biltoo

I think it must have been because the players were confused and half of them showed up to play in Los Angles

The Angels need a new stadium. There are plenty of good restaurants in Anaheim. I like Arte but threatening to move the team away from a loyal fan base......Really???

Arte baby....

Have any of you been to some of the great venues for games? I know a bunch of AW members went to Wrigley and one of the things that stood out to me was the entire ballpark is surrounded by restaurants and bars so every game is like going to a party.

Angels stadium is plunked in the middle of acres and acres of asphalt. No amount of facelifts improve the general atmosphere of the game day experience, it is a drive in and drive out venue where traffic is diverted to keep it directed towards leaving the area.

Rethink your image of how you would like to make the day or night you go to the game play out. Grumptown wants to complain about parking structure traffic but much of that dissapears when many of the patrons walk out of the stadium and into a selection of post game stops. Families can take their kids home to bed, the rest can hang out for a while.

This doesn't take place in a field of open asphalt. So when a developer comes along with a plan to make the entire Angels experience better maybe you guys should ask yourself first us this what you want or do you really give a damn how a city with tax revenue from the the world famous Disney resort could possibly be in financial trouble when the neighboring cities are doing fine.

Maybe cause they make deal like the one your talking about here.

Being able to call itself a world class city in it's own right Vs simply being a suburb of LA?   There are all of 29 cities in the US with MLB teams -- Anaheim is one of them.  They would also likely have a harder time trying to sell the city to the NFL if they lost MLB.  I seriously doubt that the COA wants to go down in history as the first AMERICAN city to lose a pro baseball team since Washington DC in 1972.  Not to mention it would mean the COA was a two time, two sport, loser...  Losing the Rams, then the Angels would be a bit embarrassing for the city, I would think.  The new city sales pitch could be, "Hey, we are Buena Park, only we have Hockey!"

 

When it's all said and done, the bragging rights associated with having a pro team in any of the big three sports is bigger than people think.  

 

 

 

The Los Angles Angels of Miami....Putta Bow on it

Of course the angles need the coa more than the coa needs the Los Angels Angles of Anaheim....Just let them go. The Los Angels Angles of Victorville...Thats got a nice ring to it.