Tim Mead Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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