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Shohei Ohtani. I really thought a coveted, star prospect like him would've gone to New York or Los Angeles. I was really shocked he chose Anaheim.

Mike Napoli. You didn't specify they had to turn out pretty good for the Angels, just that they were once an Angel.

How does that Randy Newman song go again? Oh yeah. WE LOVE IT!

It's depressing to see isn't it? I always knew they would become the Tampa Bay Rays of the NL when Andrew Friedman took over, but better than Tampa Bay cause they have unlimited money. The Dodgers are basically the Rays + star power.

Omg ahahahahahahaha that's hilarious I shall find something new lol

After the underwhelming 1st year, I knew it was all downhill from there. He had his moments, but he's basically Vernon Wells 2.0 to me.

Build me up buttercup

Lol, go to any Instagram or Facebook post from the Angels and the first/top comment is always along the lines of "We are not LA" or "Change the name back to Anaheim." I swear some of these "fans" would trade our World Series title along with Mike Trout to be named the Anaheim or Orange County Angels.

My sentiments exactly. It feels like the organization is finally righting the ship, but trading promising young prospects for a FA will undermine all of that. If the Angels traded Adell for a FA, I wouldn't be shocked though. It would be the most Angels decision ever - though I feel with Eppler at helm I don't think we'll make the same mistakes of the past. I hope I'm right.

Do you guys use any other forum or site besides angelswin? I mainly follow this and HalosHeaven, and to a lesser extent r/angelsbaseball

Ughhhhh...someone described it perfectly. I'm not rooting for the Dodgers, but I'm rooting for the Red Sox to lose. And I do have some good Dodger fans so it would be nice to have them enjoy a WS win. But there are also those Dodger fans I really dislike...UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I just know if the Dodgers win it will have a direct impact on my life (I live in LA), but the Red Sox winning won't.

Like this. Why doesn't the Angels feature their city on their away jersey?!

Well, I agree about LA of A. I meant we should keep the LA name, but drop "of Anaheim"

You have some hate for LA, I get it, okay cool bro. What do you want them to be called? California Angels? Anaheim Angels? Orange County Angels? Katella Avenue Angels? Go google any news source and they're referred to as "Los Angeles Angels" by most media sources (example http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/17797876/garrett-richards-los-angeles-angels-sees-progress-healing-elbow). Anaheim is still part of the greater LA area and market even if it's not specifically in LA County. I think the Angels should stick with the current name, logo, uniforms cause that's how they've presented themselves for the last 10 years and it's cool to keep it going, just like how the Yankees, Red Sox, and Dodgers have generally had the same logo, name, design over their history. You go through all this effort to change your name and try to reach the LA market...and then have it undone? What a waste. You say it has nothing to do with today, but I argue it does because the Angels still represent the LA market in the American League. It is relevant.

Except the team was originally called LA Angels and has been called Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the last decade. It would be embarrassing to switch back to Anaheim or California or to change it to another name. As another person mentioned earlier in this thread, it'd be nice to keep some tradition with this team and I feel that since the org has gone through the route of "Los Angeles" in their branding, they should stick with it. I would say they need to drop "of Anaheim" and just outright become the Los Angeles Angels.

Yes. Signed every single Angels fan in existence

This means they're staying in Anaheim for sure right?

I'd really like if they added "Los Angeles" to their away jersey. We're like one of the handful of teams that don't have a city on our away jersey

No. Angels have been my team since I got into baseball. In part it is because it's my local team. I grew up within a 25 minute drive to the Big A and I would always drive past the stadium whenever I went to visit relatives in south OC. When I think of the Angels, I think of Southern California, my home. Interestingly enough, the reason I never felt the same about the Dodgers was because they were really far away - downtown LA may not seem far on paper, but traffic kills you - and also because the Dodgers and their fans were always ultra ghetto. It also helped that the early to mid 2000s was when the Angels were rolling with guys like John Lackey, K Rod and Vladdy while the Dodgers had...Andre Ethier, Derek Lowe and a bunch of scrubs. It was simple: Angels = classy, winning organization, Dodgers = da hood of the MLB who hasn't won anything since 1988.

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Please destroy this LOL

I'd actually like it if they didn't use the same Angels letter font. It looks classy the way it is, though they should change the color to red instead of navy blue. If you look at the SF Giants away jersey, they don't replicate the GIANTS font for SAN FRANCISCO. I think they have a pretty nice home and away set.

Any objections to the Katella Avenue Angels or the Gene Autry Way Angels? It's where they play.

Well technically the song would be "I love A" since the song is I love LA and not I love Los Angeles. Katella Avenue! (We love it!) Gene Autry Way! (WE LOVE IT!) WE LOVE A!

I think it'll b dropped whenever the new stadium lease is renegotiated

I'm from the 909 area. I'm from enough from both LA and OC and I think the LA name is great. I can't wait until the "of Anaheim" is dropped. I think the real issue here is snobby OC residents who think they are above LA and are their own independent entity. You have to realize that Orange County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area in the same way that San Jose, San Ramon, Pleasanton, Oakland and Santa Clara are all part of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Los Angeles Angels sounds so much cooler and big time than Anaheim Angels or Orange County Angels. Get over it butthurt OC fans.