of Tijuana on the border. Line out the door with the spit, cutting it off cilantro. I went in there to get the tacos I was gonna I was looking at the board. The cuisine is, I’m smelling it. I wanted, I wanted, and I’m thinking, this is gonna give me heartburn. Man. Say. And I want you to look over my shoulder and tell me what you see. That yellow light. I saw the light there, and it said Denny’s, and it was 1230 in the morning, and it went in there. And for $6 I had two eggs, two pieces of bacon and pancakes that were as big as my head, absolutely. And when I told my wife this story, she’s like, Oh, that’s That’s great. That’s cool. I told the guy making the pancakes, he saved my life. I dipped him five bucks. I’m like, these are the best pancakes I’ve ever had in my life, and they were great pancakes. And my wife’s like, did they have real maple syrup? I’m like, it was in Vegas at 1230 in the morning. What do you want, man? But I love it. So that’s my frugality. I’m proud. I could have gone to casino and gamble 1000s away. I didn’t do that. Instead, I bought $2 pancakes.
8Leonard Raskin 10:47
Beautiful thing. It’s always there, but that’s
Nestor Aparicio 10:50
my American dream. I saw Sammy Hagar in the second row. I, you know, I paid a little more to be there because I value
Leonard Raskin 10:59
okay, that’s right. That’s what you do. You put the money where the value is brought back. That’s exactly right.
Nestor Aparicio 11:06
8This valued New Jersey over I did where you Oh,
Leonard Raskin 11:12
is it the stone harbor? Because, you know, it’s kind of funny, because I didn’t even realize that the Lewis Cape May ferry it was right near there. People
Nestor Aparicio 11:23
talk to me about that all the time. I’ve never done that. I mean, either Me, neither. But now I have a Lewis side 100 times going to yobeth, and we’re
Leonard Raskin 11:31
right. You are now, no, now I have to try it to find out how close it was, and had I been smart enough to potentially venture there from said Bethany. It might have been a shorter trip. So
8Nestor Aparicio 11:44
hang on a second. You’re teaching me something because I like this is great, because we’re gonna talk golf, I promise you talk about the Orioles. I’ve done that for hours with Luke and football and all that this week. Letter Raskin is here. He manages money, manages the American dream. We get together, and sometimes we talk about things we don’t think we’re gonna talk about right? I let me put my arms around I’m just being really honest. Yeah, go ahead. If I am in Rehoboth, let’s say this weekend. Let’s say it’s this weekend in Atlantic City. Eric Clapton’s playing, or whomever, whatever. There’s something, Madonna, somebody’s playing in Atlantic City. And you want to go, you could get on that boat and get up there and get to AC in an hour. Is that, like, does that, am I losing my mind, or is that right? That’s what I’m saying. I’ve never thought about doing that in my life.
Leonard Raskin 12:30
I’m telling you, it’s, it’s crazy, but I think, I think you can get there quickly. You take the ferry and then you, well, I don’t know about quickly, but if you’re there, if you’re already there, I think you take the ferry and get up there in about two hours. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 12:46
have you ever done the ferry over at Oxford on Eastern Shore? I have not. Do you know about that?
Leonard Raskin 12:53
8I do not. Oh well, do tell I didn’t
Nestor Aparicio 12:56
know about it either. There is a, there’s a you got to see it on Eastern Shore. I’ll send it to you. Yeah, send you all the details. You driven by it a million times, if you’ve been near East and anywhere around there, but, sure, um, but I never think about, like, fairies and stuff. But like, it would seem to me that you could probably get the Wildwood pretty quickly, right? Like, I’m looking at it like, if you landed cape, may you’re, you’d probably, you know, you’d probably get an Uber for
Leonard Raskin 13:22
12 bucks. Absolutely, yeah, it’s fantastic.
Nestor Aparicio 13:25
You wouldn’t have to come back. You might be able to beat the toll if you do it the other way. I don’t know which way you have to pay the toll.
8Leonard Raskin 13:30
I don’t know. All I know is the thing that, the thing that I hated the most, it was a beautiful area and a great weekend. The thing I hated the most was they’ve got 25 mile an hour speed limits all over the place, because I guess people are walking in the summary, or they’re walking around the beach, and they’re walking from their houses over to the beach and the main road, it’s like, it’s like coastal highway. It’s 100 blocks, or 120 blocks, whatever. 25 miles an hour takes forever to go a mile. It’s ridiculous.
Nestor Aparicio 13:59
I gotta go down there. Mean, Flacco always talks about Avalon and like that whole area. It’s a gorgeous area. Luke loves wild my mother, my mother, Connie, left Wildwood frozen custard. I mean, her back from Philly, like her, yeah. My grandfather grew up silly areas. My
Leonard Raskin 14:16
wife tells me frozen custard is ice cream different. No different. You could Google that frozen custard is not ice cream. I was telling her that she’s trying to convince me. I said, No, I don’t think so.
Nestor Aparicio 14:27
8She doing a wedding in a in in basically like a Wildwood, yeah, right, in Stonehenge. So the Orioles, you know, they win their games this weekend. Had a great weekend. NBA, NHL is going up, but you like not doing the golf guy over the weekend, and I’ve seen the game. I’ve seen
Leonard Raskin 14:44
my golf games. My golf games just as good as everybody was at Oakmont this weekend. But what I want to talk about here is the if you didn’t watch the final the final day, I watched half of the final day. Uh,
Nestor Aparicio 15:01
Happy Father’s Day, by the way. Oh,
Leonard Raskin 15:03
you, you as well. The the final round. First of all, this, this course in Oakmont is considered like the hardest US Open Course. That’s what Ed Miller from classic five told me last the grass is long, and then they have even longer, and then they have the super long weeds growing everywhere on there, and it’s magnificent, and you’ve got to be perfect, perfect. And this dude, the guy who came in second, I can’t think of his name, the Scott Scottish guy, McDonald or whatever it is, he he made the statement that if, if you end up even par This week, the beginning of the week, he said, If you end up even par at the end of the four rounds, you’re gonna, you’re gonna win the trophy, and you get the Jack Nicklaus gold medal for the US Open, and you get a beautiful trophy, and you also get, I think, four and a half million dollars, something like that, which is very nice. So he’s coming down the home stretch, and all the top names that are hunting fall apart. They have a rain delay, and everybody’s falling apart. They’re plus four, they’re plus five, they’re plus six, they’re plus two. And this guy, Scottish dude, is in the clubhouse, McIntyre. Because McIntyre, I couldn’t think of his name, plus one, he’s plus one finished in the clubhouse. And I think the only guy that can catch him literally watching it. JJ spawn, dude had five bogeys in the top first six holes going out on Sunday. One was so unbelievable. He had a perfect shot Nestor. If you didn’t see it, it hit the flag, drop down, didn’t go in the hole. He hit it from, like, I want to say, 65 yards, hit the flag, stick in the air, dropped on the ground, rolled backwards 50 yards.
8Nestor Aparicio 17:01
I mean, that’s like, Get Smart. It’s punishment. It was punished. It was, like, the time I threw that boomerang in Australia and it came back to me one time. And I’m like, I put it down. I’m like, I’m never throwing it again. That’s it, man. That’s perfect, dude. That’s crazy. I don’t
Leonard Raskin 17:15
have to do it ever again. So, so he’s five bogeys, and he goes out, you know, the scores. Front nine, he goes out at 4040, and you know, he’s the next to the last, and he’s the guy that lost to McElroy at the PGA Championship in the playoff. So he he’s playing great, but he ain’t, never won anything. Never won a major. The second nine, he shoots a 32 and on the last two holes, he’s he’s you gotta beat plus one, he’s got to be even. He’s got to hit par. And he hits plus one. And on the 17th hole, he birdie 17 to go even. It’s incredible. He’s the only golfer in the entire tournament. After four days at even par, everybody else is plus one and worse. And then he rolls up to 18. Shoots an incredible shot. It’s raining, it’s miserable, it’s cold. He shoots an incredible shot on 18.
Nestor Aparicio 18:17
I bet it’s easier, to some degree, to calm your mind in that, you know,
Leonard Raskin 18:21
8yes, he, he shut himself down. He his heart rate had to be just 40. I mean, he had to drop like, like crazy. And he’s looking over this long, I don’t know, 30 foot putt. And all he needs is the two putt for the for the win, to end even and win the tournament. And he hits the shot and birdies 18 if you haven’t seen it, an amazing shot, and the tears start running. It’s Father’s Day. His little girls are there. His wife is there. Caddy is going crazy. His coach is going crazy, and the dude shoots minus one, wins by two. So why am I all excited about golf? Well, I’m excited about golf for two reasons. Number one, it was amazing watching this guy who almost quit a year ago, almost retired. Young guy almost retired because he just didn’t think he could get it done, and then he loses in a playoff in the PGA Championship finally overcomes that mountain and wins the US Open. Just magnificent. So
Nestor Aparicio 19:28
that’s really cool on the toughest course in the country, on tough
Leonard Raskin 19:31
you know, everything was against, yeah, he’s the only golfer that shot under par, or even everybody else was over par. Second reason is it got
Nestor Aparicio 19:41
my never do it again too. It’s one of those, right? You know,
8Leonard Raskin 19:44
may not. And it got me thinking about what we talk to clients about with investing, which is what, what brought me to this point. When we talk to investors, we talk to people about how to invest their money, what I know is 38 years has told me, taught me. Me that there’s a lot of people out there trying to pick stocks. There’s people trading options, there’s people buying Bitcoin, there’s people buying gold. Ness, I’ll tell you to a person, when somebody comes in to see me with their portfolio, and I say to somebody, how have you done how’s your performance been? You’re an investor. You’ve been investing money for a long time. How have you done to a man and woman? No one that I’ve ever met has been able to give me their score. No one meaning I put in this much money. I put in this much over time, and I know that my average annual return on my money has been X. They can’t tell me gross. They can’t tell me that a cost my return has been X. Never has anybody been able to tell me that. Now I’ve had people that say I’ve done really, really well. So I had a guy recently told me he’s done really, really well. I said, Well, let’s look at your numbers. He said, I don’t have the numbers. I said, Well, let’s talk about how much you’ve invested. He told me roughly how much he had invested originally. He said, I think we’ve put away about this much per year. I said, Great. He said, and this is how much we have, and we’re doing really, really well. I said, Great. So I put in a calculator, and over 25 years, his return was about five and a half percent a year. And he said, No, I had to do better than that. I said, Well, what did we get wrong? Did you put in less? No, do you have more? No. I said, Well, this is what the numbers say it is. He said, No, I think it’s better than that. And the reason he thinks it’s better than that is because he’s got a lot more money than he had. But that doesn’t mean you did better than that, because when you look at the compounding of money over time, it gets to be a pretty big mountain. And the difference between the best of the best Warren Buffett, let’s say he’s the best of the best, long term investing. Now, one of the reasons he’s got so much is he’s been doing it so long, so time is your ally. But if you look at his numbers based on his own information of his rate of return over the long term, it might be 11% the s, p5, 100, if you reinvested dividends. Didn’t pick a single stock, didn’t time the market, didn’t get in, get out. Just put it in, put it in, let it grow, let it grow. And you did that for 30 years, your average return would be about nine and a half percent. So is one and a half percent meaningful? Yes, it’s meaningful. The question is, how much work did you do? How much time did you spend? How much effort did you have to put in, how much emotional energy on losses, did you suffer, and did you get that result. And what I’m telling you is 90 plus percent of investors don’t get a result that beats investing in the general market over the long term. And when you do that, you don’t have to think about anything, you don’t have to do anything. You just here’s the point, ness, go for par. If you go for par and just keep going for par, I say you win gold medals in investing, because most people don’t do that, and they spend so much time effort and energy. And this guy obviously time, effort, energy, phenomenal to shoot one better than par. When the rest of everybody else failed to get par, he won $4.3 million he gets a gold medal the US Open tournament. He gets to come back to the US Open for life. I think he gets to go to the masters and the other majors for 10 years without qualifying, changes your life, changes your life. He’ll forever be known as US Open champion. He shot one, one better than par. Investors all try to do better, and I’ll tell you what investing par is, a phenomenal score. Well, to your
Nestor Aparicio 24:43
golf point, when Tiger Woods is winning those tournaments, shooting 16 under 18 under, nobody, getting five under, and he’s up by 13 shots going into the final day. And this, you know, on courses that like that’s not for human. That’s not normal human. Yeah, that’s right, it’s not. Talk about a vet skin from time to time. Oh, touching again. This week, superhuman, yeah, I mean, and that’s, that’s a great bar to set, right, you know? But that’s the reality of it is, you know, there’s
Leonard Raskin 25:14
gonna be, every day, it’s gonna be that one or two who are superhuman. And I get it, you know, the problem is, you turn on the TV, or you listen to the radio and you hear ads from people that say they know how to do it. The average investor doesn’t know how to do it. They know how to do it. Well, I got news for you. Anybody that knows how to do it so well that they are just world beaters. Let me explain something to you, to everybody listening, they’re not sharing their secret with us. The ones that are are just trying to make money on a secret that might have worked for the short term, doesn’t work for the long term. And sadly, people get taken and they lose a lot of wealth because they’re so interested in outperforming and beating everything. And when they look at their numbers for real, for real, over the long term, they don’t even hit par letter.
Nestor Aparicio 26:11
8Raskin is here. You can follow him at Baltimore positive as well as at Raskin global.com we get together every week the jambat sports sometimes it always gets back the money or golf or uh, or finances, or par. In this case, you know, the Orioles can’t do just par right now. They have, you know, they have to play more. So they
Leonard Raskin 26:28
have to play better than they have to shoot below par, better than par,
Nestor Aparicio 26:33
because they were 12 under in the first nine, yeah, or first Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 26:36
the front nine was not good. Yeah, the back nine to be really impressive. But look, I told you I’d give them to the end of June, giving them to the end of June to see where we stand. We’re still, we’re still a week or so away. Make
8Nestor Aparicio 26:51
sure you get up early on Sunday. They’re playing 11 o’clock in the morning if you’re down at the beach or whatever. Yeah, 11 in the morning this way. Hey, I’m just telling you what Melanie told me, that’s
Leonard Raskin 27:04
just, well,
Nestor Aparicio 27:05
I mean, they were on Apple TV Friday night, then it rained, and then the, you know, like Luke and I did an hour on how Rafael Devers wound up getting dealt out of the red side. How about that
Leonard Raskin 27:17
8attitude? Attitude, they didn’t like him. They were they were angry.
Nestor Aparicio 27:20
They didn’t want the players. What I said to Luke, they didn’t want it anymore. And then, you know, Luke baked this into the financial side, and I’ll let you do some research on this. Yeah, work stoppage, end of next year, ownership, Mr. Rubenstein’s role in that, the television contract. Look, you know, there’s never been labor peace in baseball. I mean, like, literally. So,
Leonard Raskin 27:40
nope. Hey, we’re we’re one. Let’s just wrap here we are, one or two games away from a Stanley Cup winner. Could be a repeat winner. Florida is one game from the championship. I
Nestor Aparicio 27:54
was in New York going at a hockey bar on Thursday night by the garden that I frequent, and on my way to see Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross, by the way, steak knives state. You talk about steak knives. There you go. That’s, that’s one under par. You get steak right? You know, one over. I’m sorry when you’re one under but I went in, and I swear to you, I looked up on my way back from 47th Street. I stuck my head in the bar, and it was three nothing. And by the time I got to 33rd Street, it was, it was three to three. And then I saw that, then the four three, then the tie happens, yes, like, with 12 seconds left, whatever it was, crazy. And then I’m like, I gotta walk back to my hotel. I’m tired because I was just done 21 Miles was done. Miles done, and I’m like, I hope they have TNT in my hotel, right? Right? Because you never know, but it’s New York. New York’s greatest city in the world, right? You’d agree with that. Are you not? I’m
8Leonard Raskin 28:53
not a big I’m not as you know what, given my choice of where I’ve been, I’d take London. You take London. Okay, I take London. I love London.
Nestor Aparicio 29:03
I
Leonard Raskin 29:04
love Tokyo. Okay, there you go. See, take Tokyo. I take London. It’s just a different vibe than New York. It is, oh, yeah, of course, it is, sure, when people bang into you in London on the street, they at least excuse me, you don’t just knock your ass over and keep walking.
Nestor Aparicio 29:23
8Yeah. How do you get knocked over at all in New York? I had, I’m not getting, I’m not gotten. Here’s your homework. All right, your homework. Did you graduate from high school? Aren’t you a Randallstown guy? Yes, yes. You’re Randall San
Leonard Raskin 29:35
high, Randallstown high, 1982
Nestor Aparicio 29:37
the Rams, the mighty. Okay, so, so well, you know, Jimmy
Leonard Raskin 29:41
Clemens. Jimmy Clemens, now president of Clemson University, was the quarterback
8Nestor Aparicio 29:46
Antoine Harris came a couple years ago. Harris, that’s my neighborhood, right? Okay, so hell of an I mean, you’re incredible athletes, absolutely. So I’m doing a show with the why, you know, out in Randallstown, why, I don’t know the why. I The Y is there. It’s, it’s like, hold on, you. Get you doing this to me. Make me give the exact address. It’s right by one of my favorite Indian joint always was. I believe there’s an Antwerp in, like, right around the Antwerpen used to bend, yeah, Randallstown swim center, yeah. Hold on. I’m, I’m giving you, I just want to give you the exact right by the right by the Walmart’s Liberty Road. Yeah, it’s liberty and brenbrook. Brenbruck was the word I was looking for Brent
Leonard Raskin 30:27
liberty. And brenbrook was, was brand new when I was growing up. They built some apartments there. They had a Kmart, Roy Rogers. Roy Rogers was on the corner. We used to go there for the best chicken, see. So none of that’s there anymore. So you do know that on
Nestor Aparicio 30:44
every Christmas of my childhood and your young adulthood? Yes, my my grandfather, his his home was, I want to find it right here, because I’m looking back, he lived in Randallstown. Yeah, I got to find the right
Leonard Raskin 31:00
8now, when you were old enough to have a fake ID, you went up the road a little bit and went to Cal bit nurse for your for your drinking. So
Nestor Aparicio 31:06
my grandfather, all of my childhood, he lived on meadow heights road. Oh yeah, sure, you could see the tower. You know, up above there was always like a Scott’s level branch, right there. So anyway, that’s where I spent all of my childhood Thanksgivings and Christmas egos and whatnot. So I was in the the
Leonard Raskin 31:28
fox Hall apartments, which is one block from Liberty and brenbrook. I don’t know what it’s called today, but we used to call it the hole.
Nestor Aparicio 31:36
So the why is literally where you grew up, yeah, absolutely, literally at the corner where you grew up, right there. That’s not bringing you back to do the show on Tuesday. That’s all right, if
8Leonard Raskin 31:47
I’d have known, if I’d have known, we’ll have to get there one time off air just to have a crab cake. You Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 31:56
geez, out there. You know, for all of that, the thrill of Stanley Cup Finals, the NBA Finals will get all that. It might even get some rock and roll imports all over with. And I will bring Leonard up to speed on things going on Randallstown at the wise absolutely brought to you by friends of Raskin global as well as curio wellness and liberty pure solutions. And of course, our friends at the Maryland lottery have the Back to the Future scratch offs especially for you. We’re going to be readers crab house in Reisterstown never registers town, although I couldn’t get Gary Thorne to get that figured out for was all over with as well. We’ll be in Eldersburg as well. We are W N st am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stopped talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us.
