What does it mean to you?

It's just...

Look at the people in this room, how hard they've worked to accomplish this, and I'm just in awe of these guys and what they've been able to assemble, from Eric and Kevin to this entire group.

It's incredible.

I'm blown away to be here with these guys, and I'm just proud to be a part of this incredible mission.

What was that like for you to go up there and watch this team come back from 2-1 down and send it back home? I had 3-2.

Look, they got a great club over there, and...

We know a lot of those guys on that Guardian roster.

What did the Washington Post experience teach you that actually was the ultimate lessons for the things that you brought into play subsequent to that in the world of baseball?

It's a great question.

The Post...

And I think, you know, listeners will appreciate this.

You know, even today remains one of the great, you know, journalism institutions in our society.

For me, growing up in Washington, the first part of the paper I went to every day was a sports page.

Right.

I mean, yes, we compete like the Dickens on the field, but off the field? What a great statement about baseball and sports and sportsmanship and pulling together, because they are, as you said earlier, they're a major part of the Tampa Bay community as well.

Is there something different about this moment sitting here or in the last couple of weeks that has transpired that was different from say five, six months ago?

Yeah, first of all, great to be here.

And it's refreshing to actually have a conversation about more than just baseball, right? And I think that's what's great about being on your show and honored that you'd have both of us here today.

And thank you for the councilman for including me as well.

You know, we've talked, you know, for months about the, you know, the benefits of a project like this.

Certainly Rays fans, baseball fans, they're wildly in favor of a project like this.

But this is so much more than just about baseball, right? This is about building...

But could

... uh, even with the field here and other things that you're working on, but also kind of assess where everything is and, and take a little bit of a further view so you know how to make this the best it can be for decades to come?

Yeah.

Look, I, I, you know, it's ...

And for those, and you remember as we kind of stepped into this back in, in, uh, I think it was 2015 in, in Jacksonville and looked at a name change and looked at, you know, pretty massive ballpark renovations.

It's, it's always sort of been my approach to observe first and learn.

And there's, there's so many good things as we talked about going on in this organization, uh, that we're learning from.

And, and my, my viewpoint is really to come in to learn, to, to, to build relationships, to observe, and then, and then impact change where I felt, feel like we can add value.

... that when, as you said goodbye, that that's kind of what you, you left?