15 Quotes by Tim Mead

We're ready for spring training. I think fans are going to see the same thing in 2006 as they did in 2005 in terms of the ballpark experience. Yesterday's decision doesn't change anything in terms of the way we do business.

I don't think history will be as fair to him as it should be.

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

We continue to feel very strongly that we have not breached the contract. But more important, it is business as usual. As an organization, we are getting ready and looking forward to Spring Training and the regular season.

We have three primary marketing images. They are the color red, the logo 'A' in Angels; and Angels Baseball.

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.

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

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 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.