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Mark Shapiro

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
757 total appearances

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OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

We don't have a ton of major projects left, but we've never touched the suite levels, and there are so many suites here.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

If you built the building today, you'd only have like 30 suites.

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OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

We have over 100 suites, and some of them, by the way, are like time capsules.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

Some of them have not been touched since 1989.

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OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

You walk in them, and you look at them, and you're like, you've got to be kidding me.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

We still need to be creative in rethinking what we do with all the suites we have here and how we use that.

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OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

We want to create a more suitable kid space, family space, like a space just for kids on the other side of the concourse.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

I would say we don't have major projects left.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

But I 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.

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OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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.

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OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

It's going to mean a little more.

OverDrive
OverDrive - March 30, 2026 - Hour 2 - Mark Shapiro

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