For the angels, Sunday is the last day of the Worse season In the history of the franchise. There is a dreary emptiness around the stadium.
On the ground, the Angels now have the longest futility sequence of any team of major leagues: 10 years without appearance in the playoffs. Their list is filled by men described by their manager as “Not baseball players in the big league.” Their minor leagues system is lamentable.
They reluctantly recognized the desperate need to rebuild without fully committing to doing so. This team is not a player or a year to be competitive.
Off the field, the 130 acres surrounding the Angel stadium are sterile and soulless. Fans always do what they did six decades ago: drive, watch the match, go home.
On the other side of avenue Katella, the other team of major leagues from the County Orange is increasing. The ranking has not been nice to the Ducks or the Angels in recent years, but the Ducks have adopted a reconstruction, and the hockey news says that they have the most brilliant collection of young NHL talents. Outside the ice, the Ducks surround the Honda Center with the type of ball of the ball that the angels hoped otherwise to build around the Angel stadium.
“Where are you going when you want to have fun?” Henry Samueli, owner of Ducks, said on Wednesday at a launch event. “This is what we are trying to build here.”
The Angels Plan was derailed when the city of Anaheim killed their stadium agreementin the middle of A federal corruption investigation in the mayor. However, even if the agreement had progressed, nothing should be built around the stadium for 15 years.
Outside the ice, the Ducks surround the Honda Center with the type of ball of the ball that the angels hoped otherwise to build around the Angel stadium.
(Oc vibe)
The development of $ 4 billion from Samueli, called OC atmosphereis already under construction. Bill Foltz, OC VIBE director general, said that the Inspirations project included the battery, the village surrounding the Ball Ball stadium of the Braves d'Atlanta and Texas Live, the adjacent entertainment center at the Texas Rangers baseball stadium.
For the first time, fans will be able to come to the Honda Center early, dinner in a restaurant or drink in a bar and walk a few steps towards the game.
“We have always thought that we were” to stop twice “, which means that many people would go to dine elsewhere and then come to the show or to the game,” said Fartz.
“It is really created, for the first time, a place” to stop once “.”
OC Vibe should open in 2026. Foltz said he expects angels fans to take the short walk from Angel Stadium to eat, drink, shop and play Oc Vibe before or after the match. The Ducks will thank Baseball fans for spending money that can be used to improve the experience of fans-for hockey fans, that is to say.
All this is the county of Orange shamelessly and enthusiastic. The Ducks now wear orange uniforms, with a return from the beloved angry duck, and mark out their territory as “Orange country.”
“We are obviously in love with the County of Orange,” said Samueli, speaking for him and his wife, Susan. “It is our permanent house. We will never move. “
The 28 restaurants around Honda Center will include a branch of A restaurantA Newport Beach restaurant which opened in 1926. The four concert spaces will include a revival of Golden bearA legendary Huntington Beach Club which closed in 1986 after welcoming artists, including Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Buffett.
OC Vibe must include a revival of the Golden bear, the Huntington Beach Club which closed in 1986.
(Oc vibe)
The Samueli company also received approval last week from the city of Anaheim to run The groveThe theater by the parking lot of Stade Angel. Below the agreementThe city obtains three -quarters of the operating profits.
Ducks are therefore in good condition. Angels? The development intended to generate income to renovate its aging stage and anchors the Anaheim team has never materialized. The Angels stadium lease expires in five years.
For the moment, the city is largely in the mercy of the angels. The city has moved away from two agreements with the angels in a decade; The team has no obligation to try to negotiate another.
The team has the possibility of extending the lease, under which the angels pay no rent, up to 2038. The city can take if the angels end up building something in the stadium car park, but the lease allows the team to control the development of the lot.
“The door is always open to negotiations for many meaning for the taxpayers of Anaheim,” said the mayor of Anaheim, Ashleigh Aitken. “I can't wait to do, hope it will happen one day.”
If the owner of the Angels, Arte Moreno, had decided to sell his team, Samueli would be the most logical buyer. It is integrated into the community, an experienced sports owner whose team has won a championshipAnd is only positioned to complete its OC BIBE development with something different in the Angel stadium parking lot. A quarter of a century ago, Samueli and several partners planned to set up a Bond of indoor stay and snoyers In the Angels parking lot.
If Moreno had to put the angels on sale anytime soon – and several people knowing the situation said that there was no indication that he would do it – would Samueli plan to buy the team?
“At this stage, I am fully consumed with the ducks,” said Samueli. “This is nothing what we are thinking of.”
In August 2022, Moreno hired a sports franchise broker and said he explore a sale Angels. Six months later, Moreno reversed the course and removed the market team.
Samueli said he had not submitted to the team and had not planned to bid the team if Moreno should decide to sell now.
“It's a lot of work to manage a sports team,” said Samueli. “If you want to get involved, it's hard to make more than one. I am deeply involved.
“I wouldn't even have time to go to matches, not to mention managing the team.”
So go sport in the Orange country. For the Ducks, the new season is there. For angels, once again, the playoffs are not.
