The Orange County Business Journal
By Rick Reif
October 26, 2009

Law firm Greenberg Traurig has lured another name to its Irvine office—Wayne Gross, who moves from Snell & Wilmer…

It wouldn’t be a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim playoff without a little flap over city pride, would it? An aide to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg tweaked Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle in the N.Y. Daily News for declining to make a friendly wager on the Yankees-Angels American League Championship Series. Apparently there was a communication breakdown—Pringle’s office didn’t like the idea of the losing mayor having to record a message. By the time Anaheim counter offered, Bloomberg’s people said “fuggedaboutit.” It could have gotten uglier: Bloomberg spokesman Andrew Brent told the Insider that after Anaheim’s initial rejection he contacted—what else?—the office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Brent says the L.A. people responded positively to a wager but by then, as with Anaheim, New York said “fuggedaboutit.” However, Brent and Pringle said there would be an Anaheim-NYC wager if the series reached a seventh game, a possibility as of Friday …

ESPN.com’s Jim Caple quipped that umpire Tim McClelland’s blown calls in Game 4 were “the worst umpiring performance at an Angels game since Leslie Nielsen in ‘The Naked Gun’”…

Speaking of Nielsen, New York audience numbers for telecasts of the first three Yankees-Angels games were roughly double those in the L.A. market—and no wonder, given the early (lousy) start times on the West Coast…

Law firm Greenberg Traurig has lured another name to its Irvine office—Wayne Gross, who moves from Snell & Wilmer …