Mark Shapiro

It's been about the pursuit.

It's been about perpetual improvement and about lifting people and making this a great place to play and the best we can do for our fans.

In that moment, there's a bitterness to know how close you got because you know what it could have meant to so many other people.

So I guess I just attempted to make sure that any bitterness I felt wasn't about me.

or you know my ego or my accomplishments or my you know track record it was okay to feel it as it pertained to disappointing others and then to quickly work to turn that disappointment into resolve you know and you know i think the only way to find for me to find kind of comfort and solace was into resuming you know so i took a day you know and then monday i was back in here and

It's back to work.

We need to get back to work.

We're already deep into the off-season.

What did you do on Sunday then to maybe, I guess, get your mind off it?

Walked my dog, got outside because I just felt like I hadn't done that.

I slept more than I'd slept in a long period of time once I was able to get to sleep, which wasn't easy.

Spent some time with my kids before they left and flew back, being around them, centering for me.

Yeah.

and then just kind of take some time to do the things I hadn't had time to do, like exercise, read, things that kind of, in the midst of everything we're going through, kind of slip away.

And just in general, how you saw him impact this roster in the clubhouse?

Yeah, definitely one for Ross beyond me saying that, you know, Donnie, you know, is a just a role model of humility, professionalism, um,

My impression being around him on a daily basis, and I've known him for a very long time, being around him on a daily basis, there are certain people who you... David Bell is similar for me.

When you talk to him, you forget what they've accomplished in the game because their level of humility is just so incredibly high.

Donnie's one of those guys.

He's a borderline Hall of Fame player, one of the great modern...