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    Bill Shaikin: The first two stadium deals collapsed. Why would the Angels and Anaheim try again?

    by Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times Mar 21, 2023 4 minutes
    Ashleigh Aitken, then a candidate for Anaheim mayor in 2022, at an Anaheim City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 in Anaheim, California.

    The Curse of Harry Sidhu was born on May 24, 2022. That was the day the Anaheim City Council unanimously voted to kill a deal that would have anchored the Angels in town for decades and allowed their owner to build an urban village around Angel Stadium.

    An FBI agent had claimed Sidhu, the former mayor of Anaheim, handed city secrets to the Angels in the hope of securing a million-dollar campaign contribution from them. The stench of corruption — even as Sidhu denied the allegation — rendered the deal too toxic to proceed.

    The Angels lost their next 14

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