expansion bids announced

and the bids are in from... Atlanta, Miami, Montreal, Ottawa, Portland, St. Louis, and Vancouver.

So, no real surprises besides no Aquilini involvement at this time with the Vancouver bid. Apologies to the folks in St. Louis for not discussing them in the podcast. There's not really much to note here except for maybe a bit of dissection on Abbott's body language and some of the things he both did and did not say but I'll leave that to the Big Soccer types for now.

I'll just say he did look quite animated when they discussed the ticket sales in Seattle and any potential corollary for Portland. I'm still not sold on Atlanta, either but more on that later. There you have it folks.