John Martin of Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready for another season of Ravens scratch-offs and wins

welcome home we are wnst T Baltimore Baltimore positive we are positively getting the maryn crab cake tour back at on the trail as well as the oyster tour we're doing 26 oysters in 26 days 26 ways getting me hungry right now it's all brought to you by friends at the Marland the lottery I have the Gold Rush Sev doublers get them while they're getting cheat stros are in town on Friday uh we're going to be at fadley we'll be back at fedley's on the 6th we are kicking off the crab cake tour on the fourth at Coco and then on the fifth we take off on oysters every day uh wall of it's going to be brought to you by our friends at Liberty Pure Solutions because they keep our water clean and the oysters oxygenate the bay for the oyster recovery partnership we talking about that and our friends at chiffy Lube of course powering up our Sports coverage with Luke from Camden Yards to Owings Mills uh this guy got powered up uh drove past all those Royal Farms and wise markets where they sell these Maryland lottery tickets and last time I was with him he was with Seth elen underneath of those fluorescent lights in the beautifully uh smelling because it was lunch hour uh fish pal Convention Center where we talked about all things Lottery money gaming John Martin is the executive director of all things Marilyn Lottery and gaming if you missed last week's edition please go check it out it was really good we talked a lot about uh 1800 Gambler and different things and state things and all that but this week I don't have the Raven scratch offs I I got to get up with Raz make sure we're doing this thing right but last week it was all like secret secret secret you had your little briefcase I knew you were carrying Raven scratch offs in there I haven't even seen them yet John because you debuted them last week during the preseason game but I know they're on the streets right they are on the streets and doing very well thank you for asking people can go to mdlottery.com to get a good look at those new tickets uh lots of new fun and exciting stuff for ravers fans this year let's start right off off the top we have two scratch off tickets a familiar $2 scratch off ticket and a $10 scratch off ticket the top prize on the $10 ticket is $200,000 nine we have yeah yeah we have nine of those available plus a number of other sub tier prices that's the top and on the $2 scratch off seven $20,000 top prize but as we've talked over the years actually this is the 16th year of our partnership with the Baltimore Ravens what a great run that has been and uh uh even even more um fun stuff to come I'm sure but this year we try to tweak the program every year do something a little different of course as we've talked before Nester people love to play the scratch offs and win cash but they also like the second chance opportunities to win that's where all the big bananas are got stop you right there and say if you're not second chancing you're missing out on my message here for everybody because because that's how you really win is second I take I say that to people when I hand these I'm like listen you didn't yeah I win $2 okay good now get into the big banana and try to like have ran Smith bring you cheesecake the way he did that guy last year coming back from Jacksonville we we have um mdlottery.com all the details let me just tease you with some of the highlights as always the U the grand prize one lucky fan at the end end of the season after the Super Bowl parade is over when the confetti has all left been swept up one lucky winner will win season tickets for 20 years so that's the grand prize on the second I met the guy from last year and he's coming back on the show he was a great guy does great work in the community he's taking his daughter I can't wait to have him on during our cup of Super Bowl which you're also a part of uh we're going to be doing in February so at the end of the year you know I'm kind of hoping he can't be on the cuz he's too busy going to the Super Bowl with his daughter in New Orleans we're all hoping that but uh yeah I mean last year's story was the great story and you find really cool I mean I have a lot of the winners on and they are just they are over the moon and they just took a chance on a $2 ticket played along got the app out and next thing you know they're having a really good time or winning this experience the last 20 years um I I found it very moving the guy touched me with what he wanted to do with the tickets with his daughter and have good experiences Lord knows 30 years at the ballark there's nothing like going to a football game absolutely $10,000 cash winners will have six of those four lucky winners will have 2024 current season season tickets 10 people will get 2025 next year's season tickets we always do an away trip and while rron with M Smith may not be delivering cheesecake via a plane we will be taking three lucky winners and their via train to the Big Apple the New York Giants the New York football Giants remember they were called the New York football Giants that's when people were confusing them with the New York baseball Giants which is a long time ago I do I I I have one story I actually have two stories I wrote on the Ravens Charter as a media member twice in my life once was after 911 coming back from Denver because I couldn't get home uh and the other one was when the Modell owned the team we played a pree seon game when I was nationally syndicated in New York and I was in New York working at Mickey Manel the preseason game was in the meal lands and I rode on the train home on one way after a preseason game John I'm just I'm salivating thinking about this it was like that Seinfeld episode where you were in first class and it was like more of anything more of every and like I was on this train with goose right you know Rob this is no seriously L right I mean this is the amount of food the Buffet that came through on this 2hour and 14-minute train ride on the asella it was an asella train too what we didn't stop in Philly we didn't stop in Wilmington no we didn't stop abine nowhere it was a great train ride so when you're saying to me they're gon to win a train like whatever the train back was is better than a lot of flights home from Jacksonville I promise you that I'm telling you let's not oversell it I I that's a that was that was a generation ago but but the the the the winner this year three winners and guests as I said take the train to New York December 15th they gave me Dove bars like with real ice cream on the train it was delicious John I remember it December 15th me New York Rockefeller Center it will be the holiday season the Giants will be long since done and buried by December 15th uh der Henry will be mowing him down head toward 2,000 yards what what a trip that will be of course tickets of the game Transportation hotel accommodations a Saturday reception Dove bars may be on the menu I don't know uh meet and greet with a player and $1,000 cash so you want ENT you want you want to enter your non-winning scratch off tickets into the um my lottery Awards account to be eligible for that but we've got two new things coming one one isn't so new but one is absolutely new you know we've talked before Nester about the Ravens pass for cash uh which is a nice little on the- field uh activation really puts you on the spot you know really does it's it's like that college football promotion with that deliciously sweet soft drink from the Texas area where they have to throw you know like it's a lot of pressure it's a lot of pressure is a lot of pressure and you know what sometimes people don't I mean they they all can't be you the that the thrive in pressure pack situation sometimes people uh falter you've never seen me at the carnival trying to win a BG's mirror back in the 70s you know like really throwing the darts the whole deal we we all could do po a shot and then we realized the ball didn't fit in a hoop but that was a carnival that's not this promotion's on the up and up it's kind of no no no that's right that's right but but here here's how this this season's U uh system will will different 16 players okay two each for the eight uh regular season home games will each Win $5,000 cash just for being selected you don't have to throw a pass for that you just win that okay they just were lucky enough to be selected for the game they'll get a pair of tickets a parking pass um customized Ravens jersey two pregame Hospitality passes they haven't touched the football for game day and the opportunity to participate in the Ravens pass pass for cash onfield experience where a famous Ravens Alum will be the one actually passing the football so the the the lucky contestant will not actually have to stand there and try to throw that football through the target question can I can I request a quarterback no you may not okay I'm just asking okay you may not um and you know I I haven't seen I know Flo I can get him to do it well he's busy this year black not an Alum anymore he's still he he'll be he'll be thrown for real out there um I haven't seen the lineup yet I I hope they line up position players by position players I mean I I think two two defensive linemen would be a fair you know who fight want you know I want I want Sam Cook he was a high school quarterback you can't no no you want you want to get you know you want to get uh uh yeah you don't you you don't yeah you don't want that you don't all right so I got I got a story for you because you love my story so you hate my stories uh but you're going to like this story um I'm of the era where you know I covered the team pretty hardcore I knew all the players and friendships that have lasted my lifetime quite frankly Stony case called me it's about 2018 or 19 he called me and uh said I'm coming to Baltimore this week with my son I'm like Stony thanks for thinking of me let's get dinner great so he comes to town and we're walking through the harbor after eating a big meal at Ami and we're joking you know his kids with him he's like yeah they said they needed a quarterback for like this competition they were doing at halftime or something he's like man they must have really reached the bottom if to call them me nice nice but but Stony could still do it so give me Stony case to throw the ball for me and how much can I win if I really can if if he really does it you know what I I don't have the Deets on that we'll have to get that for you next time yeah is it $1 million no doubt that but you know here's another thing we picked up from our very successful home run riches Bases Loaded Baltimore Orioles promotion which we'll get to in in a second if time allows there's making you broke by the way we will have an NFL version of that a fan of the game 17 winners one for each game home and away one winner selected as fan of the game will win $1,000 cash just for being selected and $11,000 for every touchdown scored by the Ravens during that game so that's an interesting rank that makes the Giants game more interesting right away whether they're going to score seven or eight touchdowns in that game right wouldn't that be something so yeah couple new things you can get all the details mdlottery.com uh the morning this morning very autumnal there was a football feeling in the air Nester wouldn't you agree well I would say that I know why you were hiding those tickets for me last week in Ocean cities because you knew I would like them so much because I have always been a fan of what we Raven fans called the kiss face that once David Modell had the lawsuit on the bee and the the flying bee as we call it which was the traditional um sort of uh that that's what David Modell want in the beginning the second choices became the side sort of the Tom the boomerang looking head that they've used forever but the straight Jean Simmons kiss face kind of thing always my favorite logo they're now using that and that is the primary logo on the Ravens times 2 top prize $20,000 at least as I'm seeing it so I can't wait to get these in my hand start giving them out in September how about that I think fans will really enjoy the opportunities for uh increased cash prices uh a lot more action on the uh Second Chance drawing and Hope Springs Eternal the everyone is 17-0 today well uh which can't possibly happen listen the Orioles have had some tough times here uh in regard to pitching in regard to some Knights that can't hit the ball but I think Santan D is going to make you go broke right now right I mean like we're getting down to the nitty-gritty these big games you got September Happening Here Big Winners um we're going to need some big home runs and uh I know you're giving a lot of money away uh and I dare I say maybe more money than you ever than you thought you give me all these projections last week project no could project that the or are going to hit more home runs than anybody else in the league and and I I heard this I don't know that is true but you being the uh the keeper of all facts is it possible they have now hit more home runs today than they have all of last year is is that is that possible yeah and you what what really gets crazy is when you see the other teams and you say how many of the Mets hit how many of the Blue Jays hit how many the teams you see like when they come to 10 you're like man this team hits home runs and Luke and I have talked about getting more guys on base so they're not you know I mean let's incent them even more to we should that's next year's PR an Earl Weaver we give you three thou you know you need to fatten a pot next year so these guys stop hitting solo home runs can we do that can I just a request we have new ownership for the team I'm at sweet and the pie next year three run home run is like more valuable than a grand slam because it's an Earl Weaver well I'm not more valuable than a grand slam but uh but you know what there's there's some Merit to that a stepped uh but there's a better heav hold you're man of odds you're a man of numbers you run the lot I'm an odd man is what you meant to say that backwards well maybe that as well but strike that revers it as will would say but the the odds of hitting a three-run home run are significantly more so and we're having a kayf meeting John Martin and I are having a private meeting right now there'll be more winners John you'll have more winners there'll be more winners if we do three run home runs next year and we call them Earl Weavers and because Earl Weaver was number four we give four or something away I'm I'm I'm brainstorming here we're whiteboarding what do you think well I I I think I I think that Earl weer state that we're going to get a phone call somewhere uh nice people I know them I'm sure good good good hey and and you're welcome by the way what did I do than thank you I I I I I real I realize these games are are are these broadcasts are in a vacuum but for those people who kind of wink wink know behind the scenes uh we helped you out a little bit last night oh okay anybody that beats the Yankees is a friend of mine all right that's what I'm going to say I'm always been a friend to the Cleveland people you know this John Martin is here he's the executive director of all things Maryland Lottery and gaming sometimes we talk winners sometimes we talk tax laws and where money goes and like what all of that stuff sometimes we talk scratch offs um I know I like it best when we're talking festivals and doing things and you're getting out I did notice at Mako last week I I can't believe I'm 20 minutes into this and I haven't rolled my wife under the bus she went over without me knowing and spun the wheel and she got she won a shirt she won a maryn lottery shirt and she got it my size and said you could surprise John and I didn't even I think it's in the wash but my wife spun the wheel did all that stuff at makeo last week and she found out because my wife loves to win we've discussed this before well you know she and about a few thousand of your closest friends should come to the Maryland state fair this is the first of three weekends you know it used to be the Maryland state fair was the 11 best days of summer now it's the three best weekends of Summer it starts this weekend uh continues next weekend Labor Day weekend and then uh after the uh the Ravens Chiefs contest we'll wrap it up for the third and final weekend um September what is that 6th 7th 8th correct so yeah a lot of fun lot of fun happening at the Timonium Fairgrounds come and visit come spin the wheel you may win a t-shirt a SC shirt I'll have it next week I'm going wear it yeah yeah absolutely so we'll have some fun it is the 143rd Maryland state fair I did not know that well she was very proud of winning that shirt for me so I know people have fun spinning the wheels uh John Martin is not spinning his wheels here right now he's getting this Ravens uh uh new thing going on get in on the action play the Ravens scratch off I will have them I don't have them yet they haven't trusted me with him yet but I will have them when we get to CoCos on the 4th to kick off the Maryland crab K tour and on the 5ifth we kick off 26 oysters in 26 days this was all inspired you mentioned the state fair you did your big 50 last year at the state fair so I figured 25 is not enough I got to go from cupcakes to oysters and crab cakes are 26 year on the air 26 oysters all of it brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery John I'm gonna ask you this do you eat oysters I I have been known to eat oysters yes all right we're going to eat an oyster at some point during September I'm going to like pull you in on this somewhere I'm wearing my Costa shirt somewhere along the line you got to come have an oyster with me okay that's a deal that is a deal it's going to be unique and weird too because I'm trying to do them different ways John Martin is from the mar ofland Lottery we remind everybody uh please go check out last week's piece or if you're listening on am570 we did a lot of cool stuff just talking about gambling addiction gambling problems where the money goes a lot of the tough questions we were down in Ocean City at Mako along with Seth elen I really enjoyed last week's piece always enjoy having John Martin here he gives us really cool tickets like this Gold Rush sevens doubler that we'll be giving away uh down at fedley's this week as Luke and I bring the cheat thros as we oral fans like Luke said to me hey what are we going to talk about on Friday I'm like the Astros cheating I was kidding around we're not going to talk about that on the segment this week I am Nester we are wnst am570 been a strange uh uh sense of humor lately we're Baltimore positive doc stay with us