What Happened To Los Angeles?

[Puget Sound Angel]

I'm sorry if this topic has been addressed before.

I want to buy gear that says "Los Angeles Angels" but can't find any available. It seems the only items read "Angels" or "Angels Baseball." This includes the 60th Anniversary logo.

Considering all the work we had to do to get the LA name, it makes no sense not to use it.

What gives?

Or are we just afraid of getting flipped sh!t by Dodgers fans?

[Blarg]

Why would you want paint dumped on your car?

[Taylor]

Curt Pringle finally got his way.

[failos]

23 minutes ago, cals said:

Just for you I could look for stuff with this logo on it:

[tdawg87]

Not enough bathtubs.

[Angel Oracle]

20 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Not enough bathtubs.

 

[Angelsjunky]

When I read the thread title I thought of this:

[Puget Sound Angel]

How many years did we deal with the "of Anaheim" crap so we could finally us the name Los Angeles and now we won't use it?

[ukyah]

i'm outraged. inconsolable.

[Dollar Bill]

As part of the name change lawsuit filed by the city of Anaheim, the court ruled the Angels could sell gear with "Los Angeles."

Arte prefers to brand "the Angels" and the halo-A logo. He believed the Los Angeles name would help with national advertisers and marketers.

[tdawg87]

Has it?

[failos]

36 minutes ago, Dollar Bill said:

As part of the name change lawsuit filed by the city of Anaheim, the court ruled the Angels could sell gear with "Los Angeles."

Arte prefers to brand "the Angels" and the halo-A logo. He believed the Los Angeles name would help with national advertisers and marketers.

LA is a shithole, and it’s better we don’t have that shit stain name on the jerseys. Besides, nobody wants to be the MLB equivalent of the Clippers.

[Angels in 2030]

I don’t really care what the owner, espn, the jersey, online, etc. says - they are the ‘California Angels’ to me.  

[AngelStew43]

I don't know, I think these look pretty sharp!

[Billy_Ball]

Arte uses "Los Angeles" for the big market name and the money that goes with it with sponsors/media.  He markets "Angels" as the selling brand.

[eligrba]

Because it would be stupid for the uniform to say The Angels Angels.

[Taylor]

7 minutes ago, eligrba said:

Because it would be stupid for the uniform to say The Angels Angels.

But "The Angels Dodgers" isn't stupid?

[eligrba]

1 minute ago, Taylor said:

But "The Angels Dodgers" isn't stupid?

Good point, the name suggests that the team dodges angels thereby making them demons.

Thanks, I'm now outraged that a team would select something evil as their name.

[W.E. Baxter Author]

Major League Cities market to entire areas, not just the cities themselves. Of the three Major League Cities, Los Angeles is the only one that markets to ALL of Southern California which is what Arte Moreno wanted to do. San Diego and Anaheim represent much smaller areas within Southern California.  Arte also knows that "Los Angeles Angels" still causes hard feelings from the people living in the Anaheim/Orange County Area. I lived most of my life in the AnaheimOrange County Area (now I'm in Colorado Springs which has become my home), and I belong to a Facebook Group called "You Know You Grew Up in Anaheim When...." Naturally, the subject of Angels Baseball comes up a lot on that Facebook Group. Whenever I refer to the team as the "Los Angeles Angels (which is what they are)," in that group, there has been backlashing from other posters. A lot of them start calling Arte Moreno names and other choice words. The people in Anaheim (or people who have lived there) still despise the name "Los Angeles" and Arte Moreno, and they still bad mouth the name. With that, do you think it would be wise for "Los Angeles Angels" to be put on shirts where fans would be walking around the city wearing these shirts among these people? Angels Fans would not be safe walking around the streets of L.A. with "Los Angeles Angels" shirts either, because a lot of the people living in the City of Los Angeles believe there is only ONE Los Angeles Baseball Team--The Dodgers.  Arte Moreno knew what he was doing to keep Los Angeles off the team's merchandise, and market the team as "The Angels" or just "Angels."

[Lou]

Fuck the Dodgers

[W.E. Baxter Author]

3 minutes ago, Lou said:

#### the Dodgers

My comment wasn't about the Dodgers, but Arte's wisdom in keeping Los Angeles off The Angels' Merchandise.

[Lou]

And my comment was about the dodgers.

Fuck them. 

[eligrba]

2 hours ago, cals said:

Can you please use “####” instead of that word?  This is WE Baxter Author you’re talking to!

Fuck the ####

[failos]

3 minutes ago, cals said:

CLAM?

CALS

[Taylor]

F the hashtags