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Arte Moreno has now gone too far! Tell me, if the Angels are playing in Orange County, why would you call them "The Los Angeles Angels"? It dosen't make any sense. Well, you know what, you can call them "Los Angeles Angels", or the "Disneyland Angels" for all I care. To me, they will always be considered "The California Angels", and the stadium that they are playing in will always be Anaheim Stadium, as far as I'm concerned.
If anything, I would associate the Angels more to Santa Ana, then I would to Los Angeles, considering the fact that when I lived in Montebello(5 miles East of Los Angeles), to get to Anaheim Stadium, I had to take the Santa Ana Freeway - Santa Ana(Interstate 5 South), and exit on Katella Avenue, the same Katella Avenue that would take you to Disneyland.
I go as far back with the Angels when they were on KTLA-Channel 5, with Dick Enberg was the Play-By-Play Man, and Don Drysdale as the Color Man for the Angels. Back to the days of Bruce Bochte, Joe Lahoud and Dave Chalk(Anybody remember them?), that's how far back I go with them.
I can not, for the life of me, call them "The Los Angeles Angels". No way! Everytime I were to watch an Angels Game, I would block out the LAA on the Scoreboard, and change it to CAL. Maybe it's just me, but I am just too used to the name "California Angels".
I know that Arte Moreno is trying to get the Los Angeles Market to buy into the Angels, but with the way the Dodgers are starting to go South, He really does not have to try that hard in doing so, considering that it is the Angels now, who are the better Baseball Team in Southern California(No disrespect to the Padres). I can not say Los Angeles area, because I can not consider Anaheim as a part of Los Angeles, not if it is outside the Los Angeles County Line.
In short, Arte Moreno should do the Fans, and the City of Anaheim a huge favor, and just rename the Angels, the "California Angels".
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