Mark Shapiro

We felt their support from coast to coast across the country.

Third, for the organization.

It takes exceptional efforts, not just strong efforts, throughout an entire organization, from people working in anonymity down in Dunedin, rehabbing to people cleaning the concourse and making sure our systems work in this massive ballpark throughout an entire season, to people selling tickets, to people doing analysis of pitch data, to people rehabbing players.

It's an entire organization recognizing that their work is not just meaningful, but essential work.

for us to achieve high levels of success.

And finally, to Edward Rogers and Tony Staffieri for leading an ownership group to an exceptional, unprecedented level of support, commitment, and belief this year, but I think even more in past years when maybe the success wasn't as easy to see.

That's when it was most meaningful.

So I move forward.

It's not easy to do.

It's hard to do.

I mentioned to Andrea on the walk down, as we walked by the field, I hadn't looked at the field since Saturday.

I haven't spent a moment.

I don't think I couldn't look at the field.

And I looked out there today.

But it's with the rearview mirror on that inspiration, on that gratitude, on that understanding of the ability and potential to lift our community of Canada that I walk away inspired and recommitted to resume the pursuit.

with greater determination, with more resolve, and even more committed.

So I think that's how I wanted to start today.

That's a very genuine set of feelings.

They're a little bit raw, a little bit emotional, but I'm incredibly grateful.

This is really how I feel today.