Mark Shapiro

You know, he can take a ball off the ground and hit that too.

So it's not conventional, but the toughness piece, the commitment to playing hard, I think when we're at our best,

But Ernie's style of play is really what stands for who we are, which is every team knows they have to play their best to beat us.

I think about what are we at our best?

We execute defensively.

We run the bases well.

We're really, really tough outs up and down the lineup.

And so to beat us, it's not that we can't be beat, but to beat us, a team has to play their absolute best.

That turns the pressure on us.

on the other team.

And Ernie is a player that applies pressure to whoever we're playing against.

So in a lot of ways, he's a tone setter for this group.

Well, when we sat down and said the things we need to accomplish to change this from a stadium multi-purpose 1980s concrete circle, you know, to a true ballpark, you know, that's meant for baseball and in a modern sense kind of provides best-in-class fan and player experience, too, by the way.

History was a piece.

You know, we didn't feel like we had –

done a good job of incorporating history into our building, particularly that allows our fans to connect with the teams of the past.

And we identified the 50th season as being that benchmark season that gave us a platform to do that.

So as we staggered the work we needed to do over off seasons,

Creating the hall, but we've also got some really cool exhibits throughout the 100-level concourse where there's memorabilia from the greatest hitters, the greatest pitchers, the greatest moments.

And then the Hall of Excellence will be in August.