MLB Team in Vancouver - Where would you put them?

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The US sports market is always a little inflated given that the leagues are based in the US and primarily serve the US consumption. Denver is definitely saturated for its size with all Big 4 teams and an MLS team though, I don't think any other city has that level of exposure per population.

Also the Denver MSA is (like all US MSAs) huge geographically, covering an area 8 times the size of Metro Vancouver's with only about 500,000 more people. If we take the entire Lower Mainland as an analogous area to the Denver MSA, we come up with similar populations for both cities - close to 3 million. I believe the actual eyeballs/attendees would be similar in both cities, but we just have the Canucks and an MLS team as opposed to their five teams. Can't really count the CFL as remotely comparable to any Big 4 team. I do think Vancouver can successfully support an additional major league team here.

With that said on a per capita basis though I think Montreal and San Diego have it much worse.