He's recently taken the stance that he would rather have the focus on the team and not on himself.

In three years, Arte Moreno has written $5.5 million in checks to the city. That's more than the $400,000 (in ticket revenue) they got in seven years from Disney.

The feedback initially was very harsh. But we knew we were not going to reap immediate dividends from this name change. It's a long term venture.

It's really a business decision based what's the best representation of being in the nation's No. 2 media market.

strongly believes in providing 100 percent, undivided attention to the game and the issues and decisions involved.

We think it was a great spring training. With the (World Baseball Classic) event there, there were a lot of people worried about how that was going to affect Cactus League play, but we think there was plenty of baseball to go around for everybody.

We are certainly pleased with the decision by the jury stating that we were not in breach of the existing lease with the city and, in fact, are in compliance with the lease. This was a business dispute. We worked through the 2005 season and we've worked on the World Baseball Classic. We just reached a point where we didn't agree.

You have an owner who wants to spend what it takes to compete. You don't want fans to foot the entire bill. So you want to come up the other sources of revenue that it takes to put a perennial contender on the field.

We had to change the name for business. We had on-field success, but off field, we were not succeeding.

We want to continue building our relationship with the city of Anaheim. We have worked together through the years and we are now working together in brining the World Baseball Classic to Anaheim.