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Jon Morosi

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649 total appearances

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Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

atmospheric questions about what the games would feel like relative to, again, you think about playing at altitude for Colorado and the issues there.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

It's a lot of the same in Salt Lake.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Vancouver, of course, obviously mountains everywhere around it, but right in the city center and in the ring of population around Vancouver, not as much of a concern.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

So I think that for a lot of reasons, I think it's a fantastic idea.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

You should at least market-size

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

put it on a similar wavelength to Portland, Oregon, which in their case, they've been quite far advanced.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

I mean, I do think looking big picture, there are markets that have already done a lot more work, outwardly at least,

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

than what Vancouver has done.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Nashville, you would say, top of the list.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

They seem to be everyone's popular choice.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

You wonder about Charlotte, North Carolina, again, if they end up going with one more east.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

But I think that the general premise, Jeff, and you alluded to this, if the idea is one that is east of the Mississippi, I think that we would probably say Nashville is the strongest candidate there.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

And then west, it's not as obvious.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Certainly, if it ends up being the –

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

with all the enthusiasm around the Utah mammoth, if it ends up being this, the same ownership there with the Smith family, obviously they are well known in sports.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

They have already proven that they can successfully operate a franchise in salt Lake city.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

So there's a lot of proof of concept there.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

But when you look at,

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The ability to market and the geography of it all.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

And also, the Jays have proven this extraordinarily well.