Angels’ Spanish-language broadcast at a crossroads as announcers decry treatment

[jsnpritchett]

https://theathletic.com/4097134/2023/01/18/angels-mlb-spanish-broadcasts/

Excerpt:

"Tolentino had seen the team’s commitment to its Spanish broadcasts slowly erode. Fewer games were available in fewer places. He’d been unceremoniously relocated out of his Angel Stadium booth and wasn’t given a broadcast partner. He was forced to choose between calling games from a soundproof closet in right field, a studio in Los Angeles, or inside a laundry room from his Mission Viejo home.

He was no longer a full-time employee. Instead, he made $350 a game as a freelancer, with his producer making $110 per game for 6-8 hours of work. Despite calling upward of a thousand Angels games, he felt as though the team’s management couldn’t care less if they ever called one more.

The meeting with Carpino, Tolentino said, took place in the team’s public communications offices in right field. Tolentino told him he needed to make a living. He needed resources to go into his work.

In response, Carpino told him they appreciated his loyalty.

But then came the gut punch of reality. A few words that summed up everything he’d already felt about his work. Tolentino says he was told that it was a part-time job.

“I froze,” Tolentino told The Athletic. “Because when someone makes you feel like you absolutely don’t matter — which you’ve been feeling for 10 years — but when they really tell you that you don’t matter, it really hits home.”

When reached via text for an interview request, Carpino declined."

[halonatic13]

I can't wait for new ownership.  These guys sound like A-holes.

[Taylor]

Remember when Arte was going to move the team to Mexico? Good times.

[HanfordGuy]

 

[HanfordGuy]

 

[Amazing Larry]

How much bad press can one organization obtain for themselves? This has to be one of the shittiest reputations for a MLB front office since Marge Schott owned a team.

[tdawg87]

It all starts with Moreno. Glad he's selling the team.

[cals]

2 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

It all starts with Moreno. Glad he's selling the team.

He must be one of those self-hating Mexicans.  Like Larry. 

[AngelStew43]

One one hand, the team would like to expand their influence in the hispanic market.  On the other, they treat their Spanish language broadcast team like they are not important.  

Come on, Mr. Moreno, Mr. Carpino, and whoever else is involved in these decisions.  Do the right thing.  It really isn't that difficult.  

 

[Blarg]

Carpino is an asshole who over 20 years never learned his position. It will be good to see that entire upper management team gone.

[Dtwncbad]

No comprendo

[Angel Oracle]

Good riddance Morono, Crapino, and Kruhl !!!!!!!

[UndertheHalo]

Just a really baffling way to do things.  What can you say.  

[UndertheHalo]

Like imagine all the shit that doesn’t come out.  

[T.G.]

As fans, so much is out of our control.  Well, "so much" as in just about everything.  When stuff like this hits the news, it makes me cringe.  I hate it when my favorite teams make more news for what they do off the field more so than on it.  This organization has had more than its share of bad press, bad news and cringe worthy stuff.  It's disappointing. 

Right now; more than anything, the team and even us fans sort of need a fresh start.  New ownership will hopefully provide that. 

Maybe this is why Jose Mota left.  If so, that's sad.  Mota is a outstanding human being.  He's the kind of guy an organization should love having represent them.

Stuff like this adds to the second banana label the Angels get being in the L.A. market.  It shouldn't be so hard to be an organization that has some class, but apparently it is.  Arte Moreno has created a pretty crappy culture.

Edited January 18, 2023 by T.G.

[Erstad Grit]

Wowzers

[Taylor]

13 minutes ago, UndertheHalo said:

Like imagine all the shit that doesn’t come out.  

I wonder if Arte has ever had anyone killed.

[Jason]

Arte and Dan Snyder should go into business together 

[Lazorko Saves]

Ya'll going to hate this, but...

It's The Athletic.  Clown "journalism".

There's a preposterous claim right there in the first paragraph posted.  About how the Angels were supposedly dictating that if the guy did the games from home, that is had to be from his laundry room?  Uh huh.

Maybe there's a seed of truth here somewhere in the story, but the crazy partisans at The Athletic have wrapped it their typical emotional appeal, snorting-outrage-generating nonsense.

Edited January 18, 2023 by Lazorko Saves

[tdawg87]

11 minutes ago, Lazorko Saves said:

Ya'll going to hate this, but...

It's The Athletic.  Clown "journalism".

There's a preposterous claim right there in the first paragraph posted.  About how the Angels were supposedly dictating that if the guy did the games from home, that is had to be from his laundry room?  Uh huh.

Maybe there's a seed of truth here somewhere in the story, but the crazy partisans at The Athletic have wrapped it their typical emotional appeal, snorting-outrage-generating nonsense.

[UndertheHalo]

15 minutes ago, Lazorko Saves said:

Ya'll going to hate this, but...

It's The Athletic.  Clown "journalism".

There's a preposterous claim right there in the first paragraph posted.  About how the Angels were supposedly dictating that if the guy did the games from home, that is had to be from his laundry room?  Uh huh.

Maybe there's a seed of truth here somewhere in the story, but the crazy partisans at The Athletic have wrapped it their typical emotional appeal, snorting-outrage-generating nonsense.

Partisans at the athletic.   

[Angelsfan1984]

20 minutes ago, Jason said:

Arte and Dan Snyder should go into business together 

And buy twitter from Elon 

[TempeAngel]

Carpino / Campanis

Potato / Potato

Tomato / Tomato

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

3 hours ago, Taylor said:

Remember when Arte was going to move the team to Mexico? Good times.

I seem to remember Arte saying something along the lines he wants to make the Angels the Yankees of the west coast, during his first press conference as the new owner.

 

Good Job

[Dtwncbad]

Entirely absent from the conversation is any interest in looking at the Spanish broadcast from a business perspective?

Does anyone listen?  Is the market shrinking?  Does it make any financial sense  at all to increase the expenses attached to doing it?

What is gained by pumping more resources into it (other than the broadcaster making more money?

And what would be lost if they shut it down completely?

Until I have a whole lot more information, no I am not jumping on board with concluding the team is mismanaging it or not putting the right amount of resources into it.

Maybe they are screwing up.  Maybe. But if they are, then the presentation of showing they are screwing up should be more data driven, and not just trying to rely on making me feel sorry for someone because they are expected to broadcast “from their laundry room at home.”

But foolish me, this is par for the course in today’s media.