Mike, tell us about, a little bit, how you, you know, how your family, um, how your family, you know, brought about your Italian tradition and brought it out to you so you could be such an outstanding guy.

I was fortunate in, and I went to school down at, um, I went to college down at University of Miami, and my grandparents had a, a, a house in Pembroke Pines, which is about 20 minutes from the school.

And I got to really get close to my grandfather and understand my, both my grandparents, um, when they, about their history and everything.

And it, it really, he, he's probably the greatest man I've ever met.

Um, he, he came over when he was 13 on a boat.

My grandmother also came over.

They came into New York, and that's why I feel New York is, like, the, you know, it's the foundation for Columbus Day because that's where most all the Italians came in.

Uh, some of the guests that you've had in the past for our gala and for our golf outings.

Talk to me about how he affected you positively.

The Wizard was great.

And I loved our coaches in Miami because they didn't try to teach us anything that they didn't know.

But Ron Frazier had a lot of connections.

Aside from being a great promoter of the game and one of the first guys that got us baseball on ESPN, college baseball on ESPN.

But what he did was his fishing buddy was Ted Williams.

And Ted Williams would talk to us about hitting.

as soon as you started to fall off power wise your average went up from 254 to 279 to 303 to 325. so was there just a dramatic change in your swing or where you get what happened