Just a few more days until pitchers and catchers report to camp. Before you know it Spring Training will be blowing over us with gale force winds. It would be nice to live in Florida or Arizona to take advantage of the lazy days of March when all it takes to get up close to a Major League player is some moxie and a smile.

Of course, there is a price to be paid for existing in such close proximity to the Major League camps. You have to live in Florida or Arizona.

Meantime, closer to home, there has been a controversy brewing in Anaheim where the Angels are trying to change their name. Not the team name, no, but the city. Their lease requires the Angels to geographically associate themselves with the city of Anaheim. The owner of the Angels feels there are big $$$$$$$ to be made linking up with the city of Los Angeles, despite the fact the Halos have parked their carcasses in Orange County since the Sixties.

The City of Anaheim has instituted legal action to block the move. The Angels have taken the preposterous step of changing their name officially to "The Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles." Never in the history of pro sports has a team been associated with two cities in the same breath.

Of course, the Los Angeles Dodgers hate the idea of these carpetbaggers to the south encroaching on their geography, if only in spirit. But there is nothing they can do because the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, has allowed the change to go forward and let the courts settle this mess.

So while the legal wrangling continues, the L.A. Times, which has no affiliation to the city of Anaheim so far as I know, reported a garment sighting recently which seemed to put the whole ridiculous episode into perspective. In one of the city's malls one reporter saw a Dodger fan wearing a customized cap. It read:

"The Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles."