He was a better teacher in his last two years than most of us manage in a whole career.” David was quiet a moment.

“We measure ourselves by the saves, you know,” he said.

“By the lives we pull back.

That is how you keep score in this profession, and Marcus kept it better than almost anyone.

But he taught me, at the end, that there is another whole part of the job we are trained to look right past, the part that happens when there is no save to be had, when all you can offer a family is your presence in the room.

He was the best I ever saw at that.