September 11, 2026 [LINK / comment]
After several years of grumbling by Angels fans that team owner Arte Moreno was not doing anything to improve the team, a potential new owner recently emerged: Stan Kroenke. He has pledged to build a new stadium with private financing, but the details are very hazy. It's not even clear whether he intends to remain on the same plot of land that the Angels have occupied since 1966. See ESPN.com.
On the PBS News Hour last week, an investigative journalist from L.A. named Pablo Torre reported on the legal peril confronting the principal owner of the Dodgers, Mark Walter. He allegedly violated securities law when he borrowed money to buy the Dodgers franchise in 2012. (The previous lead owner, Frank McCourt, had to declare bankruptcy.)
Hearing that news about the Dodgers' owner prompted me to check the MLB Franchises page, and noticed that I had erroneously listed Mark Walter as "Mark Walters" (plural), so I corrected that. (The purchase of the Angels by Stan Kroenke is still pending.) While I was at it, I made a few other corrections, such as updating the names of some of the stadiums on that page such as Oracle Park and Daikin Park. (It's hard to keep up with those changes on so many pages!)
Continuing in my laborious efforts to bring various stadium comparison pages up to date, I have fixed the formatting and content problems on the Stadium milestones page.
I also made minor tweaks to the Turf page and the Stadiums by class page.
Stadiums in Limbo page now reflects the facts that demolition of RFK Stadium was completed last year, and that Oakland Coliseum is essentially abandoned, used only as an occasional soccer venue.
Finally, both the Dolphin Stadium and Yankee Stadium pages have been corrected and made more conformable to the new standard format.
Speaking of L.A., The Washington Nationals got swept by the Dodgers in a 3-game series there last week. In the first game, rookie starting pitcher Jackson Kent had two good innings and then his control slipped and the Dodgers jumped on the opportunity. Meanwhile, the Nationals managed to blow every scoring opportunity they had, while the bullpen officially set an MLB record for blown saves, with 38. The less said about the ongoing losing streak the better...
This came after an uplifting moment for the Nats when they faced the Braves to close out their home stand in Washington on Tuesday, September 1. On that day, all teams rosters expanded, and two Nats rookies were called up to play in their first-ever MLB games. With his parents watching in the stands, Yohandy Morales hit his first major league home run, helping the Nats to win, 9-5. Credited with the win was Jared Simpson, who pitched three innings in relief of Jake Irvin, likewise in his MLB debut.