Mark Shapiro

But, yeah, I think that also has power because the industry hears that.

And I think that's that's meaningful to us.

You mentioned it and you certainly sounded a little emotional at the top today.

Yeah, I'm not willing yet to think about it in that light.

I think I recognize I've always kind of, you know, with the position I've had since even since I was president in Cleveland, I've always kind of said I need to have two hats, one hat, just caring about the game of baseball and Major League Baseball and trying to make that better.

And the other is relentlessly caring about the team I work for and trying to get them to win a world championship.

And there's a small part of me that knows that for Major League Baseball and for the game of baseball, that series was a good thing.

You know, it was an unbelievable heavyweight bout, you know, of just two great teams, you know, going back and forth.

And, you know, any number of moments within that series could have tilted it the other way.

Not just one, you know, not just a couple moments.

So it was incredible.

I think when you start to listen and read the comments, I think we definitely created millions of new baseball fans in Canada, which I'm most interested in, but I think we created new baseball fans everywhere because that was compelling.

It was compelling and hard not to watch.

I don't want to guess his reasons because it happened pretty quickly.

And so I just know we're better for him having made that decision.

And it's a great start to our offseason.

And is there maybe...

Is the team looking to maybe extend him?

Again, I think that that's the process that Ross is working through now.

It's kind of establishing an offseason plan.