Commentary: Arte Moreno finally sells the Angels. Anaheim's long nightmare is over

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Set us as preferred Texts lit up my phone this morning from friends who had wasted most of their lives rooting for the Angels: Arte Moreno was finally selling the team.“First order of business: it’s the Anacrime Angels,” Nelson Rodriguez cracked before sending a meme of Stringer Bell in “The Wire” wearing an old-school California Angels cap and saying, “I want you to put the word out there that we back up.”“This news honestly made my year,” texted Anaheim City Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava, who graduated a year ahead of me from Anaheim High and whose daughter works at my wife’s restaurant.“Excited to leave the controversy and negativity behind and look forward to a new era of Anaheim baseball.”“Shame this didn’t happen when [Shohei] Ohtani was an Angel,” the Mountain shared on a group text thread of childhood friends who call each other by longstanding nicknames — I’m the Consigliere.Stan Kroenke appears to be the perfect guy to resolve the longest-running and most critical order of business in Anaheim: Will the Angels stay in Anaheim, and where will they play?“I get invited to the games but hell no,” replied the Butcher, who’s been a fan since the days of Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan in the 1970s.“I’ll finally go back” to a game in person, added my cousin Plas.

“A Trumper [Latino] what could’ve gone wrong …” he wrote, referencing Moreno, before asking if Kurt Suzuki was still manager because “that’s how little I’ve kept up with the team.”Those are the texts I can print in a family newspaper.Moreno is selling to Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke, whose company also owns perennial contenders in the NBA (Denver Nuggets), NHL (Colorado Avalanche) and England’s Premier League (Arsenal).Sources told my colleagues that the price was $4 billion, which would be a basebal...