Luke Jones and Nestor discuss success of Cleveland Guardians and value of bullpen depth
welcome home we are wnst am1 1570 talson Baltimore and Baltimore positive we are positively into a home stand into a week of baseball here Luke Jones about to join us he will uh join us again on July 12th we’re going to reconvene for the Maryland crab cake tour presented by our friends at the Maryland Lottery the Gold Rush sevens doublers we will have these at papis in Parkville this Tuesday and then we’re going to go to a little Fourth of July respit come back on July 12th uh we are putting together the Maryland oyster tour in September so I’m really looking forward to that our friends at the liberty pure Solutions making our water crystal clear as well as Jiffy Lube MultiCare keeping us tuned up and out on the road and oiled up for a uh good series here with the Guardians ahead a rough weekend um for the Orioles down in Houston and we talked about the Yankees a little bit over the weekend Luke’s about to join us Luke before I start we’re going to be at papis and Parkville on Tuesday I have a Litany of great guests stopping by old friends and new uh Fourth of July week we’re going to be at the Heritage fair this weekend so we’re looking forward to that um I had a bucket list interview this week with with I have two guests and I don’t want to spoil the second one yet because I want to make sure he joins me later in the day um but I had Greg Hawks from the Cars uh one of the surviving members without realizing he was from Howard County Athlon he was a ticket taker at Merryweather for The Who and for Tom Jones Back in 1970 and 71 and later performed there as a member of the cars where I had a front row seat in 1984 um and also saw the Beatles at the Baltimore Civic Center and uh you’ll appreciate this I’m just going to plug this piece and I’m going to say something nice about Coco and then we’re going to talk about the Orioles and the Guardians to wash out all that let me get some Royal Farms cone of I got to wash taste of that whole that Astros thing oh man my cousin’s an Astros fan she grew up here she got a Baltimore accent she roots for the AST she’s a I should bring her on this week she’s a mess um Coco’s had an issue um over the weekend and they they they lost their power on Friday and Luke you’ve been to Coco’s uh on occasion you’ve had the delicious crab cake there you know they have those big refrigerated things that they keep all the crab cakes in and they’re always hundreds of crab cakes ahead making those big softball 11 ounce delicious crab cakes that they have over there not to mention the coconut shrimp that that I’m that’s my my jam over there um power goes out on Friday and then Saturday it happened again so she just got back up running and she’s like oh my God Marcela puts out a thing out on Facebook that our pow is out and we have 600 crab cakes here 25 bucks a crab cake come get them and I’m like let’s help Marcel and I shared it everywhere and whatever she sold out of crab cakes in two hours on Saturday it’s the power community and uh so uh Bravo to everybody that saved Marcela small business can’t have losses like that who wants to waste crab cakes on a hot weekend so uh all of that stuff worked out Luke became an uncle this week as well so we’ve just had good stories of Triumph they beat the Yankees and then you know I had a Triumph Greg Hawks did the show and and they’re playing Saturday night at Ram said and there’s still tickets available to go he a whole evening of Cars music with Greg Hawks uh and a called Eddie Japan so I you know I’ve had a good week um weather’s been nice but the baseball over the weekend dude I mean we were having a good time here uh when you and I left things it cost us high-fiving everybody’s mooing scoring 17 runs all the memes are all these orial tough guys beating up on Yankees and little Three Stooges and Little Rascals memes and stuff um my favorites are always the um Julia Louie dfus and uh Jason Alexander the the Seinfeld ones are my favorite but with Orioles Yankees but they didn’t want anything and this Astros thing over the weekend um it was rough and the bats need to awaken and they’re coming home and um there should be optimism we’re gonna have a lot of fans there this week Joan Jets coming in man yeah there I mean there should be optimism I mean no one should be panicking over one series over the weekend I mean it was ugly I agree we we talked about it in a whole segment but at the same time this is still a team that’s 20 game 20 plus games over 500 and we’re not even to the Fourth of July yet you you’ll sign up for that every year and feel great about it so I think the biggest takea away from the weekend is the need to turn the page very quickly because this is a Cleveland Guardians team coming in that I don’t think there were very high expectation for uh you know the the Tito Francona era had come to an end and I think whenever you’re talking about a manager that’s LED you to penet and deep deep October runs and all of that that there’s a a question as far as what is it going to look like especially in a market like Cleveland where they haven’t spent money and you wonder about that but Steven vot has come in and has done a really nice job as manager and I I think the biggest thing when you’re looking at the Guardians and yes you know they have some bats Jose Ramirez is a well-known name around baseball at this point in time Josh Naylor’s had a really nice year for them but you look at the pitching but you peel it back peel back the onion their rotation not impressive on paper right and me you look at the pitching matchups for this series even I mean 365 okay Logan Allen has a 523 erra Carlos Carrasco has a 540 so it’s not their rotation but look at their Bullpen and look at the Bullpen numbers and obviously it begins with class A their their closer who is is another Felix Batista kind of dominant ninth inning arm that you just feel great about uh but it’s not just him their Bullpen has been that good so in a way it does kind of remind you of those Cleveland teams going back to when they played the Cubs in the World Series what eight years ago at this point in time where they tried to shorten the game and they could turn the turn it over to the bullpen in the fifth or sixth inning and and feel great about it the rest of the way so their Bullpen has been outstanding and they’ve played they’ve just played really good baseball we’ve we’ve spent so much time talking about the Orioles and Yankees and and the AL East race I mean Cleveland I mean they’ve separated from Minnesota obviously the Royals have really come back to earth after a fantastic start uh Detroit isn’t awful but they’re not good either uh so and obviously the white socks are horrendous I mean Cleveland has been the very clear class of that Division and I mean they go into this series with a seven and a half game lead so you know they’re they’re in way better shape than the Oreos or Yankees as it pertains to the division uh and winning the division so uh you know the O the overall point uh that I made uh I think it was the eighth Inning on Sunday as the Oreos were getting swept in Houston is you better be ready to turn the page because this is a Cleveland team that’s playing really good baseball you know they just disposed of the Blue Jays who by the way I mean the Blue Jays are just a mess I mean I mean they’re crumbling at this point in time but they took care of them and let’s go flee some it’s a good baseball I mean it really is yeah maybe maybe I mean I don’t know if they’re going to be but but this is a good team in Cleveland coming in and like I said it really begins with how great their Bullpen has been look at their Bullpen splits compared to the rest of the league it’s silly what their Bullpen is doing can that last for 162 games yeah it’s probably fair to ask that but where they stand right now which is a record that’s a little bit better than the Orioles and Yankees you know that they’ve quietly taken the Orioles and Yankees for the best record in the league so but it it their Bullpen has just been outstanding uh and it’s really covered up any other deficiencies they might have you know John Martin from the Maryland Lottery comes on all the time with us and I kid him he’s Guardians he he grew up honest in Cleveland but really big Sports historian like when I start talking because we we need to talk Lottery and scratch offs and talk about Mega Millions talk about Winners talk about their Olympic giveaway all the stuff that we do cash pop all the new games but when I get him going on baseball and I did this week so it’s a great segment because he was talking about the 54 World Series and you know the drought and his lifetime and I brought you up as though like you were born two weeks before the last time we won they go back even further if you don’t count LeBron uh you know and certainly from the brown side it’s hopeless there and then and I talked to John a lot about baseball because we do home run riches all the time we always put a little baseball like how the team’s doing we like to keep it topical so it’s not boring Lottery talk or boring Sports gambling talk or whatever um but the Bieber thing for him was like sort of an inside thing in March and April like hey maybe thinking you know we’re gonna get Jackson holiday for Bieber or something but the notion that things have gone perfect for them they have not and if you think the Yankees are big and bad this is a team playing 650 ball too and they’ve done it for a while and they’ve done it without everybody as well they thought their rotation would be better and they also a franchise like us like Tampa like the Yankees before they got you know Garett kback last week that things haven’t been perfect with pitchers or young pitchers or devastating losses to their own Kyle bradish no doubt about it and look this is part of the the dialogue here is pitching injuries are it’s part of the sport I mean it really is we’ve talked about it a lot you and I spent entire segments kind of talking about that so yeah I mean when you talk about Bieber and I mean it it hasn’t been a perfect season for Cleveland but like I said their Bullpen has just been so good I mean their their starting rotation on paper doesn’t really impress you statistically it doesn’t really impress you it’s not horrendous but it’s certainly not where you’re looking at them and saying oh my gosh I mean their top three starters are unbelievable and how are you going to navigate that if you face them in the postseason I mean they’re not that team it’s just that their Bullpen has been amazing you know with class and go down the list I they’ve got three or four other relievers who have sub two eras I mean you have guys with a one one something erra in the bullpen and missing bats and getting outs and holds and saves and all that I mean well the goal is to avoid those guys because if you’re ahead you avoid those guys right I I I was just going to say if you’re not leading in the sixth inning then oo th this is not the kind of series you want to navigate and you know we we mentioned this a little bit with the Philadelphia series I mean the Phillies have an much like Cleveland outstanding Bullpen where they have four or five guys where you know probably three of those guys could close on other teams I mean that’s kind of what you you’re looking at uh but you know I mean this Cleveland team again you look at the record and you say how are they so good because don’t get me wrong I mean Jose Ramirez is a fantastic player nailor you know they’ve got stepen Quan who’s like kind of the throwback as far as a contact hitter and all that that you just don’t see very much of it in the modern game game so it’s not as though their offense stinks let me clear about that but what what when you’re looking at what the secret sauce is what really has made Cleveland so great this year uh again the bullpen numbers in terms of you know whether you’re talking just erra or getting nerdier with wins above replacement and win probability added and all those different things I mean their pen has just been so good again can that last for six months I mean that’s always a question with pitching at this point in time uh and to your point you know it’s not as though they haven’t had some injuries you know particularly to their rotation you know with prominent uh you know prominent pitcher going down so you know we we’ll see but again you better if you’re in you’re down a run or two going into the seventh inning you’re not feeling great about your chances I mean you just aren’t so you know I think if there’s something that does stand out a little bit I mean Cleveland has been they’ve been good on the road but they’ve really been amazing playing at home this year you look at their home road splits I mean it’s I think they’ve lost nine games at at the Ballpark formerly known as the Jake all year so but they’ve you know 23 and 17 on the road they’ve been perfectly fine on the road so it’s a good team again you kind of look at their makeup you looked at where expectations were new manager Terry FR Francona retiring I I think there was a thought of okay you still have Minnesota Kansas City no one thought they’d get off to the start they did but now they’ve obviously come back to earth you know I think people were wondering about the Tigers a little bit with some of their young Talent what was that going to look at look like I mean I don’t think anyone thought Cleveland was going to be terrible let me be clear about that but you know I don’t think anyone was looking at the the Guardians and saying oh they’re going to be the class of the division they’re going to be up seven plus games uh as we’re approaching the Fourth of July so again their pitching has been good and yeah they’ve got A plus 1004 run differential that’s not fluky you know when you’re talking about run differentials in the triple digits in late June you know it’s not just that you’re getting lucky in one run games and you’re fortunate that you know the ball’s bouncing way all that no they’re good I mean they’re good now are they 100 win good great you know I think that’s still to be determined again is that Bullpen going to continue to excel at this level to this degree uh that’s a fair question but you know again this is a team that they it’s worked for him all year shortened it to a five or six inning game and then turned it over to the bullpen and and those guys have been fantastic Luke Jones is here he is Baltimore Luke at on all of the social medias uh uh Ravens are kind of quiet right now let’s kind of keep it that way we’re quieting down the crab cake tour after our stop at papis and Parkville on Tuesday for a couple of weeks as we get up on the fourth of July the weather’s heating up um you and I did a whole turn on Rubenstein and trade deadline and pitching and people can go listen to that you and I did a whole thing on Willie May last week on the crab cake tour over cus as well and a little bit of the history of B baseball and um we geeked out nerded out on that and I’m sure we will nerd out again before July 12th When We Gather um at fadley for another crab cake down there um thumbs up thumbs down for you on the weekend and on the hitting and on um the prescription for getting this a little bit better with the bats and we wouldn’t have said that on Thursday with 17 runs even the crazy ninth inning they had on Friday night night but the Saturday Sunday thing we mentioned fatigue this and they’re being playing a lot of games they’re playing stiffer competition and they were on the road and in a dome and blah blah everybody’s wearing orange I did notice that including my cousin um hot and cold thumbs up thumbs down but we’re always wondering this with the Outfield and decisions they’re going to make with Mato and Westberg and nagging injuries and when do you give Rutman day off and the DH him and you know how long’s oarn going to keep this going and santand there we were two weeks ago like what’s up with him and then he just hits home runs and so all of these guys that does that streakiness that mount Castle’s famous for that Haze a lot of these guys are famous for being streaky and two bats can carry them through the next eight days and they could just go six and one you know before the weekend’s over and every because they’re capable of that I don’t know the pitching if I’m believing in the pitching more and more times through the rotation without bradish and with Povich and guys I’m still questioning as to whether they belong and Irvin how long that’s going to last and Suarez who my Venezuelan brother um I don’t claim altu anymore because he’s a cheater we didn’t even get into that took me an hour and a half of talking baseball Without accusing the Astros of cheating thumbs up thumbs down on hitting right now and what you want to see done with the lineup uh I mean look I’m not going to sit here and say thumbs down when the numbers are what they are right I mean this has been one of the best offenses in baseball and I know we’ve talked about the walks by the way adley rutan’s walk rate go look at it it it’s on the rise and he’s continued to produce and all that so I that’s normalized as I thought it would but they Slug and and okay they didn’t hit the ball over the weekend Blanco was really good on Saturday and it’s having a really good year and fber Valdez who I understand hasn’t had the dominant year statistically we know what he’s capable of so they ran into some good pitching it’s not an excuse but it’s part of it and I I thought over the weekend yeah they didn’t have as good of it bats I thought there were there were a couple times where they to took a called third strike and you could see it the The Hitter wasn’t pleased but the kzone suggested as a strike man you know so you’re gonna have some of that I I think you know in our previous segment I made the point that as they’re navigating this uncertain time with their pitching in terms of what’s going to happen trade deadline wise with the rotation with the bullpen I I think they do need to lean on their hitting a little bit more in terms of what can be done I mean they they obviously tweaked the lineup a little bit against the Lefty on Sunday they had a Rutman lead off you know in recent weeks we’ve seen Jordan Westberg lead off against left-handed starters uh somewhat and dropping Gunner to the cleanup spot you know I’m not opposed to tweaking the lineup I also don’t think that’s necessarily an Elixir and I don’t think and hide views it that way sometimes it’s just to change things up you know just do something for the sake of doing it differently but you know as this lineup goes you know I mean they obviously lean so much on their MVP candidate and gunar Henderson and adley Rutman they’re All-Star catcher I mean that’s the state in the obvious Mount Castle’s had a good year Jordan Westberg you know hit a home run you know Cup Long ball over the weekend and you know saw that so that was good to see The Outfield I mean it’s just for me it’s just can you find a little more consistency I mean santand had the monster June hit the long ball Mullins has swung the bat better the last couple weeks that’s been good to see Austin Hayes quietly even though he hasn’t regained an everyday role nor am I suggesting that he should or needs to quietly he swung the bat well since coming back from the IL I mean you think how disastrous his start was and meanwhile Colton cower was looking like Babe Ruth at that point in time and we’re saying hey cow is a starter Hayes is a bench player now but since he’s come back and obviously they’ve picked their spots when he’s played but go look at the splits he’s been good since coming off the iil you know the guy that I keep waiting on is Colton cower from the standpoint of when you look at the peripherals when you look at the batted ball data the stat cast all those different things which that’s not the end all be all let me be very clear about that but it is an evaluation tool to look at and say okay is this guy close to breaking out is is this guy hitting into some tough luck you know what’s it looking like walk wise what’s it looking like contact rate wise how is he getting pitched in April versus how he’s getting pitched now sure sure that and that’s been talked about in terms of you know off speed stuff as opposed to fast balls uh I I keep waiting for him to not have a stretch like he did in those two weeks in April because that was very extreme how how ridiculously redh hot he was at that point in time but every time he has a good game it’s like okay I’m waiting for him to get going but then it kind of you know it reverses and you know see a little bit tooo much swinging Miss let me be clear I’m not at all suggesting I’d send them down to the miners or anything like that but I do want to see him more consistent I I do want to see him find a more consistent level here over the next two to three weeks because he’s got the power back to do it and he draws walks plays really good defense I I think that’s something that has kept him playable on a mostly everyday basis is because he defends so well and obviously Mullins has had his issues to the point where Mullins isn’t an everyday player uh at this point in time and we’ve seen him rest against a lot of lefties uh but you know you just like to see a little more consistency obviously the the news late Friday night uh you know hon kirad is going to be caught up again I don’t think that’s necessarily means he’s gonna play every day because we’ve seen this with him and Stowers right they get caught up and we say oh maybe they’ll provide a spark and then they don’t they don’t play a whole lot so you know I think that was just a a product of mton had been called up you know during the Yankee series because of the Westberg hip issue uh stemming from Juan stto mysteriously running into him on the base paths but you know West brg’s clearly fine as he was one of the few guys to swinging the bat over the weekend uh but you know can you can you mix kurad in there can he give you a little bit of a spark at some point if he is going to play at all I mean I’m not expecting him to play every day and we’ve talked about his defense being a factor in that equation but you know just like to a little more consistency from The Outfield uh because I mean I think everyone sees the talent there I mean there’s proven guys there are unproven guys with good you know minor league resumés and uh and well wellth thought of prospects all of that but you know it’s still been a little less consistent than you’d like other than I guess recently santon de just going nuts with the long ball so but overall I mean I can’t sit here and quip about the offense too much I mean again who else in baseball scored 400 runs already this year I mean it’s just you know I I know on a on a day byday basis yeah you’d like to be more consistent but that’s baseball and I’ll continue to remind everyone what run scoring has been like across baseball this year you know it is not a good runs scoring environment in fact it’s been you know I I I looked at the league average numbers just a couple days ago I mean other than two years ago which if you remember offense was was down two years ago and and you know go all the way back to like 2015 and that was in the midst of like shift Mania you know you won’t find offense being much worse than it’s been this year over the last 10 years save for you know a season or two where it’s comparable so relative to the rest of baseball this orios offense has been outstanding so I’m not going to sit here and say a thumbs thumbs down just because of two games over the weekend but they better be ready to hit because you know tough pitching they’re definitely going to have their their hands full especially if they get into that Cleveland bullpen in the late Innings and it’s a close game so uh they definitely need to be ready to jump on the Cleveland starters because you do not want to be dealing with class A in the ninth inning or any number of other guys that they’re gonna you know Steven vot’s going to send out in the sixth seventh and eighth inning I mean like I said you have a lot of on something eras in a bullpen uh you know you have your hands full but you know with this offense it’s just a matter of get back to doing what you’ve done all year which is you know hit the ball you know again it’s not perfect every night never is you know that’s baseball but talking about a team that’s eclipsed 400 runs over the weekend you know I’m not going to sit here and give it a thumbs down that would be crazy yeah Crystal balling this out and we’ll talk about it on a daily basis as these games unfold at the bottom of the rotation this week and they try to get Rodriguez right um if I’m betting and I’m not a better I’m not a gambler on this stuff I’m betting they rebound at home this week I I have found them to be relatively resilient and meeting challenges and the Yankees challenge came to them it came to them on Wednesday last week you know and they they answered that three weeks ago the two smartest guys in the room you and me got together and looked at the calendar and looked at the competition and looked at where they were and looked at where even means was and where bradish was going and certainly once they went not when bradish throwing no hitters in May when it’s June and arms here we are I I think they’ll bounce back I’m I’m I want to be the guy this week for all the haters out on YouTube who’ve been clicking and liking um that I’m the bad guy here I you know I think they’ll go five- two this week I I just think they’ll come back and and the fans and the Jan jet and the giveaways and the Hawaiian shirt like all the stuff they that home cooking for them helps their pitching helps their Bullpen helps their hitters I think they’ll play Better Baseball this week that’s my prediction they’ll look more like the team we saw in Yankee Stadium last Thursday for a couple days this week I mean I I how how could you bet against that I mean we have two we’re coming up on we’re about officially two years out from when they really started playing well in 22 and they don’t lose a lot we have two years of evidence at this point of even when they go through a stretch like I mentioned in our previous conversation you know we’re coming up on a year when they had that stretch where what they lost two out of three to the Reds and they went to Yankee Stadium and and it was ugly uh you know they lost a six out of seven and I was on vacation at the time and every time I opened up social media all I saw was oh the sky’s falling the season’s over this team’s going coming back to Earth all that and then they they got themselves right back to the way that they’ played which which was playing really well so I think they’re gonna be fine do does that mean I think they’re going to go seven and0 either you know I it’s baseball again you’re going to lose some games you know what happened over the weekend against Houston is what happens to every team over the course of 162 and for for me I I think where it feels a little more fluky was the fact that burns and and Grayson Rodriguez both got beat right I mean if it had just been the bottom of the rotation like for example look who pitched against the Yankees right the Yankee series if that had happened to them in that series then oh my gosh the pitching the pitching the pitching the starting pitching is just not good enough and look I’m not let me be clear I’m not saying that it’s fine the way it’s presently constructed either but they lost with burn you know because I saw some people saying well this is really starting to catch up to them with with with bradish and and means and and Wells like wait a second Corbin Burns and Grayson Rodriguez pitched this weekend like this happen happens you’re going to lose some games all the more reason they get they need to make some pitching upgrades because you can’t expect Burns to be perfect every single time although he’s been really close to being that consistent and you know Grayson Rodriguez got knocked around on Friday night it’s going to happen but you know it was just uh one of those Series where it stunk you I can’t say it anymore the series St I mean it was lousy you know I can’t sit here and say that anymore at the same time it was three games and on the road against a good team when you’re tired and right I mean all of that it had all the I I definitely and again I don’t want to say this because it comes across as just making an excuse at the same time they’ve had so few off days over the last month plus that I think it would be naive not to think that there’s a little bit of that and and I even said that to you during the Yankee series that you know little little bit of sloppiness with the defense you know a little more than accustomed to seeing I feel like that’s maybe something that’s shown up a little bit is for maybe some mental fatigue there um you know and it’s not just let’s be clear I think you have a lot of teams around baseball that this is the kind the time in the schedule the allstar break you can see the light at the end of the tunnel to get to the break and you know you get those four days and all that so everyone’s battling that so I don’t want to make this a thing that oh wo is the wo is me with the Orioles and you know Major League Baseball is out to get no none of that but by the way Russ and Henderson aren’t getting time off probably Burns neither right like so a bunch of those guys are wind up going you know so they’re they’re not gonna get that rest in their own mind that a lot of other guys Matteo is saying dude I’m off a couple days right right but but even those guys I I mean the the mental it’s not quite as mentally taxing I mean that’s more you know that’s a fun thing oh dude I’ve been the allar game it’s more mentally taxing trying to get family tickets in an out sure oh sure sure but I mean right but I mean the baseball part of it right right but but but that’s said I don’t know how you can’t look at the schedule and say I’m sure that’s part of it that’s that’s part of it I’m sure they’re probably sure they’re tired right now you know Brandon Hyde even said that after the the Yankee series know he no it was the philly Series so on on Sunday afternoon last week last weekend when they crushed Zack Wheeler you know one of the things Brandon Hyde said was our guys are tired I like I could see it come when they’re walking off the field back to the Dugout I mean you can tell they’re tired they’re trying hard they’re playing hard but you can tell they’re a little tired so now that said one you know they’ll be off on July 1 right so you know they’ll get through this week and they’ll have an off day does that fix everything or or is that the the end all be all no of course not but yeah you’d like to get into a stretch of baseball where you’re on average having a day off per week to 10 days you know like you know a little more normalized schedule uh so I think that’s part of it but again that’s not an excuse and I don’t those guys aren’t going to use it as an excuse and that’s why to your point your prediction which I wholeheartedly agree with I I think they’re going to bounce back here you know I I think Cleveland is really good do I think Cleveland is some unbeatable jug or not no but you better get an early lead on them because you do not want to be navigating that Bullpen trying to make up a run or two I mean because lots of teams have tried and failed you know that the the numbers speak for themselves it’s why they’re 20 plus games over 500 in late June uh but you know between them Texas who they get sherzer back you know they’re they’re on a little bit of a winning streak here but overall the Rangers have been disappointing you know they’ve been sub 500 so you know this is this is a week that shouldn’t be intimidating to the Orioles whatsoever but you hope the weekend served as I mean not a wakeup call that might be too strong but just a reminder a gentle nudge to say hey yeah things went really well against the Phillies and the Yankees and good job on that and you Prov some people wrong around B but this game humbles you very quickly doesn’t it I mean it absolutely did over the weekend for them so turn the page get home sleep in your own beds and I I think they’ll be fine in the context of the present and winning some series and and not going into some big tail spin we’ll talk about the pitching and trade deadline and all that we’ll continue to talk about that we’ve still got five weeks to go uh even if they make a trade we’ll say okay what are they doing next right because that’s just the nature of it but I I I do do truly feel this team has earned more than the benefit of the doubt as it pertains to okay you got swept it’s stunk it was ugly maybe a little embarrassing if if we’re being honest but they’re fine I mean they really are Yankees lost the Series they’re fine get home start playing good baseball again and take care of business against a good Cleveland team because if you don’t then probably you know you’re going to have your feelings hurt again and then concerns will start to mount a little bit more big week ahead uh Fourth of July right around the corner Orioles home all week uh fighting for first place could be in first place by the end of the week you play well uh simple as that play as well as they did last week we’ll have that happen Luke will be out at the Ballpark all week this week the baby is here Uncle Luke is uh back on the full-time beat against the Guardians and the Rangers this week we’re going to be on the beat at papis in Parkville on Tuesday I will have the Gold Rush sevens doublers to give away at papis Parkville uh our next show after that will be July 12th we will not be down at fadley this Friday uh I will be um taking my wife and her uh foot in the boot up to hooting and the Blowfish uh to see them perform up in Hershey on Friday speaking of that Mark Bryan is here this week Thomas Dolby who’s uh show is down at Anthem in a couple of weeks a lot of Summer tours and I had a real bucket list visit uh unlikely visit with Greg Hawks of the cars the original keyboard player from the Cars one of the surviving members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers uh he has put a band together called Eddie Japan they’re playing on Saturday night down at Rams Head naap a lot of stuff going on man Heritage fair is happening this weekend uh I’ll be a part of that as well and U big concerts and just it’s summertime around here make sure you’re uh keeping those wise conversations first and foremost I know we got some hamburgers for the grill over the weekend little easier to cook outside when it’s 98 degrees outside or order Coco crab cakes when they’re 25 bucks and their freezers are going out and all that stuff that happened last week but uh hopefully a good week ahead here get some uh folks out and checking out our stuff and um let everybody know if you’re you’re digging what you’re hearing and seeing here at Baltimore positive we have big plans ahead for uh football season certainly and um new website too Jessica Valas joined us last week over Costas talked about our new website and about things we’re doing there also was joined by Chris Emy it’s like a radio dis jockey week had Chris Emy last week John Patty of WBAL uh is going to be uh my uh my cohort at papis on Tuesday lonard Raskin is going to stop by Steve Elliot we’re right in the area where Elliot Family Chiropractic Life is my old pal Berry stits from My Little League teams in Eastwood little league in 1978 79 one time super soccer star with the blast and spirit now the um the the soccer coach at at Archbishop Curley and you know when I started looking it stits I started to do research because it’s not often you invite a childhood friend on you Google him and he’s got got a bio and all that stuff he’s in like hall of fames like all over the place too so I’m really going to bust his chops cuz he’s been running for me so Barry Stitz will join us at papis on Tuesday so a lot of great conversations music Sports Old Friends new friends crab cakes and on a daily basis Luke Jones has got your covered at orial Park at campden yards each and every night on The X or the Twitter or whatever there’s a there’s an old WWE reference right there you go uh I am Nester we are wnst am1 1570 talson Baltimore big thanks to our friends Jiffy Lube and liberty pure solutions for putting this out on the road in the crab cake tour as well even though I’m getting the chicken Fran chase at I’m going to learn how to say that Fran chasy uh over at papis and Parkville back for more on Baltimore positive stay 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Luke Jones and Nestor discuss success of Cleveland Guardians and value of bullpen depth
