Nice to be able to tune into 1570-AM, despite its weak signal, and hear live local sports talk -- after a big weekend like the one we just had: Orioles taking two from the Yankees, and Cal getting into the Hall. There isn't enough good talk radio here, but the guys at 1570 keep it cooking all day.

The station's founder, Nasty Nestor, was a year ago staging a protest walk-out against Peter Angelos' ownership of the Orioles and, a prince of self-promotion, he's set himself up as the Representative Man of the Orioles fan base, and supposedly that fan is fed up and disgusted with the Orioles ownership. I like Nestor, but never bought into this stuff -- because I knew the Orioles baseball men were trying hard to put the pieces together over the last few years and came very close to having everything they needed to make the team a contender again. And they are getting there. It has been frustrating, but Baltimore is a city of frustrations.

Forget all that. The point is, in what's become a spare sports-radio landscape, 1570 casts a shadow bigger than its tower. You can get the broadcast on the Internet, of course, and if you visit the station's web site you'll see their theme: "We never stop talking Baltimore sports."

You might also hear the hosts start changing the tune of the station when it comes to the Orioles.