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January 03, 2005
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Yes, I know it sounds like the name of a very bad all-girl band. But it is the now the new name of that baseball team.
Ordinarily, I simply wouldn't care about something like this. However, this is such a preposterously bad name, I have to speak. I have heard the marketingspeak rationale for this, and it sounds like the logic of 1940s film noir bad guys -- the kind of stuff that motivated thousands of idiots. Perhaps that's what the Angels' new owner intends to do. Good frickin' luck.
Posted by mbowen at January 3, 2005 12:03 PM
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It's even worse if "the Los Angeles Angels" is translated into one language: "The The Angels Angels." Right up their with The The Tar Tar Pits.
Posted by: Xrlq at January 3, 2005 08:35 PM
Only in the spanish translation does putting Los Angeles make any halfway decent sense. Perhaps that's what Moreno was thinking..
What's spanish for Anaheim?
Posted by: Cobb at January 3, 2005 09:48 PM
The name "Anaheim" is Sperman for "Anna Home." In proper Spanish, it would be Hacienda Ana. In German, it would be Anne-Heim or Anneheim.
Posted by: Xrlq at January 5, 2005 12:03 PM