After five hours of closing statements, four weeks of testimony and 13 months of litigation, a jury will decide whether the Angels broke a stadium lease with the city of Anaheim by changing the club’s name.
During most of the Orange County Superior Court trial, only about a dozen people viewed the proceedings. But the courtroom was nearly full Wednesday, and the crowd included Angel Manager Mike Scioscia, who leaves for spring training in Tempe, Ariz., next week.
Whether the name of Scioscia’s team will continue to read Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or revert to Anaheim Angels is now for the jury and Judge Peter Polos to decide.
In his closing, Anaheim attorney Andy Guilford acknowledged that Angel owner Arte Moreno was “technically compliant” with the stadium lease when he changed the team’s name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. But Guilford said hypothetical names such as “Angels of Bush League Anaheim” and “Phoenix Angels Formerly of Anaheim” also technically comply with the lease clause that requires the team to “include the name Anaheim therein.”
He said those “silly, oxymoronic, bizarre” names don’t meet the state’s covenant of good faith and fair dealing law, which the jury is being asked to consider by Polos. Guilford argued that the actual name, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, is even worse than the hypothetical ones “because it promotes a city that’s trying to get convention business from Anaheim.”
Even though my hometown is Santa Ana (next door to Anaheim), I’m no fan of The Angels, what with their obnoxious rally monkies and thunder sticks and beating the Red Sox. But even so, I pity any team that has to be called “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.” Given that Los Angeles means “the angels” in Spanish, the name “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” literally translates to “The The Angels Angels of Anaheim“. Many if not most people in Southern California are bilingual in Spanish and English. How stupid is that?
We’ll see what the jury does. Anaheim seeks (by the way) $373 million for its humiliation. Details here from the “The Angels Times“.
After five hours of closing statements, four weeks of testimony and 13 months of litigation, a jury will decide whether the Angels broke a stadium lease with the city of Anaheim by changing the club’s name.
During most of the Orange County Superior Court trial, only about a dozen people viewed the proceedings. But the courtroom was nearly full Wednesday, and the crowd included Angel Manager Mike Scioscia, who leaves for spring training in Tempe, Ariz., next week.
Whether the name of Scioscia’s team will continue to read Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or revert to Anaheim Angels is now for the jury and Judge Peter Polos to decide.
In his closing, Anaheim attorney Andy Guilford acknowledged that Angel owner Arte Moreno was “technically compliant” with the stadium lease when he changed the team’s name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. But Guilford said hypothetical names such as “Angels of Bush League Anaheim” and “Phoenix Angels Formerly of Anaheim” also technically comply with the lease clause that requires the team to “include the name Anaheim therein.”
He said those “silly, oxymoronic, bizarre” names don’t meet the state’s covenant of good faith and fair dealing law, which the jury is being asked to consider by Polos. Guilford argued that the actual name, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, is even worse than the hypothetical ones “because it promotes a city that’s trying to get convention business from Anaheim.”
Even though my hometown is Santa Ana (next door to Anaheim), I’m no fan of The Angels, what with their obnoxious rally monkies and thunder sticks and beating the Red Sox. But even so, I pity any team that has to be called “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.” Given that Los Angeles means “the angels” in Spanish, the name “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” literally translates to “The The Angels Angels of Anaheim“. Many if not most people in Southern California are bilingual in Spanish and English. How stupid is that?
We’ll see what the jury does. Anaheim seeks (by the way) $373 million for its humiliation. Details here from the “The Angels Times“.
After five hours of closing statements, four weeks of testimony and 13 months of litigation, a jury will decide whether the Angels broke a stadium lease with the city of Anaheim by changing the club’s name.
During most of the Orange County Superior Court trial, only about a dozen people viewed the proceedings. But the courtroom was nearly full Wednesday, and the crowd included Angel Manager Mike Scioscia, who leaves for spring training in Tempe, Ariz., next week.
Whether the name of Scioscia’s team will continue to read Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or revert to Anaheim Angels is now for the jury and Judge Peter Polos to decide.
In his closing, Anaheim attorney Andy Guilford acknowledged that Angel owner Arte Moreno was “technically compliant” with the stadium lease when he changed the team’s name to Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. But Guilford said hypothetical names such as “Angels of Bush League Anaheim” and “Phoenix Angels Formerly of Anaheim” also technically comply with the lease clause that requires the team to “include the name Anaheim therein.”
He said those “silly, oxymoronic, bizarre” names don’t meet the state’s covenant of good faith and fair dealing law, which the jury is being asked to consider by Polos. Guilford argued that the actual name, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, is even worse than the hypothetical ones “because it promotes a city that’s trying to get convention business from Anaheim.”
Even though my hometown is Santa Ana (next door to Anaheim), I’m no fan of The Angels, what with their obnoxious rally monkies and thunder sticks and beating the Red Sox. But even so, I pity any team that has to be called “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.” Given that Los Angeles means “the angels” in Spanish, the name “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim” literally translates to “The The Angels Angels of Anaheim“. Many if not most people in Southern California are bilingual in Spanish and English. How stupid is that?
We’ll see what the jury does. Anaheim seeks (by the way) $373 million for its humiliation. Details here from the “The Angels Times“.
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