 And then this week we did a homerun derby episode. So, uh, that is, uh, obviously something that very, can, you know, red meat, as they say, pretty obvious, but we're pretty excited to, you know, talk about home runs. So great, greatest home run derby, who comes to your mind, Trev? Like if you think a home run performance guy, I think everyone's going to have, uh, like, you know, one's going to go to the top. Do you have a guy? Yeah, obviously everyone's going to think Josh Hamilton. And then you have to always tell people he didn't even win the home run derby, Justin Morneau, friend of the pod. Hold the home run derby. Wow. I'll tell you what I love. I'll tell you what I love. And you guys, like people are going to talk crap about him, but he is my, my buddy, Ryan Braun, put on a show. And the BP picture for Ryan Braun, it was none other than our agent, Nez Balelo. What? Yeah. So Nez, big day for Nez Balelo. Yeah. So he's, he's, he's great, uh, been an agent for a long time. He's a CAA now, but he started out, he's a baseball player. He played in the Braves organization and was like a youth coach and had like a facility and all this stuff and parlayed that into becoming an agent. But like, I don't know if a lot of people know that he's out there. He throws the best BP, like the best BP. I think I got drafted as high as I did because when we would do these workouts for, for teams, like he would throw me BP and just knew, he just knew how to find the barrel. That's what he did. Those are my favorite stories of the home run Derby is the BP. We went back, so I, I went back and compiled data on the last 10 years, just since 2010 of every single thrower in the Derby and can't just found some great stuff. Did you know Yadier Molina threw to Matt Holiday in the Derby? Like he was his thrower. And he wore a glove. He's like, has like a glove in his glove hand. How are the Cardinals letting that happen? Yeah, the catchers, catchers always throw the best BP. I know, but not the guy former catchers throw the best BP. Not your peak Yadier Molina. Oh, that's great. Another, another good one is Brian Dozier gets in the Derby. It's at target field in front of everyone. And then he picks his brother, which is awesome. Except that Clay couldn't find the strike zone. It was a really tough home run Derby. Like we had last year, Matt Chapman's dad. Oh, just totally ruining it for him. Like that was cool. But, but, you know, there's also a long history of, of picking your dad and then winning. Cano, Harper, right? To some decent BP. Obviously, Jose Cano was pretty good. It's such a better story. Like, I would rather have my dad out there and like we have that forever than like some random like, dude, there's those good BP like that. I told Dozier that I told Chappy that too. After I was like, dude, who gives a shit? Like you're in the home run Derby and your fucking dad was throwing you BP on like a huge stage. It's amazing. No, it's not true. Josh Hamilton's guy. There was a story on Josh Hamilton's guy. And this is from my memory of back then. But I believe he always started BP with just having Josh Hamilton like hold his bat out like vertically and he would throw the first ball and just nail the bat like right there. It's like, where do you want it? And he would hold his bat still and he would just hit it and then they would go from there. I think Hamilton's guy was his American legion coach in high school or something crazy like that. Yeah. So he's some high school coach. Yeah. We had Hoskins on who is in the Derby in DC and like did low key super well and he was talking about how he picked like this Phillies infield coordinator who he had taken hours and hours and hours of ground balls with in the minor leagues. And he was like, yeah, like this guy means something to me. And he throws the best BP. Yeah. So I, but I get Trevor's point. But at the same time, it's like, if you want to win, you do kind of have to have that part of it nailed down. Well, now that you win a million dollars, it's like, all right. Well, maybe dad, you know, Pete Alonso, right. Making more from the dad. Why don't you stay on the couch and I'll give you 250 K. Dad starts spiking one because they're in negotiations over how much he gets out of it. You know, that'd be fine. You know, what percentage do you give to dad for throwing beeps if you win a million? I don't know. It's gotta be a big chunk of that. Well, that's exciting. Yeah. So Homer Derbys fun. So that's so you obviously should go check out a lot of a lot of Griffey talk. Oh yeah, I'll probably one quick thing that I absolutely loved was he wins the Derby in 94. And in 98, the Derbies and cores and the Mariners like are playing the night before the Derby in Texas. And Griffey is like, I don't want to do the Derby. Like I'm going to be tired. I don't want to do it. He comes out for the workout day in 1998, the morning, Monday morning and gets booed by the fans for not doing the Derby changes his mind an hour before the Derby asks if he can be in it. They say yes. And then he wins it. Did someone get none of the fans? None of the fans knew that he was going to be in it. So could you imagine like Ken Griffey is the most popular baseball player of all time and you're some random schlub and Denver coming to the Derby and Griffey is like not going to do it. And you're like, oh, whatever. And then they announce him and then he wins for the intros. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Who got booted? Did someone get booted? Because that person can be like, well, I would have won. But Griffey took my spot. No, because back in the day, they like they fluctuated the number of it every year. Like they didn't really care. It was just kind of like who wants to be in it. So they just went from nine to 10. Do you like the new format? I think the best change baseball's made recently is the home run Derby change of the four. Because it is makes a huge difference. And going back and watching the old ones, even watching the Hamilton one, which is amazing. Like I timed it how long Hamilton's round takes from first pitch to Vlad his 10th out when he hits 28 homers. It took 22 minutes. Vlad Jr. hit 29 homers in like four minutes, like four real minutes. And it's like, well, okay, this is obviously better. Like there's no, I mean, there are elements of it that, you know, maybe it builds with with more breaks in between, but it's so much better. And I was undeniably a better system. Trev, who would have been your home run Derby pitcher? Would it have been this? I don't know. And dude, if a million dollars at stake is a lot different than just like, hey, let's let's run the home and derby and see what happens. Like you're like a fucking trophy back in the day. A million dollars is different. I probably would have had nests. Yes. Or like, you know, someone I was comfortable with, like in the organization, but you know what I want? I want someone to choose their son to pitch them. Like Cecil Fielder has 14 year old Prince throwing BBs down the middle. That's that's when that happens. I'll be excited. Imagine winning with your 14 year old son pitching you. That'd be awesome. We'll dream. Yeah, that's a dream I have just in my dream bank. I will say I was on the back burner in 2012. They approached me like, Hey, there's a possibility you could be in the home run Derby because I like was going off at that point. Um, I was the year it was in Kansas City. That would have been horrible. That's a tough place for a home run Derby. Fuck. But what happened? Did they just snag the spot, Trevon? You didn't get it. I was like backup, backup, backup, you know, like, yeah, I was scrubbed. I was average, you know that Prince Fielder, Joey Bats, Trumbo at his peak, Beltran on the Cardinals, Carlos Gonzalez, McCutcheon, Kemp and Cano. This is your canoe hit zero and got booed. Didn't he win? Where would you, where would you have finished? Where would you have finished in that Derby? He won the year before in Arizona. OK, I don't know, man. I think a home at Derby is always about like the best. Hitter or even the strongest guy. Some guys are just some guys can just put him in the seat. BP. Anyone that wins like, you know, judge can win this every single year, but he's not going to do it again. He wants to click million dollars 2012. Trevor Ploof from the start of the season to June 15. Forty four games, 39 starts, 14 Yabos. Don't come out here with your scrub lines, because I've I'll out scrub you every day. Sounds like a backup, backup, backup, backup, home run Derby contestant to me. Can I just put a Wikipedia page on this year's Derby? Yeah, yeah, I had it. Trevor Ploof. There is there is a subtitle for Robinson Cano booing controversy. I'm going to add Trevor Ploof participation controversy. Well, it's considered was considered. Let's turn it down. Oh, shit. I wish I was a better baseball player, trust me. I would have loved to be in the comments. Everyone on this podcast. Yeah, probably say the same thing.