You know, everyone keeps talking about the baseball and steroids debate so I thought I would lighten things up a bit by discussing a less relevant topic. Some in Los Angeles may think this is just as important as steroids, but let’s face it – this only affects us natives and locals who have a serious passion for our Los Angeles Dodgers. Yeah, I am talking about why on Earth is that frickn’ team in Orange County allowed to use our city’s name? Seriously, it really burns me up. Anaheim and Los Angeles couldn’t be more different. I totally resent that those guys profit from using my hometown’s name. If they are so freakin’ great – use your own town.
Yeah, yeah, I get it…they get more market share in the media yadda yadda. Another example of greed in the business of sports (yeah, I know, rare). But as someone who grew up with those nice people in OC hating us up here, I think it is horse doody! You heard me – what about all that stuff about how you don’t like us here in LA? We’re so fake and shallow, not to mention liberal. (OC is notoriously conservative for those of you not in on it). You sure like us now that you need our name.
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim is an absurd name if you ask me. Why don’t they go back to the California Angels? They could be the Orange County Angels too, hasn’t network programming and MTV given the area enough coverage? Why do they still need to ride our coattails? Oh and by the way – only those of you who aren’t actually from California call it the OC. We always have and will continue to refer to it with simply OC, skip “the”. You don’t normally preface a county with “the” in your state and neither do we.
Keywords: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Dodgers, MTV, Orange County
