Dominic Leone

You can, you can talk a little bit.

And, you know, maybe people would want to hear your story and then,

again, add in the perspective of give guys a shot to tell their stories.

I ran into so many former teammates at that conference that guys that I played in AA with, guys I played in AAA with, guys I played in the big leagues with, guys that I know rode that roller coaster of up-down and dealt with adversity.

So I'm like,

it's great to sit around a, you know, a bar top and share a drink and, and, you know, talk about these stories, but man, like these stories are worth hearing as well.

It's not just, you know, the guy who's got nine years of big league time and, and has, you know, success at a really high level.

It's, it's also guys that,

have one day of service time and they can talk about that day and how special it was to them.

Because when you strip it all back, that's the reason we do this.

We do it to make the big leagues.

We do it to grind.

We do it because we love the game.

And, you know, I don't, sure, guys have bukus of money in the bank account and have, you know, records and, you know, Hall of Fame stats and whatnot.

But I think at the end of the day, we're all grinding and fighting for the same thing, which is the love of baseball and to stay in the game as long as you can.

Yes, and I was one of them.

You show up, and again, the biggest piece that I took out of it was

Number one, it's an unbelievable networking tool, right?

You get to go and talk with guys that have been successful post-career.

And then a lot of guys that are there are looking.