Arte Moreno finally sells Angels. Anaheim's long nightmare is over.

Arte Moreno is reportedly selling the Los Angeles Angels to Rams owner Stan Kroenke for a record $4 billion. The news has been met with enthusiasm from fans and local officials who hope for a new era for the franchise.
Why it matters
The sale of a major professional sports franchise at a record price point signals significant shifts in the business of sports ownership and team valuation.
Texts lit up my phone this morning from friends who had wasted most of their lives rooting for the Angels: Arte Moreno finally was selling the team. “First order of business: it’s the Anacrime Angels,” Nelson Rodriguez cracked before sending a meme of Stringer Bell in "The Wire" wearing an old-school California Angels cap and saying, “I want you to put the word out there that we back up.” “This news honestly made my year,” texted Anaheim City Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava, who graduated a year ahead of me from Anaheim High and whose daughter works at my wife’s restaurant. “Excited to leave the controversy and negativity behind and look forward to a new era of Anaheim baseball.” “Shame this didn’t happen when [Shohei] Ohtani was an Angel,” the Mountain shared on a group text thread of childhood friends who call each other by long-standing nicknames — I'm the Consigliere.
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