Angels exploring Irvine for new stadium.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Close to my home.

Considering the demographic of the city, maybe they should move to the Nippon league.

http://lat.ms/1kpblk7

Edited May 2, 2014 by SOTO

[disarcina]

Good for the Halos -- hope they can keep it near a train station and close enough to walk to from hotels and restaurants/ bars.

[NrM]

That would be awesome.

Edited May 2, 2014 by Poozy

[mtangelsfan]

Irvine would be tough on traffic.  

[markb]

Considering the demographic of the city, maybe they should move to the Nippon league.

 

 

Nevermind the majority of the Irvine Asian population is Chinese and Korean.

[Quinlanforthewin]

This would be cool.  But I mean, how far south could we go and still call ourselves LA? Irvine is closer to San Diego than LA practically.  Shit is just silly.  Go back to California Angels and be done with it.  

[Chimi]

This would be awesome.  Not only do you have the 5 and 405 but you also have the 133 to bring in people.  Plenty of land there to build a stadium.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Nevermind the majority of the Irvine Asian population is Chinese and Korean.

You don't say. I've only lived here for over 40 years.

[JAHV76]

With all the homes they plan to build in that area traffic will be a nightmare

[joeywings]

Will they have to end the games at 10 PM, no matter what ?

That is Irvine, you know.

 

Let's try Brea or Fullerton instead.

[HaloCory22]

Screw Irvine! I don't need to drive any further down south!

[Tyler]

I'd be in favor of this.

[Amazing Larry]

Will they have to end the games at 10 PM, no matter what ?

That is Irvine, you know.

 

Let's try Brea or Fullerton instead.

I can't think of any area in those cities that is conducive to a major league ballpark.

[ten ocho recon scout]

You don't say. I've only lived here for over 40 years.

is your name really sAto?

[nando714]

Irvine will force games to start at 4:05pm so that the lights are shut off by 9pm.

[Slegnaac]

Irvine will force games to start at 4:05pm so that the lights are shut off by 9pm.

At least East coast viewers will have the chance to see the end of the games.

[Jobu]

"Angels exploring Irvine for dramatic effect"

[Amazing Larry]

"Angels exploring Irvine for dramatic effect"

Exactly. Yawn.

[Guest]

I'd like that, actually.

[LBHalos17]

Move em to Long Beach!

I'm just kidding.  I hope they stay-put, and continue to upgrade the stadium.  I'd like to see the addition of a few pubs/restaurants in the surrounding lots.

[mota_madness]

Close to my home.

Considering the demographic of the city, maybe they should move to the Nippon league.

http://lat.ms/1kpblk7

are you baggin on asians? 

[disarcina]

this is obviously all designed to put pressure on the City of Anaheim........so good for Arte !!

 

There's a deal with the Angels and Anaheim that can get done -- the COA needs to stop the games.......the full council approved the framework of an offer and the Mayor (the dissenting one vote in a 4 to 1 approval vote for the offer) yanked it back.......there are some legitimate concerns that the COA has -- for example, Arte and the Angels need to commit to any related development deal with the surrounding land and if he tries to flip the development rights (I don't think the COA can outright forbid Arte from doing so) instead of having developing the property himself with one of his development entities -- then the lease rate and any negotiated cash pay out by the Halos should increase significantly.......at this point, the best thing may be to un-couple the whole development concept and just negotiate a straight lease for another 10 to 20 years and, if Arte really wants to construct a new baseball only type ballpark (something that would be a very reasonable thing for Arte and the Angels to want), the time-table for that and specific terms regarding certain lease issues during the 'departure years' (the two year period at the end of the lease when the new ball park is being built) should be part of the extension terms......

 

Having said this. the best place for the Angels is the location where they are now........a new ballpark on that site could be a possibility in the future.........there's a lot of mistrust between the Angels and COA -- it's getting in the way of deal being done and things are likely to heat up with the release of the city financed 'appraisal' which is likely to be highly tilted to the COA position on all issues.

[Eric]

I don't even need to read the report, the article referenced, or the replies in this thread.

 

Never going to happen.

 

Period.

 

I could go into a long descriptive explanation, but I won't bore you with the details.

 

Just don't waste your time on this Story, it's not happening, 100%.

[disarcina]

Eric -- I am sure you are correct.........it's a bargaining ploy.

 

besides, it's part of the El Toro Marine Base property and, as you obviously know, there's a long history of development battles over that property.

 

some folks would consider an MLB ballpark worse than an airport. Nuff said.

[Jeff M]

I hope this happens. So close to home.