Last week the California Assembly passed the “Home Run for Anaheim Act” which will ironically do more harm than good for the Angels. The bill lacks not only historical context but also understanding of the modern sports and media businesses. <\/p>\n
Sponsored by Anaheim resident Avelino Valencia the goal of the bill is to force the Angels to state they represent Anaheim rather than Los Angeles. The current mayor and former mayor have both endorsed the bill. It seems that in an age of partisan politics, this is one issue with unanimous consent.<\/p>\n
But it ignores modern reality and will have negative financial implications for the Angels.<\/p>\n
Sports teams represent media markets, not cities.<\/p>\n
Both the New York Giants and New York Jets play in East Rutherford, New Jersey. They do not even play in the state of New York. But they claim the largest media market in the nation because it increases revenue for the franchise. The fact it opens up endorsement opportunities for players helps recruit talent as well.<\/p>\n
The Dallas Cowboys play in Arlington, Texas. The Tamp Bay Rays play in Saint Petersburg, Florida. For decades the Detroit Pistons played in Auburn Hills, Michigan. For a basketball team that apparently represents the entire Golden State, the Warriors seem to only play games in San Fransisco nowadays.<\/p>\n
Sports owners make the vast majority of their money from television revenue. The best way to do so is to attach their teams to the largest media market in the local vicinity. Hence the New York Jets, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n
The Angels represented Los Angeles as far back as 1903.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week the California Assembly passed the “Home Run for Anaheim Act” which will ironically do more harm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-341066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}