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jjmoney62	Post subject: Our paper, our style Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:17 am
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 3135 Location: Albuquerque, N.M. USA	No, we won't be calling them "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim."
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:16 am
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	ESPN has some writer who insists on calling every sports team by the name of the city it's actually in, and never by any other geographic name. E.g., he refers to the "St. Petersburg Devil Rays," the "City of Tampa Buccaneers," the "Phoenix Diamondbacks," the "East Rutherford Giants," and so forth. If the Angels want to call themselves the Los Angeles Angels, let them, but "the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" is so pathetic I'm embarrassed for them.
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ndugan1	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:23 pm
Joined: Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 968 Location: Champaign, Ill.	For many years, I was unaware of Anaheim's geographic proximity to Los Angeles -- I was under the impression it was somewhere between Los Angeles and San Fransisco. The same is true for the San Jose Sharks. I hope someone gets a clue and finally changes the name to the Los Angeles Angels. In sports, it's never good to use the actual city in your team's name if it's not a major metropolitan area. Yes, if you want to see the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, you have to drive about 30 minutes on Interstate 275 to St. Petersburg, but everyone knows where Tampa Bay is. Hell, if we're going to follow the Angels' logic, then they'd have to be the "New York Jets of East Rutherford, N.J." Sigh.
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Matthew Grieco	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:45 pm
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 2266 Location: New Jersey	ndugan1 wrote: I hope someone gets a clue and finally changes the name to the Los Angeles Angels. They once were the Los Angeles Angels. Of course, they actually played in Los Angeles then.
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ndugan1	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 9:56 pm
Joined: Thu Jul 15, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 968 Location: Champaign, Ill.	Matthew Grieco wrote: They once were the Los Angeles Angels. Of course, they actually played in Los Angeles then. They also were the California Angels for a little bit, I think.
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SusanV	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:10 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1399 Location: In the newsroom	ndugan1 wrote: Matthew Grieco wrote: They once were the Los Angeles Angels. Of course, they actually played in Los Angeles then. They also were the California Angels for a little bit, I think. Yep, they were.
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Oeditpus Rex	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:34 pm
Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 1324 Location: N 36° 57' 9", W 121° 24' 2"	As a long-time Dodgers fan, I'm getting a very snarky laugh out of this.
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