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Unlike some of his predecessors in the role, Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro has failed to capture the hearts and minds of the team's fans.

If nothing else, Mark Shapiro is proof that if you hang around long enough, you’ll eventually have your day.

It’s almost 10 years exactly since the Toronto Blue Jays debuted Shapiro. That first meeting didn’t go well. Shapiro didn’t talk, so much as lecture.

He skipped over explaining why he wasn’t keeping the hero of the day, general manager Alex Anthopoulos, and then scolded people when they kept asking about it.

“We’ve talked about moving forward,” Shapiro said.

‘We’ hadn’t talked about anything.

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