I’ve always been in a bind living in Southern California and loving baseball. When I was growing up, my cousin was a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. Naturally, I grew to love the Giants. Since their mortal enemies are the Los Angeles Dodgers, I have a natural aversion to Chavez Ravine.

So, I have to go to Angels games. Now, they’ve been very entertaining over the years. Not because of the astounding baseball, but because of the really bizarre plays and errors that you would rarely see from a top notch organization.

That all changed in 2002 with their first World Series Championship in club history. The Disney Corporation decided it was time to sell the ball club in 2003 and new owner Arte Moreno took the reins.


Arte Moreno, Anaheim Angels owner

The new owner has been outstanding for the Angels. The first week he took over he lowered beer prices. He lowered ticket prices to fill the stadium. He has spent an additional $75 million on signing new players. He is upgrading the stadium scoreboards.

And now word comes that he is in negotiations to have approximately 150 games televised! Wow! That’s a 300% increase from last year. The manner in which he is going about this is really amazing. Instead of convincing stations to carry the games, he is simply buying the airtime and then the Angels will sell the commercials. Talk about balls.

I’m very excited about the future of the club, and more importantly the value of my season seats when I need to sell quite a few of them each season!

Even if all of his spending and effort fails to produce several winning seasons in the future, it’s good to know that there’s an owner that is doing everything within his power to ensure that the Anaheim Angels are a great team and are great to their fans.