Dominic Leone

Yeah.

So, you know, obviously number one, you know, I just, I wasn't quite on Jordan's radar when it came to, you know, providing a brand deal.

It has changed so much, even from when I first broke in.

I don't know whether...

I don't know what the reasoning was for it, but I do know a lot of companies and a lot of brands just stopped, especially baseball stopped really hyping guys up.

Maybe I'm talking about Nike.

No, no, there's a lot of, you know, it's, there's a lot of change within that market.

Um, and, you know, again, with the uniforms and majestic, you know, leaving and Nike coming in and, you know, then it was like, um, honestly the, the cleat rules, uh, there's a whole reason why I have a wall like that.

And it's because the, the cleat rules became, uh, much different.

When I first came in, it was like, you had to have the 51% black and, um,

you know, it was, uh, you know, kind of standard issue stuff.

And so now, um, you know, guys can get more creative guys can be, uh, show a little bit more personality.

And, you know, I don't know if like brands and companies just didn't want to keep up with that and, and really individualized to everybody or, uh, or what it was, but I just think, um,

you know, it, it was kind of a win-win where, when, you know, some of those brands, like for instance, in my story, I had Under Armour early on in my career and,

It was right when Under Armour was hot.

And then it was like, am I going to be a pitcher that wears the Bryce Harper cleats while I'm throwing to Bryce Harper?

I feel like it's a bad omen.

So they ended up dropping me.

And that's when I was like, you know what?

I'm going to wear shoes that I want to wear.