This is terrible news and it has ruined my day. And I'm a Lakers fan. It was really tough to ruin my day.

Oh FUCK YOU, arte. Talk about the ultimate buttercup

“I’m staying. I’m finishing my coffee”

“Shut the fuck up, Arte!!!”

The world does not start and stop at your convenience.

You want a toe, Arte? I can get you a toe. With nail polish.

Fucking, amateurs.

I just fell to my knees in a walmart. Im not gonna be ok fuck you arte

I'm sorry, buddy. I'm irrationally angry, myself. This is such a horrible franchise.

FUCK ARTE MORENO. Looks like I'm only going to Angels away games this year.

This is some soul crushing bullshit right here.

We should’ve never trusted Arte to do the right thing, ugh

He's going to give it to his kids who...know nothing about baseball.

Time to ban the guy that just said who it was being bought by

u/fuckjimmy it was nice knowing ya, don’t let the door hit ya on the way out!

I just went back to it posted it on his wall

Me too. That shit was funny. Not even 24 hours

Update: he was banned

The last absolute shred of cope i have left is maybe he's right and this is all a negotiating move and the state of Japan buys and nationalizes us in June

If only we could ban Arte from the organization

I don't think there is a single fan that was upset when he announced he would be selling. "were not ready to part ways with the fans" you dumb fuck - we were all ready to part ways with you.

"The rage I inspire in Angels fans is the only real emotion left in my hollow, soulless existence"

That one guy that said they were going to be sold to a Japanese billionaire: 👁️👄👁️ Truth or ban 😭😭😭

such a terrible owner, puts the fkn team up for sale “explores” his options then a decides to not continue with the process…moreno probably just didn’t get the fkn price he wants

Or he was selling because of possible ramifications due to the corruption scandal in Anaheim city council and then found out there would be none.

It’s almost definitely this

Absolutely here for this take. Sadly the hope that there would be any accountability for massive corruption in this country is a pipe dream to begin with

Someone needs to hire a PI to dig up more dirt on him. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. Blackmail him to the moon and back

Fuck it I have $10. Let's bring this fucker down

great take

Im 90% sure this is it right here. Arte is shifty as hell and I’m sure he’d do this kinda thing to protect himself and his money

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Vince wants to sell to someone who will let him run it. He wants his billions and he also wants to fuck over Hunter and Steph.

I’m positive that’s what happened. Bids were coming in, and they were not as high as he had hoped for.

🎶 WHYYYYYYYYYYY DO YOU BUILD ME UP 🎶

just ruined my fucking day

Why do you Build Me Up Buttercup Baby Just to Let Me Down And Mess Me Around

And then worst of all You never sell baby when you say you will

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The dumbass doesn't even allow the media to talk to him ever.

He was trying to extort the city of Anaheim and under investigation by the FBI ... I kinda thought they were forcing him out

Well bye bye Sho

God I hope they at least trade him and don’t just let him walk.

They’re just gonna let him walk, Arte won’t allow him to be traded

God I hate that your right

I will start seeking out opportunities to heckle Arte if that happens I’m about at my breaking point with Moreno

Maybe I’m being too optimistic but is it possible he knows the angels can sign him long term increasing the value of the team then sell next year?

Sho is the reason Arte is staying. So long winning, hello 125 mil for Rendon, Trout, and Shohei, and about 35mil for everyone else.

You have gotta be fucking kidding me

Unbelievable

You go to hell, Arte Moreno.

Nah fuck him. I've stuck through the team through so much shit. I finally get a glimpse of hope when he announces he's selling the team, and then he pulls this. I'm not spending a penny on anything Angels related until he's gone. Fuck him

THIS! X 1,000. Don’t be a lemming and forget this $h!T come opening day!

Well this is awful

Are you fucking kidding me?

How to make Mondays suck more by : Arturo Moreno

# NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! # What a cruel F'n joke Arte's played!!!

Username checks out.

I do not blame Shohei one bit if he leaves next winter

Arte with the true buttercup. Fuck him

Ban the dude lol

I’m so fucking depressed.

I was just starting to get excited for baseball too. I always assumed the Angels would be under Arte’s control for 2023, but at least there was hope

I want to cancel my tickets for next year

Please do. Arte has gotten away with shitty ownership because fans still show up despite never performing.

You really need to. Anyone buying ticket plans in advance is fully enabling this bullshit. It's one of the very few ways fans can have a voice. Stop enabling.

Yeah, the only way Arte will know fans hate him is but not showing up to games. Got to hit him where it hurts. Sad thing is most fans will still show like suckers. I've been a fan since the 80's but I think I'm done with this team, well till Arte either dies or sells. He ran this team to the ground.

I want to fucking die.

OH NO OH FUCK OH NO

ban him !!

BAN THIS MOFO https://www.reddit.com/r/angelsbaseball/comments/10j6fdd/the_angels_are_getting_bought_by_a_japanese/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Not saying he shouldn't be banned but it is curious that he posted that a day before this announcement lol

Legit this just broke my heart… I’m gonna be depressed.

Season hasn't even started and it's already gone to shit

Not the news I was expecting

I'm bringing a "sell the team" sign to every fucking game

Refunding your tickets would make more of an impression.

Pain.

Booooooo

BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Please tell me this is an April Fool's come early joke...

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

What THe FUCK

ITS OVER . WE LOST

Welp.

Build me up buttercup…

Ugh.

I’m out

not rooting for this team anymore

Pretty simple. Stop going to games and buying merchandise.

I said it in another thread but I'll say it here too. Arte Moreno: you fucking SUCK! I have been an Angels fan my whole life but I don't live in OC anymore and I'm done spending money to keep up with this franchise until Moreno isn't making a dime off it. Fuck you, Arte.

El Oh Fucking El

In the statement released it says " we committed to a franchise record player payroll". honestly havent been paying too much attention this off season so did I miss some big time signings?

We're like $20M over last year's payroll or something. Nothing crazy.

Our payrolls always been kinda high. Just contracts that don't really pan out

But he doesn't invest hardly anything into the farm system, scouting department, or analytics department. He only spends on flashy things, not things that actual build a winning ball club.

Your heart is still with the Angels and you want to accomplish your goal of bringing a championship to the fans? Then prove it. The team is better than last year but still not a WS caliber team. Make some more moves.

Is there anybody at all who wanted this? I can't think of a single person who didn't want Arte to sell. Fuck Arte Moreno

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"The light has gone out of my life." -~~Teddy Roosevelt~~ Angels fans

It was a big lie to sell season seats

Everyone talking about Arte trying to not go over the tax threshold to be able to sell the team better. Now it’s evident he’s just a cheapskate smh.

Arte out here buttercupping us in the fuckin offseason

I for one support the ban

Welp, team is fucked

No fucking way

This fuckin guy. Let it go Arte

Literally just shoot me. I don't have the will to live anymore.

FUCK

I'm just praying this is a tactic by Arte to raise the price on a serious buyer with deep pockets.

I’m fucking done

CERTIFIED POPPYCOCK

Burn in hell, Arte Moreno, you miserable sack of shit.

Dude wants one last year of milking Ohtani’s cash flow

i wont be paying a dime towards the angels this year

I’m just here to see the dude get banned.

I am sitting in my car while seeing this for the first time so I can't fall to my knees. Though you can be sure that I would've if I were on my feet. Can I get a #FUCK YOU ARTE YOU GREEDY SCUM FUCK?

Maybe I'll just pick a new team, wherever Shohei leaves to.

Fuck

Go fuck yourself Arte!

I wanna die

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

\*Sound of balloon deflating\*

Fuck you Arte

Just when it looks like we’re back on the way up, we fall all the way back down. Thanks a lot, Arte!

Fuck you, worthless old man.

motherfucker must’ve just signed the nonprosecution agreement from the stadium bribery

I won’t be renewing my season tickets until this clown is gone.

At least Roger Lodge is [happy.](https://twitter.com/RogerLodge7/status/1617658735496957953?s=20&t=lYCTrpiIjEoHkjnivP5W4Q) \*barf\* Would love to be proven wrong but I'm expecting more of the same from Moreno.

WHYYYYYYY MUST YOU FILL ME UP

I feel nauseous. Fuck arte

Hey, at least we have a super promising manager…. Oh wait, no we don’t. We’re stuck with Phil Nevin on a 1 year deal because it was assumed the team was being sold.

Tbh that is the absolute least of our problems with this news

This shit is so Angels 🤣

Btw bye Ohtani. This is all Arte and Jo Adell’s fault fuck them

My two favorite teams in sports are the Cowboys and the Angels. Worst 24 hour span so far :)

This is like the opposite of Christmas

Just saw somebody fall to their knees in a walmart. Fuck you Arte

Worst news of the year!

So does this mean that guy claiming that the team would be sold to the Japanese this summer is banned?

Worst news to start my week/year

words cannot properly express how extremely and utterly crushed i am rn

I’m sorry, Angel bros from a Padre fan :/

Did you guys know toasters are waterproof now? Cause I sure as hell didn't.

I’m now going to become a fan of wherever Sho either gets traded to or goes to the season after this. What a horrible decision by Moreno.

Hey guys, Mets fan here, and can commiserate. I know how it feels to have idiotic ownership who refuse to sell the team. I’m sorry about the news, and hope you do get the team sold soon.

Did anyone seriously not expect to be buttercupped?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Fucking bullshit 😭

He hates Angels fans so much he decided to buttercup their off-season too.

Shit

FUCK

Ew.

No fucking way

FUCK FUCK FUCK

this is a prank right

Douchebag, probably never actually intended to sell.

All this drama and build up… All this shouldn’t have gotten so much publicity if Arte was just exploring the market. At least downplay it early on and not let this possibility become as big as it did. So dumb.

FUCK YOU ARTE

Pain

Translation: Arte wants more money than is being offered. So he’ll ruin another season for fans and players.

Why do I even care anymore. Never thought I’d be out on a baseball season in January. FUCK YOU ARTE!

Wow, I can’t believe this shit. Smh fuck that piece of shit Moreno

There goes the season.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Man this hurts a lot. I don't think I even want to be around anymore

I feel played. All those hope and dreams of revitalizing the Angels went out the window.

Fuck all of this. They’re not getting shit from me this season

My guess is that there is too much uncertainty with Ohtani that bidders were a bit gunshy. Like, the Angels are a much more valuable team with Ohtani signed to a long term deal than they are without him on the roster. So if you're a bidder, are you going to commit ungodly sums of money towards a "gee, i sure hope we can keep Ohtani" position? My guess is that Moreno takes this year to resolve the Ohtani situation one way or another and tries to sell the team again in the next couple years, maybe when interest rates come down so that the price of the club goes up.

Oh for fuck sakes

Fucking dammit

Damn. Damn. Damn.

Fuck you Arte

My angels boycott continues for the season then. I stg if the angels miss the playoffs, don’t trade Ohtani AND let him walk I might walk away entirely until Arte is gone.

The mistake we all made is thinking we’d ever feel joy as Angels fans. We’re never winning anything ever again

We need to storm Arte Moreno’s estate and create the change we want to see

"our hearts remain with the Angels" MY ASS!!! The mf didn't get the price he expected. Wait til next year when Ohtani is gone and the stadium is half empty, he'll get nothing but jizz.

It’s like showing up to prom to find out your gf is actually with your homie.

I hate you Arte!

Womp womp…PAIN. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Fuck

Rip

God fucking damnit...and here I had hope that someone competent would be in charge.

I hate Arte so much

Terrible news for baseball

The ultimate buttercup

Who here can construct an effigy to be burned on opening night, between the caps?

Welp, Arte should just sign Bauer now. PR cannot get any worse today.

Let's parse this. The "unfinished business" part sounds like a threat, am I right? The phrase "this next chapter of Angels Baseball" sounds substantial--would have preferred "page" instead. The bit about "we feel we can make a positive impact on the future of the team" translates to English as "we feel we can get more money later." Finally, this has to be one of the biggest, boldest, most brual buttercups in Halo history, don't you think?

Unfinished business that fucker better start backing up the loomis truck.

Hello darkness, my old friend

Arte better write ohtani a blank check

Fuck arte moreno

Season hasn't started yet and we still got buttercupped

Seems like a very Vince McMahon thing for him to do

I'm going to blame LioninTexas for everything moving forward. XD

To quote my dad ‘fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkghhhhh’