"Mike Dee" is an Americans/American sports executive who is the Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball, his second assignment working for the team. He previously served in a similar role with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, as the Chief Operating Officer of the Boston Red Sox and as president of Fenway Sports Group. While with the Red Sox, the team won two World Series titles.

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The stench was awful. We took care of that.

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We wanted to give ourselves the maximum amount of time. Dave's very confident that the integrity of the field is safe.

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We expected there would be field damage. There has been for the last two shows. But we have no regrets. We just have to adjust. I think the stage for the Stones was larger and had to be put down sooner.

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Dave is confident that the field is playable and safe. Player safety is No. 1 among Dave's concerns.

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Dead grass doesn't smell great. There was a stench in here [Thursday].

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Dave Mellor deserves a lot of credit. This isn't the sort of thing where you can just call Home Depot and put in an order. He had the sod on reserve and it was there when we put the order in.

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We're very pleased with the way things are going. This has been everything we had hoped it would be.

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We learned that not all concerts are created equal. We'll look at the schedule before and after the dates and we'll look at the size of the show.

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In retrospect we probably could have started the game on time, but in fairness to our fans we didn't want them sitting around for an hour if the field wasn't ready.

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