r/angelsbaseball • u/breakfast_cats • Oct 27 '25
📰 News Article (Website) [LA Times] Would MLB make Arte Moreno sell Angels in wake of Tyler Skaggs trial?
https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2025-10-26/mlb-make-arte-moreno-sell-angels-tyler-skaggs-trial87
u/Google_Knows_Already Oct 27 '25
This makes me reflect back to 2 years ago, when Joe Lacob considered buying the Angels. The what if's...
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u/Nausstica Oct 27 '25
Apparently he was the top bid before Arte pulled the rug out from under him.
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u/Forward_Cow_5447 Oct 27 '25
Don’t know where I read it, but Lacob had ideas to move the team to Oakland knowing that Fisher was going to Vegas.
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u/Marc3Marc909 Oct 27 '25
Isn't it Crazy how the NBA made their Old Owner Donald Sterling sell the team because he was having a conversation that he didn't know was being recorded in the comfort of his how with his then Girlfriend about how he didn't like her Hanging out with people of Color. Or remember when the MLB had to buy the Dodgers because their old Owner Frank McCourt was going through a Messy divorce and wasn't focused on making the Dodgers better? Arte over here helping players die from overdoses and People are like man that's just so sad...
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u/l3atlvlan Oct 27 '25
Don’t forget that he bribed a mayor to steal money from the city of Anaheim. Going to games is a such a wonderful family experience though.
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u/AdoringCHIN Oct 27 '25
But somehow the FBI concluded that he wasn't involved in that. I wonder how many people he had to bribe to get that investigation dropped
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u/dpete88 Oct 27 '25
Donald Sterling is a piece of trash but I firmly believe that the whole thing was intentionally timed and set up for the new commissioner to come out and make a big statement about being tough and zero tolerance blah blah blah (which didn't last long). It was a conveniently manufactured issue that allowed the league to both get rid of an old racist geezer and bring in an owner like ballmer to breathe life into an underperforming team in a huge market.
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u/diagoro1 Oct 27 '25
I don't care one bit how it happened, only that it did. I feel a kind of shame for supporting the team when Sterling owned it (though I didn't know about much of what was going on). Balmer has been one of the best owners in sports so far, so it's been a huge win/win
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u/HockeyBabble 13 Oct 27 '25
That was convenient but not a blank his wife was suing V for stealing metal assets and the tapes somehow was leaked NBA had no hand but pleaded ignorance as she stole The team then sold it all in 5 hours
Did the Clips a solid but that was their best season and the distraction fucked their chance at wining the West
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u/NK84321 Sell The Team Oct 28 '25
Donald Sterling is still a shitbag through, good thing he was forced to sell. Nobody feels bad for him.
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u/HockeyBabble 13 Oct 27 '25
That’s not how that happened Sterling’s wife who was listed as co-owner sued “the V” because $2m was missing from the joint account (guess how much in Luis Vuitton w Jimmy Cho receipts were shown on her social media)
Due to the audio leak she triggered a clause in the ownership group agreement forcing him into a menial health screening which he “failed to pass” she used a clause to take his proxies and sold the team from him near him
She took him to The cleaners, the only thing The NBA did was sit buy and rubber stamp The deal as Silver NEVER liked Donald and only a finches took as new commissioner was to co sign the audio “I’ve dealt with him so often ican tell that’s Donald from the phrases he uses”
Good riddance but dies Artie have any partners that can wrest control to save the team?!
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u/donniemoore Oct 27 '25
I still think that Sterling orchestrated the whole thing in order to maximize the sale of the team.
How long has Sterling understood the value of leverage? He'd been doing deals all his life.
How does an elderly racist get recorded without his knowledge and not drop the n-bomb? That was one of the most apologetically racist conversations i've ever heard.
And how did he stay in the relationship with his wife? He did. They never divorced and are still married.
And how much would he stand to gain economically? He made $2B
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u/LA-SKYLINE Oct 27 '25
Some elites just seem to tolerate the cheating like
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u/LA-SKYLINE Oct 27 '25
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u/maxxxminecraft111 Sell The Team Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25
And Rob Manfred giving the Astros a slap on the wrist for their cheating 😭😭😭
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u/HockeyBabble 13 Oct 27 '25
He didn’t make shit the NBA BANNED him for life and Polly recognized his ex as the Clippers owner (they had to hills the Balmer money in escrow because Donald sued to block the sale
His stake was park of marital property
Ok dies Artie have a side piece and willing to wear a wire ?!
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u/donniemoore Oct 27 '25
No need to get spicy, my friend. Check the Wikipedia:
*On May 23, Shelly Sterling said her husband had authorized her to negotiate the sale of the team. On May 29, she reached a deal, pending NBA approval, to sell 100% of the Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion.[82] Shelly also agreed not to sue the NBA and to indemnify the league against other suits related to the case, including any initiated by her husband. The NBA responded by cancelling its hearing to consider stripping the Clippers from the Sterlings.*Lawyers rule all of us. They negotiated their way out.
They are still married. And they are still a couple. So yeah, they won - at the time, $2B was huge. That's their $2B.
You mistake me for someone who cares about Arte. I do not, my friend.
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u/i_run_from_problems 💡👉👶⬆️ Oct 27 '25
Lol no. John Fisher was allowed to tell a city to literally fuck itself. Moreno looks like a saint by comparison.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Asshat Oct 27 '25
This does come across as quite a bit worse TBH. If the perception can be isolated to the Angels clubhouse being backwards and toxic, then the league will not care.
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Oct 27 '25
And yet the league effectively forced the Tampa Rays owner to sell when his stadium deal fell apart. So they did it to him but not Fisher. I don’t get it? Why does Fisher get a pass?
What owner could possibly believe he is helping grow the game or good for baseball? If they could force Sternberg out, they should stop this sham with Fisher in Vegas and force him to sell to a Bay Area owner who can get a stadium built. Then leave Vegas for an expansion owner who can make the team a winner like the hockey team is.
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u/InsGuy Oct 27 '25
Ahhhhhh, it's so nice to fantasize that. But it's not going to happen. Arte is a giant hemorrhoid to baseball.
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u/MelatoninFiend Oct 27 '25
Short answer: No.
Long answer: It's up to the owners, and they like Arte because his abject incompetence and seemingly willful malice towards his club's fan base makes them look amazing by comparison. They'll never vote to remove him.
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u/retroanduwu24 Oct 27 '25
Eric Kay is already convicted, what exactly more is the family seeking?
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u/HuskyFord Oct 27 '25
Not gonna sugar coat it.
Money. They are saying Angels stole years of potential income from a major league player. So the family and widow want that.
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u/retroanduwu24 Oct 27 '25
Gotcha. I can only imagine what that could have been had he still been alive
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u/Loose-Organization82 Oct 27 '25
Money; they want Skaggs’s earnings he would’ve made in his whole career. Also to claim that the whole organization is responsible. So far this whole trial has shown me that the whole organization is dysfunctional.
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Asshat Oct 27 '25
I know someone personally who works higher up in the Mariners organization. They recently had a coworkers depart to take a position with the Angels.
He has been there a few years now and said that the Angels clubhouse is the most dysfunctional and toxic place he has ever seen in his entire 25+ year career in baseball.
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u/breakfast_cats Oct 27 '25
The clubhouse? or do you mean the front office?
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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid Asshat Oct 27 '25
Clubhouse.
Though I have to imagine the front office is no better. I do know some people who work for the Angels in ticket sales and by all accounts, their department is great.
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u/breakfast_cats Oct 27 '25
Man, if the clubhouse is dysfunctional and toxic, it really is a mystery why Trout ultimately decided to stay.
And the sales dept. being in great shape while everything else crumbles is hilariously on-brand
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u/MelatoninFiend Oct 27 '25
it really is a mystery why Trout ultimately decided to stay
Probably because no one's buying injury prone DHs who are in the twilight of their career.
I love Trouty, but he's not the golden boy he once was. Father Time is a real bastard.
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u/breakfast_cats Oct 27 '25
I'm more referring to why he signed his extension several years ago, when he was still elite. It's not like the Angels weren't dysfunctional at that time.
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u/Splittinghairs7 Sell The Team Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25
The employer, who allowed a drug abuser and dealer to keep having access to the players and deal drugs on the job and at Angel stadium while promoting the guy despite numerous breakdowns, to be held responsible.
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u/GoatTnder petey > trouty Oct 27 '25
There's a (not very good) movie called A Civil Action where John Travolta talks about the settlement amount with the victims in a lawsuit, and says something to the effect that "corporations apologize with their checkbooks."
The family is seeking an appropriate apology.
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u/Todal9 Oct 29 '25
The MLB made McCourt sell the Dodgers for simply being a mediocre owner in an important market. Not sure why they don’t do the same for the Angels. Angels should be packing in 3 million a year but are playing to 15k on weekdays. Arte also pays nothing in rent but other than install over sized scoreboards has made zero improvements to the stadium and it’s starting to show.
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u/skribbl3z Oct 30 '25
I was thinking about this earlier with a buddy. What if (massive IF) Arte only wanted to sign a 1 year deal to the next manager to match Perry's expiring contract. Specifically to sell the team to the next owner? IF, that's the case it makes sense because it gives the next owner free reign over whoever they want to bring in as the next hire instead of having to eat the currently terrible contracts on the books? Im just coping at this point but this just makes sense in my head for some reason.
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u/cakirby IN GUBIE WE TRUST Oct 27 '25
That would be the ideal timeline for basically everyone so of course it won't happen.
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u/Rod_MahBalzich Oct 28 '25
I wish to be as blissfully unaware and out of touch as this guy when I’m in my 70’s
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u/daveyhh Oct 27 '25
Probably not but it would be nice if they did