Jon Morosi
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The success in having an entire country, multiple provinces, obviously, being a home market is incredibly beneficial from a business standpoint.
Now, certainly the Jays will have, I'm sure, their own thoughts about marketing-wise what that all looks like.
But you look at the map and you see where all the teams are.
Vancouver especially, there's no more NBA there.
There seems to be a lane and a spot to Vancouver being a major league city in a way that hasn't always been obvious in the past.
Yeah, the one point, Kevin, on that note, talking about more jobs and more high-end baseball players having a chance to play, we just saw Justin Turner sign with the Mexican League.
The Mexican Summer League, this is related to the point that you're making, the Mexican Summer League, if you talk to people around it who see that league often, they will tell you there are more high-end players who are of Major League caliber in that league now than ever before.
And what that says, and that is...
affiliated with Major League Baseball, but not directly.
And what that tells you in general is that the playing population of Major League Baseball, we see it as well in the World Baseball Classic, guys on different teams, whether it's Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, come
Coming in throwing 95 and 96.
You look at your roster.
Where does the guy play?
The answer is either AAA, Mexican League, in Asia.
You're saying to yourself, there are so many great players right now.
More than enough to fill out rosters.
The pitching is, I think, has always been the question of the past.
Kevin, you remember expansion happened around the time you were playing pro ball.
The question was always, is there enough pitching to sustain it?
The answer right now is a resounding yes.