Dominic Leone

I've always been a big basketball fan.

And that led me to the Jordans.

I grew up in the Northeast, but I grew up in that era where

You know, I jumped on the Chicago Bulls bandwagon and watched Jordan.

And I was like, you know, I love their shoes.

They have a ton of different colorways.

They have a ton of different, you know, avenues to go.

And then partner that with the company Custom Cleats, who is now owned by Jeremy Guthrie.

That's right.

Yeah.

You know, he's a humongous sneakerhead and, you know, partnered with them.

you know, they put the, the baseball bottoms, the baseball spikes on the cleats or on the, I'm sorry, on the shoe.

And so like, I just said, Hey, that's something cool.

It's something to stand out.

Like there aren't, there aren't going to be many five, 10 relievers, you know, middle relievers that come out of the bullpen with some sweet, you know, shoes.

So I said, why not take a, take a dive into that pool.

and he's like and i had no idea and it's insane to think that baseball was so rigid for so long what year did it change like 17 18 something like that yeah i i don't remember the exact year i do remember it was when they they installed like the whole players weekend yes like in august where you know they had you know like we got to design jerseys with you know nicknames on the back and um

You know, and I could kind of see the trend coming early on, like 14, 15, 16, when, you know, Mother's Day.

You know, that was the thing.

It was like Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, Jackie Robinson Day.