Jon Morosi
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atmospheric questions about what the games would feel like relative to, again, you think about playing at altitude for Colorado and the issues there.
It's a lot of the same in Salt Lake.
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.
So I think that for a lot of reasons, I think it's a fantastic idea.
You should at least market-size
put it on a similar wavelength to Portland, Oregon, which in their case, they've been quite far advanced.
I mean, I do think looking big picture, there are markets that have already done a lot more work, outwardly at least,
than what Vancouver has done.
Nashville, you would say, top of the list.
They seem to be everyone's popular choice.
You wonder about Charlotte, North Carolina, again, if they end up going with one more east.
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.
And then west, it's not as obvious.
Certainly, if it ends up being the β
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.
They have already proven that they can successfully operate a franchise in salt Lake city.
So there's a lot of proof of concept there.
But when you look at,
The ability to market and the geography of it all.
And also, the Jays have proven this extraordinarily well.