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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.

On 7/26/2020 at 11:47 PM, ukyah said:

this guy just up and uses my avatar that i rightfully acquired from a generic "angels" google image search years ago. 

the balls on this son of a bitch.

Omg ahahahahahahaha that's hilarious

I shall find something new lol

1 hour ago, JustATroutFan said:

Pujols? Never mind, been a huge disappointment ever since he put on the Angels uniform. Mr. 299 career batting average. Can't believe that he is under .299 now for his career. 

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.

1 hour ago, rafibomb said:

I would hate to gut the farm now after all these years of building it to be filled with so much talent.

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?!

3 hours ago, Lawrence said:

I don't think the name change has done anything except anger local fans and turn the name of the franchise into a joke. This topic has discussed many times but I still can't get over how ridiculous "Los Angeles of Anaheim" sounds. 

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

1 hour ago, CaliAngel said:

Yah bro welcome to the forum giving a history lesson 23 posts in like it's never been discussed here before what they were originally called. Except it has nothing to do with today, at this point in time, where they're in a different location 20+ miles from that dump of a city.

And I don't see any "branding" anywhere in or around the stadium that includes the words Los Angeles on it. You dont hear broadcasters or the announcer at the stadium ever say Los Angeles. The only time it's even referenced is on TV where the score is and even then it just says LAA.

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.

16 hours ago, CaliAngel said:

I never want to see the words Los Angeles on our uniforms ever ever again. Screw that crap hole skid stain bum of a city. We put up with LAA in the standings and during games, and thats bad enough. 

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.

2 hours ago, California Cajun said:

I'm hoping that the "of Anaheim" is being removed from the team's name.

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.

There you go.

 

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! Please destroy this LOL

CALZONE, on 20 Jan 2015 - 5:19 PM, said:

Yeah an updated version with Los Angeles spelled with the lasted Angels team letter font and players numbers under the heart would be pretty cool.

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.

It also happens to be where they play.

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

winning certainly helps (and the Ducks had that Cup run) but everything helps.

 

Los Angeles helps nationwide marketing more than Anaheim does..........such are the facts, such is life.

 

of course you can attempt to sing "I love Anaheim" cue up Randy Newman.........

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!

The "of Anaheim" past was always the worst. I read the "of" stupid jokes to this day.  Today in fact.  Its going to be the lasting legacy and it sucks.

When does that frigging thing go away?

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.