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Born in Dundalk...Just turned 40...Began as an agate clerk and gopher in 1984 at The News American...Sportswriter and music critic at The Evening Sun from 1986 through 1992...Started doing sports radio with Kenny Albert in 1992 on WITH-AM 1230...Obtained WNST-AM 1570 in 1998...Was nationally syndicated on 425 stations via Sporting News Radio from 1999 through 2001...Retired from daily radio in 2004 to C.E.O. and do business development for WNST...Led walkout of 2,000 Orioles fans at Camden Yards in the "Free The Birds" movement...Became partners with Brian Billick and began WNST.net earlier this year...Loves to travel the world and shoot campy videos for wnsTV...In general, he loves Baltimore and lives to make this website great!
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It isn’t hype to say that a miracle happened at Camden Yards tonight. It isn’t hyperbole to say that this was truly the greatest comeback in Orioles history. It really was.
I’m sure this morning many of you will awake to read this and say what most of the city (or the few who were watching to begin with will say): “They were losing 9-1 when the rain came. How the hell did they win that game?”
Well, the box score will tell you all about the comeback — an amazing display of perserverance that saw them get five runs in the 7th inning and five more in the 8th to overcome the Red Sox in an 11-10 win before a stunned contingent of mostly Red Sox fans, who stayed to celebrate what looked to be a rout at 10:45 p.m. after a lengthy and wet rain delay that came in the fifth inning.
In the 7th, Aubrey Huff, Nolan Reimold and Luke Scott heroics were all upstaged by Oscar Salazar’s big home run off of Hideki Okajima.
In the 8th, it was Nick Markakis’ big two-out shot off the left field wall that highlighted a firestorm offensive display against Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon. Everyone got in on the act. They managed 13 hits and 10 runs in two innings against the best bullpen in the game and on a night when all but a handful of their fans walked out of the ballpark during a rain delay.
Afterward Dave Trembley said (without joy): “That’s about the best ballgame I’ve ever been involved in. You play all 27 outs. It was calm. But every time we scored it got a little bit more wild. I guess the word would be: believable. Very impressive.”
Well, for all of Trembley’s relative lack of enthusiasm, at least the MASN boys were in great spirits. Jim Hunter looked like he was going to pee himself. Rick Dempsey couldn’t stop smiling. The remaining Red Sox fans were looking for more cold beer. Jim Palmer looked stunned. Gary Thorne was screaming like it was Game 7 Avalanche-Red Wings on ESPN circa 1998. (I love Gary Thorne!)
Former Baltimore Sun writer David Steele commented on my Facebook thread with this amazing observation: With the biggest win in Orioles history “they quieted their own ballpark.”
That’s a scary thought — but it’s true. The more the comeback came, the fewer the people who were cheering in the stands in red shirts. There was one rowdy group of orange over the O’s dugout, the heartiest of hearty souls after 11 p.m. I’m sure they have some great stories to tell. MASN had one cutaway of a Red Sox fan jawwing with an O’s supporter in the box seats and it looked like a fight was about to throw down.
What a night! These crazy kids are so up and down it’s impossible to know what you’re getting. Lost in this amazing win will be the dreadful start of Rich Hill, who managed to give up 9 runs in less than four innings before the magical rain that changed the O’s fortunes tonight.
You gotta admit that what happened tonight takes a certain amount of chutzpah and stones. It was a comeback for the ages. Like Bills-Oilers. Or Maryland-Miami. Or Len Bias at the Dean Dome. (Or sadly, Duke-Maryland 2001!) That Flacco effort in Cleveland last year didn’t suck either.
It was memorable and hopeful. Like Jimmy V, these guys never gave up. You have to respect that. It makes them likable and heroic in many ways. The Markakis at bat could be a “defining moment.”
The Orioles and Sox have a quick turnaround. They play the cap of the three-game series at 1:35 p.m. with Josh Beckett facing Brad Bergesen.
11:26 p.m. — If you are watching the Orioles game right now, you’re one of the few lost souls who have returned. After trailing the Red Sox 9-1 when a brutal rainstorm entered the city early in the evening, the Orioles have come back in the “second half” and brutalized Boston pitching in various ways to take an amazing 11-10 lead in the 8th inning.
There appear to be about 10,000 Red Sox fans still in the ballpark and a handful of rowdy Orioles fans who are truly the last rats on the ship.
A longer blog will follow, but we’re up and we’re paying attention and we’re stunned in amazement at the greatest comeback in Orioles history.
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June 30th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
You make me sick….you’re always jumping ship and annoying the s$!% out of so many people. You should just go away. Your ideas suck and your loyalty is terrible. Now go ahead and say how successful you think you are and the history of being a fan and that you moved a block away because you love the O’s so much. Enough already…..awful. My closet is bigger than your station.
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July 1st, 2009 at 12:35 am
The Red Sox fans were still there because they are staying at our hotels and eating at our restaurants because you can’t get a ticket at their park. Thanks for your money Red Sox fans! Now go spend some more and cry your blues away at one of our bars.
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July 1st, 2009 at 12:37 am
Hey Nestor…Lacey is listening and watching…must be upset that the Sox just got beat.
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July 1st, 2009 at 12:38 am
Man am I glad I decided to check my fantasy league after I shut the game off…I would have missed it. I had a really ****** day today but this made it all better
PS- Pay no attention to Lacey there. You’re the man.
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July 1st, 2009 at 1:06 am
Nestor,
What a great comeback for the Orioles that really shows how much this young team wants to win. Looking forward to a great show tomorrow with lots of O’s talk and updates.
By the way, Lacey is off-topic. You have been much more balanced about the team lately.
Finally, when Alan McCallum and you talk O’s, I believe that is the best hour of O’s sports talk radio in all of Baltimore.
Bill
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July 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
Whatever Lacey. Nasty and all other O’s fans aren’t “jumping ship”. You obviously have no idea what it means to live and die with a team. When the ownership of an organization constantly puts out a poor product, true fans of that organization are going to complain. Right now super-agent Drew Rosenhaus is representing the Florida Panthers fans to get the organization to lower their ridiculously high ticket prices considering they have the longest postseason drought in active NHL teams. I personally am sick of seeing (or not seeing, thank you Comcast Harrisburg) the O’s lose but I don’t need to talk about that now because they just had the biggest comeback in team history. So Lacey and all other na-sayers out there, you all can go pound sand because true Oriole’s fans do complain when they lose (over and over and over again) but still cheer like mad men when they win. GO O’s WOO HOO! I AM DRINKING THE ORANGE KOOL-AID NOW BABY! ORIOLES MAGIC!
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July 1st, 2009 at 7:59 am
Lacey, If you don’t like the station, change the channel, If you don’t like what you read here, don’t read it. The fact of the matter is, it was a great win last night, BUT the team is still in last place and probably will be for the rest of the season, and that’s unacceptable. It’s unacceptable that a comeback in a meaningless game at the end of June will be the highlight of an otherwise listless season. It’s unacceptable that this team refuses to go out and even try to bring in top notch players to make them better. It’s unacceptable that Rich Hill and Jason Berken are still in the rotation. Until, the team begins to show some accountability for their futility of the past 11 years, Nothing is going to change.
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July 1st, 2009 at 9:06 am
I say it in one word: PAYBACK. Do you remember the Mother’s Day game two years ago? Our starting pitcher is ‘over the’ Hill. He needs to join Eaton. Thanks Orioles for bleaching the sox from beantown.
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:12 am
[...] Nestor Aparicio says ‘Magic’ was in full display at OPACY last night [...]
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July 1st, 2009 at 11:59 am
Last night was fantastic. Too bad I let myself fall asleep in the top of the eighth inning. Salazar’s home run was awesome. He needs top play more (or should I say ‘He need’s to play FOR Mora’). Hopefully this will be the spark they need to hold on for the rest of the year. A .500 record would be nice but NOT finishing the year without losing 30 out of 40 would be a step in the right direction too. September would be so much better if we could have Raven’s football and Orioles baseball to watch with purpose. Is this the beginning of the .500 season? Hopefully that possibility will keep us interested into September. Don’t give up O’s.
Bill - I completely agree. Nestor and Alan together is the best hour of sports radio.
Lacey - Do you actually need to hit your head against a brick wall to know that it hurts? If you know that you don’t like WNST why do you listen? Furthermore, why would you also surf the WNST site? Sit in your closet.
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July 1st, 2009 at 4:06 pm
The Return of Dan Stanhouse. Thanks for the heart attack, GS