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Join Mike and Jerry on the Bmore Baseball Podcast; special guest is Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson.
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The Bmore Baseball Podcast with Orioles Hall of Famer Mike Bordick and Sportscaster Jerry Coleman. This week their guest is Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson and legendary Baltimore attorney Carl Saiontz. Join Jerry Coleman and Orioles Hall of Famer Mike Bordick on Episode 16 of the Bmore Baseball Podcast as Barry and Carl talk Orioles, Baltimore sports fandom, the frustration of the 2026 season, Mike Elias’ future, Gunnar Henderson, the club’s roster construction, pitching concerns, ownership involvement, and the state of the AL East. Barry also shares thoughts on why he dislikes the term “O’s” and discusses his latest project involving John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, the “Lost Weekend” era, and the politics surrounding Lennon in the early 1970s.
Do you know who I am? I'm kind of a big deal. Hello. Welcome inside yet another edition. It is the Be More Baseball podcast. I'm Jerry Coleman. He's the Orioles Hall of Famer, the 14 year MLB veteran. It's Mike Boric. Every day we're producing brand new content on our ex Facebook and Instagram pages. All at one simple address be more sports pod. That's be more sports pod. Also where you can watch the podcast on YouTube, along with our partners at BaltimoreSun.com. Just ahead episode 16 40, we double our pleasure with two guests, Academy Award winning director Barry Levinson and famed Baltimore attorney Carl Science. They'll join the pod for some Orioles chatter and reaction to the way things have gone and how fans are dealing with this season. Plus, how much of an excitement is it for the Orioles to send Adley Rushman to the All-Star game? They're only sending one. That's what happens when you're mired near the bottom of your division. And we'll talk about the ABS chasing away the men in blue. But as always, we bring in our featured guests. This time it's two. Our guests are sponsored by Science and Kirk injured in an accident. You got to call Science and Kirk. If you have a phone and who doesn't these days, you have a lawyer call 1-800 lawyers or visit youhavealloyer.com. Barry Levinson, Carl Science, thanks for being with us today. First of all, Barry, just tell us about your history with the science family and how far it goes back even prior to Carl. Oh, yes, yes. Back to his father, Donald, and we became friends. Adley enough, Donald lived across the street from Forest Park High School. But Donald went to city, which took about 45 minutes to get there. But somehow he liked the idea of being just in the school that had strong sports teams. I think it was one of the motivations for it. I was two blocks away from Forest Park and I go, that's the way to go. I'm just going two blocks. I'm not spending transferring on buses and all of that type of thing. But his father is a terrific character. So we met, I think we were around the age of 16, something like that. And there's a story that goes along with that as he was a lawyer, you were a filmmaker, and tell us how it led to a motion picture. But what happened was I would go to Baltimore periodically. I called Donald, we'd get together, and some of the other diner guys. And whenever I came in, he would be talking about, he said, you see all this television, the law, whatever, I mean, that's not the way it is. In the movies, it's not that way. It's more chaotic. It has more problems than it. He talked about certain judges and certain lawyers and all of these kinds of stories. It was fascinating. And I never came to ballery and told me another story on this, and it went on that way. And one day I was back in LA, and I was with a Valerie Curtin, and I would be telling the stories. I said, you know, I think this could be a screenplay about the dysfunctional aspects of the judicial system. And then we wrote it, and ultimately Norman Joseph got involved in that Al Pacino movie. But it was Donald's storytelling. That was the, you know, the key to the whole thing. That's amazing. That is truly amazing. Did you know that Carl growing up? Oh, I did. I remember this. I was 10 or 11 years old. Awesome. The first time I was ever in a courtroom, I was about 11 years old. It was the Baltimore City Circuit Court, and Al Pacino was delivering a classic Pacino chewing all the scenery up, closing argument at the end of that movie, which is a great movie. Everybody's got to see it. And it's a great Pacino performance. That's the first time I was in the courtroom. I got the bug. Well, that was quite a scene, probably one of the most famous scenes ever at Al Pacino. Oh my gosh. I mean, first of all, I got to know, how do you land Al Pacino for a role like that? And second of all, that had to been when Al Pacino was becoming a major star. And how do you keep them at that level? I mean, how does that work? Well, I mean, there's two things to it. I'll just try to make it a shorter story story that it is because it's totally crazy. We were invited to come to Baltimore to, you know, see the filming. And as it turns out, it was the scene, the courtroom scene, the your out of order scene. And so we're there and we're watching and, you know, Norman Jewison, you know, flew us out to Baltimore and all of
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