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Speaker 1: Welcome to Good Game with Sarah Spain, where we're sketching

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Speaker 1: out a rough schedule for all the different sporting events

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Speaker 2: Hit up this summer.

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Speaker 1: Are scients still working on teleportation devices or cloning?

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Speaker 2: If so, let's chat.

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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, May sixth, and on today's show you'll hear

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Speaker 1: another amazing conversation from Thursday's espnW summit.

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Speaker 2: In New York City. This time it's my chat with

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Speaker 2: Kim Minor.

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Speaker 1: Chief of staff and chief legal officer for the NWSL's

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Speaker 1: Boston Legacy FC, and Teresa Esh, friend of the show

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Speaker 1: and president of the WNBA's Toronto Tempo. We of course

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Speaker 1: get into the name change drama in Boston and the

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Speaker 1: name leak incident in Toronto. Plus we talked through the

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Speaker 1: lessons they've learned launching new franchises, how they've taken in

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Speaker 1: and responded to feedback from fans, recruiting players in the

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Speaker 1: NWSL without a draft, making the first's count, and the

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Speaker 1: way celebrity owners impact teams. Plus Carly Lloyd issues an apology.

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Speaker 1: Naomi Osaka is back in.

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Speaker 2: The Winter Circle and the weight is over for Golden

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Speaker 2: State Valkyrie basketball.

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Speaker 1: It's all coming up right after this welcome back slices,

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Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know today in footy news.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday, former US women's national team star Carly Lloyd

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Speaker 1: was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in

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Speaker 1: a ceremony in Frisco, Texas.

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Speaker 2: The honor is well deserved.

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Speaker 1: The forty two year old's international career spanned seventeen years,

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Speaker 1: and in that time she grabbed two Olympic gold medals,

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Speaker 1: two FIFA World Cup trophies, and two FIFA Player of

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Speaker 1: the Year awards. But Lloyd's twenty minute acceptance speech wasn't

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Speaker 3: I wasn't there to make friends or follow the crowd.

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Speaker 3: I was there to push myself to the very top

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Speaker 3: there's one thing I do wish, I wish I had

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Speaker 3: let more people understand me. Over the years, I operated

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Speaker 3: to my teammates, I want to say this, I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: All of me.

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Speaker 1: I remember Carly and a former trainer speaking at an

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't until later that she talked about regretting

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Speaker 1: Them f C forward Astaire Gonzalez was named the Player

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Speaker 1: There seven goals for her, including three braces and two

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Speaker 1: We're a little late catching up on the weekend's tennis results,

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Speaker 1: of my favorite things about life, though, there's always room

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Speaker 2: Thanks to everyone accompanying me on this journey.

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Speaker 1: I know it's turbulent, but it's also really fun and

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful. End quote in WNBA News. There are three

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Speaker 1: State Valkyries hosting the Los Angeles Sparks at ten pm Eastern.

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Speaker 1: to see what they've been putting together and super excited

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Speaker 1: to see those six jerseys in action. That Valkyrie's Violet

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Speaker 1: We'll link to the schedule in our show notes. We

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Speaker 1: we're going to dig into expansion with Kim Minor and

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Speaker 1: my interview with Teresa and Kim. I would like to

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Speaker 1: She previously served as Executive VP and General counsel for

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Speaker 1: Worcester Woosta Wosta formerly the pot talk at Red Sox

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Speaker 1: Give it up for Kim.

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Speaker 2: We knew this was coming.

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Speaker 1: Okay, give it up for Teresa Rush, president of the

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Speaker 1: Toronto Tempo, formerly VP of Basketball Operations for the Toronto Raptors.

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Speaker 1: She also spent four years at the NBA office and

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Speaker 2: Give it up for Teresa.

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Speaker 1: I'm so pumped for this conversation about expansion and hearing

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Speaker 6: And in hindsight, I think we should have prioritized the opposite,

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Speaker 6: And we learned a hard lesson with that. But also,

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Speaker 1: When you make those decisions too, you sort of set

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Speaker 6: going to change the team's name immediately, and we had

444
00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:12,520
Speaker 6: a lot of internal discussions, but we didn't want to

445
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,919
Speaker 6: jump to that conclusion, even if you know, individually we

446
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,520
Speaker 6: might have thought. Of course, that's where we're going to

447
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,320
Speaker 6: end up. Is let's go through a process. Let's talk

448
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,320
Speaker 6: to all of the stakeholders we need to talk to,

449
00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,560
Speaker 6: Let's go through some market research, let's do everything, let's

450
00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,120
Speaker 6: do the listening. We're not just going to say we're

451
00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 6: going to do it. Let's do it, and then we'll

452
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,399
Speaker 6: make a decision. And I think in the future when

453
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,200
Speaker 6: that maybe there's something happening on the field with players,

454
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 6: maybe there's another business decision with the team. We've set

455
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,960
Speaker 6: a precedent that we're listening, we hear you, and we

456
00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 6: are going to be thoughtful and careful about the decision

457
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Speaker 6: that we make. And I think that that's important. We

458
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Speaker 6: don't want to create an expectation that we can't sort

459
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Speaker 6: of live up to again and again and again.

460
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

461
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Speaker 5: And I wanted to add to that because what we've

462
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 5: found too is, you know, you ask for all this feedback,

463
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 5: you can't act on all of it. Yeah, but if

464
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,919
Speaker 5: you can find ways to act on it, man, the

465
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,440
Speaker 5: love you get back is so strong. So we put

466
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 5: out a thing like, oh, what would you think our

467
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 5: mascot would be? Like, that's obviously the next question after

468
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 5: I have a team name, what's your mascot? We got

469
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,879
Speaker 5: all kinds of ideas and there was this one that

470
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,520
Speaker 5: really really I was confused about. They kept saying like,

471
00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 5: Rick the Temp should be our mascot. I'm like, what's

472
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 5: Rick the Temp? So I guess he was like in Canada,

473
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 5: this this like VJ, like MTV VJ back in the day,

474
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 5: and he was like started as a temp. Anyways, he

475
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,480
Speaker 5: has his big persona. So on April Fool's Day we

476
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,879
Speaker 5: just came we had him. He was like, do you

477
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 5: want to do something here. So he came in. We

478
00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,720
Speaker 5: made a little video saying that he was our first

479
00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,120
Speaker 5: internaz and oh my gosh, people love that. I had

480
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,160
Speaker 5: never heard him. I still don't get it. I didn't

481
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,879
Speaker 5: grow up there, but it really resonated with this. And

482
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 5: then after that we announced like we are having an

483
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Speaker 5: intern apply, and I think like we got so much

484
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 5: love because we listened to what they said. So where

485
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,560
Speaker 5: we can yeah, and where we ken lean in, we're

486
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,160
Speaker 5: going to like, we can't do everything that people recommend,

487
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,159
Speaker 5: but I think if you're open to that. I mean

488
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Speaker 5: the other thing, we just sent out a survey to

489
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Speaker 5: all of our ticket holders depositors I should call them

490
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,560
Speaker 5: and asking them, you know, how much of a fan

491
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 5: or whatever, and almost fifty percent of them said that

492
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 5: they would love to fit sit in a fan section,

493
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 5: which I was really excited about because I like, I

494
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,520
Speaker 5: go to these soccer games and like I warnt a

495
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 5: fan section. So now we're going to prioritize that because

496
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,159
Speaker 5: they've spoken and we can and that's something that we

497
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Speaker 5: can actually act on. So gosh, I'm gonna wait all

498
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Speaker 5: the secrets, Sarah, I.

499
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Speaker 2: Know, I love it. Wait the mascot is going to

500
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 2: be flavor Flave's clock though, right. The thing to think.

501
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Speaker 1: About tell us about how your time with the Raptors

502
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,680
Speaker 1: informs you for this, but also how you're being thoughtful

503
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,280
Speaker 1: about this being a different space, a different league, a

504
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Speaker 1: different audience.

505
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean the thing that I'm most excited about

506
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 5: is having been with the Raptors from twenty thirteen to

507
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 5: I mean just last year, to see that evolution and

508
00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 5: to see what worked, Like, now we can just accelerate

509
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 5: all those things that worked. Right, So a group of

510
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 5: us came in twenty thirteen is like, we need to

511
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 5: invest in player development, we needed to invest in player spaces,

512
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,440
Speaker 5: and we need to raise the exposure of this team.

513
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 5: So built a facility, got a G League team, hosted

514
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,560
Speaker 5: All Star, and we can take all those things.

515
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 4: It took us about seven, eight nine years.

516
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 5: I guess the last one there is wine makes a

517
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,119
Speaker 5: huge difference. It took us eight years to get to

518
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 5: the finals and we got a little luck and we won.

519
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,719
Speaker 5: Like now I know exactly that playbook and we can

520
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 5: do those things right away. But I think what you

521
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 5: said there that was really important is like what does

522
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 5: that look like in the W So what does player

523
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,919
Speaker 5: development look like in the W versus NBU, What is

524
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 5: player environment, practice facilities, you know, capital investment look like

525
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 5: in the W versus the versus NBA. And then exposure. Right,

526
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,000
Speaker 5: So the one thing I'm so excited about is that

527
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,439
Speaker 5: we are Canada's team. Our name says Toronto Tempo, but

528
00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 5: we are Canada's teams. We have commercial rights across the

529
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,360
Speaker 5: country and we truly want to captivate the entire nation.

530
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 5: We have the largest market in all of w and

531
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Speaker 5: it's really a gateway to global expansion for this league

532
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,639
Speaker 5: and we embrace that and I think it's just gonna

533
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 5: It's going to and has impacted the way we look

534
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 5: at the business and how we position this team, and

535
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 5: it's something that no other team has ever had the

536
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 5: opportunity to do. You know, the Raptors joined the league

537
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,119
Speaker 5: at the same time as the Grizzlies. There was the

538
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 5: Blue Jays and the expos So it's really this really

539
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,520
Speaker 5: unique opportunity and like you said, it's the first it's

540
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:24,119
Speaker 5: ever been done before, so we're probably not going to

541
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 5: get it exactly right. But what I'm excited about is

542
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 5: all opportunity that is there.

543
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:31,200
Speaker 1: So much opportunity to be Canada's team while also living

544
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 1: up to the great traditions and enthusiasm of Toronto, which

545
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: I love Toronto. I've been going the last couple of

546
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Speaker 1: years for the espnW seven in Canada and it is

547
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Speaker 1: a blast. Are there challenges because of the Canada US

548
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: tension right now? Are you feeling any of that as

549
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: you're getting started?

550
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,760
Speaker 4: I think we're all feeling it.

551
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 5: I mean the world that we live in today, it's

552
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,959
Speaker 5: part of the society that we exist within. Within Canada,

553
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,680
Speaker 5: there's a ton of national pride, very strong Canadians, and

554
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 5: I think, more than anything's for this is a unifying force.

555
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,440
Speaker 5: Right now, the Maple Leafs are in a series against

556
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 5: the Ottawa Senators. They call it the Battle of Ontario.

557
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 5: The great thing about Tempo is the entire country can

558
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 5: rally around us. So I think, more than anything, it

559
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,880
Speaker 5: just shows that sports are great unifiers and I'm really excited.

560
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 5: Like you said, Toronto is I hadn't spent any time

561
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 5: there until I moved there. Like literally, i had never

562
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 5: been there until the day I moved there twelve years ago,

563
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,959
Speaker 5: and I'm sitting here as a Canadian citizen. So like

564
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 5: to say It's been an incredible city. I can't wait

565
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 5: to welcome the world. Like talking, I went to the

566
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 5: Final Four, I went to All Star in Phoenix last year,

567
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 5: and just talking to the people around women's sports, around

568
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 5: women's basketball, you know, not a lot of them had

569
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 5: been to Toronto. Right in the NBA, you know, when

570
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 5: I got there, the Raptors had existed for twenty years already,

571
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 5: So a lot of people have come just as a

572
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 5: visitor for visiting games and things like that, but there's

573
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 5: not a lot of people. So we're so excited to

574
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 5: welcome people to Toronto and all of Canada.

575
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the Chicago of the North.

576
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: And as we all know, Chicago is the best city

577
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: in the world, so.

578
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,440
Speaker 2: Toronto's a close second. Kim. I want to hear about

579
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 2: the stadium project.

580
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: This is a huge part of Boston legacy, this public

581
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,919
Speaker 1: private partnership. Like you were part of the paw Talcket

582
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: Red Sox Stadium development, so you're bringing a lot of

583
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: knowledge about that. But this is a very unique situation,

584
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: this white stadium at Franklin Park that you're going to inhabit.

585
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 2: So what's the latest on that.

586
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: We've heard a lot of headlines, But what's the latest

587
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: and how are you moving forward?

588
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,959
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're so excited about this, and I think that

589
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 6: we've already seen with Denver's team announcing what they're going

590
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 6: to do. This is going to become the norm. I think,

591
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 6: whether it's public private partnership, or not having your own

592
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 6: venue or at least a venue where you are the

593
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 6: primary sports team is so important and unlocks so much

594
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 6: potential for a team, and so we're thrilled. Through this

595
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 6: partnership with the City of Boston, we're going to have

596
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 6: a beautiful stadium that's right downtown in Boston, adjacent to

597
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 6: a park setting. It's gorgeous but still right in the city,

598
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 6: and Boston Public school students are also going to have

599
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 6: access to it when we're not playing games, So it

600
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 6: fits with a lot of our values. But also as

601
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 6: a business, it allows us to make decisions about ticketing

602
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 6: and sponsorships and controlling the fan experience and the player

603
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 6: experience in a way that I think will elevate sort

604
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 6: of the game. And you're seeing it both with investment

605
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 6: in training facilities, but I think now also in your

606
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 6: home venues for your games. So we're really excited Public

607
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,679
Speaker 6: private partnerships are tricky.

608
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 4: They take a lot.

609
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 6: They are you know, in the public spotlight. For us,

610
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 6: we have a mayoral election this year, so we're also

611
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,160
Speaker 6: caught up in that. So they're a lot, but they're

612
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 6: worth it. And I did get to see. I did

613
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 6: the whole ring around in Rhode Island with Larry Lukeino

614
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 6: with the Triple A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox,

615
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 6: and we couldn't get it done because of politics. So

616
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 6: we moved up to Worcestern, Massachusetts. You said it right,

617
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 6: by the way, yes, and we built Polar Park, which

618
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 6: is a jewel of a ballpark. And one of the

619
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 6: things I'm most proud of is when we did that,

620
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 6: you bring the public along with you, and you bring

621
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 6: the elected officials and you know, all of your neighbors

622
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 6: with you. And what I'm most proud of from that

623
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 6: is that we kept every single promise that we made

624
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 6: to the community, and the things that we believed were

625
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 6: going to come true in terms of development and sort

626
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 6: of you know, enriching this community happened. And so one

627
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 6: of the things that I'm really excited about what we're

628
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,119
Speaker 6: doing in Boston is that there's skepticism but we're starting

629
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 6: to deliver on what we promise and through our actions,

630
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 6: people will see that we really mean what we're saying

631
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 6: in terms of fifty percent mwbe hiring, in terms of

632
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 6: you know, having women run the show here, it's we're

633
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 6: doing it, and I really like to get to be

634
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 6: on the inside to make sure that we're doing that.

635
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 6: And demolition is underway. You know, we've had some bumps.

636
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 6: These things aren't easy, but demolition is well underwell. See, yeah,

637
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 6: we're so excited. The design part is the most fun.

638
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 6: We're in the middle of that.

639
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: So it's awesome.

640
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 6: Now WEB means minority and women business enterprises, Okay, so

641
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 6: that way we're having diverse local participation in the contracts

642
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 6: for our stadium all super important to us.

643
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: It is incredibly important to be in charge of your

644
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: own facility, and that's something we've seen especially across the NWSL.

645
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 1: For years, we were always like, when's the schedule coming out?

646
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 1: When's the schedule coming out? It was always delayed because

647
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: it was like we're third in line to whatever, and

648
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: so it's huge to have that. And then I think

649
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: also like people have really underestimated the impact that taxpayer

650
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: funds toward men's stadiums have had on the sports industrial.

651
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: Complex at large.

652
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: Men have been constantly benefiting from it, being politically savvy

653
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: to endorse and support your teams and lift them up,

654
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: and on the women's there's just never been an opportunity

655
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: to take advantage of that. So when it works out

656
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: and when you keep your promises, it's such a great opportunity.

657
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: Want to quickly ask you first team without a draft? Yeah,

658
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: for those who don't know, the first major professional league

659
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Speaker 1: in the US to abolish the draft. You got to

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Speaker 1: talked about how he's got to sell the team the

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Speaker 2: You know, you're kind of almost recruiting like a college. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's a challenge. I think long term for

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Speaker 4: He's the best he is, he really is.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's great because it brings the NWSL on

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Speaker 6: par with the international game. So it's a really wonderful thing.

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Speaker 6: And what it means for US is sports and business

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Speaker 6: sides have to be really closely aligned, and we're recruiting

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Speaker 6: from the very beginning. We're not drafting anybody, and we're recruiting,

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Speaker 6: So that goes to hiring our first GM. What are

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Speaker 6: to bring them in. Having someone with international player knowledge

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Speaker 6: and who has experience building a team without anything like

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Speaker 6: do you sell players on the idea of playing in

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Speaker 6: this amazing sports city That one's not too much of

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Speaker 6: a lift, thankfully, but it you know, that's a huge

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Speaker 6: part of it. And then also facilities, training, facility, player experience,

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Speaker 6: what the stadium will be like. You know, we are

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Speaker 6: recruiting players and that's really a key part of our

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Speaker 6: awesome to see the players empowered in that way, and

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Speaker 6: hopefully it also means that when they come to our club,

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Speaker 1: Everyone has to step up their game INNWSL, which is awesome.

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Speaker 1: You've got to get players to want to choose you

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Speaker 1: instead of well, I'm stuck in fill in the blank city.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say because I don't know where

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Speaker 2: we're almost out of time here.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you both the last thing about

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Speaker 1: She's got a hometown team in the Sparks, and she

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Speaker 1: was like, nah, let me go to Toronto.

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Speaker 2: How to just score that and how is she going

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Speaker 2: to be involved?

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Speaker 5: Incredible to have one of like the greatest of all

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Speaker 4: She has been very public.

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Speaker 5: You guys have been following. She's been very publican supporting

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Speaker 5: women's sports. She said very publicly she wanted to be

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Speaker 5: part of WNBA ownership. She had conversation with commissioner. You know,

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Speaker 5: ownership isn't a way available like the Sparks. I don't

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Speaker 5: know if they have any minority. I don't know if

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Speaker 5: they have anybody that they're actually putting on their board.

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Speaker 5: But as a new team, we do. And she has

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Speaker 5: a great affinity for Toronto. She loves Tromp's been great

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Speaker 5: to actually get to know her and hear some of

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Speaker 5: actually connects to it and she's really passionate about elevating

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Speaker 5: women's sports in general.

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Speaker 4: So we're excited.

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Speaker 5: She's a busy lady, so or not like she's not

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Speaker 5: going to be there every day, but we do look

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Speaker 5: forward to leaning into the areas that she has passionate about.

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Speaker 5: We announced another owner yesterday, actually a great Canadian business

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Speaker 5: woman's Kinderson Cassidy. And we'll have another owner announcement in

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Speaker 5: a couple of weeks, so stay tuned and we'll be

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Speaker 5: filling out the board. And I think more than anything,

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Speaker 5: the amount of strategic value that these women are adding

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Speaker 4: It's really important, super important.

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Speaker 2: Are you selling that fit that she's wearing? Because I

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Speaker 2: want it?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: And while I look like that, I love this is

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Speaker 2: also important to the equation.

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth turn down the chance to be a part of

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Speaker 1: Angel City Ownership, but join the ownership for Boston Legacy.

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Speaker 1: What does your ownership table look like? Are we going

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Speaker 1: to have some more celebs announced?

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Speaker 2: Just like Teresa said, we will.

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Speaker 6: We'll have a few more announced right here?

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Speaker 2: No, no, okay.

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Speaker 6: But we you know we have a few more coming.

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Speaker 6: And what I'll say about our cap table is we

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Speaker 6: have people who are passionate about Boston and about the team.

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Speaker 6: We're so lucky to have Monarch Collective as one of

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Speaker 6: our big investors, and they've been great, and one of

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Speaker 6: the things they've advised is, you know, if you're bringing

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Speaker 6: in celebrities, you want people who are engaged.

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Speaker 2: We're going to show up to.

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Speaker 6: Games or dedicate some of their expertise, whatever it is,

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Speaker 6: to what you're doing. And so far, that's what we've

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Speaker 6: got and it makes us a more well rounded organization.

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Speaker 6: And Elizabeth obviously brings amazing wisdom to the club. But

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Speaker 6: we've got two former pro sports gms on our cap table.

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Speaker 6: We've got entrepreneurs from the tech and VC world. We

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Speaker 6: have Celtics ownership like we've got a lot of dynamic

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Speaker 6: owners And when I know, I'm Jessica Berman often says

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Speaker 6: this about the NWSL owners is they are involved to

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Speaker 6: a higher degree than I think owners and other leagues.

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Speaker 6: I don't know about the w maybe it's the same,

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Speaker 6: but these owners are involved and where they have expertise,

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Speaker 6: we'll take them up on it.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 1: Teresa, thanks for giving us some secrets. Kim, thanks for

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Speaker 1: keeping yours close to your best. We're going to hopefully

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Speaker 1: be learning more and more about both your teams as

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Speaker 1: we approach that first kickoff day.

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Speaker 2: So thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Big round of applause for Teresa and Kim. It was

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Speaker 1: awesome to talk to Teresa and Kim. I love how

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Speaker 1: many times Teresa was like, oh, I'm giving away our secrets.

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Speaker 2: Keep doing it, keep doing it.

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Speaker 1: We love hearing the process behind creating these firsts and

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Speaker 1: getting ready for these inaugural seasons. So keep spilling the beans, Teresa.

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Speaker 1: incorrectly identified the location of each and every team and

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Speaker 2: In fact, the.

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Speaker 1: Boston Fleet are the only teams shown in the US,

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Speaker 1: All the Canadian teams are shown in Canada, which is

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Speaker 1: hitting publish, so let's hope quality control is a little

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