Our financial resource Leonard Raskin joins Nestor after the bombs started dropping in Iran and discusses strategies for the market and a slow time in sports as we move from Olympic hockey to World Baseball Classic patriotism to ease the fear and pain of another American war.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed various sports and financial topics. They highlighted the NFL Combine, noting fast Buckeye runners and the importance of the tampering period for player contracts. They debated the relevance of the Wizards and the impact of state taxes on player decisions, using Tyler Linderbaum as an example. Leonard emphasized the importance of financial planning, including tax strategies and asset allocation, especially in times of global uncertainty. They also touched on the World Baseball Classic, reminisced about past Olympic memories, and discussed the significance of representing one’s country in sports.
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World Baseball Classic and Football Team Updates
- Nestor Aparicio discusses upcoming events, including appearances at Gertrudes, Costas, and Missones.
- Nestor mentions his cousin John Shields and Dan Rodricks’ reference to Luis Aparicio.
- Nestor and Leonard Raskin talk about the NFL Combine, with Leonard expressing interest in Buckeyes running fast 40-yard dashes.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the relevance of the Ravens and the upcoming Lamar contract negotiations.
Salary Caps and Player Contracts
- Nestor shares a salary cap chart showing significant increases over the years.
- Leonard explains the concept of restructuring contracts and the importance of the tampering period.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the impact of state income taxes on player decisions, using the example of Tyler Linderbaum.
- Leonard emphasizes the importance of investing in oneself to increase earning potential.
Tax Implications for Athletes
- Leonard explains the significance of state income taxes on athletes’ earnings.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the tax advantages of moving to states like Florida and Delaware.
- Leonard highlights the impact of estate taxes in states like Maryland compared to no-tax states.
- Nestor shares personal anecdotes about people moving to different states for better tax benefits.
Investment Strategies and Financial Planning
- Leonard advises on the importance of having a well-structured financial plan.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the role of financial advisors in managing wealth and making tax-efficient decisions.
- Leonard emphasizes the need for long-term financial planning and the impact of short-term market fluctuations.
- Nestor shares his experience of planning a trip that coincided with the World Baseball Classic in Miami.
World Baseball Classic and Olympic Memories
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the excitement around the World Baseball Classic.
- Nestor shares his experience attending the World Baseball Classic in 2009 at Dodger Stadium.
- Leonard and Nestor talk about the significance of representing one’s country in international competitions.
- Nestor reminisces about his interactions with various Olympic athletes and the impact of the Olympics on his career.
Stock Market and War Time Concerns
- Leonard addresses concerns about the stock market in the face of foreign wars and attacks.
- Leonard advises against making hasty decisions based on current events and emphasizes the importance of a well-structured financial plan.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the impact of short-term market fluctuations on long-term investment strategies.
- Leonard reassures listeners that a good financial plan should be able to weather any market conditions.
Final Thoughts and Upcoming Events
- Nestor and Leonard wrap up the discussion by talking about upcoming events, including the start of the baseball season and the absence of March Madness for the Terps.
- Leonard expresses optimism about the Capitals’ playoff chances.
- Nestor shares his excitement about the World Baseball Classic and the upcoming games in Miami.
- Leonard and Nestor conclude the conversation by emphasizing the importance of financial planning and staying informed about market conditions.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
World Baseball Classic, stock market fears, NFL Combine, Lamar Jackson contract, salary cap, state income taxes, financial planning, asset allocation, estate tax, Maryland tax, World Series, Olympic memories, financial advisor, investment strategies, sports free agency.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T AM, 1570 taci, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively getting near into March, into the crab cake season. On Wednesday, we’ll be at gertrudes with my cousin John shields at the BMA, representing my friend Dan Rodricks in his 1966 apparently, there was a reference to Luis Aparicio in the show. Dan has told me that. So if you hear anything here this week about that, that is in reference to that at the BMA, Friday will be at Costas and Dundalk, Tuesday will be at missones in Perry Hall. I’m currently wearing my Koco’s shirt because I missed the ribs and the coleslaw and the delicious burger night that she has down at Koco’s. Leonard Raskin joined us last week, and the week and week before that, so pub, we get a crab cake out. I know you’ll be running around here at springtime. And the next time we get together, the Lamar thing, the Tyler Linder bomb thing, it’ll be opening day we get together next time. So you know what is on your mind, sports wise, in regard to the football team, because Luke and I talked about it this week, like the Combine was something we were more into years ago. And I don’t know that everybody’s talking about it or that we’re into the underwear Olympics, but there is this exhale we get from football, that we all have a little withdrawal, and now we’re like, all right, when’s the draft? When’s the players? What’s up with Lamar, who’s Tyler linderbaum going to play for the tampering period? Isn’t that wonderful that they’ve designed a tampering period for the contract?
Leonard Raskin 01:26
Well, you’re not allowed to talk during certain periods of the year. They give everybody a week off, or however long it is that they get, they get to not talk to new teams or about themselves or sign contracts or whatever it is. Obviously, everything’s still going on everywhere, all the time. So whatever they call it, they call it, they make themselves happy. Combine some fast dudes out there. I can tell you that the only thing I really paid attention to was, of course, a few Buckeyes that ran some seriously fast 40s, and then a couple other guys that ran even faster than that, which was just ridiculous.
Nestor Aparicio 02:02
8You’re Buckeye for life. You’re in for now,
Leonard Raskin 02:06
for now, it’s still there. It’s still there. As long as the boy’s interested, I’ll stay interested until when he’s done, then it’s, you know,
Nestor Aparicio 02:12
what is interesting to me? Like, the capitals for me were something that was a really important part of my life, right? The Terps. We’re seeing, like people were into the Terps, then they’re not. I mean, I don’t want to say bandwagon at all, as much as I’ve made a deal this week. Mine was tuition wagon Oreo. People don’t want me in, you know, so, I mean, I’ve been banned by both of the teams now, trying to get as many fans as they’re trying to, you know, they don’t want people to not cheer for them and to go off the bandwagon, right? The Wizards wish they had
Leonard Raskin 02:44
a bandwagon. Oh my god. The Wizards wish they could win bad teams in bad places, and daddy just get the the brow. Didn’t they get the brow? The Wizards? Who’s that? Anthony Davis. Isn’t that? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Isn’t that? Who it is? I think so they traded for him. I don’t either, but they’re terrible. They don’t win anything.
8Nestor Aparicio 03:04
Well, that is my point about like when you get to the point of irrelevance, and thes have been there a long time, the ravens are so relevant that they take a week off. We miss it. I begin my segment with you. You might not even thinking about Lamar, but this better be a week that they figure the Lamar contract. We’re now like, You’re Mr. Money guy, Mr. Talking about the money. We’re talking about this is talking about it. His agent gets on the phone. Well, he is Mother. Mother gets on the phone with Eric, and they fight
Leonard Raskin 03:35
about and they discuss what that what the contract is, right? Everybody restructures, and they’re going to restructure. You know that? What are they going to do? He’s going to take longer money. I don’t know how it works. I have no idea how these contracts work. I got to tell you, I don’t even try. It’s none of my concern. The only thing that concerns me is the bill to pay for a couple seats to go watch him play and and, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 04:00
it goes down, by the way, oh no, no, no, no,
Leonard Raskin 04:03
8it’s they. They’re very nice to their season ticket holders. They keep the ticket price level for a couple years, and then they inform you, after they’ve kept them level for a couple years, that, Oh, by the way, it’s now time to raise the prices. Because we were so nice to you, we didn’t raise them for a couple years now we’re going to raise them on you, and we’re going to recapture all the inflationary costs we didn’t charge you over the other years. So instead of small incremental increases, we’re going to go with significant one year increase to catch up. And so that’s, that’s how they roll this.
Nestor Aparicio 04:42
I shared this ad on Facebook. Leonard, this is a salary cap, unbelievable. I want you to just take a look down here that it went backwards from 20 to 21 because they had, they didn’t get as much revenue, right? Kobe had covid. So if you look here, they hit 100 million. Yeah, in 2000 Six it was 85 to 100 million. That’s when the some of the Fox money kicked in. Yeah, yeah, sure. They started to get a little bit of online revenue at that point. Yep. And they went from 100 million to 200 million. It took them 16 about 16 years. Yeah, 17 years. They went from 208 million to 301 million since 2022
Leonard Raskin 05:21
in five years? Yeah. Well, you got to look, you got to wait till it gets to 400 Ness,
Nestor Aparicio 05:26
400 since Lamar got in the league, it was 177 million. Was the quarter, right? Quarterbacks were making 30 million, then 28 million. Yeah, right, yep. Now the quarterbacks are moving towards 70 and 80 million. Yeah, it’s crazy. Period of time, crazy. I mean, Joe Montana and Dan Marie, none of those Manning would say it didn’t ratchet up the way it’s ratcheted up for zay flowers to be a 20 million wide receiver.
8Leonard Raskin 05:55
But they also didn’t have seven or eight. I think it is distribution channels fighting to pay them billions of dollars to show a game. You got Netflix, you got Peacock, you got YouTube, you got DirecTV, you got NFL. Network, Amazon, ESPN, Amazon, CBS, ABC, NBC, Apple, everybody’s paying them money. Look, I have no problem with players getting all they can get. They have short careers. They they play a game. It’s entertainment, and nobody see. There is no What’s the thing there? You just showed salary cap. I just lost my brain. There is no salary cap in Hollywood, right? How much does a movie star make to make a movie? A talk
Nestor Aparicio 06:45
on the math on this that they’re giving Tom Cruise, 20 million. The movie’s worth 380 million plus back Right, right? They know they’re ahead of the game if they write so many asses, but
Leonard Raskin 06:54
the point is, they’re not giving up 20 million now. Stars are getting smart. They’re getting big money, or they’re getting shares a box office, or they own a part of the
Nestor Aparicio 07:03
8Melania got with 40 million for hers, right? Hey, beautiful look. Tony Robbins, by the way, underwrote that you get, you know, you
Leonard Raskin 07:11
get whatever money you can get from whoever you can get. It. I believe this firmly, absolutely, to all our listeners, positively, there is no look. I invest money for people for a living. It’s part of what we do. Our goal is to help people grow wealth so they can have their American dream. Take care of their kids, take care of charity, retire when they want, have the life they want along the way. You know, we’ve talked about it a million times. Here’s the thing, there is no better investment you can make than an investment in yourself. More skills. If you’re a mechanic, be the best mechanic you can possibly be. Demand more money for your services. If you’re an advisor, get certifications. Learn more, understand your craft better, get more money. The guy who hits 210 isn’t getting the same as the guy hitting 299 the guy that hits five home runs ain’t getting what the guy hitting 35 home runs? The pitcher average, okay, the pitcher Cy Young a little more money. The guy who’s an extra on the set doesn’t make as much as Brad Pitt, so invest in yourself. Figure out how to be the best possible you you can be, get better skills and market yourself and be worth more money. And when that happens, amazing things happen in your life. And so I don’t begrudge a single player making any amount of money they ever make now.
Nestor Aparicio 08:38
Well, this is Tyler Linder bombs week to figure that out, yeah, ravens week to figure out if they
Leonard Raskin 08:43
can keep them the value, right? How important is he? Well, his value. So here we are.
8Nestor Aparicio 08:49
Todd monkins, one place, right? John Harbaugh’s another place. Yes. He is certainly in a position that he’s going to be bid upon. Yes. And then have to decide whether are the Ravens offering me the most money? Do I want to play with Lamar? Who do I want to play with Lamar lose? That’s right. So he’s Garrett’s a great here’s
Leonard Raskin 09:07
the thing, right? Here’s the thing we have. We have in sports, this free agency and this notion of opportunity, the same as in the stock market. Okay, everything that’s known and knowable about a stock is in the price at every moment, only new and unknown information causes that to change. So the future is what changes the value. He’s going to be able to go out into the marketplace and find out what he’s worth, and he’s going to be bid upon, and then, like you said, he gets to choose where he wants to play, who he wants to play for, who he wants to play with, what he believes the the prognosis, not the prognosis, the the outlook for championship is, and say, This is where I want to be here. This isn’t where I want
Nestor Aparicio 09:54
to by the way, by the way, there was a quote this week, yes, from one of the air. Arizona Diamondbacks, okay about why he picked Arizona over said it’s over secret that California
Leonard Raskin 10:10
8over California right would be 15% state income taxes versus three.
Nestor Aparicio 10:16
He said it was a two and a half and 13 or whatever. Yes, but you’re right, yeah, yeah. You know this. So just It matters. It matters. It does matter. And Tyler is the greatest example that where the Winnipeg dollar and the Calgary dollar, yeah, could never compete with the New York dollar moment over periods of time, right? And that is always hamstrung teams in that way, in the same way that the Montreal Expos were always a little hamstrung. You know about their participation in all of this? Yeah, it does matter.
Leonard Raskin 10:49
Toronto was in the World Series,
Nestor Aparicio 10:52
but for the person that signed,
8Leonard Raskin 10:54
yes, oh yes, it makes a big difference the dollar value and taxes. Look, that’s again, that’s part of the market decision. In Baltimore, he’s going to have a 10% tax hit, you know, in his situation, besides with the Buccaneers, 00, state income tax. New York’s going to be higher. He’s going to be 13, going on 15. It depends where he is, and that’s got to come into the equation. We we work with people all the time where we’re measuring the value. For instance, if you’re looking at two companies to go to work for salaries one, and then there’s this package thing. It’s called benefits. We look at benefits and salary as a package. And in there is, where are you going to live? We had a gal who was in DC who had an opportunity to move to Washington State, no income tax. It was a totally different trajectory, both of cost of living and net income, and she chose Washington state. You know, people do these things because they’re they’re motivated by their craft and by their dollar and their future. And it matters. It absolutely matters. Well, you and
Nestor Aparicio 12:06
I got sideways last week on our politics and which way you go in which way I Yeah. And then some people say, I don’t talk about, I don’t worry about, I’m not interested in politics. And I’m like, good it’s interested in you. It affects everything. Interested in really rich people love that you’re not interested because they exploit that, right? And there’s the difference just here, you and I have talked about Delaware, yeah, and you having a second home in Delaware. I have people that have, literally have moved their lives 180 Yeah, become a resident, you know, in Lewis, and still keep a place here, whatever. And then there’s the Pennsylvania thing, where, like Luke, and he’s my employee, yeah, lives in another state, right? And, but it’s across the line. His taxes are different. His parents made right exit 30 years ago from Essex and from East Baltimore. It was a better life for them, a bigger house, more of a farm out of the city. Absolutely different state, different all that they vote for, you know, whatever, Shapiro, Fetterman, whoever, completely different elections, different, elections, different,
Leonard Raskin 13:02
absolutely different everything, right? 50 experiments, experiments.
Nestor Aparicio 13:06
8Well, yeah. And I was gonna say, like even last week, that the guy who leads the country is so divisive that the men and the women on the hockey team were fighting with each other after both winning gold. Now I don’t think they were fighting at the whole time. Here we we have 50 different states. Yes, fighting Wes Moore is fighting with West Virginia and Delaware’s fighting with Ocean City. Just about business, absolutely, there’s gonna be 128
Leonard Raskin 13:31
Street history. It’s a big and it really is like this time of year we talk about these football players, yes, when I hear an athlete say, this time of year, when it’s a lot of money, or when I have a business partner who won a Super Bowl that said, I can’t die in Maryland, right? Because my family’s going to get screwed out of $10 million the estate tax becomes a real look. The estate tax, like you said, right across the line in Delaware, Maryland is one of a very few states that have a state estate tax when you die, if you leave more than $5 million to an heir other than your spouse, Maryland starts taking and as a couple, you die with more than $10 million of wealth, and you Leave that to your children, other than to charity, Maryland takes and it could be up to 15 16% so Maryland wants their share of the wealth you’ve created during your lifetime, before you transfer it to your children. Delaware, right next door, says, Whatever you have, it’s yours. Transfer it to your kids. It’s theirs. We don’t take any
Nestor Aparicio 14:41
of that. And that’s an open invitation. When you get to be money to move to Delaware, right?
Leonard Raskin 14:45
To move, well, to any, almost, almost any other state but Maryland. There’s only a few that have $10 million that be thinking to make it matter. Let’s make it matter Absolutely. But if you think about it here, let’s, let’s talk about somebody who might have that. Okay.
8Nestor Aparicio 15:00
I might not, like my wife, or like a lot of people, I’m going to Florida on a fixed income, and I’m just going to have a little bit more money. That’s right, a little bit more sunshine, that’s right, whatever you know what, that’s right,
Leonard Raskin 15:10
because they’re not going to tax my Social Security, my pension, my IRA, my retirement income, and therefore I have a little more but you got people, for instance, ness, who’ve worked at McCormick, a local, great company, for a long time, and they might have been filling bottles. They might have been driving a truck. They might have been in HR, whatever decent salary they’ve been there 30 plus years, they’re ready to retire. You know how much McCormick stock they might have accumulated over their lifetime? Could be millions of dollars, millions of dollars, and then you add on to that, they bought a home, and maybe they have a little bit of life insurance, and
Nestor Aparicio 15:50
maybe they bought a home in Shrewsbury 30 years ago, and that’s $10 million
Leonard Raskin 15:53
8and that’s $10 million it doesn’t take much. I mean, it does take a lot. You got to do the right things. You had to work for it. But over a lifetime, time and wealth compounding could be $10 million and Maryland says, We want some of that before you leave. We want it now. The US government used to say, and like your salary cap chart, if you put up or look up the estate tax exemption, you’ll see similarly that in my career, okay, it’s grown from $600,000 per person, million two is a couple done right up to now, 15 million a person. 30 million per couple. Takes a lot to get to that number before the federal tax hits. It’s a big number, but Maryland says 10. So most states go along with the federal or have none. Maryland says 10. Florida’s no income tax. Maryland’s 10. When you look at the top and Tyler and Lamar and the rest they’re going to pay that now there is one other little variable which you have to look at in sports, which a lot of other people don’t really think about depending upon your business. That is, you pay taxes in the state where you earn it.
Nestor Aparicio 17:15
In the case Lamar, if this were his year to want to go play for the Miami Dolphins, yeah, right, as his advisor, yes, or even the Las Vegas Raiders,
Leonard Raskin 17:26
sure, another state with no income tax, right? That’s why I’m bringing this.
Nestor Aparicio 17:30
Yes, yes. You hear me say the Chargers or rams or the 40 Niners or whatever, taxes wouldn’t be so favorable the fact that you would be his advisor, and you would say, Lamar, you’re making $65 million a year. Yep, you’re getting banged out of how much of that in Maryland that you
8Leonard Raskin 17:50
wouldn’t call it 10 points, 10.6 and a half million, six and a
Nestor Aparicio 17:55
half million a year over the next four years, going to cost you $20 million more to plus the
Leonard Raskin 18:00
lost opportunity of what you can’t earn on that money, because it’s gone forever, right?
Nestor Aparicio 18:07
8You can’t invest what you didn’t make, right? You can’t compound zero. That’s what you can. You can. You don’t get much of it. You can pound on zero. Get nothing on it. Leonard Raskin is here. He manages money. Raskin global. This is a fascinating quickly,
Leonard Raskin 18:21
though, let’s talk about one other thing, though, the other side of that coin, because
Nestor Aparicio 18:24
when a Florida team wants a football player, they stand them a 10% better chance of getting him
Leonard Raskin 18:29
well, but, but there’s another side to that coin. You got to take a look at the federal tax okay? Is 37% at that level? All right, so here’s the question for Lamar Tyler, anybody considering what you’re talking first 20 is gone already? Yeah, let’s talk about what we’re talking about here for real. Am I working with good counsel who is going to help me understand ways to mitigate my federal tax bill. So if I could cut away, let’s just say half of your federal tax bill and cause you to pay 50% of the bill to the US Treasury, versus what you’re going to pay with no good counsel, then Maryland’s tax.
8Nestor Aparicio 19:21
What is good counsel? There charity putting money in lots
Leonard Raskin 19:26
of strategies to save tax. Absolutely, there’s lots of ways to save federal income taxes. It takes work, but there are ways to save it. And so if I can save the federal tax, and some of that would also save me some state tax. But more importantly, if I cut the 37 in half, the 10 is a lot more manageable, and I get to play where I want. The thing people don’t understand is the difference between playing for Baltimore and Miami is only the 10% tax if you don’t have any planning, if you think about things you can do with your. Money to offset that. That doesn’t matter what state you pay, and you’re in America, you got to pay the America tax. Let’s cut some of that. Let’s cut the federal tax and not worry about the state so much. But it is still a horrible state to die in if you have wealth.
Nestor Aparicio 20:16
Here’s letter Raskin. Is Raskin global. Anything else you got on your mind here as we get into spring as well.
Leonard Raskin 20:21
8I think the World Baseball Classic. There is one other thing non sports we should talk about the elephant in the room, and that is the stock market in the face of Foreign Wars, attacks overseas. So I just want to put this out to our listeners again. Similarly, if there’s a big if, if you are calling your broker, your advisor, or expecting or receiving a call from your advisor this week to say, we need to do X, Y or Z, because of what’s happening internationally with bombs and things around The world right now, you have a bad plan, your plan, your assets, your structure of your wealth, should be designed to be ready for the occurrence of something happening in the world, whatever that something is okay. So I just want people to be clear, if your broker is calling you to say, we got to do this, that or the other, because of, it’s a bad call. Nobody can predict the future. Nobody knows what’s going to come next. And making changes because of is a bad deal, a mistake,
Nestor Aparicio 21:37
or you’re playing wartime investing versus non wartime investing
Leonard Raskin 21:41
relative to making changes to your plans exactly. You should be in a structure that works no matter what war, no war, you should be allocated structured the way your your assets should be, and they should be built for the what ifs, and you should avoid it and ride it through and come out the other side with exactly what you had going in. If you’re calling your advisor about this, be very careful if they say, do something, rather than wait it out. If your advisor is calling you do something. Be careful what you’re hearing instead of write it out. Activity does not equal control. Control is understanding beforehand what you should be in so that during, you can weather it, so you come out on the other side of after. So if you think you need to make a call, make sure you’re comfortable with what you had and that it’s right for where you’re going. If it’s not, that’s a bad plan beforehand. Again, if your advisor is calling
Nestor Aparicio 22:43
you to say data, restructure your plan. You and I are doing that later this week.
8Leonard Raskin 22:47
Yeah, but, but what I’m talking about is your asset allocation, investments based on this. Don’t go out and buy Northrop Grumman stock because we’re in a war and they’re a defense contractor. Don’t sell Northrop Grumman stock because we’re in a war. My point is specific moves that somebody may tell you to make because of should have been made already. If it was appropriate for you to do it was appropriate for you to do. If it’s not, it’s not, don’t let this be the the trigger that changes what you have in your plans for
Nestor Aparicio 23:17
the long term. Don’t let the last hand Deal, deal with how you go play the next hand.
Leonard Raskin 23:21
Yeah, short term. Short term means nothing. You know what happens when they spin that wheel? Whether it’s red or black, is completely irrelevant to the next spin. Just, just stay the course. Where you are be be comfortable that you have the right plan. If you don’t have the right plan, that’s when you need to adjust. But not because of it’s an overall look at your financial life and the decisions you’ve made that’s more important than what’s going on right now.
Nestor Aparicio 23:46
8Let A Raskin will sit down with you and do that at Raskin global, and you can find them out at Baltimore positive as well as at Raskin global.com as we calm down here a little bit during the tampering period, get ready for opening day of baseball and no March Madness for the Terps this year, no but will not happen. The caps have been representative, though, now that they’re back,
Leonard Raskin 24:07
close, right? They’re close. They’re fighting for the playoff spot. They have to win a few games. They’re a little bit behind. They had some some stall there, if you will.
Nestor Aparicio 24:17
Well, the Olympics are weird, too. For all every team’s getting like the Baseball Classic is going to do that at the baseball this
Leonard Raskin 24:22
week, right, right? So the caps have a little bit of making up wins to do, but they’re looking good coming out of the break. They’re looking good. And the O’s again, I think here, here’s what I will say the the Olympics have made I think the Baseball Classic will make it a little better, because nationalism, pride is running high across the US sports genre. I think it’ll be interesting to see what the outcome is of this. I mean, last time they played, it was what US Japan in the finals. It was, it was an amazing final game.
8Nestor Aparicio 25:01
Uh, I went to the World Baseball Classic in oh nine at Dodger Stadium. Was 50,000 Japanese folks, right? And, and, and Team USA. Davey Johnson was managing, and I was on the field. Brian Roberts played in that, and Jeremy Guthrie played in that. I saw Roy Oswald pitch. I was telling Luke the story about that, but here’s the real story, because you manage my money that three months ago, I was planning a trip in in March, that was right around March 11 or 20, yeah, yeah. And the trip could have gone through Miami and in Miami next Wednesday night, yeah. Team, Venezuela is the Dominican,
Leonard Raskin 25:40
right? That should be a good game, right? How much you
Nestor Aparicio 25:42
think tickets are for that baseball game in Little Havana in Miami? 500 bucks. Dominic, 500 bucks. It was 330 it’s down to like, 220 Okay, okay, get in. Yeah, you want to get into that game now, if you want to go see team Israel play Mexico, it’s $7 right? Some of these games, you know, there’s nobody Nicaragua that game, but
Leonard Raskin 26:07
8games gonna be big, but that
Nestor Aparicio 26:10
game is off the charts big. And then, you know, if you get through Houston and Miami are going to host games next weekend, right? There’ll be a lot of enthusiasm. And Hey, Adam Jones came out and spoke last year at the connects event, which, I’m sure, yeah, yeah. And, you know, I think he even said on the days like that, memory of him with Machado and representing the USA in the World Baseball Classic, right? He didn’t get to play in a World Series. He didn’t get to do that like that is a highlight of his career. That’s right. And, and I did tell this story to Luke, and I’ll tell you this one letter, because your wife’s into the Olympics. You like the Olympic Yeah, the Olympics, and you like the USA. And we did all that last week. My wife and I got into this, whether I’m into the Olympics enough, like Dave shining gave me a hard time about that too. I’m like, you know, I’ve been on the air 35 years, and I started, like, my wife and I had a glass of wine watching the Olympics two weeks ago. I’m like, I’ve had Carl Lewis in the studio. I had Muhammad Ali I mean, like, I like, I’m thinking of like Mary Lou Retton was my all time favorite. There you go. There you go. So I found all these pictures, and I found the first wave of them. Hannah Teeter, Bonnie Blair, right? Dan Jansen, I didn’t forgot who. So then, then I’m like, I couldn’t find Dorothy Hamill. And, like, I found it. And I’m like, Cool. So I found some more pictures. I found my Bart Connor and Nadia autographs when they go so I’m going through all these Olympic names that I have. I didn’t have Bruce Jenner or not. Well, the question
Leonard Raskin 27:44
is, question is, are you enamored with the mystique that they are? You’re not, because they’re just people. That’s the thing.
Nestor Aparicio 27:52
I never had Michael Phelps on, but I have had his mother. First ever byline I ever had in a newspaper when I was 15 years old, right? Was in the summer 1984 I wrote about Theresa Andrews, who I still have never met, winning a gold medal with Murray Stevens at the Baltimore, North Baltimore, which leaders would spawn Michael Phelps and everybody after that. Right for Baltimore? Right for Olympic glory. So Baltimore’s got a little Olympic history. Palmer Park, right? So I had pictures of Sugar Ray Leonard from you and you few Jackman, there you go. So impressed my wife, and then I’m trying to impress myself, and thinking, all right, how many Olympians have I really had on? And I started thinking, going 35 years of radio, who won him? Beth Botsford has been in my studio. You probably know her dad, Kevin, manage money around here forever so, and she was my like, Beth bots was my heart. I love that bet put the gold medal on me in 1990 There you go. Studio. Get from Atlanta. You let me chew on it, the whole deal. So I thought about this, and I did, like, Hey, I think Mark McGuire won a gold medal, and I’m like, Hey, I went to China with Cal Ripken. There you go, the Olympics. And, oh, wait, I wonder if I had any of the Olympians on. Well, lo and behold, I went to the back of the rack, and I thought of a guy. He happens to be a Pittsburgh Steeler fan, and you would never think of him as having one Olympic gold medal, but he has one, and he’s bragged about it on my show, and it’s been a long time. Rick krivda. Rick krivda has an Olympic gold medal and a jersey in his closet that says USA. Awesome, that he represented America. And if you don’t think that’s the highlight of his absolutely here in life. And I’m going to certainly hasn’t been a Steelers championship in a while, if he hears that, he’s a Steeler guy. So it is amazing the Olympics. And I’ve had a rich history with Team USA and cheering for America and waving the flag in Germany at the World Cup. So I’m right. Come on, right?
8Leonard Raskin 30:01
I get it, man, that’s what it’s all about. And for some of these guys, some of these people, it’s clearly their their greatest, largest single hit. I mean, I’d be thrilled to wear a jersey there and be part of that. I think
Nestor Aparicio 30:14
arusioni picture to legitimize myself. How about that? There you go. All right, he’s the man so USA. There you fired up for gunner, and he doesn’t
Leonard Raskin 30:25
get hurt, right, right? Ask Sidney Crosby about that
Nestor Aparicio 30:29
absolutely, all right. And Diaz, he is Leonard Rask, and he manages money. We had a little educational moment. Here this, there you go, Baltimore positive. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 we never stopped talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.
