r/baseball • u/Terminal_Flatulence Washington Nationals • 3h ago

Players Only [Shaikin] BREAKING: Rams owner Stan Kroenke buys the Angels, ending Arte Moreno's troubled tenure

https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2026-09-01/stan-kroenke-buys-angels-ending-arte-morenos-troubled-tenure
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u/swiftycent San Francisco Giants 3h ago

If the giants were able to hold off A’s moving to San Jose area dodgers gotta be able to stop them from coming to Inglewood if so inclined? Right?

Plus even though dodger stadium is nice and historic a brand new possibly sofi level new stadium would be an interesting dilemma for dodgers org.

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u/LOVExLIFEx1994 Los Angeles Dodgers 3h ago

It’ll be a massive legal battle for sure.

But given Stan’s history, I could imagine he’s looking at a possible LA move.

I’m reading he owns more land in Inglewood from the Hollywood park racetrack.

It’s going to be an interesting next couple years for the Angels that’s for sure

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u/maskdmirag 2h ago

I feel like Inglewood would have to be smart enough this time to make a new stadium contingent on private funding for the people mover.

Oh sorry I'm hearing the Butts family still controls Inglewood, never mind then.

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u/swiftycent San Francisco Giants 2h ago

As an Inglewood resident the city is so weird at the moment. We have these mini video billboards next to abandoned strip malls and nearly dilapidated homes. Wonder where they drop a stadium anyway. Long Beach seems a more interesting idea. It’s closer to OC and further from DTLA and has the space.

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u/maverickhawk99 27m ago

Isn’t Angel Stadium still a really good facility? AC jokes aside, it’s also one of the few raining iconic ballparks.

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u/Haku510 Athletics 13m ago

The Giants only had grounds to protest the A's move because the former A's ownership had explicitly made a deal with the Giants granting them exclusive rights to the South Bay to entice the Giants to stay in the Bay Area. That was back when the Giants were threatening to leave SF for Florida, and before the South Bay tech boom.

By the time the A's wanted to move to SJ that market was worth big bucks, and the A's had forgotten to invoke the clause that would've restored the South Bay to mutually shared territory after the Giants ended up staying in SF (oops).

So the A's vs Giants territory rights battle is a very unique and nuanced case, and would be difficult to cite as a precedent unless the Dodgers already have something on the books granting them exclusive territory rights to LA County / a specifically defined region.

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u/swiftycent San Francisco Giants 3m ago

But I feel like implied in there is some sort of territorial rights that teams have some rights of first refusal on. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was city and/or county based. Inglewood and Long Beach aren’t in LA city but they are in the county.

That said LA is extremely populated and supports to varying degrees 2 NFL and 2 NBA teams. This situation does kind of feel like the nets moving from NJ to Brooklyn which is literally NYC.