… a meeting about a year, year and a half ago, and he basically reiterated to me, he's like, look, we're committed to being in Florida. This is an important state. The state's growing so much, it would be bad look for Major League Baseball if we couldn't succeed in a place where there's a lot of interest in baseball. But we kind of have a distressed asset, and we need a new formula to be able to make this something that could be really, really viable. (02:01–02:10)
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Asserts that Florida's growth and interest in baseball make it important for MLB to succeed there.
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