Jeremiah Yolkut made up his mind before he entered Bristol Motor Speedway.
The MLB senior vice president of global events came to the famed racetrack in 2022 to investigate the possibility of playing a major league baseball game in the venue.
It only took driving up to the structure to have him sold. He was hooked by the vastness and grandness of the facility, the spectacle it would be to play baseball in such a place. He and his MLB colleagues walked inside, explored the behemoth interior and it validated Yolkut’s gut reaction: there must be a baseball game played at Bristol.