Arte Moreno did a great service to Southern California baseball fans by rescuing the Anaheim Angels from the evil Disney corporation. Some of you may remember the first couple of years of the Angels under Disney control; cheerleaders, a funky mascot, the re-naming of the Big A to Edison Field (we were supposed to call it The Big Ed).
But Arte got some crazy bug under his cap about re-naming the team from the Anaheim Angels to The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The whole thing doesn't make sense for the following reasons:
1.) The Angels home field is in Anaheim; not Los Angeles. The distance from Anaheim to Los Angeles is about twenty mile by freeway. On a good day the journey takes the better part of an hour.
2.) The name is repitious. If one translates the new team name into English it comes out The Angels Angels of Anaheim.
3.) The new name denies the history of the Angels. The team has played many more years in Anaheim than it ever did in Los Angeles. It would be like calling the LA Dodgers the Brooklyn Dodgers of Los Angeles. In fact, it makes more sense to call the Dodgers by the latter name (the Dodgers played more years in Brooklyn than they have in LA) than to call the Angels by Moreno's new moniker.
I realize what Moreno is trying to do. He's trying to make the team a regional team for the LA/Orange county area. But he's managing to get on the wrong side of a lot of Angels fans from Orange County who really don't want a lot to do with Los Angeles.
If Moreno insists on this nonsense he'll be having to bus the spectators in from LA. Not a good idea.
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