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Monday, January 09, 2006
Name Change News
The initial hearing in the Angels name change case was held today. Basically, all that was decided was that most evidence would be allowed for both sides, including the city's claim that it lost money because of the lack of use of "Anaheim" by media outlets.
My opinion is that it was stupid to try and re-brand the Angels with the LA identity, as many of the fans are anti-LA Orange Countians (or at least more pro-OC than not) and identify much more with Anaheim than LA. Anaheim does only have 300,000 people, but there are 3 million people in Orange County, which would make them equivalent to a Chicago-sized city on their own, and, as I said before, Orange Countians identify Anaheim with OC. But then, I do think that Anaheim may be shooting themselves in the foot down the road...they should have come to an agreement with Moreno about something.
Rob posted a link a few days ago to a website that tries to map out baseball team loyalties. It shows a dividing line between LA and OC for Dodgers and Angels fan loyalties. Of course, this is unscientific and it only shows the top team loyalty in each area, so take it all with a grain of salt.
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