Mark Shapiro
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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.
If you built the building today, you'd only have like 30 suites.
We have over 100 suites, and some of them, by the way, are like time capsules.
Some of them have not been touched since 1989.
You walk in them, and you look at them, and you're like, you've got to be kidding me.
We still need to be creative in rethinking what we do with all the suites we have here and how we use that.
We want to create a more suitable kid space, family space, like a space just for kids on the other side of the concourse.
I would say we don't have major projects left.
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.
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 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.
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...