Mark Shapiro

We don't have major projects left, so we can go back to just focus.

I can go back just thinking about baseball and not worrying if we're going to get projects done, major capital projects done by OVJ anymore.

Yeah, I'll answer that like very honestly, which is obviously I'm aware of that.

And when I go to owners meetings, it's a large part of what we're talking about.

But my message to myself and my message to our organization, because obviously a lot of people here from our minor league staff to our scouts to coaches,

People that work here around Rogers Center, they have a lot of questions about what it's going to mean because they love the game.

I'm a big believer in controlling what I can control and what they can control.

Maybe more than anyone in all of Major League Baseball, we have an exciting season of baseball ahead of us.

And I want us to focus squarely on that on the season ahead at the right time, maybe throughout the season or at the end of the season.

Myself, Edward Rogers, we will be involved and we'll provide input and feedback and do the best we can to kind of get through that, you know, as fast as possible.

But right now, I want us, our fans and our players, by the way, to focus on this year because I want it to be a special one and we expect it to be a special one.

It's going to mean a little more.

It's going to be, I mean, to have...

Yeah, to have it be that early in the season, to have them back in this building on that turf, I mean, there's no way you can't think about last year with that being the case.

I think...

Once the games start, wins are wins and losses are losses.

Again, if we play our best, I think we're capable.

As we've shown, I think we outplayed the Dodgers throughout that entire series.

We didn't win it.

There is a randomness to short seasons.